First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge, California
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Ps. 33:6-11
6By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
8Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
9For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
10The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
11The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
- Judg. 6:11-15 (to ?), 17, 36-38
11¶ And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
12And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
13And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
14And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?
15And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel?
... 17And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.
36¶ And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,
37Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
38And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
- II Kings 2:19-22
19¶ And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is nought, and the ground barren.
20And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
21And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
22So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
- John 4:5-7, 9, 10, 13 Whosoever, 14
5Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
... 9Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
... Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
- John 9:1-3, 6, 7
1And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
2And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
3Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
... 6When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
7And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
- Rev. 21:1, 3
1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
... 3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
- II Tim. 4:18 the (to 1st .), 22 Grace (to 2nd .)
the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever.
... Grace be with you.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
- SH 585:7
- SH 114:27-29
- SH 427:23
- SH 510:2
- SH 511:23-25
- SH 330:11-12 God
- SH 331:11-13 The, 16, 18-22 He
The Scriptures imply that God is All-in-all. From 12this it follows that nothing possesses reality nor existence Allness of Spiritexcept the divine Mind and His ideas. ... Everything in God’s universe expresses Him.
He is divine Prin-ciple, Love, the universal cause, the only creator, and The universal causethere is no other self-existence. He is all-21inclusive, and is reflected by all that is real and eternal and by nothing else.
- SH 337:22-26
- SH 502:27-3
- SH 122:24-4
To material sense, the severance of the jugular vein Spiritual sense of lifetakes away life; but to spiritual sense and in Science, Life goes on unchanged and 27being is eternal. Temporal life is a false sense of existence.
Our theories make the same mistake regarding Soul 30 and body that Ptolemy made regarding the solar system. They insist that soul is in body and mind therefore tribu-tary to matter. Astronomical science has destroyed the 123 123:1false theory as to the relations of the celestial bodies, and Christian Science will surely destroy the greater error as 3Ptolemaic and psychical errorto our terrestrial bodies. The true idea and Principle of man will then appear.
- SH 171:4-13, 17, 25-27, 28
Through discernment of the spiritual opposite of ma-teriality, even the way through Christ, Truth, man will 6Paradise regainedreopen with the key of divine Science the gates of Paradise which human beliefs have closed, and will find himself unfallen, upright, pure, and free, 9not needing to consult almanacs for the probabilities either of his life or of the weather, not needing to study brain-ology to learn how much of a man he is.
12 Mind’s control over the universe, including man, is no longer an open question, but is demonstrable Science.
Mistaking his origin and nature, man believes himself to 18be combined matter and Spirit. He believes that Spirit Matter versus Spirit is sifted through matter, carried on a nerve, ex-posed to ejection by the operation of matter. 21The intellectual, the moral, the spiritual, — yea, the image of infinite Mind, — subject to non-intelligence!
The so-called laws of matter are nothing but false be-liefs that intelligence and life are present where Mind 27 is not. ... The opposite truth, that intelligence and life are spiritual, never material, destroys sin, sickness, 30and death.
- SH 128:4-6, 14
The term Science, properly understood, refers only to the laws of God and to His government of the universe, 6Practical Scienceinclusive of man. ... A knowl-15edge of the Science of being develops the latent abilities and possibilities of man. It extends the atmosphere of thought, giving mortals access to broader and higher 18realms. It raises the thinker into his native air of insight and perspicacity.
- SH 191:16-17, 19-1
The human thought must free itself from self-imposed Spiritual freedommateriality and bondage. ... Mind is not helpless. Intelli-gence is not mute before non-intelligence.
21 By its own volition, not a blade of grass springs up, not a spray buds within the vale, not a leaf unfolds its fair outlines, not a flower starts from its cloistered cell.
24 The Science of being reveals man and immortality as based on Spirit. Physical sense defines mortal man as based on matter, and from this premise infers the mor-27tality of the body.
The illusive senses may fancy affinities with their op-posites; but in Christian Science, Truth never mingles 30No physical affinitywith error. Mind has no affinity with matter, and therefore Truth is able to cast out the ills of the flesh. Mind, God, sends forth the aroma of Spirit, 192 192:1the atmosphere of intelligence.
- SH 484:11-14
- SH 274:12-16
- SH 512:8-13
- SH 503:9-15
The divine Principle and idea constitute spiritual har-mony, — heaven and eternity. In the universe of Truth, Spiritual harmonymatter is unknown. No supposition of error 12enters there. Divine Science, the Word of God, saith to the darkness upon the face of error, “God is All-in-all,” and the light of ever-present Love illumines 15the universe.
- SH 465:17-1 Principle
Hymn 145: “In atmosphere of Love divine, We live, and move, and breathe”
Hymn 506: “I will come before the Lord In the stillness of the morning”
Hymn 522: “Lift up the door, the mighty gates”