First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge, California
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Ps. 46:1, 4-6
1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
... 4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
- Ps. 27:1, 4, 13, 14 (to 2nd :)
1The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
... 4One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
... 13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
14Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart:
- I Kings 19:9-12, 13 4th And, 15 (to 1st :)
9¶ And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
10And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
11And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
12And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
... And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
... 15And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus:
- Isa. 30:15 thus (to :), 18 therefore, 19, 21, 23, 24, 30 (to 1st ,)
thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength:
therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
19For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
... 21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
... 23Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
24The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
30And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard,
- Mark 7:32-37
32And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
33And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
34And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
35And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
36And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
37And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
- John 10:2-5 he, 9, 10
he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
4And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
5And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
... 9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
- Rev. 3:20, 22
20Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
... 22He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
- SH 323:24-4
The true idea of God gives the true understanding of Life and Love, robs the grave of victory, takes away all sin and the delusion that 27there are other minds, and destroys mortality.
The effects of Christian Science are not so much seen Childlike receptivityas felt. It is the “still, small voice” of Truth 30 uttering itself. We are either turning away from this utterance, or we are listening to it and going up higher. Willingness to become as a little child and 324 324:1to leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of the advanced idea. Gladness to leave the false landmarks 3and joy to see them disappear, — this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony.
- SH 183:26
Truth casts out all evils and materialistic methods 27with the actual spiritual law, — the law which gives Belief and understandingsight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, voice to the dumb, feet to the lame. If Christian 30Science dishonors human belief, it honors spir-itual understanding; and the one Mind only is entitled to honor.
- SH 210:11, 25
Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever 12manifested through man, the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the 15divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and salvation. Jesus healed sickness and sin by one and the same metaphysical 18process.
What is termed matter, being unintelligent, cannot say, “I suffer, I die, I am sick, or I am well.” It is the so-27Matter mindlesscalled mortal mind which voices this and ap-pears to itself to make good its claim. To mortal sense, sin and suffering are real, but immortal 30sense includes no evil nor pestilence. Because immortal sense has no error of sense, it has no sense of error; there-fore it is without a destructive element.
- SH 97:21-32
The broadest facts array the most falsities against themselves, for they bring error from under cover. It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth 24 lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its in-articulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion.
“He uttered His voice, the earth melted.” This Scrip-27ture indicates that all matter will disappear before the supremacy of Spirit.
Christianity is again demonstrating the Life that is 30Christianity still rejectedTruth, and the Truth that is Life, by the apos -tolic work of casting out error and healing the sick.
- SH 255:14-18
- SH 298:4
- SH 367:24
The infinite Truth of the Christ-cure has come to this age through a “still, small voice,” through silent utter-ances and divine anointing which quicken and increase 27the beneficial effects of Christianity. I long to see the consummation of my hope, namely, the student’s higher attainments in this line of light.
- SH 86:29-31, 32-1
- SH 559:8-12
- SH 467:22-23, 26
- SH 479:10-15, 21-23
Matter cannot see, feel, hear, taste, nor smell. It is not self-12cognizant, — cannot feel itself, see itself, nor understand itself. Take away so-called mortal mind, which constitutes matter’s supposed selfhood, and matter 15can take no cognizance of matter.
In the vast forever, in the Science and truth of being, the only facts are Spirit and its innumerable creations.
- SH 192:4-5, 6
We are Christian Scientists, only as we quit our reliance upon that which is false and grasp the true. ... Human opinions are not spiritual. They come from the hearing of the ear, from corporeality instead of from Principle, 9and from the mortal instead of from the immortal. Spirit is not separate from God. Spirit is God.
- SH 214:3
- SH 332:9-15 Christ
Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speak-The Son of Goding to the human consciousness. The Christ 12is incorporeal, spiritual, — yea, the divine image and likeness, dispelling the illusions of the senses; the Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the sick and 15casting out evils, destroying sin, disease, and death.
- SH 487:6
There is more Christianity in seeing and hearing spiritually than materially. There is more Science in the perpetual 9exercise of the Mind-faculties than in their loss. Lost they cannot be, while Mind remains. The apprehension of this gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf cen-12turies ago, and it will repeat the wonder.
- SH 486:23-26
From the Christian Science Hymnal
Hymn 122: “How blest are they whose hearts are pure …To them shall God reveal Himself”
Hymn 491: “…O Voice of God, forever near”
Hymn 541: “…When I humbly listen, I know my Guide is wise”