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Bar the Door of Your Thought

6/28/2017

 


Gal. 6:3 if
3if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Job 38:2-11 (to :)
2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? 3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. 4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, 10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, 11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further:
John 9:1-27 as
1as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 7And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. 8¶ The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? 9Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he. 10Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened? 11He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight. 12Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not. 13¶ They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. 14And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. 15Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. 16Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. 17They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet. 18But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. 19And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? 20His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: 21But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. 22These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. 23Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. 24Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. 25He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. 26Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? 27He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?
Matt. 12:22-29
22¶ Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. 23And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? 24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. 25And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: 26And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? 27And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast themout? therefore they shall be your judges. 28But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. 29Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

Matt. 9:2-7
2And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. 3And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This manblasphemeth. 4And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? 5For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? 6But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. 7And he arose, and departed to his house.

Matt. 9:16, 17
16No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. 17Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

Col. 3:8-16
8But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. 12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

I Cor. 13:1-11
1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Rom. 12:2 1st be
2be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.


SH 392:24 Stand (only, to 2nd .)
Stand porter at the door of thought.

SH 393:16
No pain in matter     Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind
governs, and that in Science man reflects God’s govern-
ment. 
Have no fear that matter can ache,
swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law
of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have
no pain nor inflammation. 
Your body would suffer no
more from tension or wounds than the trunk of a tree
which you gash or the electric wire which you stretch,
were it not for mortal mind.

SH 15:9-24
To enter into the
heart of prayer, the door of the erring senses must be
closed. 
Lips must be mute and materialism silent,
that man may have audience with Spirit, the divine
Principle, Love, which destroys all error.
Effectual invocation
    In order to pray aright, we must enter into the
closet and shut the door. 
We must close the lips and
silence the material senses. 
In the quiet
sanctuary of earnest longings, we must
deny sin and plead God’s allness. 
We must resolve to
take up the cross, and go forth with honest hearts to
work and watch for wisdom, Truth, and Love. 
We
must “pray without ceasing.” 
Such prayer is an-
swered, in so far as we put our desires into practice.

The Master’s injunction is, that we pray in secret and
let our lives attest our sincerity.

SH 234:9-3
Hospitality to health and good     We should become more familiar with good than with
evil, and guard against false beliefs as watchfully as we
bar our doors against the approach of thieves
and murderers. 
We should love our enemies
and help them on the basis of the Golden
Rule; but avoid casting pearls before those who trample
them under foot, thereby robbing both themselves and
others.
Cleansing the mind
    If mortals would keep proper ward over mortal mind,
the brood of evils which infest it would be cleared out.

We must begin with this so-called mind and
empty it of sin and sickness, or sin and sick-
ness will never cease. 
The present codes of human
systems disappoint the weary searcher after a divine
theology, adequate to the right education of human
thought.

    Sin and disease must be thought before they can be
manifested. 
You must control evil thoughts in the first
instance, or they will control you in the second. 
Jesus
declared that to look with desire on forbidden objects was
to break a moral precept. 
He laid great stress on the
action of the human mind, unseen to the senses.

    Evil thoughts and aims reach no farther and do no more
harm than one’s belief permits. 
Evil thoughts, lusts, and
malicious purposes cannot go forth, like wandering pollen,
from one human mind to another, finding unsuspected
lodgment, if virtue and truth build a strong defence.

SH 451:31-14, 15-27
Indispensable defence     Show your student that mental malpractice tends to
blast moral sense, health, and the human life. 
Instruct
him how to bar the door of his thought against this
seeming power, — a task not difficult, when one under-
stands that evil has in reality no power.

Incorrect reasoning leads to practical error.
The wrong thought should be arrested before it has a
chance to manifest itself.
Egotistic darkness
    Walking in the light, we are accustomed to the light
and require it; we cannot see in darkness. 
But eyes ac-
customed to darkness are pained by the light.

