Protection

BIBLE

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. ...

There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
(Psalms 91:1–6, 10, 11)

¶ And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. ...

... ¶ And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son? And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them went his way,
(Luke 4:14, 16–30)

... The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
(II Samuel 22:2–4 The)

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, ...
(Deuteronomy 31:6 (to 2nd ,))

... for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
(Deuteronomy 31:6 for)

And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region. But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium. And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
(Acts 13:49–52)

And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren. Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles. And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them, They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about: And there they preached the gospel.
(Acts 14:1–7)

¶ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
(Ecclesiastes 5:8)

... thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. ...

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
(Psalms 3:3 thou, 4 (to 1st .), 6)

The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation. ...

... that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
(II Samuel 22:47, 49 that, 50)

SCIENCE & HEALTH

The history of Christianity furnishes sublime proofs of the supporting influence and protecting power bestowed on man by his heavenly Father, omnipotent Mind, who gives man faith and understanding whereby to defend himself, not only from temptation, but from bodily suffering.

The Christian martyrs were prophets of Christian Science. Through the uplifting and consecrating power of divine Truth, they obtained a victory over the corporeal senses, a victory which Science alone can explain.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 387:27–4)

Mankind must learn that evil is not power. Its so-called despotism is but a phase of nothingness. Christian Science despoils the kingdom of evil, and pre-eminently promotes affection and virtue in families and therefore in the community.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 102:30–2)

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.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 234:31–3)

The Christianly scientific man reflects the divine law, thus becoming a law unto himself. He does violence to no man. Neither is he a false accuser. The Christian Scientist wisely shapes his course, and is honest and consistent in following the leadings of divine Mind. He must prove, through living as well as healing and teaching, that Christ’s way is the only one by which mortals are radically saved from sin and sickness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 458:23)

Man’s rights are invaded when the divine order is interfered with, and the mental trespasser incurs the divine penalty due this crime.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 106:12)

Whoever uses his developed mental powers like an escaped felon to commit fresh atrocities as opportunity occurs is never safe. God will arrest him. Divine justice will manacle him. His sins will be millstones about his neck, weighing him down to the depths of ignominy and death. The aggravation of error foretells its doom, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 105:22–28 (to ,))

Tyranny, intolerance, and bloodshed, wherever found, arise from the belief that the infinite is formed after the pattern of mortal personality, passion, and impulse.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 94:14)

The truths of immortal Mind sustain man, and they annihilate the fables of mortal mind, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 103:25–26 (to ,))

Courts and juries judge and sentence mortals in order to restrain crime, to prevent deeds of violence or to punish them. To say that these tribunals have no jurisdiction over the carnal or mortal mind, would be to contradict precedent and to admit that the power of human law is restricted to matter, while mortal mind, evil, which is the real outlaw, defies justice and is recommended to mercy. Can matter commit a crime? Can matter be punished? Can you separate the mentality from the body over which courts hold jurisdiction? Mortal mind, not matter, is the criminal in every case; and human law rightly estimates crime, and courts reasonably pass sentence, according to the motive.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 105:3)

The wrong done another reacts most heavily against one’s self. Right adjusts the balance sooner or later. Think it “easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,” than for you to benefit yourself by injuring others.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 449:7–11)

God gives the lesser idea of Himself for a link to the greater, and in return, the higher always protects the lower. The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another’s good. Love giveth to the least spiritual idea might, immortality, and goodness, which shine through all as the blossom shines through the bud. All the varied expressions of God reflect health, holiness, immortality — infinite Life, Truth, and Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 518:13)

Laying down his life for a good deed, Mortal Man should find it again. Such acts bear their own justification, and are under the protection of the Most High.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 436:12)

Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm to yourself.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 385:17–18)

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.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 234:9)

Truth should, and does, drive error out of all selfhood. Truth is a two-edged sword, guarding and guiding. Truth places the cherub wisdom at the gate of understanding to note the proper guests. Radiant with mercy and justice, the sword of Truth gleams afar and indicates the infinite distance between Truth and error, between the material and spiritual, — the unreal and the real.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 538:3)

God fashions all things, after His own likeness. Life is reflected in existence, Truth in truthfulness, God in goodness, which impart their own peace and permanence. Love, redolent with unselfishness, bathes all in beauty and light. The grass beneath our feet silently exclaims, “The meek shall inherit the earth.” The modest arbutus sends her sweet breath to heaven. The great rock gives shadow and shelter. The sunlight glints from the church-dome, glances into the prison-cell, glides into the sick-chamber, brightens the flower, beautifies the landscape, blesses the earth. Man, made in His likeness, possesses and reflects God’s dominion over all the earth. Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 516:9)

The understanding of Truth and Love, the Principle which works out the ends of eternal good and destroys both faith in evil and the practice of evil, leads to the discernment of the divine idea.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 561:1)

Jesus demonstrated the inability of corporeality, as well as the infinite ability of Spirit, thus helping erring human sense to flee from its own convictions and seek safety in divine Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 494:15–19 Jesus)

Step by step will those who trust Him find that “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 444:10)

Security for the claims of harmonious and eternal being is found only in divine Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 232:7)

HYMNS

Call the Lord thy sure salvation, / Rest beneath th’ Almighty’s shade; / In His secret habitation / Dwell, nor ever be dismayed.

He shall charge His angel legions / Watch and ward o’er thee to keep, / Though thou walk through hostile regions, / Though in desert wilds thou sleep.

There no tumult can alarm thee, / Thou shalt dread no hidden snare; / Guile nor violence shall harm thee / In eternal safeguard there.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 33)

O’er waiting harpstrings of the mind / There sweeps a strain, / Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind / The power of pain,

And wake a white-winged angel throng / Of thoughts, illumed / By faith, and breathed in raptured song, / With love perfumed.

Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show / Life’s burdens light. / I kiss the cross, and wake to know / A world more bright.

And o’er earth’s troubled, angry sea / I see Christ walk, / And come to me, and tenderly, / Divinely talk.

Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock, / Upon Life’s shore, / ’Gainst which the winds and waves can shock, / Oh, nevermore!

From tired joy and grief afar, / And nearer Thee,— / Father, where Thine own children are, / I love to be.

My prayer, some daily good to do / To Thine, for Thee; / An offering pure of Love, whereto / God leadeth me.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 256)

Put on the whole armor of pure consecration, / The breastplate of righteousness valiantly gird, / With shield of true faith, and the helmet of salvation— / The sword of the Spirit is God’s mighty Word!

For His is the greatness, the power and the glory, / The victory His, when for succor we call; / His majesty shines in creation’s wondrous story, / And He is exalted as head over all!
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 292)

Dwelling Safely: “His arm encircles me, and mine, and all”

BIBLE

... thus saith the LORD, ...... I know the thoughts that I think toward you, ... thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
(Jeremiah 29:10 thus (to 1st ,), 11 I (to 1st ,), 11 2nd thoughts)

... Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: ...
(Jeremiah 31:3 Yea (to :))

... When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
(Isaiah 59:19 When)

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ...
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. ...
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
... ¶ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ... But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
... Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. ...
And God said unto Noah, ...... ¶ Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. ...... behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, ... But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee. ...... to keep them alive. ... And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; ...... I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; ...... ¶ And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. ... And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. ... And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; ...
... ¶ And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. ... And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. ...
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; ...
(Genesis 1:1, 31 (to 1st .); 2:6; 6:5, 8, 9 2nd Noah, 13 (to 1st ,), 14, 17 behold (to 5th ,), 18, 20 to; 7:1 (to ;), 4 I (to ;), 7, 17; 8:1, 15, 16; 9:1, 15 (to ;))

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: ...
(Deuteronomy 33:27 (to :))

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, ... and they served other gods. ...... ¶ Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, ... And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
(Joshua 24:2 (to 3rd ,), 2 3rd and, 14 (to 2nd ,), 16)

And Jesus went about all Galilee, ... preaching the gospel of the kingdom, ...... and taught them, saying, ...
... Love your enemies, ... do good to them that hate you, and ..... Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
(Matthew 4:23 (to 1st ,), 23 preaching (to 3rd ,); 5:2 2nd and, 44 Love (to 2nd ,), 44 do (to 1st and); 19:19 Thou)

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, ...... said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
(Luke 10:25 (to 4th ,), 29–37 said)

But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
(Luke 5:30–32)

The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
(Matthew 13:41)

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ... Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. ... Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; ... For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
(Psalms 91:1, 3, 5, 6 (to ;), 11)

... be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
(Joshua 1:9 2nd be)

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ... Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: ...
(Romans 12:21; 13:1 (to :))

