First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge

Wednesday Meeting Readings

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The honest recognition of our spirituality
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Bible
  1. Ps 46:10 (to :)

    10Be still, and know that I am God:

  2. Rom 3:4 let (to ;), 10-12, 16-18, 21, 22 (to 1st :)

    4let God be true, but every man a liar;

    10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

    11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

    12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

    16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

    17And the way of peace have they not known:

    18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

    21But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

    22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe:

  3. Gen 1:1

    1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

  4. Ps 130:1, 2, 5, 6

    1Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.

    2Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

    5I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

    6My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

  5. Ps 4:2 (to 2nd ?), 4 (to 1st .), 5-8

    2O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?

    4Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

    5Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.

    6There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

    7Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

    8I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

  6. Ps 119:127-130 I love

    127I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

    128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

    129Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

    130The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

  7. Rom 8:16

    16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

  8. Matt 6:6 when

    6when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

  9. Matt 7:21-25

    21¶Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

    22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

    23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

    24¶Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

    25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

  10. John 4:5-7, 9-11, 13-21, 23-26, 28-30, 39-42

    5Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

    6Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

    7There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

    9Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

    10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

    11The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

    13Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

    14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

    15The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

    16Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

    17The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

    18For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

    19The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

    20Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

    21Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

    23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

    24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

    25The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

    26Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

    28The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,

    29Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

    30Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

    39¶And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

    40So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

    41And many more believed because of his own word;

    42And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

  11. Eph 3:14-19

    14For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

    15Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

    16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

    17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

    18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

    19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.


Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

by Mary Baker Eddy

  1. S&H 502:22-27
    Genesis i. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven
    and the earth.

    24
    The infinite has no beginning.
    This word beginning
    is employed to signify the only, ” that is, the eternal ver-
    Ideas and
    identities
    ity and unity of God and man, including
    27the universe.

  2. S&H 275:6-19
    6
    The starting-point of divine Science is
    that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other
    might nor Mind, ” that God is Love, and therefore He
    9is divine Principle.

    To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science,
    you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle
    Divine
    synonyms
    12of all that really is.
    Spirit, Life, Truth, Love,
    combine as one, ” and are the Scriptural names
    for God.
    All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, im-
    15mortality, cause, and effect belong to God.
    These are
    His attributes, the eternal manifestations of the infinite
    divine Principle, Love.
    No wisdom is wise but His
    18wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life
    but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.

  3. S&H 453:16 (only)
    Honesty is spiritual power.

  4. S&H 129:22-24
    We must look deep
    Ontology
    needed
    into realism instead of accepting only the out-
    24ward sense of things.

  5. S&H 15:7-18
    The Father in secret is unseen to the physical senses,
    but He knows all things and rewards according to
    9motives, not according to speech.
    To enter into the
    heart of prayer, the door of the erring senses must be
    closed.
    Lips must be mute and materialism silent,
    12that man may have audience with Spirit, the divine
    Principle, Love, which destroys all error.

    In order to pray aright, we must enter into the
    15closet and shut the door.
    We must close the lips and
    Effectual
    invocation
    silence the material senses.
    In the quiet
    sanctuary of earnest longings, we must
    18deny sin and plead God's allness.

  6. S&H 471:13
    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.
    God is infinite, therefore ever present, and
    there is no other power nor presence.
    Hence the spirit-
    uality of the universe is the only fact of creation.
    "Let
    21God be true, but every [material] man a liar."

  7. S&H 355:32
    Strangely enough, we ask for material theories in sup-
    356:1port of spiritual and eternal truths, when the two are so
    antagonistic that the material thought must become spir-
    Weakness
    of material
    theories
    3itualized before the spiritual fact is attained.

    So-called material existence affords no evidence
    of spiritual existence and immortality.
    Sin,
    6sickness, and death do not prove man's entity or immor-
    tality.
    Discord can never establish the facts of harmony.

    Matter is not the vestibule of Spirit.

  8. S&H 263:32-10
    The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and ma-
    264:1terial earth, are the fleeting concepts of the human mind.

    They have their day before the permanent facts and their
    Mind's true
    camera
    3perfection in Spirit appear.
    The crude crea-
    tions of mortal thought must finally give place
    to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the
    6camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spir-
    itual and eternal.
    Mortals must look beyond fading,
    finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things.

