First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge
Wednesday Meeting Readings
Section I
12That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
13That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
14That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
15Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
1And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
3And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
4¶Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
13And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
10as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
12For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
32¶Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
33And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
34And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
35And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
36And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
37And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
38And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.
35Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
by Mary Baker Eddy
The relations of God and man, divine Principle and
471:1idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows
no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine
3order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He cre‐
ates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged
in its eternal history.
God expresses in man the infinite idea forever develop‐
ing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from
15a boundless basis. Mind manifests all that exists in
the infinitude of Truth. We know no more of man as
the true divine image and likeness, than we know of
18God.
The infinite Principle is reflected by the infinite idea
and spiritual individuality, but the material so-called senses
21have no cognizance of either Principle or its idea. The
human capacities are enlarged and perfected in propor‐
tion as humanity gains the true conception of man and
24God.
Mortals have a very imperfect sense of the spiritual
man and of the infinite range of his thought. To him
Individual
permanency 27belongs eternal Life. Never born and
never dying, it were impossible for man, under
the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his
30high estate.
Through spiritual sense you can discern the heart of
divinity, and thus begin to comprehend in Science the
259:1generic term man. Man is not absorbed in Deity, and
God's man
discerned man cannot lose his individuality, for he re‐
3flects eternal Life; nor is he an isolated, soli‐
tary idea, for he represents infinite Mind, the sum of all
substance.
Man, created by God,
was given dominion over the whole earth. The notion
12of a material universe is utterly opposed to the theory
of man as evolved from Mind. Such fundamental errors
send falsity into all human doctrines and conclusions,
15and do not accord infinity to Deity. Error tills the
whole ground in this material theory, which is entirely a
false view, destructive to existence and happiness. Out‐
18side of Christian Science all is vague and hypothetical, the
opposite of Truth; yet this opposite, in its false view of
God and man, impudently demands a blessing.
Is it not a species of infidelity to believe that so great
6a work as the Messiah's was done for himself or for God,
Inexhaustible
divine Love who needed no help from Jesus' example to
preserve the eternal harmony? But mortals
9did need this help, and Jesus pointed the way for them.
Divine Love always has met and always will meet every
human need.
The purpose and motive to live aright can be gained
now. This point won, you have started as you should.
18You have begun at the numeration-table of Christian
Science, and nothing but wrong intention can hinder your
advancement. Working and praying with true motives,
21your Father will open the way.
12 Can the mere public expression of our de‐
sires increase them? Do we gain the omnipotent ear
sooner by words than by thoughts? Even if prayer is
15sincere, God knows our need before we tell Him or our
fellow-beings about it. If we cherish the desire hon‐
estly and silently and humbly, God will bless it, and
18we shall incur less risk of overwhelming our real
wishes with a torrent of words.
If we pray to God as a corporeal person, this will
21prevent us from relinquishing the human doubts and
Corporeal
ignorance fears which attend such a belief, and so we
cannot grasp the wonders wrought by infi‐
24nite, incorporeal Love, to whom all things are possible.
Hymn 53: "Everlasting arms of Love Are beneath, around, above"
Hymn 390: "Why is thy faith in God's great love so small?”
Hymn 269: "Our God is Love, unchanging Love"