SCIENCE & HEALTH

God is revealed only in that which reflects Life, Truth, Love, — yea, which manifests God’s attributes and power, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 300:31–1 (to 2nd ,))

Tenderness accompanies all the might imparted by Spirit.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 514:18–19)

... Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 332:4–5 Father-Mother)

Because of human ignorance of the divine Principle, Love, the Father of all is represented as a corporeal creator; hence men recognize themselves as merely physical, and are ignorant of man as God’s image or reflection and of man’s eternal incorporeal existence.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 13:25–29)

By those uninstructed in Christian Science, nothing is really understood of material existence. ... As frightened children look everywhere for the imaginary ghost, so sick humanity sees danger in every direction, and looks for relief in all ways except the right one. The adult, in bondage to his beliefs, no more comprehends his real being than does the child; and the adult must be taken out of his darkness, before he can get rid of the illusive sufferings which throng the gloaming. The way in divine Science is the only way out of this condition.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 371:7–9, 11–14 (to 1st .), 14 The)

Christian scientific practice begins with Christ’s keynote of harmony, “Be not afraid!”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 410:29–30)

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 showing that the spiritual realities of all things are created by Him and exist forever. The ark indicates temptation overcome and followed by exaltation.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 581:8–14)

Genesis i. 31. And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. ...
Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. ...
This second record unmistakably gives the history of error in its externalized forms, called life and intelligence in matter. ... In this erroneous theory, matter takes the place of Spirit. ... Spirit is represented as entering matter in order to create man. ... Does Life, Truth, and Love produce death, error, and hatred? Does the creator condemn His own creation? ...
Because of its false basis, the mist of obscurity evolved by error deepens the false claim, and finally declares that God knows error and that error can improve His creation. Although presenting the exact opposite of Truth, the lie claims to be truth. The creations of matter arise from a mist or false claim, or from mystification, and not from the firmament, or understanding, which God erects between the true and false.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 518:24–25; 521:21; 522:12–14, 18 (only), 20–21, 29–31; 523:3–10)

Because Truth is infinite, error should be known as nothing. Because Truth is omnipotent in goodness, error, Truth’s opposite, has no might. Evil is but the counterpoise of nothingness. ... The confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error is unreal.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 367:30–1; 368:2–4)

NOAH. A corporeal mortal; knowledge of the nothingness of material things and of the immortality of all that is spiritual.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 592:22)

The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness. The likeness of Spirit cannot be so unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect; and because he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so understood in Christian Science. Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. ...
... God is the Principle of man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not mortal nor material. ...
Whatever is material is mortal. To the five corporeal senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but Christian Science reveals man as the idea of God, and declares the corporeal senses to be mortal and erring illusions.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 475:7–14; 476:9–11; 477:9–13)

Jesus demonstrated the inability of corporeality, as well as the infinite ability of Spirit, thus helping erring human sense to flee from its own convictions and seek safety in divine Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 494:15–19 Jesus)

The footsteps of thought, rising above material standpoints, are slow, and portend a long night to the traveller; but the angels of His presence — the spiritual intuitions that tell us when “the night is far spent, the day is at hand” — are our guardians in the gloom.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 174:9–14)

You embrace your 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 included in matter.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 208:29–1)

At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. ... Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 571:15–16, 18–19)

Passions, selfishness, false appetites, hatred, fear, all sensuality, yield to spirituality, and the superabundance of being is on the side of God, good.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 201:9)

The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides of Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 201:17–18)

Spirit blesses man, ... By it the sick are healed, the sorrowing are comforted, and the sinning are reformed. These are the effects of one universal God, the invisible good dwelling in eternal Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 78:28 (only, to ,), 29)

... The first demand of this Science is, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” ... The second is like unto it, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 467:3–4 The (to 1st .), 7–10)

When understanding changes the standpoints of life and intelligence from a material to a spiritual basis, we shall gain the reality of Life, the control of Soul over sense, and we shall perceive Christianity, or Truth, in its divine Principle.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 322:3–7)

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; ... 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 sickness will never cease. ...
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. ... 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.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 234:9–14 (to ;), 17–21, 25–27, 31–3)

Resisting evil, you overcome it and prove its nothingness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 446:24–25)

There is but one way — namely, God and His idea — which leads to spiritual being. The scientific government of the body must be attained through the divine Mind. It is impossible to gain control over the body in any other way.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 167:24–28)

The calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the manifestations of which are health, purity, and self-immolation, must deepen human experience, until the beliefs of material existence are seen to be a bald imposition, and sin, disease, and death give everlasting place to the scientific demonstration of divine Spirit and to God’s spiritual, perfect man.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 99:23)

Where the spirit of God is, and there is no place where God is not, evil becomes nothing, — the opposite of the something of Spirit.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 480:2–5)

“Love one another” (I John, iii. 23), is the most simple and profound counsel of the inspired writer. In Science we are children of God; but whatever is of material sense, or mortal, belongs not to His children, for materiality is the inverted image of spirituality. Love fulfils the law of Christian Science, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 572:6–12 (to ,))

The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another’s good.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 518:15–19)

Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 494:10–11)

PSALM XXIII
[DIVINE LOVE] is my shepherd; I shall not want.
[LOVE] maketh me to lie down in green pastures: [LOVE] leadeth me beside the still waters.
[LOVE] restoreth my soul [spiritual sense]: [LOVE] leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for [LOVE] is with me; [LOVE’S] rod and [LOVE’S] staff they comfort me.
[LOVE] prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: [LOVE] anointeth my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [LOVE] for ever.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 578:4–18)

HYMNS

He that hath God his guardian made, / Shall underneath th’ Almighty’s shade / Fearless and undisturbed abide; / Thus to myself of Him I’ll say, / He is my fortress, shield and stay, / My God; in Him I will confide.

His tender love and watchful care / Shall free thee from the fowler’s snare, / From every harm and pestilence. / He over thee His wings shall spread / To cover thy unguarded head. / His truth shall be thy strong defense.

He gives His angels charge o’er thee, / No evil therefore shalt thou see; / Thy refuge shall be God most high; / Dwelling within His secret place, / Thou shalt behold His power and grace, / See His salvation ever nigh.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 99)

We’re steadfastly protected by Your power, / Encircled in the caring arms of Love. / Together, we are sharing all our days now, / And year by year come blessings from above.

REFRAIN / We’re each held safe by God’s own holy power. / Whatever comes, Your comfort is at hand. / You’re at our side at evening and at morning, / And each new day unfolds as You have planned.

Your pure and quiet love spreads o’er us deeply; / We know Your fullness now and feel Your peace. / For Your one holy world of grace and power, / We all praise You with joy that will not cease. / / REFRAIN
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 594)

O gentle presence, peace and joy and power; / O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour, / Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight! / Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.

Love is our refuge; only with mine eye / Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall: / His habitation high is here, and nigh, / His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.

O make me glad for every scalding tear, / For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain! / Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear / No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain.

Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing; / In that sweet secret of the narrow way, / Seeking and finding, with the angels sing: / “Lo, I am with you alway,”—watch and pray.

No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain; / No night drops down upon the troubled breast, / When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain, / And mother finds her home and heav’nly rest.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 539)

Spiritual Growth

BIBLE

... I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
(Joel 2:28 I, 29)

Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. ...

Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: ...

So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? ...

If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. ...

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
(John 13:3–5, 8–10 (to :), 12, 14, 15, 17)

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
(I Peter 1:22)

There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a-fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing. But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No. And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea. ...

Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught. Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken. Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord. ...

... ¶ So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
(John 21:2–7, 10–12, 15–17)

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. ...

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. ...

And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilæans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? ...

... ¶ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judæa, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: ...

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: ...

Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. ...

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. ...

... ¶ Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
(Acts 2:1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 14, 16–18, 36, 38, 39, 41)

¶ And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; ...

And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
(Acts 5:12 (to ;), 14–16)

SCIENCE & HEALTH

Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and the sinning.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 136:1–5)

The question then as now was, How did Jesus heal the sick? His answer to this question the world rejected. He appealed to his students: “Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am?” That is: Who or what is it that is thus identified with casting out evils and healing the sick? They replied, “Some say that thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 136:9–16)

Yearning to be understood, the Master repeated, “But whom say ye that I am?” This renewed inquiry meant: Who or what is it that is able to do the work, so mysterious to the popular mind? ...

With his usual impetuosity, Simon replied for his brethren, and his reply set forth a great fact: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God!” That is: The Messiah is what thou hast declared, — Christ, the spirit of God, of Truth, Life, and Love, which heals mentally. This assertion elicited from Jesus the benediction, “Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven;” that is, Love hath shown thee the way of Life!

