First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge, California

Wednesday Meeting Readings

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Realizing the structure of Life
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
The Bible
  1. Ps. 68:4 (to :), 11, 19 (to 1st .)

    4Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:

    ... 11The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.

    ... 19Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.

  2. II Kings 5:1-3, 9-14

    1Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.

    2And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.

    3And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.

    9So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

    10And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

    11But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

    12Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

    13And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

    14Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

  3. II Cor. 5:7 we, 8

    we walk by faith, not by sight:)

    8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

  4. Matt. 9:2-8

    2And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.

    3And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.

    4And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?

    5For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?

    6But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.

    7And he arose, and departed to his house.

    8But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.

  5. John 8:12-15

    12Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

    13The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.

    14Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.

    15Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

  6. Matt. 12:14, 15

    14Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

    15But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

  7. Acts 8:5-8

    5Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.

    6And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.

    7For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.

    8And there was great joy in that city.

  8. Heb. 12:1 2nd let, 2 (to ;), 12-14, 22 ye, 28

    let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

    2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;

    ... 12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

    13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

    14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

    ... ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

    ... 28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

  9. Heb. 13:20, 21 (to 1st .)

    20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

    21Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever.


Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy

  1. SH 468:26-27 Life

    Life is divine Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit. 27Eternity of LifeLife is without beginning and without end.

  2. SH 469:1-5 (to 1st .)

    Life is neither in nor of mat-ter. What is termed matter is unknown to Spirit, which 3includes in itself all substance and is Life eternal. Mat-ter is a human concept. Life is divine Mind. Life is not limited.

  3. SH 477:13-17

    Divine Science shows it to be impossible that a material body, though 15interwoven with matter’s highest stratum, misnamed mind, should be man, — the genuine and perfect man, the immortal idea of being, indestructible and eternal.

  4. SH 162:4-13

        Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of Truth, which invigorates and purifies. Christian Science 6Truth an alterativeacts as an alterative, neutralizing error with Truth. It changes the secretions, expels hu -mors, dissolves tumors, relaxes rigid muscles, restores 9carious bones to soundness. The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind.

    12    Experiments have favored the fact that Mind governs the body, not in one instance, but in every instance.

  5. SH 84:19-23

        To understand that Mind is infinite, not bounded by corporeality, not dependent upon the ear and eye for 21The Mind unboundedsound or sight nor upon muscles and bones for locomotion, is a step towards the Mind-science by which we discern man’s nature and existence.

  6. SH 172:23-24

        What is man? Brain, heart, blood, bones, etc., the 24material structure?

  7. SH 151:18-21 The, 23-24, 26-28

    The Man governed by Mindblood, heart, lungs, brain, etc., have nothing to do with Life, God. Every function of the 21real man is governed by the divine Mind. ... The divine Mind that made man 24maintains His own image and likeness. ... All that really exists is the divine Mind and 27its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found har-monious and eternal.

  8. SH 375:21

        Palsy is a belief that matter governs mortals, and can Cure for palsyparalyze the body, making certain portions of it motionless. Destroy the belief, show mortal 24mind that muscles have no power to be lost, for Mind is supreme, and you cure the palsy.

  9. SH 173:17

        Anatomy declares man to be structural. Physiology 18Man not structuralcontinues this explanation, measuring human strength by bones and sinews, and human life by material law. Man is spiritual, individual, and eter-21nal; material structure is mortal.

  10. SH 184:12-17

    Truth, Life, and Love are the only legitimate and eternal demands on man, and they are spiritual lawgivers, enforcing obedience through divine 15statutes.

        Controlled by the divine intelligence, man is harmoni-ous and eternal.

  11. SH 187:22-24

    There is no involuntary action. The divine Mind includes all action and volition, and man in Science is gov-24erned by this Mind.

  12. SH 191:8-13, 16-17, 19

        As a material, theoretical life-basis is found to be a 9misapprehension of existence, the spiritual and divine The immortal birthPrinciple of man dawns upon human thought, and leads it to “where the young child was,” 12— even to the birth of a new-old idea, to the spiritual sense of being and of what Life includes.

        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.

  13. SH 216:9 (only), 14, 28-30

    Spirituality lays open siege to materialism.

    This understand-15ing makes the body harmonious; it makes the nerves, bones, brain, etc., servants, instead of masters. If man is governed by the law of divine Mind, his body is in sub-18mission to everlasting Life and Truth and Love. The great mistake of mortals is to suppose that man, God’s image and likeness, is both matter and Spirit, both good 21and evil.

        When you say, “Man’s body is material,” I say with Paul: Be “willing rather to be absent from the body, 30Personal identityand to be present with the Lord.”

  14. SH 220:30

    Mortal mind forms all conditions of the mortal body, and controls the stomach, bones, lungs, heart, blood, etc., as directly as the volition or will moves the hand.

  15. SH 478:23-27

    Error says, “I am man;” but this 24belief is mortal and far from actual. From beginning to end, whatever is mortal is composed of material hu-man beliefs and of nothing else. That only is real which 27reflects God.

  16. SH 228:20-25

        If we follow the command of our Master, “Take no 21thought for your life,” we shall never depend on bodily conditions, structure, or economy, but we shall be masters of the body, dictate its terms, and form and control it with 24Truth.

        There is no power apart from God.

  17. SH 402:8-13

        The time approaches when mortal mind will forsake 9its corporeal, structural, and material basis, when im-Indestructible life of manmortal Mind and its formations will be appre-hended in Science, and material beliefs will 12not interfere with spiritual facts. Man is indestructible and eternal.

  18. SH 485:30

    To say that strength is in matter, is like saying that the power is in the lever. The notion of any life or intelli-486486:1gence in matter is without foundation in fact, and you can have no faith in falsehood when you have learned 3falsehood’s true nature.

  19. SH 512:8-9, 13, 20-21

        Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power, 9and also by holy thoughts, winged with Love. ... Their individual forms we know not, but we do know that their natures are allied to God’s nature; and 15spiritual blessings, thus typified, are the externalized, yet subjective, states of faith and spiritual understanding.

        Spirit blesses the multiplication of its own pure and 21perfect ideas.

  20. SH 200:16

        The great truth in the Science of being, that the real man was, is, and ever shall be perfect, is incontrovertible; 18for if man is the image, reflection, of God, he is neither inverted nor subverted, but upright and Godlike.

From the Christian Science Hymnal 
Hymn 409: “Supreme in wisdom as in power, The Rock of Ages stands”  
Hymn 580: “Take my life, and let it be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee”
Hymn 547: “…God's love and blessing, then and there, Are now and here and everywhere”