First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Ps. 42:6 (to :), 7, 8, 11
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.
... 11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
- Rom. 8:1, 2
1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
- Deut. 34:7 Moses
7Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
- Josh. 14:6-8, 10, 11 (to 2nd ,)
6¶ Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh–barnea.
7Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh–barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
8Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.
... 10And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
11As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now,
- Luke 5:1-10 (to 1st .), 11-13
1And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,
2And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
3And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon’s, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.
4Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
5And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
6And when they had this done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
7And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.
8When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
9For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
10And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon.
... 11And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.
12¶ And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
13And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
- Luke 8:41, 42 (to 1st .), 49-55 (to :)
41¶ And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:
42For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a-dying.
49¶ While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.
50But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.
51And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.
52And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
53And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
54And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise.
55And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway:
- John 10:7 Verily, 9 by, 10
7Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
9 ... 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.
- Ps. 46:4-7 (to 1st .)
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.
7The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
- SH 103:18-23 (to 1st .)
- SH 102:3, 16-17, 20-23
Its basis being a belief and this belief animal, in Science animal magnetism, mesmerism, or hypnotism is 6a mere negation, possessing neither intelligence, power, nor reality, and in sense it is an unreal concept of the so-called mortal mind.
The mild forms of animal magnetism are disappear-ing, and its aggressive features are coming to the front. 18 ... So secret are the 21present methods of animal magnetism that they ensnare the age into indolence, and produce the very apathy on the subject which the criminal desires.
- SH 468:28-29, 30-2, 4-5 (to 1st .)
- SH 337:20 The
The true idea of man, as the reflection of the 21invisible God, is as incomprehensible to the limited senses True idea of manas is man’s infinite Principle. The visible uni-verse and material man are the poor counter-24feits of the invisible universe and spiritual man. Eternal things (verities) are God’s thoughts as they exist in the spiritual realm of the real. Temporal things are the 27thoughts of mortals and are the unreal, being the oppo-site of the real or the spiritual and eternal.
- SH 38:24
Jesus mapped out the path for others. He unveiled the Christ, the spiritual idea of divine Love. To those buried in the 27belief of sin and self, living only for pleasure or the grati-fication of the senses, he said in substance: Having eyes ye see not, and having ears ye hear not; lest ye should un-30derstand and be converted, and I might heal you. He taught that the material senses shut out Truth and its healing power.
- SH 258:9-11, 13-15, 21-30
9 Man is more than a material form with a mind inside, Infinity’s reflectionwhich must escape from its environments in order to be immortal.
God expresses in man the infinite idea forever develop-ing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from 15a boundless basis.
The human capacities are enlarged and perfected in propor-tion as humanity gains the true conception of man and 24God.
Mortals have a very imperfect sense of the spiritual man and of the infinite range of his thought. To him 27Individual permanencybelongs eternal Life. Never born and never dying, it were impossible for man, under the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his 30high estate.
- SH 250:6-11 (to 2nd .), 25, 30
6 Mortal existence is a dream; mortal existence has no real entity, but saith “It is I.” Spirit is the Ego which Spirit the one Egonever dreams, but understands all things; 9which never errs, and is ever conscious; which never believes, but knows; which is never born and never dies. Spiritual man is the likeness of this Ego.
24Take away the mortal mind, and matter has no more sense as a man than it has as 27a tree. But the spiritual, real man is immortal.
Science reveals Life as not being at the mercy of death, nor will Science admit that happi-ness is ever the sport of circumstance.
- SH 485:14-17, 19-24, 32
Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not 15to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come Scientific translationsnaturally into Spirit through better health and morals and as the result of spiritual growth. 18 ... The belief that life can be in matter or soul in body, and that man springs from dust or from an egg, 21is the result of the mortal error which Christ, or Truth, destroys by fulfilling the spiritual law of being, in which man is perfect, even as the “Father which is in heaven 24is perfect.”
The notion of any life or intelli-486486:1gence in matter is without foundation in fact, and you can have no faith in falsehood when you have learned 3falsehood’s true nature.
- SH 244:14-28
If 15Man never less than manman were dust in his earliest stage of exist-ence, we might admit the hypothesis that he returns eventually to his primitive condition; 18but man was never more nor less than man.
If man flickers out in death or springs from matter into being, there must be an instant when God is without His 21 entire manifestation, — when there is no full reflection of the infinite Mind.
Man in Science is neither young nor old. He has 24neither birth nor death. He is not a beast, a vegetable, Man not evolvednor a migratory mind. He does not pass from matter to Mind, from the mortal to the im-27mortal, from evil to good, or from good to evil. Such admissions cast us headlong into darkness and dogma.
- SH 232:27-7
It is only when the Signs followingso-called pleasures and pains of sense pass away in our lives, that we find unquestion-30able signs of the burial of error and the resurrection to spiritual life.
There is neither place nor opportunity in Science for error 233 233:1of any sort. 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 557:18
- SH 442:16-18
From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymn 459: “Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Love, With light and comfort from above”
Hymn 486: “… Reject the falsehood ages taught And rise to Life again”
Hymn 480: “Glory be to God on high, God whose glory fills the sky”