Before this the impetuous disciple had been called only by his common names, Simon Bar-jona, or son of Jona; but now the Master gave him a spiritual name in these words: “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter; and upon this rock [the meaning of the Greek word petros, or stone] I will build my church; ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 137:8–11, 16–32 (to ;))

It was now evident to Peter that divine Life, Truth, and Love, and not a human personality, was the healer of the sick and a rock, a firm foundation in the realm of harmony. On this spiritually scientific basis Jesus explained his cures, which appeared miraculous to outsiders. ... The supremacy of Spirit was the foundation on which Jesus built.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 138:6–11, 14–15)

Let us rid ourselves of the belief that man is separated from God, and obey only the divine Principle, Life and Love. Here is the great point of departure for all true spiritual growth. ...

Absorbed in material selfhood we discern and reflect but faintly the substance of Life or Mind. The denial of material selfhood aids the discernment of man’s spiritual and eternal individuality, and destroys the erroneous knowledge gained from matter or through what are termed the material senses.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 91:5, 16)

That Life is not contingent on bodily conditions is proved, when we learn that life and man survive this body. Neither evil, disease, nor death can be spiritual, and the material belief in them disappears in the ratio of one’s spiritual growth. Because matter has no consciousness or Ego, it cannot act; its conditions are illusions, and these false conditions are the source of all seeming sickness. Admit the existence of matter, and you admit that mortality (and therefore disease) has a foundation in fact. Deny the existence of matter, and you can destroy the belief in material conditions.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 368:20–31)

Mortals must change their ideals in order to improve their models. A sick body is evolved from sick thoughts. Sickness, disease, and death proceed from fear. Sensualism evolves bad physical and moral conditions.

Selfishness and sensualism are educated in mortal mind by the thoughts ever recurring to one’s self, by conversation about the body, and by the expectation of perpetual pleasure or pain from it; and this education is at the expense of spiritual growth. If we array thought in mortal vestures, it must lose its immortal nature.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 260:19–30)

The calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the manifestations of which are health, purity, and self-immolation, must deepen human experience, until the beliefs of material existence are seen to be a bald imposition, and sin, disease, and death give everlasting place to the scientific demonstration of divine Spirit and to God’s spiritual, perfect man.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 99:23)

Jesus established in the Christian era the precedent for all Christianity, theology, and healing. Christians are under as direct orders now, as they were then, to be Christlike, to possess the Christ-spirit, to follow the Christ-example, and to heal the sick as well as the sinning.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 138:17–22)

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come naturally into Spirit through better health and morals and as the result of spiritual growth.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 485:14–17)

Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual, — neither in nor of matter, — and the body will then utter no complaints. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 14:12–16)

Thousands of letters could be presented in testimony of the healing efficacy of Christian Science and particularly concerning the vast number of people who have been reformed and healed through the perusal or study of this book.

For the assurance and encouragement of the reader, a few of these letters are here republished from The Christian Science Journal and Christian Science Sentinel. The originals are in the possession of the Editor, who can authenticate the testimonials which follow.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 600:1–10)

FIBROID TUMOR HEALED IN A FEW DAYS

My gratitude for Christian Science is boundless. I was afflicted with a fibroid tumor which weighed not less than fifty pounds, attended by a continuous hemorrhage for eleven years. The tumor was a growth of eighteen years. ...

... I met a lady who owned a copy of Science and Health, and in speaking to her of having seen the book, she informed me she had one, and she got it and told me I could read it. The revelation was marvellous and brought a great spiritual awakening. This awakened sense never left me, and one day when walking alone it came to me very suddenly that I was healed, and I walked the faster declaring every step that I was healed. When I reached my boarding-place, I found my hostess and told her I was healed. She looked the picture of amazement. The tumor began to disappear at once, the hemorrhage ceased, and perfect strength was manifest. ...

I must add that the reading of Science and Health, and that alone, healed me, and it was the second copy I ever saw. — S. L., Fort Worth, Tex.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 603:20–25; 604:4 I, 22)

HYMNS

Gracious Spirit, dwell with me: / I myself would gracious be, / And with words that help and heal / Would Thy life in mine reveal; / And with actions bold and meek / Christ’s own gracious spirit speak.

Truthful Spirit, dwell with me: / I myself would truthful be, / And with wisdom kind and clear / Let Thy life in mine appear; / And with actions brotherly / Follow Christ’s sincerity.

Mighty Spirit, dwell with me: / I myself would mighty be, / Mighty, that I may prevail / Where unaided man must fail; / Ever by triumphant hope / Pressing on and bearing up.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 88)

/ ’Tis God the Spirit leads / In paths before unknown; / The work to be performed is ours, / The strength is all His own.

Supported by His grace, / We still pursue our way; / Assured that we shall reach the prize, / Secure in endless day.

God works in us to will, / He works in us to do; / His is the power by which we act, / His be the glory too.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 354)

Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Love, / With light and comfort from above; / Be Truth our guardian, Love our guide, / O’er every thought and step preside, / Be God our guide.

The light of Truth to us display, / That we may know and choose Your way; / Plant holy joy in every heart, / That we from You may ne’er depart, / Plant joy in every heart.

Lead us, O Christ, the living Way, / Nor let us from your precepts stray; / Lead us to God, our heavenly rest, / That we may be forever blest, / Forever blest.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 459)

Harmony

BIBLE

The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
(Psalms 29:11)

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
(Psalms 119:165)

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. ...

They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. ...

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; ...

For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. ...

O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. ...

I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, ...

Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; ...
(Psalms 119:1, 3, 88 (to ;), 89, 97, 112 (to ,), 128 (to ;))

He maketh peace in thy borders, ...
(Psalms 147:14 (to ,))

Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
(Psalms 122:7)

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: ...

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. ...

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
(Isaiah 11:1–4 (to :), 6, 7, 9)

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
(Philippians 2:1–5)

And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, ...

And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
(Mark 4:1, 2, 35–39)

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. ...

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. ...

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ...

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. ...

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
(I John 4:1, 7, 11, 13, 21)

¶ And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
(Luke 10:25–37)

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
(Romans 13:8)

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
(James 3:18)

Let brotherly love continue. ...

Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; ...
(Hebrews 13:1, 20, 21 (to ;))

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
(Ephesians 4:4–6)

O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. ...

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. ...

Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. ...

... they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, ...

The righteous shall see it, ...

... they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
(Psalms 107:1–6, 14, 19, 20, 28 they, 29 (to ,), 42 (to ,), 43 they)

... the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
(II Thessalonians 3:16 the)

SCIENCE & HEALTH

Harmonious action proceeds from Spirit, God. Inharmony has no Principle; its action is erroneous and presupposes man to be in matter.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 480:13–16)

Where the spirit of God is, and there is no place where God is not, evil becomes nothing, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 480:2–4 (to 2nd ,))

HEAVEN. Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 587:25)

This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord and dismay; on the other side there will be Science and peace. The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 96:12–18)

Love will finally mark the hour of harmony, and spiritualization will follow, for Love is Spirit.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 96:4–5)

It is unwise to doubt if reality is in perfect harmony with God, divine Principle, — if Science, when understood and demonstrated, will destroy all discord, — since you admit that God is omnipotent; for from this premise it follows that good and its sweet concords have all-power.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 130:9)

If thought is startled at the strong claim of Science for the supremacy of God, or Truth, and doubts the supremacy of good, ought we not, contrariwise, 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?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 130:26–32)

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 harmony with God, the divine Principle of all being.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 131:2)

Mind’s control over the universe, including man, is no longer an open question, but is demonstrable Science. Jesus illustrated the divine Principle and the power of immortal Mind by healing sickness and sin and destroying the foundations of death.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 171:12)

Moral and spiritual might belong to Spirit, who holds the “wind in His fists;” and this teaching accords with Science and harmony. In Science, you can have no power opposed to God, and the physical senses must give up their false testimony. Your influence for good depends upon the weight you throw into the right scale. The good you do and embody gives you the only power obtainable. Evil is not power. It is a mockery of strength, which erelong betrays its weakness and falls, never to rise.

We walk in the footsteps of Truth and Love by following the example of our Master in the understanding of divine metaphysics. Christianity is the basis of true healing. Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 192:17–31)

Nothing can hide from them the harmony of all things and the might and permanence of Truth.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 215:1)

There is neither place nor opportunity in Science for error of any sort. Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 232:32–2)

There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way. ...

... In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error, — self-will, self-justification, and self-love, — which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 242:9–10, 15 In)

When the divine precepts are understood, they unfold the foundation of fellowship, in which one mind is not at war with another, but all have one Spirit, God, one intelligent source, in accordance with the Scriptural command: “Let this Mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” Man and his Maker are correlated in divine Science, and real consciousness is cognizant only of the things of God.

