First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Ps. 127:1
1Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
- Prov. 24:3, 27
3Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
... 27Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
- Gen. 11:1-9
1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
- Isa. 61:1, 2, 4
1The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
4¶ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
- Isa. 58:11, 12 (to 2nd ,)
11And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach,
- Neh. 1:1 (to .), 2 Hanani (to 3rd ,), 3
1The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah.
... Hanani, one of my brethren, came,
... 3And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
- Neh. 2:5, 11 (to ,), 16 (to ;), 17 (to 1st ,), 17 come (to 5th ,), 18 And
5And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.
11So I came to Jerusalem,
16And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did;
17¶ Then said I unto them, ... come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem,
... And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
- Neh. 4:6-9, 15, 16 (to ;), 17
6So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
7¶ But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
8And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
9Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
15And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
16And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons;
... 17They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
- Neh. 6:15, 16
15¶ So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
16And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
- II Kings 12:1 (to 1st .), 2 (to Lord), 11, 12, 14 they
1In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem.
... 2And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord
11And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord,
12And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
... they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord.
- Isa. 9:10
10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
- Isa. 41:6, 7
6They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
- Matt. 7:24-0Matt. 7:24-0 Text cannot be found for citation range
- I Cor. 3:9-13, 16
9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
10According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
... 16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
- II Cor. 5:1
1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
- Eph. 2:8-10 (to 2nd ,), 19-22
8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
... 19Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
- Heb. 3:4
4For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
- SH 201:7
- SH 241:24-27
- SH 450:1
There is a large class of thinkers whose bigotry and conceit twist every fact to suit themselves. Their creed 3Three classes of neophytesteaches belief in a mysterious, supernatural God, and in a natural, all-powerful devil. An -other class, still more unfortunate, are so depraved that 6they appear to be innocent. They utter a falsehood, while looking you blandly in the face, and they never fail to stab their benefactor in the back. A third class 9of thinkers build with solid masonry. They are sincere, generous, noble, and are therefore open to the approach and recognition of Truth. To teach Christian Science 12to such as these is no task. They do not incline long-ingly to error, whine over the demands of Truth, nor play the traitor for place and power.
- SH 581:17-22
- SH 269:21
The testimony of the material senses is neither abso-lute nor divine. I therefore plant myself unreservedly Biblical foundationson the teachings of Jesus, of his apostles, of 24the prophets, and on the testimony of the Science of Mind. Other foundations there are none. All other systems — systems based wholly or partly on 27knowledge gained through the material senses — are reeds shaken by the wind, not houses built on the rock.
- SH 83:9
- SH 234:32-3
- SH 421:25-1
It is no more Christianly scientific to see disease than it is to experience it. If you would destroy the sense 27No perversion of Mind-scienceof disease, you should not build it up by wishing to see the forms it assumes or by employing a single material application for 30its relief. The perversion of Mind-science is like as-serting that the products of eight multiplied by five, and of seven by ten, are both forty, and that their combined 422 422:1sum is fifty, and then calling the process mathematics.
- SH 3:4
Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the principle of mathematics to solve the problem? The 6The spiritual mathematicsrule is already established, and it is our task to work out the solution. Shall we ask the divine Principle of all goodness to do His own 9work? His work is done, and we have only to avail ourselves of God’s rule in order to receive His bless-ing, which enables us to work out our own salvation.
- SH 462:13
Whoever would demonstrate the healing of Christian Science must abide strictly by its rules, heed every state-15ment, and advance from the rudiments laid down. There is nothing difficult nor toilsome in this task, when the way is pointed out; but self-denial, sincerity, Christianity, and 18persistence alone win the prize, as they usually do in every department of life.
- SH 396:14-26, 30
The refutation of the testimony of material sense is 15not a difficult task in view of the conceded falsity of this False testimony refutedtestimony. The refutation becomes arduous, not because the testimony of sin or disease is 18true, but solely on account of the tenacity of belief in its truth, due to the force of education and the overwhelm-ing weight of opinions on the wrong side, — all teaching 21that the body suffers, as if matter could have sensation.
At the right time explain to the sick the power which their beliefs exercise over their bodies. Give them divine 24Healthful explanationand wholesome understanding, with which to combat their erroneous sense, and so efface the images of sickness from mortal mind. It breaks the dream of disease to under -stand that sickness is formed by the human mind, not by matter nor by the divine Mind.
- SH 177:10
- SH 399:16-18
- SH 402:8-15
The time approaches when mortal mind will forsake 9its corporeal, structural, and material basis, when im-Indestructible life of manmortal Mind and its formations will be appre-hended in Science, and material beliefs will 12not interfere with spiritual facts. Man is indestructible and eternal. Sometime it will be learned that mortal mind constructs the mortal body with this mind’s own 15mortal materials.
- SH 425:23-26
- SH 428:12-21
Thus we may establish in truth the temple, or body, “whose builder and maker is God.”
15 We should consecrate existence, not “to the unknown God” whom we “ignorantly worship,” but to the eternal Intelligent consecrationbuilder, the everlasting Father, to the Life 18 which mortal sense cannot impair nor mortal belief destroy. We must realize the ability of mental might to offset human misconceptions and to replace them 21with the life which is spiritual, not material.
- SH 571:15
At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know thyself, and God will supply The armor of divinitythe wisdom and the occasion for a victory 18over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one 21divinity.
- SH 483:30
One must fulfil one’s mission without timidity or dissimulation, for to be well done, the work must be done unselfishly. Christianity 484 484:1will never be based on a divine Principle and so found to be unerring, until its absolute Science is reached. When 3this is accomplished, neither pride, prejudice, bigotry, nor envy can wash away its foundation, for it is built upon the rock, Christ.
- SH 454:5-9
Hymn 141: “If the Lord build not the house They that labor build in vain”
Hymn 591: “We cannot turn away from God”
Hymn 247: “O walk with God along the road, Your strength He will renew”