When outgrowing the old, you should not fear
to put on the new. 
Your advancing course may pro-
voke envy, but it will also attract respect. 
When error
confronts you, withhold not the rebuke or the explana-
tion which destroys error. 
Better is
the frugal intellectual repast with contentment and virtue,
than the luxury of learning with egotism and vice.
Unwarranted expectations
    Right is radical. The teacher must know the truth
himself. 
He must live it and love it, or he cannot impart
it to others. 
We soil our garments with con-
servatism, and afterwards we must wash them
clean. 
When the spiritual sense of Truth unfolds its
harmonies, you take no risks in the policy of error. 
Ex-
pect to heal simply by repeating the author’s words, by
right talking and wrong acting, and you will be disap-
pointed. 
Such a practice does not demonstrate the
Science by which divine Mind heals the sick.

SH 392:27-15
When the condition is present
which you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise,
heredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office
as porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears.

Exclude from mortal mind the offending errors; then the
body cannot suffer from them. 
The issues of pain or
pleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman
forsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forget-
ting that through divine help we can forbid this entrance.
The strength of Spirit
    The body seems to be self-acting, only because mortal
mind is ignorant of itself, of its own actions, and of their
results, — ignorant that the predisposing, re-
mote, and exciting cause of all bad effects is a
law of so-called mortal mind, not of matter. 
Mind is the
master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness,
sin, and death. 
Exercise this God-given authority. Take
possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action.

Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike
good. 
God has made man capable of this, and nothing
can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on
man.

SH 141:13-10
In healing the sick and sinning,
Jesus elaborated the fact that the healing effect
followed the understanding of the divine Principle and
of the Christ-spirit which governed the corporeal Jesus.

For this Principle there is no dynasty, no ecclesiastical
monopoly. 
Its only crowned head is immortal sover-
eignty. 
Its only priest is the spiritualized man. The
Bible declares that all believers are made “kings and
priests unto God.” 
The outsiders did not then, and
do not now, understand this ruling of the Christ; there-
fore they cannot demonstrate God’s healing power.

Neither can this manifestation of Christ be com-
prehended, until its divine Principle is scientifically
understood.
A change demanded
    The adoption of scientific religion and of divine heal-
ing will ameliorate sin, sickness, and death. 
Let our
pulpits do justice to Christian Science. 
Let
it have fair representation by the press. 
Give
to it the place in our institutions of learning now occu-
pied by scholastic theology and physiology, and it will
eradicate sickness and sin in less time than the old systems,
devised for subduing them, have required for self-estab-
lishment and propagation.
Two claims omitted
    Anciently the followers of Christ, or Truth, measured
Christianity by its power over sickness, sin, and death;
but modern religions generally omit all but one
of these powers, — the power over sin. 
We
must seek the undivided garment, the whole Christ, as our
first proof of Christianity, for Christ, Truth, alone can
furnish us with absolute evidence.

SH 99:9-11
Truth has furnished
the key to the kingdom, and with this key Christian Sci-
ence has opened the door of the human understanding.

SH 10:14
    Seeking is not sufficient. It is striving that enables
us to enter. 
Spiritual attainments open the door to a
higher understanding of the divine Life.



Hymn 304

Hymn 304–309, 456
“Feed My Sheep”
Mary Baker Eddy
(304)
GUIDANCE
Lyman Brackett
(305)
SHEPHERD
Albert F. Conant
(306)
CONCORD
William Lyman Johnson
(307)
LLANFAIR
Arr. from Robert Williams
(308)
EGERTON
G. Thalben-Ball
(309)
BENEVOLENCE
E. Norman Greenwood
Shepherd, show me how to go
O’er the hillside steep,
How to gather, how to sow,--
How to feed Thy sheep;
I will listen for Thy voice,
Lest my footsteps stray;
I will follow and rejoice
All the rugged way.
Thou wilt bind the stubborn will,
Wound the callous breast,
Make self-righteousness be still,
Break earth’s stupid rest.
Strangers on a barren shore,
Lab’ring long and lone,
We would enter by the door,
And Thou know’st Thine own;
So, when day grows dark and cold,
Tear or triumph harms,
Lead Thy lambkins to the fold,
Take them in Thine arms;
Feed the hungry, heal the heart,
Till the morning’s beam;
White as wool, ere they depart,
Shepherd, wash them clean.
 