The realization that all inharmony is unreal brings objects and thoughts into human view in their true light, and presents them as beautiful and immortal. Harmony in man is as real and immortal as in music. Discord is unreal and mortal.

If God is admitted to be the only Mind and Life, there ceases to be any opportunity for sin and death. When we learn in Science how to be perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect, thought is turned into new and healthy channels, — towards the contemplation of things immortal and away from materiality to the Principle of the universe, including harmonious man.

Material beliefs and spiritual understanding never mingle. The latter destroys the former. Discord is the nothingness named error. Harmony is the somethingness named Truth.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 276:4–28)

God creates and governs the universe, including man. The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind that makes them.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 295:5–8)

Unless the harmony and immortality of man are becoming more apparent, we are not gaining the true idea of God; and the body will reflect what governs it, whether it be Truth or error, understanding or belief, Spirit or matter. Therefore “acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 324:7–12)

God never endowed matter with power to disable Life or to chill harmony with a long and cold night of discord.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 378:26–28)

The real jurisdiction of the world is in Mind, controlling every effect and recognizing all causation as vested in divine Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 379:6)

Christian Science, rightly understood, leads to eternal harmony.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 338:1–2)

God’s being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 481:3–4)

HYMNS

Hymn 521

Nourished by Spirit

BIBLE

Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
(Psalms 37:3)

And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
(Exodus 20:1, 2)

And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; ...

And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, ...

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; ...
(Nehemiah 9:9, 15 (to 2nd ,), 21 (to ;))

O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. ...

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. ...

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
(Psalms 107:1, 5, 6, 9)

And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. ...

So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. ...

And there will I nourish thee; ...
(Genesis 45:4–6, 8, 11 (to 1st ;))

And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
(I Kings 18:2)

And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, ...

Arise, get thee to Zarephath, ... behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

... and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: ... she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
(I Kings 17:2, 9 (to 2nd ,), 9 behold, 10, 11–15 2nd and (to :), 15 2nd she, 16)

And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; ...

And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, ... and he healed them: ...

... ¶ Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, ...

And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
(Matthew 15:29 (to ;), 30 (to 6th ,), 30 4th and, 32 (to 5th ,), 33)

But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. He said, Bring them hither to me.

... and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: ...
(Matthew 14:16–18, 19 2nd and, 20 (to :))

And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
(Mark 11:22–24)

¶ And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
(Matthew 9:20–22)

¶ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
(Matthew 7:7–11)

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; ...
(Matthew 6:25 (to ;))

... for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, ...

... Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
(Matthew 6:8 for, 9 (to ,), 10 2nd Thy, 11)

¶ Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. ...

It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
(Proverbs 3:5, 8)

SCIENCE & HEALTH

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. vii:1–2)

Whatever inspires with wisdom, Truth, or Love — be it song, sermon, or Science — blesses the human family with crumbs of comfort from Christ’s table, feeding the hungry and giving living waters to the thirsty.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 234:4)

In divine Science, man is sustained by God, the divine Principle of being. The earth, at God’s command, brings forth food for man’s use. Knowing this, Jesus once said, “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink,” — presuming not on the prerogative of his creator, but recognizing God, the Father and Mother of all, as able to feed and clothe man as He doth the lilies.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 530:5)

Give us this day our daily bread;
Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 17:4)

Spirit duly feeds and clothes every object, as it appears in the line of spiritual creation, thus tenderly expressing the fatherhood and motherhood of God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 507:3–6)

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him. — CHRIST JESUS.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 1:-10–0)

The “man of sorrows” best understood the nothingness of material life and intelligence and the mighty actuality of all-inclusive God, good. These were the two cardinal points of Mind-healing, or Christian Science, which armed him with Love. The highest earthly representative of God, speaking of human ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his disciples, speaking not for their day only but for all time: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;” and “These signs shall follow them that believe.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 52:19)

The Hebrew verb to believe means also to be firm or to be constant. This certainly applies to Truth and Love understood and practised.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 23:32–2)

Faith is higher and more spiritual than belief. It is a chrysalis state of human thought, in which spiritual evidence, contradicting the testimony of material sense, begins to appear, and Truth, the ever-present, is becoming understood. Human thoughts have their degrees of comparison. Some thoughts are better than others. A belief in Truth is better than a belief in error, but no mortal testimony is founded on the divine rock. Mortal testimony can be shaken. Until belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual understanding, human thought has little relation to the actual or divine.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 297:20)

Having faith in the divine Principle of health and spiritually understanding God, sustains man under all circumstances; whereas the lower appeal to the general faith in material means (commonly called nature) must yield to the all-might of infinite Spirit.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 319:7)

Christian Science, understood, coincides with the Scriptures, and sustains logically and demonstratively every point it presents.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 358:9–11)

Science shows that material, conflicting mortal opinions and beliefs emit the effects of error at all times, but this atmosphere of mortal mind cannot be destructive to morals and health when it is opposed promptly and persistently by Christian Science. Truth and Love antidote this mental miasma, and thus invigorate and sustain existence. ...

The senses of Spirit abide in Love, and they demonstrate Truth and Life. Hence Christianity and the Science which expounds it are based on spiritual understanding, and they supersede the so-called laws of matter.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 273:29–3; 274:12–16)

... Christian Science sustains with immortal proof the impossibility of any material sense, and defines these so-called senses as mortal beliefs, the testimony of which cannot be true either of man or of his Maker.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 488:16–20 Christian)

Jesus walked on the waves, fed the multitude, healed the sick, and raised the dead in direct opposition to material laws. His acts were the demonstration of Science, overcoming the false claims of material sense or law.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 273:24)

Jesus aided in reconciling man to God by giving man a truer sense of Love, the divine Principle of Jesus’ teachings, and this truer sense of Love redeems man from the law of matter, sin, and death by the law of Spirit, — the law of divine Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 19:6)

Waking to Christ’s demand, mortals experience suffering. This causes them, even as drowning men, to make vigorous efforts to save themselves; and through Christ’s precious love these efforts are crowned with success.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 22:6)

Christ, Truth, gives mortals temporary food and clothing until the material, transformed with the ideal, disappears, and man is clothed and fed spiritually. St. Paul says, “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling:” Jesus said, “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” This truth is Christian Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 442:22)

I knew a person who when quite a child adopted the Graham system to cure dyspepsia. For many years, he ate only bread and vegetables, and drank nothing but water. ... He passed many weary years in hunger and weakness, almost in starvation, and finally made up his mind to die, having exhausted the skill of the doctors, who kindly informed him that death was indeed his only alternative. At this point Christian Science saved him, and he is now in perfect health without a vestige of the old complaint.

He learned that suffering and disease were the self-imposed beliefs of mortals, and not the facts of being; that God never decreed disease, — never ordained a law that fasting should be a means of health.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 221:1–4, 10–20)

The fact is, food does not affect the absolute Life of man, and this becomes self-evident, when we learn that God is our Life.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 388:22–24)

The scientific fact that man and the universe are evolved from Spirit, and so are spiritual, is as fixed in divine Science as is the proof that mortals gain the sense of health only as they lose the sense of sin and disease.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 69:2–5)

A change in human belief changes all the physical symptoms, and determines a case for better or for worse. When one’s false belief is corrected, Truth sends a report of health over the body. ...

The point for each one to decide is, whether it is mortal mind or immortal Mind that is causative. We should forsake the basis of matter for metaphysical Science and its divine Principle.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 194:6; 195:11)

Admit the common hypothesis that food is the nutriment of life, and there follows the necessity for another admission in the opposite direction, — that food has power to destroy Life, God, through a deficiency or an excess, a quality or a quantity. This is a specimen of the ambiguous nature of all material health-theories. They are self-contradictory and self-destructive, constituting a “kingdom divided against itself,” which is “brought to desolation.” If food was prepared by Jesus for his disciples, it cannot destroy life.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 388:12)

Our dietetic theories first admit that food sustains the life of man, and then discuss the certainty that food can kill man. ... If God has, as prevalent theories maintain, instituted laws that food shall support human life, He cannot annul these regulations by an opposite law that food shall be inimical to existence.

... This belief totters to its falling before the battle-axe of Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 389:13–15, 18, 26)

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God. ...

