First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge, California
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Isa. 9:2, 6 unto, 7
2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
... unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
- Matt. 17:14-21
14¶ And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
15Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
16And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
17Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
18And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
19Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
20And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
21Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
- Luke 10:1-3, 8 into, 9, 17, 23, 24
1After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
2Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
3Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
... into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
9And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
17¶ And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
23¶ And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
24For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
- John 14:1, 2 (to 1st .), 4 whither, 6 I, 12
1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.
... whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
... I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
... 12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
- Acts 3:1-10 (to :), 12 (to 1st ?)
1Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
2And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
3Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
4And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
5And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
6Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
7And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
8And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
9And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
10And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple:
12¶ And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this?
- John 4:23 the
the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
- Rom. 8:1, 2, 9 ye (to 1st .)
1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
... ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
- Matt. 24:35
35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
- SH 589:16
- SH 313:23-26
- SH 332:9-15 Jesus
Jesus was born of Mary. Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speak-The Son of Goding to the human consciousness. The Christ 12is incorporeal, spiritual, — yea, the divine image and likeness, dispelling the illusions of the senses; the Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the sick and 15casting out evils, destroying sin, disease, and death.
- SH 141:13-16
- SH 26:14, 25-30
Divine Truth, 15Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness, and death. His mission was to reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does 18for man.
He proved by his deeds that Christian Science destroys sickness, sin, 27and death.
Our Master taught no mere theory, doctrine, or belief. It was the divine Principle of all real being which he 30taught and practised.
- SH 69:2-5
- SH 249:18-20 (to 1st .), 31-32
- SH 114:23-29
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as men-24tal, not physical. It lifts the veil of mystery from Soul and Causation mentalbody. It shows the scientific relation of man to God, disentangles the interlaced ambiguities 27of being, and sets free the imprisoned thought. In divine Science, the universe, including man, is spiritual, harmoni-ous, and eternal.
- SH 270:31-10
The life of Christ Jesus was not miraculous, but it was indigenous to his spirituality, — the good soil wherein the 271 271:1seed of Truth springs up and bears much fruit. Christ’s Christianity is the chain of scientific being reappearing 3in all ages, maintaining its obvious correspondence with the Scriptures and uniting all periods in the design of God. Neither emasculation, illusion, nor insubordination 6exists in divine Science.
Jesus instructed his disciples whereby to heal the sick through Mind instead of matter. He knew that the phi-9losophy, Science, and proof of Christianity were in Truth, casting out all inharmony.
- SH 335:7-8 Spirit (to 1st .), 8-13 There
Spirit, God, has created all in and of Him-self. ... There is nothing in 9The only substanceSpirit out of which matter could be made, for, as the Bible declares, without the Logos, the Æon or Word of God, “was not anything made 12that was made.” Spirit is the only substance, the in-visible and indivisible infinite God.
- SH 118:13-16
- SH 482:19-20
- SH 242:25-26
- SH 46:7
- SH 315:3-4, 6, 26-32
That saying of our Master, “I and my Father are one,” separated him from the scholastic theology of the rabbis. ... He knew of but one Mind and laid no claim to any other. He knew that the Ego was Mind instead of body and that matter, sin, and evil were not 9Mind; and his understanding of this divine Science brought upon him the anathemas of the age.
The history of Jesus 27shows him to have been more spiritual than all other earthly personalities.
Wearing in part a human form (that is, as it seemed 30to mortal view), being conceived by a human mother, Jesus was the mediator between Spirit and the flesh, between Truth and error.
- SH 46:25-26
- SH 52:1-2 (to 1st .)
- SH 51:19-24
His consummate example was for the salvation of us all, but only through doing the works which he did and 21Example for our salvationtaught others to do. His purpose in healing was not alone to restore health, but to demon-strate his divine Principle. He was inspired by God, by 24Truth and Love, in all that he said and did.
- SH 63:5
In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beauti-6ful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin is Spiritual originnot, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor does he pass through material conditions prior 9to reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ulti-mate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the law of his being.
- SH 249:1, 8-10
Let us accept Science, relinquish all theories based on sense-testimony, give up imperfect models and illusive 3ideals; and so let us have one God, one Mind, and that one perfect, producing His own models of excellence.
Let us re -9joice that we are subject to the divine “powers that be.” Such is the true Science of being.
Hymn 310: “Sing, ye joyous children, sing, Glorious is the Christ, our king”
Hymn 417: “Joy to the world, the Lord is come”