First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Ps 46:10 (to :)
- Rom 3:4 let (to ;), 10-12, 16-18, 21, 22 (to 1st :)
- Gen 1:1
- Ps 130:1, 2, 5, 6
- Ps 4:2 (to 2nd ?), 4 (to 1st .), 5-8
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.
- 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.
- Rom 8:16
- Matt 6:6 when
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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
- S&H 502:22-27
- S&H 275:6-19The 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. - S&H 453:16 (only)
- S&H 129:22-24
- S&H 15:7-18
- S&H 471:13
- S&H 355:32Strangely 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.
Discord can never establish the facts of harmony.
- S&H 263:32-10The 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.
9 - S&H 454:22-23
- S&H 347:26-31
- S&H 492:3-12
- S&H 276:17If God is admitted to be the only Mind and Life,
18there ceases to be any opportunity for sin and death.
Perfection
requisiteWhen 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. - S&H 283:27
- S&H 323:13-16
- S&H 109:4Christian 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. - S&H 184:2727A 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.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.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. - S&H 324:7-12
- S&H 495:14Let 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. - S&H 497:5
- S&H 355:11
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"