First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge, California
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Ps. 23:1
1The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- Prov. 3:13-15, 17-20, 22, 23, 25, 26
13¶ Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
14For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
... 17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
19The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
20By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
22So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
23Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
... 25Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
26For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
- Jer. 29:11-14 I (to ;)
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
14And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord;
- II Kings 4:8 it (to 1st .), 12 (to 1st .), 14, 15 2nd And, 16 (to 1st .), 18, 19, 21-23, 25, 26, 32, 33, 35
it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread.
... 12And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite.
... 14And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
... And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
16And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son.
18¶ And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
19And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
... 21And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
22And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
23And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to-day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
... 25So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
26Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
... 32And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
33He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the Lord.
... 35Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
- Matt. 15:21 Jesus
Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
- Mark 7:24-30 but
but he could not be hid.
25For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
26The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
27But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
28And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
29And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
30And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
- II Cor. 9:8 God
God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
- II Cor. 10:3-5
3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
- II Cor. 13:7 (to ;), 8
7Now I pray to God that ye do no evil;
... 8For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
- Prov. 14:26 (to :)
26In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence:
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
- SH 368:2-4, 6
- SH 532:22 2nd Is
- SH 472:13, 14-19 Error (to 2nd .), 24-26 All
Question. — What is error?
Error is a supposition that pleasure and 15pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in mat-Evanescent materialityter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind’s faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. 18Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which seemeth to be and is not.
- SH 346:9-13, 19-20, 29-30
The nothingness of nothing is plain; but we need to understand that error is nothing, and that its nothingness is not saved, but must be demonstrated in 12order to prove the somethingness — yea, the allness — of Truth.
We treat error through the understanding of Truth, because Truth is error’s antidote.
Material beliefs must be expelled to make room for 30Serving two mastersspiritual understanding.
- SH 92:21-26 Until, 29
Until the fact concerning error — namely, its nothingness — Opposing powerappears, the moral demand will not be met, 24and the ability to make nothing of error will be wanting. We should blush to call that real which is only a mistake. ... The mistake of thinking that error can be real, 30when it is merely the absence of truth, leads to belief in the superiority of error.
- SH 581:19
- SH 366:24
- SH 97:11-13
- SH 223:3, 7-11 God, 12
Sooner or later we shall learn that the fetters of man’s finite capacity are forged by the illusion that he lives in body instead of in Soul, in matter 6instead of in Spirit.
God is infinite omni-present Spirit. If Spirit is all and is everywhere, what 9Soul greater than bodyand where is matter? Remember that truth is greater than error, and we cannot put the greater into the less. ... If Spirit were once within the body, Spirit would be finite, and therefore could not be Spirit.
- SH 293:13-16, 32-4
The material so-called gases and forces are counter-feits of the spiritual forces of divine Mind, whose potency 15is Truth, whose attraction is Love, whose adhesion and cohesion are Life, perpetuating the eternal facts of being.
The five physical senses are the avenues and instru-294294:1ments of human error, and they correspond with error. These senses indicate the common human belief, that life, 3Instruments of errorsubstance, and intelligence are a unison of matter with Spirit.
- SH 276:19-28
When we learn in Science how to be perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect, 21thought is turned into new and healthy channels, — towards the contemplation of things immortal and away from materiality to the Principle of the universe, includ-24ing harmonious man.
Material beliefs and spiritual understanding never mingle. The latter destroys the former. Discord is the 27nothingness named error. Harmony is the somethingness named Truth.
- SH 418:5-9, 12-15, 20-21, 22
Stick to the truth of being in contradistinction to the 6error that life, substance, or intelligence can be in matter. Christian pleadingPlead with an honest conviction of truth and a clear perception of the unchanging, unerr-9ing, and certain effect of divine Science.
It must be clear to you that sickness is no more the reality of being than is sin. This mortal dream Truthful argumentsof sickness, sin, and death should cease 15through Christian Science. ... Truth is affirmative, and confers 21harmony. ... By the truthful arguments you employ, and especially by the 24spirit of Truth and Love which you entertain, you will heal the sick.
- SH 569:3-14
Every mortal at some period, here or hereafter, must grapple with and overcome the mortal belief in a power opposed to God.
6 The Scripture, “Thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many,” is literally ful-The robe of Sciencefilled, when we are conscious of the supremacy 9of Truth, by which the nothingness of error is seen; and we know that the nothingness of error is in proportion to its wickedness. He that touches the hem 12of Christ’s robe and masters his mortal beliefs, animality, and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing, — in a sweet and certain sense that God is Love.
- SH 489:28
Outside the material sense of things, all is harmony. A wrong sense 30of God, man, and creation is non-sense, want of sense. Mortal belief would have the material senses sometimes good and sometimes bad. It assures mortals that there 490 490:1is real pleasure in sin; but the grand truths of Christian Science dispute this error.
- SH 450:19-22
- SH 496:15
Hymn 201: “… Truth will from error free Your long enslaved mind”
Hymn 392: “… For God is all, and Christ the way”
Hymn 2: “A glorious day is dawning”