First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge, California
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Ps. 91:2, 4-6
2I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
... 4He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
5Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
- Ps. 46:1-3 (to 1st .), 4-7 (to ;), 9
1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
... 4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7The Lord of hosts is with us;
... 9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
- II Kings 18:13, 28-31, 36
13¶ Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
28Then Rab–shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
29Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
... 36But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
- II Kings 19:1, 2, 5-7 (to ;), 15, 17, 19, 20, 32-34, 36
1And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
... 5So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6¶ And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land;
15And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
... 17Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
... 19Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only.
20¶ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
32Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.
34For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
- Acts 14:19, 20 (to :), 21, 27
19¶ And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
20Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city:
... 21And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
... 27And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
- II Cor. 10:3-5 though, 17 he
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;
... he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
- SH 494:10-11, 19
Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.
Reason, rightly di-rected, serves to correct the errors of corporeal sense; but 21sin, sickness, and death will seem real (even as the ex-periences of the sleeping dream seem real) until the Sci-ence of man’s eternal harmony breaks their illusion with 24the unbroken reality of scientific being.
- SH 102:30-2
- SH 324:7-12
Unless the harmony and immortality of man are be-coming more apparent, we are not gaining the true idea 9Narrow pathwayof God; and the body will reflect what gov-erns it, whether it be Truth or error, understanding or belief, Spirit or matter. Therefore 12“acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace.”
- SH 82:31-9
In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a greater development of power, it is wise earnestly to 83 83:1consider whether it is the human mind or the divine Mind which is influencing one. What the prophets of 3Jehovah did, the worshippers of Baal failed to do; yet artifice and delusion claimed that they could equal the work of wisdom.
6 Science only can explain the incredible good and evil elements now coming to the surface. Mortals must find refuge in Truth in order to escape the error of these latter 9days.
- SH 123:11
- SH 374:15, 18
Through immortal Mind, or Truth, we can destroy all ills which proceed from mortal mind.
You con-fess to ignorance of the future and incapacity to preserve your own existence, and this belief helps rather than 21hinders disease. Such a state of mind induces sickness. It is like walking in darkness on the edge of a precipice. You cannot forget the belief of danger, and your steps 24are less firm because of your fear, and ignorance of mental cause and effect.
- SH 406:11-25
The Science of being unveils the errors of sense, and 12spiritual perception, aided by Science, reaches Truth. Sickness will abateThen error disappears. Sin and sickness will abate and seem less real as we approach the 15scientific period, in which mortal sense is subdued and all that is unlike the true likeness disappears. The moral man has no fear that he will commit a murder, and he 18should be as fearless on the question of disease.
Resist evil — error of every sort — and it will flee from you. Error is opposed to Life. We can, and ultimately 21Resist to the endshall, so rise as to avail ourselves in every direc-tion of the supremacy of Truth over error, Life over death, and good over evil, and this growth will go 24on until we arrive at the fulness of God’s idea, and no more fear that we shall be sick and die.
- SH 119:1
When we endow matter with vague spiritual power, — that is, when we do so in our theories, for of course we 3Unescapable dilemmacannot really endow matter with what it does not and cannot possess, — we disown the Al-mighty, for such theories lead to one of two things. They 6either presuppose the self-evolution and self-government of matter, or else they assume that matter is the product of Spirit. To seize the first horn of this dilemma and con-9sider matter as a power in and of itself, is to leave the cre-ator out of His own universe; while to grasp the other horn of the dilemma and regard God as the creator of 12matter, is not only to make Him responsible for all disas-ters, physical and moral, but to announce Him as their source, thereby making Him guilty of maintaining perpet-15ual misrule in the form and under the name of natural law.
- SH 494:25-3
Which of these two theories concerning man are you ready to accept? One is the mortal testimony, changing, 27dying, unreal. The other is the eternal and real evidence, bearing Truth’s signet, its lap piled high with immortal fruits.
30 Our Master cast out devils (evils) and healed the sick. It should be said of his followers also, that they cast fear and all evil out of themselves and others and heal the sick. 495 495:1God will heal the sick through man, whenever man is Followers of Jesusgoverned by God. Truth casts out error now 3as surely as it did nineteen centuries ago.
- SH 490:6 Christian, 14-16
Chris-tian Science reveals Truth and Love as the motive-powers of man. Will — blind, stubborn, and head-9long — cooperates with appetite and passion. From this cooperation arises its evil. From this also comes its pow-erlessness, since all power belongs to God, good.
Human theories are helpless to make 15man harmonious or immortal, since he is so already, according to Christian Science.
- SH 117:24-27
- SH 331:18-24 God
God is individual, incorporeal. 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. He fills all space, and it is impossible to conceive of such omnipresence and in-24dividuality except as infinite Spirit or Mind.
- SH 458:23-24
Hymn 587: “There is a presence walks with us On every pathless way”
Hymn 338: “Theories, which thousands cherish, Pass like clouds that sweep the sky”
Hymn 14: “Arise, arise and shine, On thee hath dawned the day”