First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge
Wednesday Meeting Readings
- Isa. 25:1, 7-9 (to 1st ;), 9 2nd we
1O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
7And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
8He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9¶ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God;we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
- John 3:16 God
16God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
- John
6:2, 4, 5, 8-10 (to 1st .), 11-13, 15, 24, 26, 27 (to :), 35 Jesus (to
:), 47 He, 51 (to 1st :), 60, 61, 63, 64 (to 1st .), 66-68
2And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.
... 4And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
5¶ When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?
8One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, saith unto him,
9There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
10And Jesus said, Make the men sit down.
... 11And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
12When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
13Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
15¶ When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
24When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.
... 26Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you:
35 ... Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life:
47 ... He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
... 51I am the living bread which came down from heaven:
... 60Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
61When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
... 63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
64But there are some of you that believe not.
66¶ From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
67Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
- John 7:14-17
14¶ Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
15And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
16Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
17If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
- John 10:7, 10 I, 11, 14, 16-18
7Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
10 ... I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
... 14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
... 16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
- I John 5:1-4 (to :), 11 this, 12 (to ;), 13
1Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
4For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world:
11 ... this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12He that hath the Son hath life;
... 13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
- SH 43:3-7, 11-12, 22-23, 27 (only)
3 The magnitude of Jesus’ work, his material disappear-ance before their eyes and his reappearance, all enabled Pentecost repeatedthe disciples to understand what Jesus had 6said. Heretofore they had only believed; now they understood.
Jesus’ last proof was the highest, the most convincing, 12the most profitable to his students.
21Human law had condemned Divine victoryhim, but he was demonstrating divine Science. 27 ... The divine must overcome the human at every point.
- SH 44:5, 20
The lonely precincts of the tomb gave Jesus a refuge 6from his foes, a place in which to solve the great Jesus in the tombproblem of being. His three days’ work in the sepulchre set the seal of eternity on time. 9 He proved Life to be deathless and Love to be the mas-ter of hate. He met and mastered on the basis of Chris-tian Science, the power of Mind over matter, all the claims 12of medicine, surgery, and hygiene.
Could it be called supernatural for the God of nature 21to sustain Jesus in his proof of man’s truly derived power? The deific naturalismIt was a method of surgery beyond material art, but it was not a supernatural act. On 24the contrary, it was a divinely natural act, whereby divinity brought to humanity the understanding of the Christ-healing and revealed a method infinitely above that of 27human invention.
- SH 338:8
- SH 472:13 What, 14-17 Error (to 2nd .)
- SH 335:7 Spirit
Spirit, God, has created all in and of Him-self. Spirit never created matter. There is nothing in 9The only substanceSpirit out of which matter could be made, for, as the Bible declares, without the Logos, the Æon or Word of God, “was not anything made 12that was made.” Spirit is the only substance, the in-visible and indivisible infinite God. Things spiritual and eternal are substantial. Things material and temporal 15are insubstantial.
- SH 39:10
The educated belief that Soul is in the body causes mortals to regard death as a friend, as a stepping-stone 12A belief suicidalout of mortality into immortality and bliss. The Bible calls death an enemy, and Jesus overcame death and the grave instead of yielding to them. 15 He was “the way.” To him, therefore, death was not the threshold over which he must pass into living glory.
- SH 42:1-8
42:1 Jesus’ life proved, divinely and scientifically, that God is Love, whereas priest and rabbi affirmed God to be a 3mighty potentate, who loves and hates. The Jewish the-ology gave no hint of the unchanging love of God.
The universal belief in death is of no advantage. It 6A belief in deathcannot make Life or Truth apparent. Death will be found at length to be a mortal dream, which comes in darkness and disappears with the light.
- SH 51:6-21
6 Jesus could have withdrawn himself from his enemies. He had power to lay down a human sense of life for his Life-power indestructiblespiritual identity in the likeness of the divine; 9but he allowed men to attempt the destruc-tion of the mortal body in order that he might furnish the proof of immortal life. Nothing could kill this Life 12 of man. Jesus could give his temporal life into his enemies’ hands; but when his earth-mission was accom-plished, his spiritual life, indestructible and eternal, 15was found forever the same. He knew that matter had no life and that real Life is God; therefore he could no more be separated from his spiritual Life than God could 18be extinguished.
His consummate example was for the salvation of us all, but only through doing the works which he did and 21Example for our salvationtaught others to do.
- SH 53:8
The reputation of Jesus was the very opposite of his 9character. Why? Because the divine Principle and Reputation and characterpractice of Jesus were misunderstood. He was at work in divine Science. His words 12and works were unknown to the world because above and contrary to the world’s religious sense. Mortals be-lieved in God as humanly mighty, rather than as divine, 15infinite Love.
- SH 54:1-4, 5, 8-10 All, 13-17
Through the magnitude of his human life, he demonstrated the divine 3Life. Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he de-fined Love. ... The world acknowledged not his righteousness, 6seeing it not; but earth received the harmony his glorified example introduced.
All 9must sooner or later plant themselves in Christ, the true Inspiration of sacrificeidea of God. ... In witness of his divine com-mission, he presented the proof that Life, Truth, and 15Love heal the sick and the sinning, and triumph over death through Mind, not matter. This was the highest proof he could have offered of divine Love.
- SH 55:15
15 Truth’s immortal idea is sweeping down the centuries, gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning. My weary hope tries to realize that happy day, when man shall 18recognize the Science of Christ and love his neighbor as himself, — when he shall realize God’s omnipotence and the healing power of the divine Love in what it has done 21and is doing for mankind. The promises will be ful-filled. The time for the reappearing of the divine healing is throughout all time; and whosoever layeth his earthly 24all on the altar of divine Science, drinketh of Christ’s cup now, and is endued with the spirit and power of Christian healing.
- SH 45:16
Glory be to God, and peace to the struggling hearts! Christ hath rolled away the stone from the door of hu -18The stone rolled awayman hope and faith, and through the reve-lation and demonstration of life in God, hath elevated them to possible at-one-ment with the spiritual 21idea of man and his divine Principle, Love.
From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymn 461: “… Come, all you heavy laden, And I will give you life”
Hymn 465: “… I'm living in the house of God, The consciousness of Love”
Hymn 542: “… The sense of Life that knows no death, — The Life that maketh all things new”
