First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge, California
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Ps. 90:1, 2, 16, 17
1Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
... 16Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
- II Chron. 30:26 there (to :)
there was great joy in Jerusalem:
- II Chron. 31:20 thus, 21
thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God.
21And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
- II Chron. 32:1, 2, 6-8 he (to 1st .), 21 (to 2nd .), 22, 24 (to :), 25, 26, 30
1After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
... he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
7Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:
8With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles.
21¶ And the Lord sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land.
... 22Thus the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.
24¶ In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the Lord:
... 25But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
26Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
- Isa. 59:1, 20, 21
1Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
20¶ And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
21As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
- Mark 2:15 it
it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
- Mark 3:1-5
1And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
2And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
3And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
4And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
5And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
- II Cor. 4:8, 15 all, 18
8We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
... all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
... 18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- II Cor. 5:1 we, 5, 8
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.
... 5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
... 8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
- James 3:9 bless (to ;), 12 (to 2nd ?)
bless we God, even the Father;
... 12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs?
- James 4:7 Resist, 8 (to 1st .), 10
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
... 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
- 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 109:32
The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omni-110110:1presence, omniscience, — Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science, — contradict 3God’s allness learnedforever the belief that matter can be actual. These eternal verities reveal primeval exist-ence as the radiant reality of God’s creation, 6in which all that He has made is pronounced by His wis-dom good.
- SH 78:19-21, 24
- SH 300:13
The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the im-15The tares and wheatmutable and perfect. The inharmonious and self-destructive never touch the harmonious and self-existent. These opposite qualities are the tares 18and wheat, which never really mingle, though (to mortal sight) they grow side by side until the harvest; then, Sci-ence separates the wheat from the tares, through the real-21ization of God as ever present and of man as reflecting the divine likeness.
- SH 14:1-5, 12-15, 25
If we are sensibly with the body and regard omnipo-tence as a corporeal, material person, whose ear we 3Bodily presencewould gain, we are not “absent from the body” and “present with the Lord” in the demonstration of Spirit.
Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual, — neither in nor of Spiritualized consciousnessmatter, — and the body will then utter no 15complaints.
Entirely separate from the belief and dream of mate-rial living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual under-27standing and the consciousness of man’s dominion over the whole earth. This understanding casts out error and heals the sick, and with it you can speak 30“as one having authority.”
- SH 72:21-23
- SH 186:11
Evil is a negation, because it is the absence of truth. 12It is nothing, because it is the absence of something. It Evil negative and self-destructive is unreal, because it presupposes the absence of God, the omnipotent and omnipresent. 15Every mortal must learn that there is neither power nor reality in evil.
- SH 222:31-9
We must destroy the false belief that life and intelligence are in 223 223:1matter, and plant ourselves upon what is pure and per-fect. Paul said, “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not 3fulfil the lust of the flesh.” 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.
Matter does not express Spirit. God is infinite omni-present Spirit. If Spirit is all and is everywhere, what 9Soul greater than bodyand where is matter?
- SH 275:1-3, 6-15, 20
Matter has no life to lose, and Spirit never dies. A partnership of mind with matter would ignore omnipres-3Spirit the starting-pointent and omnipotent Mind. ... The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind, — that God is Love, and therefore He 9 is divine Principle.
To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science, you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle 12Divine synonyms of all that really is. Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, combine as one, — and are the Scriptural names for God. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, im-15mortality, cause, and effect belong to God.
Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understand-21ing, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is The divine completenessGod, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, — that is, all power, all presence, all Science. 24Hence all is in reality the manifestation of Mind.
- SH 287:4, 10-12 (to !)
All creations of Spirit are eternal; but creations of matter must return to dust. 6Error supposes man to be both mental and material. Divine Science contradicts this postulate and maintains man’s spiritual identity.
In Science, Truth is divine, and the infinite Divine allness God can have no unlikeness. Did God, Truth, 12create error? No!
- SH 361:16
- SH 445:15
- SH 472:30-10
We learn in Christian 473 473:1Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is illu-sion, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming 3to be real and identical.
The Science of Mind disposes of all evil. Truth, God, is not the father of error. Sin, sickness, and death are 6Christ the ideal Truthto be classified as effects of error. Christ came to destroy the belief of sin. The God-principle is omnipresent and omnipotent. God is every -9where, and nothing apart from Him is present or has power.
- SH 516:4
Hymn 154: “In Thee, O Spirit true and tender, I find my life as God's own child”
Hymn 341: “…He will answer every prayer, God is present everywhere”
Hymn 517: “…Longing, now and everywhere, All God's saving love to share”