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

Wednesday Meeting Readings

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Our eternal coexistence with God
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
The Bible
  1. Ps. 37:5, 6, 23, 28 (to :), 29-31, 33, 34 (to :), 37, 39 the (to :), 40 (to :)

    5Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

    6And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

    ... 23The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

    ... 28For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever:

    ... 29The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

    30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

    31The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

    ... 33The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

    34Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land:

    ... 37Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

    ... the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord:

    ... 40And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them:

  2. II Kings 4:38 (to 1st :), 42-44

    38And Elisha came again to Gilgal:

    42And there came a man from Baal–shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

    43And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.

    44So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord.

  3. Hos. 8:2 My

    My God, we know thee.

  4. Hos. 11:1-4

    1When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

    2As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

    3I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

    4I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

  5. John 10:7, 9 by, 10 I, 15 (to :), 23-25, 27-30

    7Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

    ... by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

    ... I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

    ... 15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father:

    23And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

    24Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

    25Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.

    ... 27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

    28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

    29My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

    30I and my Father are one.

  6. Matt. 8:2, 3

    2And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

    3And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

  7. Acts 5:12 (to ;), 15-20

    12And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people;

    ... 15Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.

    16There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.

    17Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,

    18And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

    19But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,

    20Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

  8. Ps. 139:1, 2, 4, 5, 17, 18

    1O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

    2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

    ... 4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

    5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

    ... 17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

    18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

  9. Phil. 2:5, 12, 13

    5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

    ... 12Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

    13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.


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

  1. SH 336:9 Immortal, 25-26 God, 28

    Immortal man was and is God’s image or idea, even the infinite expression of infinite Mind, and immor-The real manhoodtal man is coexistent and coeternal with that 12Mind. He has been forever in the eternal Mind, God; but infinite Mind can never be in man, but is reflected by man. The spiritual man’s consciousness 15and individuality are reflections of God. They are the emanations of Him who is Life, Truth, and Love. Im-mortal man is not and never was material, but always 18spiritual and eternal.

    God, the divine Principle of man, and man in God’s likeness are inseparable, harmonious, and eternal. ... God and man are not the same, but in the order of divine Sci-30ence, God and man coexist and are eternal. God is the parent Mind, and man is God’s spiritual offspring.

  2. SH 120:4-9

    Soul, or Spirit, is God, unchangeable and eternal; and man coexists with and reflects Soul, God, for man is God’s 6image.

        Science reverses the false testimony of the physical senses, and by this reversal mortals arrive at the funda-9Reversal of testimonymental facts of being.

  3. SH 477:26 (only), 29

        Man is the expression of Soul. ... Separated from man, 30who expresses Soul, Spirit would be a nonentity; man, divorced from Spirit, would lose his entity. But there is, 478 478:1there can be, no such division, for man is coexistent with God.

  4. SH 267:3-5 (to 1st .), 10

    The offspring of God start not from matter or ephemeral dust. They are in and of Spirit, divine Mind, and so forever continue.

    The great I am made all “that was made.” Hence man and the spiritual uni-12verse coexist with God.

  5. SH 269:3-5, 9-11, 29

        From first to last the supposed coexistence of Mind and matter and the mingling of good and evil have re-sulted from the philosophy of the serpent.

        Human philosophy has made God manlike. Christian Science makes man Godlike. The first is error; the latter Divine metaphysicsis truth.

        The theories I combat are these: (1) that all is matter; 30Rejected theories(2) that matter originates in Mind, and is as real as Mind, possessing intelligence and life. The first theory, that matter is everything, is quite as 270 270:1reasonable as the second, that Mind and matter coexist and cooperate. One only of the following statements can 3be true: (1) that everything is matter; (2) that every-thing is Mind. Which one is it?

  6. SH 270:7-10 Only

    Only by understanding that there is but one power, — not two 9powers, matter and Mind, — are scientific and logical conclusions reached.

  7. SH 279:13-19

    Spirit and matter can neither coexist nor co-operate, and one can no more create the other than 15Truth can create error, or vice versa.

        In proportion as the belief disappears that life and in-telligence are in or of matter, the immortal facts of 18being are seen, and their only idea or intelligence is in God.

  8. SH 242:6-14, 25-26

    Denial of the claims of matter is a great step towards the joys of Spirit, towards human freedom and the final triumph over the body.

    9    There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no The one only wayother reality — to have no other conscious-12ness of life — than good, God and His reflec-tion, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure of the senses.

    The divine Science of man is woven into one web of consistency without seam or rent.

  9. SH 262:30

    Divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence. Cause does not exist in matter, in mortal mind, or in physical forms.

  10. SH 304:9-20

    This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into 12sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man — governed 15by God, his perfect Principle — is sinless and eternal.

        Harmony is produced by its Principle, is controlled by it and abides with it. Divine Principle is the Life 18Harmony natural of man. Man’s happiness is not, therefore, at the disposal of physical sense. Truth is not contaminated by error.

  11. SH 346:2, 9-13

    When man is spoken of as made in God’s 3God’s idea the ideal manimage, it is not sinful and sickly mortal man who is referred to, but the ideal man, reflecting God’s likeness.

    The nothingness of nothing is plain; but we need to understand that error is nothing, and that its nothingness is not saved, but must be demonstrated in 12order to prove the somethingness — yea, the allness — of Truth.

  12. SH 41:6

    Like our Master, we must depart from material sense into the spiritual sense of being.

  13. SH 520:9-10

    Principle and its idea, man, are coexistent and eternal.

  14. SH 516:9-13, 19

        God fashions all things, after His own likeness. Life is reflected in existence, Truth in truthfulness, God in Love imparts beautygoodness, which impart their own peace and 12permanence. Love, redolent with unselfish-ness, bathes all in beauty and light. ... Man, made in His likeness, possesses and reflects God’s domin-21ion over all the earth. Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.

  15. SH 471:13-18

        The facts of divine Science should be admitted, — although the evidence as to these facts is not supported 15by evil, by matter, or by material sense, — because the evidence that God and man coexist is fully sustained by spiritual sense. Man is, and forever has been, God’s re-18flection.

  16. SH 557:18

    Divine Science rolls back the clouds of error with the light of Truth, and lifts the curtain on man as never born and as 21never dying, but as coexistent with his creator.

From the Christian Science Hymnal 
Hymn 406: “…Our hearts now in this truth confide: Man is the child of God”
Hymn 554: “…One by one, our aims grow purer, As our deeds reflect our God”
Hymn 520: “…By guiding us forward throughout all our days, God's angels are o'er us”