(New Arr.)
Hymn 431

Hymn 431
John Newton
Adapted
(431)
NEW BRITAIN
Traditional American melody
Arranged by Robert Rockabrand
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,
That saved a soul like me.
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!
Through many dangers, toils, and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.

(New Hymnal #)
Hymn 324

Hymn 324, 457
Frances R. Havergal
Adapted
(324)
THEODORA
Arr. from G. F. Händel
Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my hands, and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet, and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee.
Take my voice, and let me sing
Always, only, for my King.
Take my lips, and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee.
Take my every thought, to use
In the way that Thou shalt choose.
Take my love; O Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure store.
I am Thine, and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee.

Christian Healing

6/14/2017

 
Man. 92:3
    Healing Better than Teaching. Sect. 7. 
Healing the sick and the sinner with Truth dem-
onstrates what we affirm of Christian Science,
and nothing can substitute this demonstration.

I recommend that each member of this Church
shall strive to demonstrate by his or her practice,
that Christian Science heals the sick quickly and
wholly, thus proving this Science to be all that
we claim for it.



Ex. 3:1-18
1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
2And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
4And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
5And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
6Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
7¶ And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
9Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
10Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
11¶ And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
12And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
13And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
14And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
15And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
16Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
17And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
18And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.

Ex. 4:1-8
1And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.
2And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
3And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
5That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
6¶ And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
7And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
8And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

Ex. 15:26 If (to 6th ,), 26 for
26If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee,for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

Matt. 12:1-5 Jesus, 10-15
1Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
2But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
3But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungered, and they that were with him;
4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
5Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
10¶ And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
11And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
12How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
13Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
14¶ Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
15But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

Matt. 17:14-23
14¶ And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
15Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
16And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
17Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
18And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
19Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
20And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
21Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
22¶ And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:
23And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.

I Sam. 6:3 If
3If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.

Luke 7:1-16
1Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
2And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.
3And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.
4And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:
5For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.
6Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
7Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.
8For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
9When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
10And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.
11¶ And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.
12Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
13And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
14And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
15And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
16And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.

Heb. 11:35-3
35Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

CHAPTER 121Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.


SH 475:13-22
Man is idea, the image, of
Love; he is not physique. 
He is the compound idea of
God, including all right ideas; the generic term for
all that reflects God’s image and likeness; the conscious
identity of being as found in Science, in which man is
the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal;
that which has no separate mind from God; that which
has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which
possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his
own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.


  
SH 476:9-11
God is the Principle of
man, and man is the idea of God. 
Hence man is not
mortal nor material.


SH 476:21-22 seek
seek the spiritual
status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood.


SH 476:29-32 The
The kingdom within“The kingdom of God is within you;”
that is, Truth and Love reign in the real
man, showing that man in God’s image is
unfallen and eternal.


SH 470:23-24
Man is the expression
of God’s being.


SH 470:24-27 (to unexpressed)
If there ever was a moment
when man did not express the divine perfec-
tion, then there was a moment when man did not express
God, and consequently a time when Deity was unex-
pressed


SH 470:28-30
If man has lost per-
fection, then he has lost his perfect Principle, the divine
Mind.



SH 581:8-14
Ark. Safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth, proved
to be as immortal as its Principle; the understanding of
Spirit, destroying belief in matter.


    God and man coexistent and eternal; Science show-
ing that the spiritual realities of all things are created
by Him and exist forever. 
The ark indicates temptation
overcome and followed by exaltation.


SH viii:12
The question, What is Truth, is answered by
demonstration, — by healing both disease and sin; and
this demonstration shows that Christian healing con-
fers the most health and makes the best men. 
On this
basis Christian Science will have a fair fight. 
Sickness
has been combated for centuries by doctors using ma-
terial remedies; but the question arises, Is there less
sickness because of these practitioners? 
A vigorous
“No” is the response deducible from two connate
facts, — the reputed longevity of the Antediluvians,
and the rapid multiplication and increased violence of
diseases since the flood.


SH x:22-25, 30-21
    The divine Principle of healing is proved in the
personal experience of any sincere seeker of Truth. 
Its
purpose is good, and its practice is safer and more po-
tent than that of any other sanitary method. 
No intellectual proficiency is req-
uisite in the learner, but sound morals are most de-
sirable.