    9
    Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm
    of Mind?

  9. S&H 454:22-23
    Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the
    waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept.

  10. S&H 347:26-31
    The dream that matter and error are something
    27must yield to reason and revelation.
    Then mortals
    will behold the nothingness of sickness and sin, and
    sin and sickness will disappear from consciousness.

    30
    The harmonious will appear real, and the inharmo-
    nious unreal.

  11. S&H 492:3-12
    3
    For right reasoning there should be but one fact before
    the thought, namely, spiritual existence.
    In reality there
    is no other existence, since Life cannot be united to its
    6unlikeness, mortality.

    Being is holiness, harmony, immortality.
    It is already
    proved that a knowledge of this, even in small degree,
    Mind one
    and all
    9will uplift the physical and moral standard
    of mortals, will increase longevity, will purify
    and elevate character.
    Thus progress will finally destroy
    12all error, and bring immortality to light.

  12. S&H 276:17
    If God is admitted to be the only Mind and Life,
    18there ceases to be any opportunity for sin and death.

    Perfection
    requisite
    When we learn in Science how to be perfect
    even as our Father in heaven is perfect,
    21thought is turned into new and healthy channels, ”
    towards the contemplation of things immortal and away
    from materiality to the Principle of the universe, includ-
    24ing harmonious man.

  13. S&H 283:27
    27
    We must receive the divine Principle in the under-
    standing, and live it in daily life; and unless we so do, we
    can no more demonstrate Science, than we can teach and
    30illustrate geometry by calling a curve a straight line or a
    straight line a sphere.

  14. S&H 323:13-16
    In order to apprehend more, we must put into prac-
    tice what we already know.
    We must recollect that
    Need and
    supply
    15Truth is demonstrable when understood, and
    that good is not understood until demonstrated.

  15. S&H 109:4
    Christian Science reveals incontrovertibly that Mind
    is All-in-all, that the only realities are the divine Mind
    Scientific
    evidence
    6and idea.
    This great fact is not, however, seen
    to be supported by sensible evidence, until its
    divine Principle is demonstrated by healing the sick and
    9thus proved absolute and divine.
    This proof once seen,
    no other conclusion can be reached.

  16. S&H 184:27
    27
    A woman, whom I cured of consumption, always
    breathed with great difficulty when the wind was from
    the east.
    I sat silently by her side a few moments.
    Her
    30breath came gently.
    The inspirations were deep and nat-
    ural.
    I then requested her to look at the weather-vane.

    She looked and saw that it pointed due east.
    The wind
    185:1had not changed, but her thought of it had and so her diffi-
    culty in breathing had gone.
    The wind had not produced
    3the difficulty.
    My metaphysical treatment changed the
    action of her belief on the lungs, and she never suffered
    again from east winds, but was restored to health.

  17. S&H 324:7-12
    Unless the harmony and immortality of man are be-
    coming more apparent, we are not gaining the true idea
    Narrow
    pathway
    9of God; and the body will reflect what gov-
    erns it, whether it be Truth or error,
    understanding or belief, Spirit or matter.
    Therefore
    12"acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace."

  18. S&H 495:14
    When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling
    15steadfastly to God and His idea.
    Allow nothing but His
    Steadfast and
    calm trust
    likeness to abide in your thought.
    Let neither
    fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and
    18calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious ” as
    Life eternally is ” can destroy any painful sense of, or
    belief in, that which Life is not.
    Let Christian Science,
    21instead of corporeal sense, support your understanding of
    being, and this understanding will supplant error with
    Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence dis-
    24cord with harmony.

  19. S&H 497:5
    2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and in-
    6finite God.
    We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the
    Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's
    image and likeness.

  20. S&H 355:11
    Let discord of every name and nature
    12be heard no more, and let the harmonious and true sense
    of Life and being take possession of human consciousness.


From the Christian Science Hymnal  
Hymn 332: "The Lord is in His holy place"   
Hymn 450: "O house of God, built on a firm foundation"
Hymn 58: "Father, we Thy loving children"