First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge

Wednesday Meeting Readings

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Counteract imbalance in the world
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
w210224The Bible
  1. Job 37:14

    14Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

  2. Job 38:2, 4, 6 (to ?), 7, 18, 25-27, 36

    2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

    ... 4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

    ... 6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?

    ... 7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

    ... 18Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

    ... 25Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

    26To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

    27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

    ... 36Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

  3. Ex. 17:1, 2 (to .), 4-6

    1And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

    2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink.

    ... 4And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

    5And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.

    6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  4. Matt. 6:6 when, 8 your

    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.

    8 ... your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

  5. Matt. 16:1-3

    1The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

    2He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

    3And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

  6. John 5:5 a, 8-10, 14, 15, 18-20, 24, 30

    5a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

    ... 8Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

    9And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

    10The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

    14Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

    15The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.

    18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

    19Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

    20For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

    ... 24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

    ... 30I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

  7. John 14:15-17 (to :), 26, 27

    15If ye love me, keep my commandments.

    16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

    17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him:

    ... 26But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

    27Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

  8. Luke 6:43 a, 45 (to ;)

    43a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

    ... 45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good;

  9. Ps. 139:4 there, 6 (to ;), 7, 8, 10

    4there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

    ... 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

    ... 7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

    8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

    ... 10Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.


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

  1. SH vii:1-2, 13-18

    vii:1To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.

        The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the 15portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-18stone to faith.

  2. SH 239:20

    The objects we pursue and 21the spirit we manifest reveal our standpoint, and show what we are winning.

  3. SH 464:27

    Neither dishonesty nor ignorance ever founded, nor can they over-throw a scientific system of ethics.

  4. SH 13:20

        If we pray to God as a corporeal person, this will 21prevent us from relinquishing the human doubts and Corporeal ignorancefears which attend such a belief, and so we cannot grasp the wonders wrought by infi-24nite, incorporeal Love, to whom all things are possible. Because of human ignorance of the divine Principle, Love, the Father of all is represented as a corporeal 27creator; hence men recognize themselves as merely physical, and are ignorant of man as God’s image or re-flection and of man’s eternal incorporeal existence. The 30world of error is ignorant of the world of Truth, — blind to the reality of man’s existence, — for the world of sen-sation is not cognizant of life in Soul, not in body.

  5. SH 280:30

    The only excuse for entertaining human opinions and rejecting the Science of being is our mortal ignorance of Spirit, — ignorance 281 281:1which yields only to the understanding of divine Science, the understanding by which we enter into the kingdom 3of Truth on earth and learn that Spirit is infinite and supreme. Spirit and matter no more commingle than light and darkness. When one appears, the other dis -6appears.

  6. SH 240:1-6, 10

    240:1    Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love, but human belief misinterprets nature. Arctic regions, 3Some lessons from naturesunny tropics, giant hills, winged winds, mighty billows, verdant vales, festive flowers, and glorious heavens, — all point to Mind, the spiritual 6intelligence they reflect.

        In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above what it reflects, all is one grand concord. Change this 12Perpetual motionstatement, suppose Mind to be governed by matter or Soul in body, and you lose the key-note of being, and there is continual discord. Mind is 15perpetual motion. Its symbol is the sphere. The rota-tions and revolutions of the universe of Mind go on eternally.

  7. SH 295:19

    The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that 21one which has lost much materiality — much error — in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides 24the sun.

  8. SH 119:17-18, 21-1

        In one sense God is identical with nature, but this na-18ture is spiritual and is not expressed in matter. ... God is natural good, and is repre-sented only by the idea of goodness; while evil should be regarded as unnatural, because it is opposed to the nature 24of Spirit, God.

        In viewing the sunrise, one finds that it contradicts the evidence before the senses to believe that the earth 27The sun and Soulis in motion and the sun at rest. As astron-omy reverses the human perception of the movement of the solar system, so Christian Science re-30verses the seeming relation of Soul and body and makes body tributary to Mind. Thus it is with man, who is but the humble servant of the restful Mind, though it 120 120:1seems otherwise to finite sense.

  9. SH 509:29

        Knowing the Science of creation, in which all is Mind 30 and its ideas, Jesus rebuked the material thought of his fellow-countrymen: “Ye can discern the face of the 510 510:1sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” How much more should we seek to apprehend the spirit -3Spiritual ideas apprehendedual ideas of God, than to dwell on the objects of sense! To discern the rhythm of Spirit and to be holy, thought must be purely spiritual.

  10. SH 553:6

    Mortal thought must obtain a better basis, get nearer the truth of being, or health will never be universal, and harmony will never 9become the standard of man.

  11. SH 183:19-21, 26-29

    Laws of nature are laws of Spirit; but mortals commonly recognize as law that which hides the power of 21Spirit.

        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.

  12. SH 509:20

        So-called mineral, vegetable, and animal substances 21are no more contingent now on time or material struc-Divine nature appearingture than they were when “the morning stars sang together.” Mind made the “plant of 24the field before it was in the earth.” The periods of spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind’s creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness 27 — yea, the divine nature — appear in man and the uni-verse never to disappear.

  13. SH 209:10-11, 16

        The world would collapse without Mind, without the in-telligence which holds the winds in its grasp. 15

        The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent 18Spiritual translationmasses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember 21that they all must give place to the spiritual fact by the translation of man and the universe back into Spirit. In proportion as this is done, man and the universe will be 24found harmonious and eternal.

  14. SH 471:18-20

    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.

  15. SH 516:4

    The substance, Life, intelligence, Truth, and Love, which constitute Deity, are reflected by His creation; 6and when we subordinate the false testimony of the corporeal senses to the facts of Science, we shall see this true likeness and reflection everywhere.


From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymn 481: “Go to the world! Go as the ones I send, For I am with you till the ages end”
Hymn 477: “Feed my lambs, tend my sheep, Over all a vigil keep”
Hymn 523: “Like as a mother, God comforts all Her children; Comfort is calm, that bids all tumult cease”