    Many imagine that the phenomena of physical heal-
ing in Christian Science present only a phase of the
action of the human mind, which action in some unex-
plained way results in the cure of disease. 
On the con-
trary, Christian Science rationally explains that all
other pathological methods are the fruits of human
faith in matter, — faith in the workings, not of Spirit,
but of the fleshly mind which must yield to Science.


    The physical healing of Christian Science results
now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine
Principle, before which sin and disease lose their real-
ity in human consciousness and disappear as naturally
and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and
sin to reformation. 
Now, as then, these mighty works
are not supernatural, but supremely natural. 
They are
the sign of Immanuel, or “God with us,” — a divine
influence ever present in human consciousness and re-
peating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,

To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense],
And recovering of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty them that are bruised.



SH 12:1-26
Prayer for the sick    “The prayer of faith shall save the sick,” says the
Scripture. 
What is this healing prayer? A mere re-
quest that God will heal the sick has no
power to gain more of the divine presence
than is always at hand. 
The beneficial effect of
such prayer for the sick is on the human mind, mak-
ing it act more powerfully on the body through a blind
faith in God. 
This, however, is one belief casting out
another, — a belief in the unknown casting out a belief
in sickness. 
It is neither Science nor Truth which
acts through blind belief, nor is it the human under-
standing of the divine healing Principle as manifested
in Jesus, whose humble prayers were deep and con-
scientious protests of Truth, — of man’s likeness to
God and of man’s unity with Truth and Love.


    Prayer to a corporeal God affects the sick like a
drug, which has no efficacy of its own but borrows its
power from human faith and belief. 
The drug does
nothing, because it has no intelligence. 
It is a mortal
belief, not divine Principle or Love, which causes a
drug to be apparently either poisonous or sanative.


    The common custom of praying for the recovery of the
sick finds help in blind belief, whereas help should come
from the enlightened understanding. 
Changes in belief
may go on indefinitely, but they are the merchandise of
human thought and not the outgrowth of divine Science.


SH 44:20
The deific naturalism    Could it be called supernatural for the God of nature
to sustain Jesus in his proof of man’s truly derived power?

It was a method of surgery beyond material
art, but it was not a supernatural act. 
On
the 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
human invention.


SH 46:5-17
Spiritual interpretation    In the walk to Emmaus, Jesus was known to his friends
by the words, which made their hearts burn within them,
and by the breaking of bread. 
The divine
Spirit, which identified Jesus thus centuries
ago, has spoken through the inspired Word and will speak
through it in every age and clime. 
It is revealed to the
receptive heart, and is again seen casting out evil and
healing the sick.

Corporeality and Spirit
    The Master said plainly that physique was not Spirit,
and after his resurrection he proved to the physical senses
that his body was not changed until he himself
ascended, — or, in other words, rose even
higher in the understanding of Spirit, God.


SH 97:29-32
Christianity still rejected    Christianity is again demonstrating the Life that is
Truth, and the Truth that is Life, by the apos-
tolic work of casting out error and healing the
sick.




Hymns:
Hymn 66

Hymn 66, 421
Violet Hay
(66)
SINE NOMINE
R. Vaughan Williams
SINE NOMINE by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
from the English Hymnal.
Licensed by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
From these Thy children gathered in Thy name,
From hearts made whole, from lips redeemed from woe,
Thy praise, O Father, shall forever flow.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

O perfect Life, in Thy completeness held,
None can beyond Thy omnipresence stray;
Safe in Thy Love, we live and sing alway
Alleluia! Alleluia!

O perfect Mind, reveal Thy likeness true,
That higher selfhood which we all must prove,
Joy and dominion, love reflecting Love.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

Thou, Soul, inspiring—give us vision clear,
Break earth-bound fetters, sweep away the veil,
Show the new heaven and earth that shall prevail.
Alleluia! Alleluia!


Hymn 484
Hymn 58

Hymn 58, 438
Elizabeth C. Adams
(58)
JOY
Arr. from L. van Beethoven
Father, we Thy loving children
Lift our hearts in joy today,
Knowing well that Thou wilt keep us
Ever in Thy blessed way.
Thou art Love and Thou art wisdom,
Thou art Life and Thou art All;
In Thy Spirit living, moving,
We shall neither faint nor fall.