... God is the lawmaker, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 380:32–1; 381:15–16 (to ,))

We should relieve our minds from the depressing thought that we have transgressed a material law and must of necessity pay the penalty. Let us reassure ourselves with the law of Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 384:3–6)

The poor suffering heart needs its rightful nutriment, such as peace, patience in tribulation, and a priceless sense of the dear Father’s loving-kindness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 365:31)

If we would open their prison doors for the sick, we must first learn to bind up the broken-hearted. If we would heal by the Spirit, we must not hide the talent of spiritual healing under the napkin of its form, nor bury the morale of Christian Science in the grave-clothes of its letter. The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so many parodies on legitimate Christian Science, aflame with divine Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 366:30)

We must not attribute more and more intelligence to matter, but less and less, if we would be wise and healthy. The divine Mind, which forms the bud and blossom, will care for the human body, even as it clothes the lily; but let no mortal interfere with God’s government by thrusting in the laws of erring, human concepts.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 62:20)

The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind, — that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 275:6)

When the Science of being is universally understood, every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be the universal panacea.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 144:27)

HYMNS

Our Father knows my need today; / I do not merely ask / For happy hours or golden way, / Or loving, helpful task; / But, with all trust in Love, I pray: / Our Father knows my need today.

Our Father knows my need this hour; / Where’er my steps may go, / The saving light from Truth’s high tower / Now leads me—this I know. / Yours is the majesty and power, / O Love divine, this day—this hour.

Our Mother knows this moment’s need,— / My work, my prayer, my song, / The healing word and Christlike deed. / Here where the way seems long, / Truth’s manna falls and I am fed; / Love’s light shines clear and I am led.

Love sets the earth-bound captive free; / And, mindful of Her own, / With loving care God’s leading me. / When wandering and lone, / I find in Truth the living way: / Our Mother knows my need today.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 556)

Where you’re going, Love will lead you. / Where you’re walking, Love will guide. / If you’re hungry, Love will feed you. / Love is always at your side. / When you’re sleeping, Love will guard you. / When you waken, comfort give. / Always faithful, Love surrounds you, / For by Love alone we live.

Let not want or lack confine you, / Love is ever your supply. / God’s great good shall now define you, / As on Love your hopes rely. / Though temptation may assail you, / Love will save you lest you stray. / Love’s protection never fails you— / God is Love and guards your way.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 598)

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.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 574)

Handling Anxiety

BIBLE
Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
(Psalms 25:15–17)

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. ...

Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
(Psalms 38:9, 22)

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; ...

... I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. ¶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: ...

... ¶ And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; ...

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. ...

... ¶ And he lodged there that same night; ...

... ¶ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. ...

And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. ...

... Jacob said, ... I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
(Genesis 32:3, 4 (to ;), 5–7 2nd I (to :), 9, 10 (to 1st ;), 11, 13 (to 1st ;), 24–30; 33:1–4, 10 Jacob (to 1st ,), 10 3rd I)

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. ...

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
(Psalms 27:3, 5)

¶ Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
(Luke 10:38–42)

... the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
(Mark 4:35–40 the)

Therefore 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. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? ...

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, 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? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? ...

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. ...
(Matthew 6:25, 28–31, 33, 34 (to 1st .))

¶ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
(Matthew 11:28)

SCIENCE & HEALTH

Who that has felt the loss of human peace has not gained stronger desires for spiritual joy? The aspiration after heavenly good comes even before we discover what belongs to wisdom and Love. The loss of earthly hopes and pleasures brightens the ascending path of many a heart. The pains of sense quickly inform us that the pleasures of sense are mortal and that joy is spiritual.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 265:23)

The poor suffering heart needs its rightful nutriment, such as peace, patience in tribulation, and a priceless sense of the dear Father’s loving-kindness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 365:31)

Jacob was alone, wrestling with error, — struggling with a mortal sense of life, substance, and intelligence as existent in matter with its false pleasures and pains, — when an angel, a message from Truth and Love, appeared to him and smote the sinew, or strength, of his error, till he saw its unreality; and Truth, being thereby understood, gave him spiritual strength in this Peniel of divine Science. Then said the spiritual evangel: “Let me go, for the day breaketh;” that is, the light of Truth and Love dawns upon thee. But the patriarch, perceiving his error and his need of help, did not loosen his hold upon this glorious light until his nature was transformed. ...

... He had conquered material error with the understanding of Spirit and of spiritual power. This changed the man.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 308:16–28; 309:7–9 He (to 2nd .))

Casting out evil and fear enables truth to outweigh error.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 392:7–8)

FEAR. Heat; inflammation; anxiety; ignorance; error; ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 586:11 (only, to 5th ;))

Man, being immortal, has a perfect indestructible life. It is the mortal belief which makes the body discordant and diseased in proportion as ignorance, fear, or human will governs mortals.

... The material and mortal body or mind is not the man. ...

The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember that 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 found harmonious and eternal.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 209:1, 8, 16)

The suppositional warfare between truth and error is only the mental conflict between the evidence of the spiritual senses and the testimony of the material senses, and this warfare between the Spirit and flesh will settle all questions through faith in and the understanding of divine Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 288:3–8)

Ignorance must be seen and corrected before we can attain harmony. Inharmonious beliefs, which rob Mind, calling it matter, and deify their own notions, imprison themselves in what they create. They are at war with Science, and as our Master said, “If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 251:29)

When false human beliefs learn even a little of their own falsity, they begin to disappear. A knowledge of error and of its operations must precede that understanding of Truth which destroys error, until the entire mortal, material error finally disappears, and the eternal verity, man created by and of Spirit, is understood and recognized as the true likeness of his Maker.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 252:7)

If we are sensibly with the body and regard omnipotence as a corporeal, material person, whose ear we would gain, we are not “absent from the body” and “present with the Lord” in the demonstration of Spirit. We cannot “serve two masters.” To be “present with the Lord” is to have, not mere emotional ecstasy or faith, but the actual demonstration and understanding of Life as revealed in Christian Science. To be “with the Lord” is to be in obedience to the law of God, to be absolutely governed by divine Love, — by Spirit, not by matter.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 14:1)

When the Science of being is universally understood, every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be the universal panacea.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 144:27)

Spiritual living and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love.

When we learn the way in Christian Science and recognize man’s spiritual being, we shall behold and understand God’s creation, — all the glories of earth and heaven and man.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 264:24–31)

All that God imparts moves in accord with Him, reflecting goodness and power.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 515:22)

God fashions all things, after His own likeness. Life is reflected in existence, Truth in truthfulness, God in goodness, which impart their own peace and permanence.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 516:9–12)

God has built a higher platform of human rights, and He has built it on diviner claims. These claims are not made through code or creed, but in demonstration of “on earth peace, good-will toward men.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 226:14–17)

The universe of Spirit is peopled with spiritual beings, and its government is divine Science. Man is the offspring, not of the lowest, but of the highest qualities of Mind. Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged. Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual, — they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper sense of the infinite, — in order that sin and mortality may be put off.

This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 264:32–15)

When false human beliefs learn even a little of their own falsity, they begin to disappear. A knowledge of error and of its operations must precede that understanding of Truth which destroys error, until the entire mortal, material error finally disappears, and the eternal verity, man created by and of Spirit, is understood ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 252:7–13 (to understood))

Glory be to God, and peace to the struggling hearts! Christ hath rolled away the stone from the door of human hope and faith, and through the revelation and demonstration of life in God, hath elevated them to possible at-one-ment with the spiritual idea of man and his divine Principle, Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 45:16)

HYMNS

Happy the man whose heart can rest, / Assured God’s goodness ne’er will cease; / Each day, complete, with joy is blessed, / God keepeth him in perfect peace.

God keepeth him, and God is one, / One Life, forevermore the same, / One Truth unchanged while ages run; / Eternal Love His holiest name.

Dwelling in Love that cannot change, / From anxious fear man finds release; / No more his homeless longings range, / God keepeth him in perfect peace.

In perfect peace, with tumult stilled, / Enhavened where no storms arise, / There man can work what God hath willed; / The joy of perfect work his prize.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 93)

It matters not what be thy lot, / So Love doth guide; / For storm or shine, pure peace is thine, / Whate’er betide.

And of these stones, or tyrants’ thrones, / God able is / To raise up seed—in thought and deed— / To faithful His.

Aye, darkling sense, arise, go hence! / Our God is good. / False fears are foes—truth tatters those, / When understood.

Love looseth thee, and lifteth me, / Ayont hate’s thrall: / There Life is light, and wisdom might, / And God is All.

The centuries break, the earth-bound wake, / God’s glorified! / Who doth His will—His likeness still— / Is satisfied.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 513)

My life flows on in endless song / Above earth’s lamentation; / I hear the sweet though far-off hymn / That hails a new creation. / Through all the tumult and the strife / I hear the music ringing; / It finds an echo in my soul. / How can I keep from singing?

