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

Wednesday Meeting Readings

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Go forward, God will guide you
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
w260826GBThe Bible
  1. Ps. 42:5, 6 (to :), 7-9, 11 hope (to :)

    5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

    6O my God, my soul is cast down within me:

    ... 7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

    8Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

    9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

    ... hope thou in God:

  2. Num. 21:4-9 4th the

    the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

    5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

    6And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

    7Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

    8And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

    9And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

  3. II Kings 6:25 there (to :)

    there was a great famine in Samaria:

  4. II Kings 8:1-6

    1Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

    2And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

    3And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

    4And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.

    5And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

    6And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

  5. Acts 14:8-10, 19, 20

    8And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:

    9The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,

    10Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.

    19And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.

    20Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

  6. Isa. 40:3-5, 8-11, 21

    3The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

    4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

    5And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

    ... 8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

    9O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

    10Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

    11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

    21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

  7. II Tim. 3:14 continue, 17

    continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

    ... 17That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.


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

  1. SH 299:24 (only)

        Truth never destroys God’s idea.

  2. SH 367:30-32

        Because Truth is infinite, error should be known as nothing. Because Truth is omnipotent in goodness, error, Truth’s opposite, has no might.

  3. SH 368:2, 22-24

    The 3Real and counterfeitconfidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error is unreal. Error is a coward before Truth. Divine Science insists that 6time will prove all this. Both truth and error have come nearer than ever before to the apprehension of mortals, and truth will become still clearer as error is self-9destroyed.

    Neither evil, disease, nor death can be spiritual, and the material belief in them dis-24appears in the ratio of one’s spiritual growth.

  4. SH 329:14-15, 17, 22-25 Science

        One should not tarry in the storm if the body is freez-15ing, nor should he remain in the devouring flames. ... To be discouraged, is to resemble a pupil in 18addition, who attempts to solve a problem of Euclid, and denies the rule of the problem because he fails in his first effort.

    Science is a Error destroyed, not pardoneddivine demand, not a human. Always right, 24its divine Principle never repents, but main-tains the claim of Truth by quenching error.

  5. SH 185:32-7

        A patient under the influence of mortal mind is healed 186 186:1only by removing the influence on him of this mind, by False stimulusemptying his thought of the false stimulus 3and reaction of will-power and filling it with the divine energies of Truth.

        Christian Science destroys material beliefs through the 6understanding of Spirit, and the thoroughness of this work determines health.

  6. SH 417:10, 21

    Maintain the facts of Christian Science, — that Spirit is God, and 12therefore cannot be sick; that what is termed matter cannot be sick; that all causation is Mind, acting through spiritual law. Then hold your ground with 15the unshaken understanding of Truth and Love, and you will win. When you silence the witness against your plea, you destroy the evidence, for the disease disap-18pears. The evidence before the corporeal senses is not the Science of immortal man.

    Dis -Disease to be made unrealease should not appear real to the physician, since it is demonstrable that the way to 24cure the patient is to make disease unreal to him. To do this, the physician must understand the unreality of disease in Science.

  7. SH 419:4-14, 16-22

    Your true course is to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God, Life, Truth, 6and Love, remembering that God and His ideas alone are real and harmonious.

        If your patient from any cause suffers a relapse, meet 9the cause mentally and courageously, knowing that Relapse unnecessarythere can be no reaction in Truth. Neither disease itself, sin, nor fear has the power to 12cause disease or a relapse. Disease has no intelligence with which to move itself about or to change itself from one form to another. Meet every adverse circumstance as its master. Ob-serve mind instead of body, lest aught unfit for develop-18ment enter thought. Think less of material conditions and more of spiritual.

        Mind produces all action. If the action proceeds from 21Truth, from immortal Mind, there is harmony; but mor-Conquer beliefs and fearstal mind is liable to any phase of belief.

  8. SH 83:13

    The scientific mani-Natural wondersfestation of power is from the divine nature 15and is not supernatural, since Science is an explication of nature. The belief that the universe, in-cluding man, is governed in general by material laws, but 18that occasionally Spirit sets aside these laws, — this be-lief belittles omnipotent wisdom, and gives to matter the precedence over Spirit.

  9. SH 423:8, 18

        The Christian Scientist, understanding scientifically 9that all is Mind, commences with mental causation, the Scientific correctivetruth of being, to destroy the error. This cor-rective is an alterative, reaching to every part 12of the human system. According to Scripture, it searches “the joints and marrow,” and it restores the harmony of man.

    The metaphysician, making Mind his basis of operation irrespective of matter and regarding the truth and harmony of being as superior to 21error and discord, has rendered himself strong, instead of weak, to cope with the case; and he proportionately strengthens his patient with the stimulus of courage and 24conscious power. Both Science and consciousness are now at work in the economy of being according to the law of Mind, which ultimately asserts its absolute supremacy.

  10. SH 325:2-5, 10

    He who has 3Abiding in Lifethe true idea of good loses all sense of evil, and by reason of this is being ushered into the undying realities of Spirit.

        In Colossians (iii. 4) Paul writes: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear [be manifested], then shall ye also 12Indestructible beingappear [be manifested] with him in glory.” When spiritual being is understood in all its perfection, continuity, and might, then shall man be found 15in God’s image. The absolute meaning of the apostolic words is this: Then shall man be found, in His likeness, perfect as the Father, indestructible in Life, “hid with 18Christ in God,” — with Truth in divine Love, where human sense hath not seen man.

  11. SH 192:17-19

        Moral and spiritual might belong to Spirit, who holds 18the “wind in His fists;” and this teaching accords with The one real powerScience and harmony.

  12. 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.

  13. SH 323:6

        Through the wholesome chastisements of Love, we are helped onward in the march towards righteousness, A bright outlookpeace, and purity, which are the landmarks 9of Science. Beholding the infinite tasks of truth, we pause, — wait on God. Then we push onward, until boundless thought walks enraptured, and concep-12tion unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory.

From the Christian Science Hymnal: 
Hymn 201: “ O do not bar your mind Against the light of good”
Hymn 477: “Feed my lambs, tend my sheepl”
Hymn 465: “Dear shepherd, You are Love divine, You meet my every need”