Come we daily then, dear Father,
Open hearts and willing hands,
Eager ears, expectant, joyful,
Ready for Thy right commands.
We would hear no other voices,
We would heed no other call;
Thou alone art good and gracious,
Thou our Mind and Thou our All.

In Thy house securely dwelling,
Where Thy children live to bless,
Seeing only Thy creation,
We can share Thy happiness,
Share Thy joy and spend it freely.
Loyal hearts can feel no fear;
We Thy children know Thee, Father,
Love and Life forever near.

​

Marriage

6/7/2017

 
Hymn 423

Hymn 423, 69
James J. Rome
(423)
PENITENTIA
Edward Dearle
Give me, O Lord, an understanding heart,
That I may learn to know myself in Thee,
To spurn the wrong and choose the better part
And thus from sinful bondage be set free.

Give me, O Lord, a meek and contrite heart,
That I may learn to quell all selfish pride,
Bowing before Thee, see Thee as Thou art
And ’neath Thy sheltering presence safely hide.

Give me, O Lord, a gentle, loving heart,
That I may learn to be more tender, kind,
And with Thy healing touch, each wound and smart
With Christly bands of Love and Truth to bind.


Heb. 13:4 (to ,)
4Marriage is honourable in all,

Matt. 19:6 What
6What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Ruth 1:16 whither, 17
16whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
17Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.

Gen. 1:26 God, 27
26God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Matt. 1:18-22 (to 2nd ,)
18¶ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
19Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
20But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
22Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet,

John 2:1-10
1And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
2And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
3And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.
4Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
5His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
6And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
7Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
8And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
9When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
10And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

Luke 20:34-36
34And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
35But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
36Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Matt. 25:1-10
1Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

Rom. 7:4 2nd ye
4ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

Matt. 3:15 Suffer (to 1st .)
15Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.



SH 65:3-19
May Christ, Truth, be present at every bridal
altar to turn the water into wine and to give to
human life an inspiration by which man’s spiritual and
eternal existence may be discerned.

Righteous foundations
    If the foundations of human affection are consistent
with progress, they will be strong and enduring. 
Divorces
should warn the age of some fundamental error
in the marriage state. 
The union of the sexes
suffers fearful discord. 
To gain Christian Science and its
harmony, life should be more metaphysically regarded.

Powerless promises
    The broadcast powers of evil so conspicuous to-day
show themselves in the materialism and sensualism of
the age, struggling against the advancing
spiritual era. 
Beholding the world’s lack of
Christianity and the powerlessness of vows to make home
happy, the human mind will at length demand a higher
affection.


SH 60:16-2
Centre for affections    Marriage should improve the human species, becoming
a barrier against vice, a protection to woman, strength to
man, and a centre for the affections. 
This,
however, in a majority of cases, is not its
present tendency, and why? 
Because the education of
the higher nature is neglected, and other considerations, 
— passion, frivolous amusements, personal adornment,
display, and pride, — occupy thought.

Spiritual concord
    An ill-attuned ear calls discord harmony, not appreciat-
ing concord. 
So physical sense, not discerning the true
happiness of being, places it on a false basis.

Science will correct the discord, and teach us
life’s sweeter harmonies.


    Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind,
and happiness would be more readily attained and would
be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul. 
Higher
enjoyments alone can satisfy the cravings of immortal
man. 
We cannot circumscribe happiness within the
limits of personal sense.


SH 68:11
Be not
in haste to take the vow “until death do us part.”

Consider its obligations, its responsibilities, its rela-
tions to your growth and to your influence on other
lives.


SH 332:4-5 Father-Mother
Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which in-
dicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation.


SH 249:5 (only)
    Let the “male and female” of God’s creating appear.

SH 508:13-14, 23
    God determines the gender of His own ideas. Gen-
der is mental, not material. 
The intelligent individual idea, be it male
or female, rising from the lesser to the greater, unfolds
the infinitude of Love.