What though my human comforts die, / The Lord my Savior liveth; / What though the darkness gather round, / Songs in the night God giveth. / No storm can shake my inmost calm / While to that Rock I’m clinging; / Since Love is God of heaven and earth, / How can I keep from singing?

I lift mine eyes, the cloud grows thin; / I see the blue above it. / And day by day this pathway smooths / Since first I learned to love it. / The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart, / A fountain ever springing; / All things are mine since I am God’s. / How can I keep from singing?
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 533)

Living Truth

Hymns 131

             459

              569

Topic: What is Truth

4   For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
11  The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
(Psalms 33:4, 11)

8  I will hear what God the LORD will speak: ...
(Psalms 85:8 (to 1st :))

6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
(John 14:6)

10  ... the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, ...
(John 14:10 3rd the (to 2nd ,))

2   And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
3   Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4   Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
5   Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6   Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
7   Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8   Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9   Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
10  Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11  Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12  Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13  ¶ Ye are the salt of the earth: ...
(Matthew 5:2–13 (to :))

14  Ye are the light of the world. ...
16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17  ¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
29  And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, ...
30  And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: ...
38  ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
39  But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40  And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
41  And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42  Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
43  ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45  That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46  For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47  And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48  Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
(Matthew 5:14 (to 1st .), 16, 17, 29 (to 2nd ,), 30 (to :), 38–48)

6   ... when 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.
7   But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8   Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
9   After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11  Give us this day our daily bread.
12  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
(Matthew 6:6–13 when)

19  ¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, ...
20  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, ...
25  ... 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. ...
33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
(Matthew 6:19 (to 1st ,), 20 (to 1st ,), 25 Take (to .), 33)

1   Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2   For ...
3   And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
5   ... first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
12  Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
15  ¶ Beware of false prophets, ...
16  Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
20  Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
24  ¶ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
(Matthew 7:1, 2 (to For), 3, 5 first, 12, 15 (to 1st ,), 16, 20, 24, 25)

12  ... I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
26  ... he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
31  ... If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
(John 8:12 I, 26 he, 31 If, 32)

6  ... I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
(John 14:6 I)

1  The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
2  And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3  And he spake many things unto them in parables, ...
(Matthew 13:1–3 (to 1st ,))

33  ¶ Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
(Matthew 13:33)

6  ... Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7  Purge out therefore the old leaven, ...
8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
(I Corinthians 5:6 Know, 7 (to 1st ,), 8)

1  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2  But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
(Psalms 1:1, 2)

34   Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
44   So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
165  Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
(Psalms 119:34, 44, 165)

142  Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
(Psalms 119:142)

1  Be ye therefore followers of God, ...
(Ephesians 5:1 (to ,))

19  I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
(Ezekiel 20:19)

        X. Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ
    is the divine idea of God — the Holy Ghost,               Holy Ghost or Comforter
21  or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle,
    Love, and leading into all truth.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 332:19)

9      IX. Jesus was born of Mary. Christ is the true idea
   voicing good, the divine message from God to men speak-
   ing to the human consciousness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 332:9–11)

21                         When the Science of Christianity
    appears, it will lead you into all truth. The               New Testament basis
    Sermon on the Mount is the essence of this
24  Science, and the eternal life, not the death of Jesus, is
    its outcome.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 271:21)

                     Truth is revealed. It needs only to
21  be practised.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 174:20)

        Jesus bade his disciples beware of the leaven of the
30  Pharisees and of the Sadducees, which he de-                     Leaven of Truth
    fined as human doctrines. His parable of the
    “leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures
1   of meal, till the whole was leavened,” impels the infer-
    ence that the spiritual leaven signifies the Science of Christ
3   and its spiritual interpretation, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 117:29–3 (to ,))

    Ages pass, but this leaven of Truth is ever at work.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 118:10 (only))

        As the individual ideal of Truth, Christ Jesus came to
    rebuke rabbinical error and all sin, sickness, and death, —
21  to point out the way of Truth and Life.

30                                 We cannot choose for
    ourselves, but must work out our salvation in the way
    Jesus taught.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 30:19–21, 30–32)

              All that really exists is the divine Mind and
27  its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found har-
    monious and eternal. The straight and narrow way is to
    see and acknowledge this fact, yield to this power, and
30  follow the leadings of truth.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 151:26)

9                                      Truth has furnished
   the key to the kingdom, and with this key Christian Sci-
   ence has opened the door of the human understanding.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 99:9–11)

12                            Truth, Life, and Love are the only
    legitimate and eternal demands on man, and they are
    spiritual lawgivers, enforcing obedience through divine
15  statutes.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 184:12)

9                     To be “with the Lord” is to be in
   obedience to the law of God, to be absolutely governed
   by divine Love, — by Spirit, not by matter.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 14:9)

                                              Let us learn
21  of the real and eternal, and prepare for the reign of
    Spirit, the kingdom of heaven, — the reign and rule of
    universal harmony, which cannot be lost nor remain
24  forever unseen.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 208:20)

                                                     Neither
12  philosophy nor skepticism can hinder the march of the
    Science which reveals the supremacy of Mind. The im-
    manent sense of Mind-power enhances the glory of Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 209:11–14)

30                                      The only excuse
    for entertaining human opinions and rejecting the Science
    of being is our mortal ignorance of Spirit, — ignorance
1   which yields only to the understanding of divine Science,
    the understanding by which we enter into the kingdom
3   of Truth on earth and learn that Spirit is infinite and
    supreme.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 280:30–4)

                                          Spirit is immortal
12  Truth; matter is mortal error.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468:11–12)

       Truth is the intelligence of immortal Mind.

                                  ... Truth is the light which
1  dispels error.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 282:26 (only), 32–1 2nd Truth)

                     The good you do and embody gives you
24  the only power obtainable.

30           Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed
    love, receives directly the divine power.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 192:23–24 (to 1st .), 30)

9      The Master said, “No man cometh unto the Father
   [the divine Principle of being] but by me,” Christ,
   Life, Truth, Love; for Christ says, “I am the way.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 286:9–11)

                            ... “Follow me; ...
                      Let discord of every name and nature
12  be heard no more, and let the harmonious and true sense
    of Life and being take possession of human consciousness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 355:10 Follow (only, to ;), 11)

                                                   Truth is
18  indeed “the way.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 535:17)

    The final demonstration of the truth which Jesus taught,
18  and for which he was crucified, opened a new era for the
    world.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 43:17–19)

27                               The only way to this
    living Truth, which heals the sick, is found in the Science
    of divine Mind as taught and demonstrated by Christ
30  Jesus.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 180:27)

Jesus was “the way;” that is, he marked the way for
all men.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 46:25–26)

                                                   Truth is
18  indeed “the way.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 535:17)

        The thunder of Sinai and the Sermon on the Mount
18  are pursuing and will overtake the ages, rebuking in
    their course all error and proclaiming the kingdom of
    heaven on earth. Truth is revealed. It needs only to
21  be practised.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 174:17)

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Indivisible Oneness

Hope you're having a wonderful week.  

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John

Topic:  INDIVISIBLE ONENESS

Date:  June 3, 2026

BIBLE

And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
(Exodus 20:1–3)

And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken. ...

And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. ...

And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down. And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name: And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood. And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time. ...

And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. ...

Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
(I Kings 18:21–24, 26, 30–34, 36, 38, 39)

Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength. Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: ...

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.
(I Chronicles 16:28, 29 (to 1st :), 31)

¶ And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. ...
(Mark 12:28–34 (to 1st .))

Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. ...

... by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. ...

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. ...

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one. ...

If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
(John 10:7, 9 by, 11–15, 27–30, 37, 38)

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
(Ephesians 4:4–6)

SCIENCE & HEALTH

Question. — Is there more than one God or Principle?

Answer. — There is not. Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being, and His reflection is man and the universe. Omni is adopted from the Latin adjective signifying all. Hence God combines all-power or potency, all-science or true knowledge, all-presence. The varied manifestations of Christian Science indicate Mind, never matter, and have one Principle.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 465:16–6)

We lose the high signification of omnipotence, when after admitting that God, or good, is omnipresent and has all-power, we still believe there is another power, named evil. This belief that there is more than one mind is as pernicious to divine theology as are ancient mythology and pagan idolatry. With one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good, the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which constitute divine Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 469:25–5)

There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or Mind, governing all existence; man and woman unchanged forever in their individual characters, even as numbers which never blend with each other, though they are governed by one Principle. All the objects of God’s creation reflect one Mind, and whatever reflects not this one Mind, is false and erroneous, even the belief that life, substance, and intelligence are both mental and material.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 588:11)

What, then, is the material personality which suffers, sins, and dies? It is not man, the image and likeness of God, but man’s counterfeit, the inverted likeness, the unlikeness called sin, sickness, and death.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 285:7–11)

Error presupposes man to be both mind and matter. Divine Science contradicts the corporeal senses, rebukes mortal belief, and asks: What is the Ego, whence its origin and what its destiny? The Ego-man is the reflection of the Ego-God; the Ego-man is the image and likeness of perfect Mind, Spirit, divine Principle.

