First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge, California
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Gen. 1:1
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Ex. 3:1-5, 7, 8 (to ;)
1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
2And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
4And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
5And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
7¶ And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey;
- Rev. 10:1 (to 1st :), 2, 3 (to :), 5, 6, 8, 9 (to ;)
1And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud:
... 2And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
3And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth:
... 5And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
... 8And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
9And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up;
- Eccl. 3:14 (to 2nd :), 15 (to 2nd ;)
14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it:
... 15That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been;
- John 21:2-6, 11
2There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
3Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a-fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
4But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
5Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
6And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
... 11Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
- Luke 17:11-14, 20, 21
11¶ And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
12And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
13And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
14And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
20¶ And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
- Mark 10:27 (to 1st ,), 27 3rd with
27And Jesus looking upon them saith, ... with God all things are possible.
- Acts 17:24, 25, 28
24God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
... 28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
- James 1:17
17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
- II Pet. 3:8 beloved, 9 (to 3rd ,)
beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish,
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
- SH 255:11-14
- SH 284:4-9
If God were limited to man or matter, or if the infinite could be circumscribed within the finite, God would be 6Mind never limitedcorporeal, and unlimited Mind would seem to spring from a limited body; but this is an impossibility. Infinite Mind can have no starting-point, 9and can return to no limit.
- SH 233:1
Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power. 3Profession and proofThese proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. This is an element of 6progress, and progress is the law of God, whose law de-mands of us only what we can certainly fulfil.
- SH 411:10
- SH 335:32-6 The
The Ego is deathless and limitless, for limits 336 336:1would imply and impose ignorance. Mind is the I am, or infinity. Mind never enters the finite. Intelligence 3The divine Egonever passes into non-intelligence, or matter. Good never enters into evil, the unlimited into the limited, the eternal into the temporal, nor the im-6mortal into mortality.
- SH 309:29
- SH 261:21
Detach sense from the body, or matter, which is only a form of human belief, and you may learn the meaning Immutable identity of manof God, or good, and the nature of the immu-24table and immortal. Breaking away from the mutations of time and sense, you will neither lose the solid objects and ends of life nor your own iden-27tity. Fixing your gaze on the realities supernal, you will rise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the bird which has burst from the egg and preens its wings for a 30skyward flight.
- SH 176:24-25, 27-31
- SH 328:28
Jesus’ promise is perpetual. Had it been given only to his immediate disciples, the Scriptural passage would 30read you, not they. The purpose of his great life-work extends through time and includes universal humanity. Its Principle is infinite, reaching beyond the pale of a 329 329:1single period or of a limited following. As time moves on, the healing elements of pure Christianity will be fairly 3dealt with; they will be sought and taught, and will glow in all the grandeur of universal goodness.
- SH 369:16
Jesus never asked if disease were acute or chronic, and he never recommended atten-18tion to laws of health, never gave drugs, never prayed to know if God were willing that a man should live. He understood man, whose Life is God, to be immortal, and 21knew that man has not two lives, one to be destroyed and the other to be made indestructible.
- SH 289:2-6, 11, 25-27 (to 2nd .), 29-2 Spirit
Mortal man can never rise from the temporal débris 3 of error, belief in sin, sickness, and death, until he learns that God is the only Life. The belief that life and sensa-tion are in the body should be overcome by the under-6standing of what constitutes man as the image of God.
Life 12 and Life’s idea, Truth and Truth’s idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and therefore the 27Spiritual offspringmaterial must be untrue. Life is not in matter. ... Spirit and 30all things spiritual are the real and eternal.
Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, — of Life, not of matter. Because Life is God, Life must be 290 290:1eternal, self-existent. Life is the everlasting I am, the Be-ing who was and is and shall be, whom nothing can erase.
- SH 296:4-9 (to 1st .), 19
Progress is born of experience. It is the ripening of mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for 6Scientific purgationthe immortal. Either here or hereafter, suf-fering or Science must destroy all illusions regarding life and mind, and regenerate material sense 9and self.
Whether mortals will learn this sooner or later, and how long they will suffer the pangs of destruction, de-21pends upon the tenacity of error.
- SH 468:26-29 Life, 30-3
Life is divine Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit. 27Eternity of LifeLife is without beginning and without end. Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity. ... Time is finite; 469 469:1eternity is forever infinite. 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.
- SH 504:23
- SH 29:30-32
- SH 470:32
The relations of God and man, divine Principle and 471 471:1idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine 3order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He cre-ates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history.
Hymn 172: “Lift up thy light, O man, arise and shine, Steadfast while loud the storms of life assail”
Hymn 442: “Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart, Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art”
Hymn 175: “Lo, He sent His Word and healed them, Still that Word of God is here”