SH 59:17-8
Trysting renewed    Tender words and unselfish care in what promotes the
welfare and happiness of your wife will prove more salutary
in prolonging her health and smiles than stolid
indifference or jealousy. 
Husbands, hear this
and remember how slight a word or deed may renew the
old trysting-times.


    After marriage, it is too late to grumble over incompati-
bility of disposition. 
A mutual understanding should
exist before this union and continue ever after, for decep-
tion is fatal to happiness.

Permanent obligation
    The nuptial vow should never be annulled, so long as
its moral obligations are kept intact; but the frequency
of divorce shows that the sacredness of this re-
lationship is losing its influence, and that fatal
mistakes are undermining its foundations. 
Separation
never should take place, and it never would, if both
husband and wife were genuine Christian Scientists.

Science inevitably lifts one’s being higher in the scale of
harmony and happiness.

Permanent affection
    Kindred tastes, motives, and aspirations are necessary
to the formation of a happy and permanent companion-
ship. 
The beautiful in character is also the
good, welding indissolubly the links of affec-
tion.


SH 59:1-16
Differing dutiesMatrimony should never be entered into
without a full recognition of its enduring obligations on
both sides. 
There should be the most tender
solicitude for each other’s happiness, and mu-
tual attention and approbation should wait on all the years
of married life.


    Mutual compromises will often maintain a compact
which might otherwise become unbearable. 
Man should
not be required to participate in all the annoyances and
cares of domestic economy, nor should woman be ex-
pected to understand political economy. 
Fulfilling the
different demands of their united spheres, their sympa-
thies should blend in sweet confidence and cheer, each
partner sustaining the other, — thus hallowing the union
of interests and affections, in which the heart finds peace
and home.


SH 589:15 (only)
Home, heaven.

SH 282:14-7
Opposite symbols    A straight line finds no abiding-place in a curve, and a
curve finds no adjustment to a straight line. 
Similarly,
matter has no place in Spirit, and Spirit has
no place in matter. 
Truth has no home in
error, and error has no foothold in Truth. 
Mind cannot
pass into non-intelligence and matter, nor can non-intel-
ligence become Soul. 
At no point can these opposites
mingle or unite. 
Even though they seem to touch, one
is still a curve and the other a straight line.


    There is no inherent power in matter; for all that is
material is a material, human, mortal thought, always
governing itself erroneously.


    Truth is the intelligence of immortal Mind. Error is
the so-called intelligence of mortal mind.

Truth is not inverted
    Whatever indicates the fall of man or the opposite of
God or God’s absence, is the Adam-dream, which is neither
Mind nor man, for it is not begotten of the
Father. 
The rule of inversion infers from
error its opposite, Truth; but Truth is the light which
dispels error. 
As mortals begin to understand Spirit,
they give up the belief that there is any true existence
apart from God.

Source of all life and action
    Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no
inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious
action. 
Mind is the same Life, Love, and wis-
dom “yesterday, and to-day, and forever.”


SH 130:26
All evil unnatural    If thought is startled at the strong claim of Science
for the supremacy of God, or Truth, and doubts the su-
premacy of good, ought we not, contrari-
wise, to be astounded at the vigorous claims
of evil and doubt them, and no longer think it natural to
love sin and unnatural to forsake it, — no longer imagine
evil to be ever-present and good absent? 
Truth should
not seem so surprising and unnatural as error, and error
should not seem so real as truth. 
Sickness should not seem
so real as health. 
There is no error in Science, and our
lives must be governed by reality in order to be in har-
mony with God, the divine Principle of all being.


SH 58:24-25
    Said the peasant bride to her lover: “Two eat no more
together than they eat separately.”


SH 58:14
With ad-
ditional joys, benevolence should grow more
diffusive. 
The narrowness and jealousy, which would
confine a wife or a husband forever within four walls, will
not promote the sweet interchange of confidence and love;
but on the other hand, a wandering desire for incessant
amusement outside the home circle is a poor augury for
the happiness of wedlock. 
Home is the dearest spot on
earth, and it should be the centre, though not the bound-
ary, of the affections.



SH 637:14-639:17
SAVED FROM INSANITY AND SUICIDE
    A few years ago, while under a sense of darkness and
despair caused by ill health and an unhappy home, Sci-
ence and Health was loaned me with a request that I
should read it.


