First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge

Wednesday Meeting Readings

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Thoughts of Truth govern me wholly
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
w210505The Bible
  1. Ps. 8:1, 3-6

    1O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

    ... 3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

    4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

    5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

    6Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

  2. Prov. 8:1, 2, 4, 6, 7 (to ;)

    1Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

    2She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

    ... 4Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

    ... 6Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

    7For my mouth shall speak truth;

  3. Ps. 91:3

    3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

  4. Mark 1:21, 23-28, 33, 34, 40-42

    21And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.

    ... 23And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

    24Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

    25And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

    26And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.

    27And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.

    28And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.

    ... 33And all the city was gathered together at the door.

    34And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.

    ... 40And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

    41And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.

    42And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.

  5. Rev. 1:4, 5 (to .), 8, 12 (to .), 13, 17 2nd And, 18 (to 4th ,), 19

    4John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

    5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth.

    ... 8I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

    ... 12And I turned to see the voice that spake with me.

    ... 13And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

    17 ... And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

    18I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore,

    ... 19Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

  6. Matt. 6:19, 20, 22, 24, 25 (to .), 27, 30 if, 33

    19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

    20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

    ... 22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

    24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

    25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.

    ... 27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

    30 ... if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

    ... 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

  7. Ps. 40:16 The, 17 I (to 2nd ;)

    16The Lord be magnified.

    17 ... I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer;

  8. Phil. 3:13-16

    13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

    14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

    15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

    16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.


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

  1. SH 228:20-29 (to 2nd .)

        If we follow the command of our Master, “Take no 21thought for your life,” we shall never depend on bodily conditions, structure, or economy, but we shall be masters of the body, dictate its terms, and form and control it with 24Truth.

        There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dis-27Priestly pride humbledhonor God. The humble Nazarene overthrew the supposition that sin, sickness, and death have power. He proved them powerless.

  2. SH 229:19, 28

    The so-called law of mortal mind, conjectural and speculative, is made void 21by the law of immortal Mind, and false law should be trampled under foot.

    It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of 30matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sick-ness. The remedy is Truth, not matter, — the truth that disease is unreal.

  3. SH 231:12-29

    12    If God makes sin, if good produces evil, if truth results in error, then Science and Christianity are helpless; but there are no antagonistic powers nor laws, spiritual or 15material, creating and governing man through perpetual warfare. God is not the author of mortal discords. Therefore we accept the conclusion that discords have 18only a fabulous existence, are mortal beliefs which divine Truth and Love destroy.

        To hold yourself superior to sin, because God made 21you superior to it and governs man, is true wisdom. To Superiority to sickness and sinfear sin is to misunderstand the power of Love and the divine Science of being in man’s rela-24tion to God, — to doubt His government and distrust His omnipotent care. To hold yourself superior to sickness and death is equally wise, and is in accordance 27with divine Science. To fear them is impossible, when you fully apprehend God and know that they are no part of His creation.

  4. SH 232:9-13

    9    Scripture informs us that “with God all things are possible,” — all good is possible to Spirit; but our prev-alent theories practically deny this, and make healing 12possible only through matter. These theories must be untrue, for the Scripture is true.

  5. SH 208:25-1 A

    A material body only expresses a material and mortal mind. A mortal 27Sickness as only thoughtman possesses this body, and he makes it harmonious or discordant according to the images of thought impressed upon it. You embrace 30your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness. You should banish all thoughts of disease and sin and of other beliefs 209 209:1included in matter.

  6. SH 209:2

    It is the mortal belief which makes 3the body discordant and diseased in proportion as igno-rance, fear, or human will governs mortals.

  7. SH 213:3

    Of a man it has been said, “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he;” hence as a man spiritually understandeth, so is he in truth.

  8. SH 234:17-26

        If mortals would keep proper ward over mortal mind, 18the brood of evils which infest it would be cleared out. Cleansing the mindWe must begin with this so-called mind and empty it of sin and sickness, or sin and sick-21ness will never cease. The present codes of human systems disappoint the weary searcher after a divine theology, adequate to the right education of human 24thought.

        Sin and disease must be thought before they can be manifested.

  9. SH 92:29

    The mistake of thinking that error can be real, 30when it is merely the absence of truth, leads to belief in the superiority of error.

  10. SH 233:16

        Already the shadow of His right hand rests upon the hour. Ye who can discern the face of the sky, — the 18Christ’s missionsign material, — how much more should ye discern the sign mental, and compass the de-struction of sin and sickness by overcoming the thoughts 21which produce them, and by understanding the spiritual idea which corrects and destroys them. To reveal this truth was our Master’s mission to all mankind, including 24the hearts which rejected him.

  11. SH 390:32

    Rise in the conscious strength of the 391 391:1spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit. 3Blot out the images of mortal thought and its beliefs in sickness and sin. Then, when thou art delivered to the judgment of Truth, Christ, the judge will say, “Thou 6art whole!”

  12. SH 177:8

        Mortal mind and body are one. Neither exists without 9the other, and both must be destroyed by immortal Mind. Mental and physical onenessMatter, or body, is but a false concept of mor-tal mind. This so-called mind builds its own 12superstructure, of which the material body is the grosser portion; but from first to last, the body is a sensuous, human concept.

  13. SH 329:26 If

    If 27men understood their real spiritual source to be all bless-edness, they would struggle for recourse to the spiritual and be at peace; but the deeper the error into which mor-30tal mind is plunged, the more intense the opposition to spirituality, till error yields to Truth.

  14. SH 146:31

        Divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system, to a form comprehensible by and adapted to the thought of 147 147:1the age in which we live. This system enables the Reduction to systemlearner to demonstrate the divine Principle, 3upon which Jesus’ healing was based, and the sacred rules for its present application to the cure of disease.

  15. SH 334:24-28

    The Revelator represents the Son of man as saying (Revelation i. 17, 18): “I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead 27[not understood]; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, [Science has explained me].”

  16. SH 231:7-8, 30

    What God cannot do, man need not attempt.

    30    Man, governed by his Maker, having no other Mind, — planted on the Evangelist’s statement that “all things were made by Him [the Word of God]; and without 232 232:1Him was not anything made that was made,” — can triumph over sin, sickness, and death.


From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymn 382: “What is thy birthright, man, Child of the perfect One”
Hymn 581: “Truth sets us free from thought of sin; It heals all sorrow's blight”
Hymn 579: “Take my life, and let it be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee”