First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Ps. 37:27, 28 (to ;)
27Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
28For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints;
- Deut. 30:15, 17-20
15¶ See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
... 17But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
19I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
- Isa. 5:20
20¶ Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
- Amos 5:14, 15 (to :)
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate:
- Ps. 34:10-17 they
they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
11Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
14Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
15The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
16The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
- Isa. 7:10, 14 the, 15
10¶ Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
... the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
- Matt. 13:1-11, 24-30, 34-43
1The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
2And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
4And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
9Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
10And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
24¶ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
34All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
35That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
36Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
37He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
39The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
40As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
41The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
- I Thess. 5:15, 18
15See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
... 18In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
- SH 72:9-23 As
As light destroys darkness and in the place of darkness all Spirits obsoleteis light, so (in absolute Science) Soul, or God, 12is the only truth-giver to man. Truth de-stroys mortality, and brings to light immortality. Mortal belief (the material sense of life) and immortal Truth 15(the spiritual sense) are the tares and the wheat, which are not united by progress, but separated.
Perfection is not expressed through imperfection. 18Spirit is not made manifest through matter, the anti-pode of Spirit. Error is not a convenient sieve through which truth can be strained.
21 God, good, being ever present, it follows in divine logic that evil, the suppositional opposite of good, is never Scientific phenomenapresent.
- SH 595:5
- SH 207:15, 27
Body is not first and Soul last, nor is evil mightier than Evident impossibilitiesgood. The Science of being repudiates self-evident impossibilities, such as the amalgama-18tion of Truth and error in cause or effect. Science sepa -rates the tares and wheat in time of harvest.
The spiritual reality is the scientific fact in all things. The spiritual fact, repeated in the action of man and the whole universe, is harmonious and is the ideal of Truth. 30Spiritual facts are not inverted; the opposite discord, which bears no resemblance to spirituality, is not real. The only evidence of this inversion is obtained from 208 208:1suppositional error, which affords no proof of God, Spirit, or of the spiritual creation. Material sense de-3fines all things materially, and has a finite sense of the infinite.
- SH 534:8-5
Genesis iii. 14, 15. And the Lord God [Jehovah] said 9unto the serpent, . . . I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
12 This prophecy has been fulfilled. The Son of the Virgin-mother unfolded the remedy for Adam, or error; and the Spirit and fleshApostle Paul explains this warfare between the 15idea of divine power, which Jesus presented, and mythological material intelligence called energy and opposed to Spirit.
18 Paul says in his epistle to the Romans: “The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that 21are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you.”
24 There will be greater mental opposition to the spirit-ual, scientific meaning of the Scriptures than there has Bruising sin’s headever been since the Christian era began. The 27serpent, material sense, will bite the heel of the woman, — will struggle to destroy the spiritual idea of Love; and the woman, this idea, will bruise the head 30of lust. The spiritual idea has given the understanding 535 535:1a foothold in Christian Science. The seed of Truth and the seed of error, of belief and of understanding, — yea, 3the seed of Spirit and the seed of matter, — are the wheat and tares which time will separate, the one to be burned, the other to be garnered into heavenly places.
- SH 535:10
Divine Science deals its chief blow at the supposed ma-terial foundations of life and intelligence. It dooms idol-12Judgment on erroratry. A belief in other gods, other creators, and other creations must go down before Chris-tian Science. It unveils the results of sin as shown in 15sickness and death. When will man pass through the open gate of Christian Science into the heaven of Soul, into the heritage of the first born among men? Truth is 18indeed “the way.”
- SH 269:3-20
From first to last the supposed coexistence of Mind and matter and the mingling of good and evil have re-sulted from the philosophy of the serpent. Jesus’ demon-6strations sift the chaff from the wheat, and unfold the unity and the reality of good, the unreality, the nothing-ness, of evil.
9 Human philosophy has made God manlike. Christian Science makes man Godlike. The first is error; the latter Divine metaphysicsis truth. Metaphysics is above physics, and 12matter does not enter into metaphysical prem-ises or conclusions. The categories of metaphysics rest on one basis, the divine Mind. Metaphysics resolves 15things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul.
These ideas are perfectly real and tangible to spiritual 18consciousness, and they have this advantage over the ob-jects and thoughts of material sense, — they are good and eternal.
- SH 300:13
The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the im-15The tares and wheatmutable and perfect. The inharmonious and self-destructive never touch the harmonious and self-existent. These opposite qualities are the tares 18and wheat, which never really mingle, though (to mortal sight) they grow side by side until the harvest; then, Sci-ence separates the wheat from the tares, through the real-21ization of God as ever present and of man as reflecting the divine likeness.
- SH 452:28-8
Acting from sinful motives destroys your power of healing from the right motive. On the other hand, if 30Reliable authorityyou had the inclination or power to practise wrongly and then should adopt Christian Science, the wrong power would be destroyed. You do 453 453:1not deny the mathematician’s right to distinguish the cor-rect from the incorrect among the examples on the black-3board, nor disbelieve the musician when he distinguishes concord from discord. In like manner it should be granted that the author understands what she is saying.
6 Right and wrong, truth and error, will be at strife in the minds of students, until victory rests on the side of Winning the fieldinvincible truth.
- SH 466:26
From the Christian Science Hymnal
Hymn 258: “Oft to every man and nation”
Hymn 423: “Give me, O Lord, an understanding heart”
Hymn 296: “Rouse ye, soldiers of the cross”