    At that time my daughter was given up by materia
medica
 to die of lingering consumption, supposed to have
been inherited. 
My own condition seemed even more
alarming, as insanity was being manifested, and rather
than go to an insane asylum, it seemed to me the only
thing to do was to commit suicide. 
Heart trouble, kid-
ney complaint, and continual headaches caused from
female trouble were some of the many ailments I had
to contend with. 
My doctor tried to persuade me to
undergo an operation as a means of relief, but I had
submitted to a severe operation ten years previous, and
found only additional suffering as a result, so I would
not consent.


    When I began with Science and Health, I read the
chapter on “Prayer” first, and at that time did not sup-
pose it possible for me to remember anything I read,
but felt a sweet sense of God’s protection and power,
and a hope that I should at last find Him to be what
I so much needed, — a present help in time of trouble.

Before that chapter on “Prayer” was finished, my daugh-
ter was downstairs eating three meals a day, and daily
growing stronger. 
Before I had finished reading the
textbook she was well, but never having heard that the
reading of Science and Health healed any one, it was
several months before I gave God the glory.


    One by one my many ailments left me, all but the head-
aches; they were less frequent, until at the end of three
years the fear of them was entirely overcome.


    Neither myself nor my daughter have ever received
treatments, but the study of the Bible and Science and
Health, the Christian Science textbook by Mrs. Eddy,
has healed us and keeps us well.


    While Christian Science was very new to me, I at-
tended an experience meeting in First Church of Christ,
Scientist, Chicago. 
A gentleman told of an unhappy
woman who was about to separate from her husband.

This gentleman had asked her if she did not love her
husband. 
She replied, “No; when I married him I
did, but not now.” 
He told her God made man in His
image and likeness, and that He is perfect. 
He said
to her, “Go home and see only God’s perfect man; you
don’t need to love a sinful mortal such as you have been
looking upon.” 
The lady followed his advice, as he
told her there is no separation in divine Mind. 
In a
short time peace and harmony were in her home, and
both husband and wife became members of a Christian
Science church.


    This testimony was like a message from heaven to me.
I had received many benefits from the study of Science
and Health, but it had never dawned upon my darkened
consciousness till then how wonderful our God is. 
I
knew what had taken place in that home could take place
in my unhappy home where there was neither rest nor
peace.


    I hopefully took up my cross, and step by step my
burden grew lighter, as I journeyed along, realizing the
presence of the Christ, Truth, that indeed makes us
free. 
Not all at once did any outward change appear,
but at the end of three years all was peace, all the
members of the family attending church together and
realizing that there is but one Mind. 
 — E. J. B., Supe-
rior, Wis.



SH 463:12-13
A spiritual idea has not a single element of error,
and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive.


SH 56:1-6
When our great Teacher came to him for baptism,
John was astounded. 
Reading his thoughts, Jesus
added: “Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us
to fulfil all righteousness.” 
Jesus’ concessions (in certain
cases) to material methods were for the advancement of
spiritual good.


468:13-15
Spirit is
God, and man is His image and likeness. 
Therefore
man is not material; he is spiritual.



Hymn 510
Hymn 148

Hymn 148
Anna L. Waring*
(148)
EWING
Alexander Ewing
In heavenly Love abiding,
No change my heart shall fear;
And safe is such confiding,
For nothing changes here.
The storm may roar without me,
My heart may low be laid;
But God is round about me,
And can I be dismayed?

Wherever He may guide me,
No want shall turn me back;
My Shepherd is beside me,
And nothing can I lack.
His wisdom ever waketh,
His sight is never dim;
He knows the way He taketh,
And I will walk with Him.

Green pastures are before me,
Which yet I have not seen;
Bright skies will soon be o’er me,
Where darkest clouds have been.
My hope I cannot measure,
My path in life is free;
My Father has my treasure,
And He will walk with me.



    The citations on this page are from The King James Version of The Holy Bible (unless otherwise noted) and from Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. The citations are compiled using Concord Online, A Christian Science Study Resource (concordworks.com), copyrighted by The Christian Science Board of Directors.

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