The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, is infinite individuality, which supplies all form and comeliness and which reflects reality and divinity in individual spiritual man and things.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 281:7–17)

Man is the reflection of Soul. He is the direct opposite of material sensation, and there is but one Ego. We run into error when we divide Soul into souls, multiply Mind into minds and suppose error to be mind, then mind to be in matter and matter to be a lawgiver, unintelligence to act like intelligence, and mortality to be the matrix of immortality.

Mortal existence is a dream; mortal existence has no real entity, but saith “It is I.” Spirit is the Ego which never dreams, but understands all things; which 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. Man is not God, but like a ray of light which comes from the sun, man, the outcome of God, reflects God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 249:31–13)

When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded; whereas a belief in many ruling minds hinders man’s normal drift towards the one Mind, one God, and leads human thought into opposite channels where selfishness reigns.

Selfishness tips the beam of human existence towards the side of error, not towards Truth. Denial of the oneness of Mind throws our weight into the scale, not of Spirit, God, good, but of matter.

When we fully understand our relation to the Divine, we can have no other Mind but His, — no other Love, wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no consciousness of the existence of matter or error.

The power of the human will should be exercised only in subordination to Truth; else it will misguide the judgment and free the lower propensities. It is the province of spiritual sense to govern man. Material, erring, human thought acts injuriously both upon the body and through it.

Will-power is capable of all evil. It can never heal the sick, for it is the prayer of the unrighteous; while the exercise of the sentiments — hope, faith, love — is the prayer of the righteous. This prayer, governed by Science instead of the senses, heals the sick.

In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 205:22–16 (to ,))

... The advent of Jesus of Nazareth marked the first century of the Christian era, but the Christ is without beginning of years or end of days. Throughout all generations both before and after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spiritual idea, — the reflection of God, — has come with some measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive Christ, Truth. ... The divine image, idea, or Christ was, is, and ever will be inseparable from the divine Principle, God. Jesus referred to this unity of his spiritual identity thus: “Before Abraham was, I am;” “I and my Father are one;” “My Father is greater than I.” The one Spirit includes all identities.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 333:16–23 The, 26)

Jesus taught but one God, one Spirit, who makes man in the image and likeness of Himself, — of Spirit, not of matter. Man reflects infinite Truth, Life, and Love. The nature of man, thus understood, includes all that is implied by the terms “image” and “likeness” as used in Scripture.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 94:1–6)

One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, “Love thy neighbor as thyself;” annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry, — whatever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 340:23)

HYMNS

Jesus’ prayer for all his brethren: / Father, that they may be one, / Echoes down through all the ages, / Nor prayed he for these alone / But for all, that through all time / God’s will be done.

One the Mind and Life of all things, / For we live in God alone; / One the Love whose ever-presence / Blesses all and injures none. / Safe within this Love we find all / being one.

Day by day the understanding / Of our oneness shall increase, / Till among all men and nations / Warfare shall forever cease, / So God’s children all shall dwell / in joy and peace.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 157)

Brood o’er us with Thy shelt’ring wing, / ’Neath which our spirits blend / Like brother birds, that soar and sing, / And on the same branch bend. / The arrow that doth wound the dove / Darts not from those who watch and love.

If thou the bending reed wouldst break / By thought or word unkind, / Pray that his spirit you partake, / Who loved and healed mankind: / Seek holy thoughts and heavenly strain, / That make men one in love remain.

Learn, too, that wisdom’s rod is given / For faith to kiss, and know; / That greetings glorious from high heaven, / Whence joys supernal flow, / Come from that Love, divinely near, / Which chastens pride and earth-born fear,

Through God, who gave that word of might / Which swelled creation’s lay: / “Let there be light, and there was light.” / What chased the clouds away? / ’Twas Love whose finger traced aloud / A bow of promise on the cloud.

Thou to whose power our hope we give, / Free us from human strife. / Fed by Thy love divine we live, / For Love alone is Life; / And life most sweet, as heart to heart / Speaks kindly when we meet and part.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 30)

REFRAIN / Like a river that runs to the ocean, / Like a ray reaching out from the sun, / Like a branch and the tree, a drop and the sea, / I and my Father are one.

And may each of us claim it as truly / As Jesus, who came as God’s Son, / And may each of us know in the depths of our soul, / I and my Father are one.

One in beauty, one in truth, / One in the asking, one in the proof, / One in time and one in space, / One in the goodness that flows from God’s grace. / / REFRAIN / Though our fears may estrange and divide us, / May we seek to dissolve them through love. / We are sister and brother, each bound to the other, / One with our Father above.

One in purpose, one in power, / One in the Spirit, blessing each hour, / One in kindness, one in peace, / One in the Mind that makes all trouble cease. / / REFRAIN
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 524)

The All-Knowing

-1  In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

(Psalms 71:1)

33  For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
(I Corinthians 14:33)

11  Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, ...
(Psalms 27:11 (to 3rd ,))

29  But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
(Deuteronomy 4:29)

7   In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
10  For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
11  Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
(Psalms 86:7, 10, 11)

24  And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
(Isaiah 65:24)

1   God is our refuge and strength, ...
1   ... help in trouble.
2   Therefore will not we fear, ...
7   The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. ...
10  Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted ...
(Psalms 46:1 (to ,), 1 help, 2 (to 1st ,), 7 (to 1st .), 10 (to 1st exalted))

13  ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
14  And when Moses’ father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
15  And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God:
16  When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
17  And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.
18  Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
19  Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
20  And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
21  Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
22  And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
23  If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
24  So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.
(Exodus 18:13–24)

3   And Solomon loved the LORD, ...
5   ¶ In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
6   And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
7   And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
8   And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
9   Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
10  And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
11  And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
12  Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
(I Kings 3:3 (to ,), 5–12)

16  ¶ Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
17  And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
18  And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
19  And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
20  And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21  And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
22  And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
23  Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
24  And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
25  And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
26  Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
27  Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
28  And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
(I Kings 3:16–28)

17  ... Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
20  For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: ...
30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, ...
(John 5:17 Jesus, 20 (to :), 30 (to 2nd ,))

16  And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
17  Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?
19  Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
20  And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
21  They say unto him, Cæsar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.
22  When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
(Matthew 22:16, 17, 19–22)

1   Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2   In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3   And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4   And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5   Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6   Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
10  ... the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
(John 14:1–6, 10 3rd the)

5   ... when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6   But thou, when 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.
7   But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8   Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
9   After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
(Matthew 6:5–10 when)

1   Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: ...
2   ... O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
6   Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
11  Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
(Psalms 86:1 (to :), 2 O, 6, 11)

11  I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
(Proverbs 4:11)

5  ¶ Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
(Proverbs 3:5, 6)

    GOD. The great I AM; the all-knowing, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 587:5 (only, to 1st ,))

                                 In the quiet               Effectual invocation
    sanctuary of earnest longings, we must
18  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.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 15:16–20)

15           ... God knows our need before we tell Him or our
    fellow-beings about it. If we cherish the desire hon-
    estly and silently and humbly, God will bless it, and
18  we shall incur less risk of overwhelming our real
    wishes with a torrent of words.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 13:15 God)

                                               The “di-
24  vine ear” is not an auditory nerve. It is the all-hearing
    and all-knowing Mind, to whom each need of man is
    always known and by whom it will be supplied.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 7:23 The)

                                       The God-                  Christ the ideal Truth
    principle is omnipresent and omnipotent. God is every-
9   where, and nothing apart from Him is present or has
    power. Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal
    sickness and sin through Christian Science, and attributes
12  all power to God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 473:7–12)

              ... Mind is God.

                                                       There
18  can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and
    if mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other,
    sin would be unknown. We can have but one Mind, if
21  that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude,
    when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a
    place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all
24  space is filled with God.

        We lose the high signification of omnipotence, when
    after admitting that God, or good, is omnipresent and
27  has all-power, we still believe there is another                The sole governor
    power, named evil.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 469:13 Mind (only), 17–28)

           Nothing is more disheartening than to believe
    that there is a power opposite to God, or good, and that
30  God endows this opposing power with strength to be used
    against Himself, against Life, health, harmony.

        Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern
1   man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 380:28–1)

                                                When we wait
    patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs
12  our path.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 254:10–12)

        When man is governed by God, the ever-present
    Mind who understands all things, man knows that with
27  God all things are possible.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 180:25–27)

                                    The central fact of
the Bible is the superiority of spiritual over physical power.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 131:10)

12  ... “acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace.”
    Be watchful, sober, and vigilant. The way is straight
    and narrow, which leads to the understanding that God
15  is the only Life.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 324:12–15 acquaint)

6                    The starting-point of divine Science is
    that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other
    might nor Mind, ...

        To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science,
    you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle
12  of all that really is. Spirit, Life, Truth, Love,              Divine synonyms
    combine as one, — and are the Scriptural names
    for God. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, im-
15  mortality, cause, and effect belong to God. These are
    His attributes, the eternal manifestations of the infinite
    divine Principle, Love. No wisdom is wise but His
18  wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life
    but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.

        Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understand-
21  ing, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is
    God, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,                   The divine completeness
    — that is, all power, all presence, all Science.
24  Hence all is in reality the manifestation of Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 275:6–8 (to 1st ,), 10–24)

       Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no
   inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious
6  action.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 283:4–6)

6  The real jurisdiction of the world is in Mind, controlling
   every effect and recognizing all causation as vested in
   divine Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 379:6)

                     All is infinite Mind and its infinite
manifestation, for God is All-in-all.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468:10–11)

All is under the control of the one Mind,   First evil suggestion
even God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 544:16–17)

    GOD. The great I AM; the all-knowing, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 587:5 (only, to 1st ,))

Peace

BIBLE

¶ I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: ...

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
(Isaiah 45:5, 7)

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
(Isaiah 9:6, 7)

Jesus saith ...
(John 14:9 (to saith))

Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
(John 16:32, 33)

And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. ...

These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. ...

And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence. And when ye come into an house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. ...

... ¶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
(Matthew 10:1, 5–8, 11–14, 16)

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. ...

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
(Matthew 10:34, 38, 39)

And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
(Mark 4:35–39)

And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen; ...

... ¶ And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. ...

And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
(Luke 19:37, 41, 42, 45–48)

¶ And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
(John 20:26–29)

¶ And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked: The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
(Acts 14:8–10)

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ...

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; ...

Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
(Ephesians 6:13–15, 18, 23, 24)

SCIENCE AND HEALTH

In Isaiah we read: “I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things;” but the prophet referred to divine law as stirring up the belief in evil to its utmost, when bringing it to the surface and reducing it to its common denominator, nothingness. The muddy river-bed must be stirred in order to purify the stream. In moral chemicalization, when the symptoms of evil, illusion, are aggravated, we may think in our ignorance that the Lord hath wrought an evil; but we ought to know that God’s law uncovers so-called sin and its effects, only that Truth may annihilate all sense of evil and all power to sin.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 540:5)

From beginning to end, the Scriptures are full of accounts of the triumph of Spirit, Mind, over matter. ... The Christian era was ushered in with signs and wonders. Reforms have commonly been attended with bloodshed and persecution, even when the end has been brightness and peace; ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 139:4–5, 8–11 (to ;))

This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord and dismay; on the other side there will be Science and peace. The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears. These disturbances will continue until the end of error, when all discord will be swallowed up in spiritual Truth.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 96:12)

Truth, and not corporeal will, is the divine power which says to disease, “Peace, be still.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 144:20)

To-day the healing power of Truth is widely demonstrated as an immanent, eternal Science, instead of a phenomenal exhibition. Its appearing is the coming anew of the gospel of “on earth peace, good-will toward men.” This coming, as was promised by the Master, is for its establishment as a permanent dispensation among men; ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 150:4–10 (to ;))

Spirit and its formations are the only realities of being. ... Spiritual living and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love.

When we learn the way in Christian Science and recognize man’s spiritual being, we shall behold and understand God’s creation, — all the glories of earth and heaven and man.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 264:20 (only), 24–31)

Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged. Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual, — they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper sense of the infinite, — in order that sin and mortality may be put off.

This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 265:3–15)

There should be painless progress, attended by life and peace instead of discord and death.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 224:8)

A higher and more practical Christianity, demonstrating justice and meeting the needs of mortals in sickness and in health, stands at the door of this age, knocking for admission.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 224:22–25)

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, Science 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, kidney 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 suppose 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 daughter 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 headaches; 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. ...

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, ... E. J. B., Superior, Wis.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 637:14–19 (np); 639:10–14 (to ,), 16 E)

The nature of Christianity is peaceful and blessed, but in order to enter into the kingdom, the anchor of hope must be cast beyond the veil of matter into the Shekinah into which Jesus has passed before us; and this advance beyond matter must come through the joys and triumphs of the righteous as well as through their sorrows and afflictions. Like our Master, we must depart from material sense into the spiritual sense of being.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 40:31)


HYMNS
I am the Lord, there is none else; / There is no God beside Me. / I girded thee, I girded thee, / Though thou hast not even known Me. / But know that from the rising sun / To the west there is none beside Me, / For I am the Lord, there is none else; / There is no God beside Me.

I am the Truth, there is none else; / There is no Truth beside Me. / Infinite light, bountiful, bright, / Is ever present to guide thee. / Beloved and free, eternally, / Perfect peace and joy I provide thee, / For I am the Lord, there is none else; / There is no God beside Me.

Innocent one, sinless and pure, / Nothing can ever divide thee. / Governed by Love, you are secure; / I am forever beside thee. / So rest and know where’er you go, / Home and heaven cannot be denied thee, / For I am the Lord, there is none else; / There is no God beside Me.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 499)

It matters not what be thy lot, / So Love doth guide; / For storm or shine, pure peace is thine, / Whate’er betide.

And of these stones, or tyrants’ thrones, / God able is / To raise up seed—in thought and deed— / To faithful His.

Aye, darkling sense, arise, go hence! / Our God is good. / False fears are foes—truth tatters those, / When understood.

Love looseth thee, and lifteth me, / Ayont hate’s thrall: / There Life is light, and wisdom might, / And God is All.

The centuries break, the earth-bound wake, / God’s glorified! / Who doth His will—His likeness still— / Is satisfied.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 513)

I love Thy way of freedom, Lord, / To serve Thee is my choice, / In Thy clear light of Truth I rise / And, listening for Thy voice, / I hear Thy promise old and new, / That bids all fear to cease: / My presence still shall go with thee / And I will give thee peace.

Though storm or discord cross my path / Thy power is still my stay, / Though human will and woe would check / My upward-soaring way; / All unafraid I wait, the while / Thy angels bring release, / For still Thy presence is with me, / And Thou dost give me peace.

I climb, with joy, the heights of Mind, / To soar o’er time and space; / I yet shall know as I am known / And see Thee face to face. / Till time and space and fear are naught / My quest shall never cease, / Thy presence ever goes with me / And Thou dost give me peace.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 136)

Hope, Christian Science, Fellowship

Wednesday Bible Readings

April 1st, 2025

From The Bible

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
(Psalms 133:1)

... Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. ¶ And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. ...

And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him. And they digged another well, and strove for that also: ...

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; ...

And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, ...

... ¶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, ...

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD. ...

... and they departed from him in peace.
(Genesis 26:16 Abimelech, 17, 19–21 (to :), 22 (to 2nd ;), 24 (to 5th ,), 26 (to 1st ,), 27–29, 31 4th and)

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
(Lamentations 3:26)

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
(Hebrews 13:5, 6)

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
(Psalms 146:5)

And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
(Mark 1:9–11)

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ...

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
(Hebrews 11:1, 3)

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
(Romans 8:24, 25)

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, ...

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. ...

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. ...

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, ...

And they were all amazed and marvelled, ...

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. ...

... ¶ Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, ...
(Acts 1:1, 2 (to ,); 2:1, 2, 4, 6 (to 2nd ,), 7 (to 1st ,), 38, 41, 42 (to 2nd ,))

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
(Titus 2:11–13)

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
(Romans 15:13)

A germ of infinite Truth, though least in the kingdom of heaven, is the higher hope on earth, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 361:25–27 (to ,))

HEAVEN. Harmony; ... government by divine Principle; ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 587:25 (only, to 1st ;), 25–26 government (to 1st ;))

DOVE. A symbol of divine Science; ... hope and faith.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 584:26 (only, to 1st ;), 27 hope)

HOLY GHOST. Divine Science; ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 588:7 (only, to ;))

In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science. God had been graciously preparing me during many years for the reception of this final revelation of the absolute divine Principle of scientific mental healing.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 107:1)

Divine Science derives its sanction from the Bible, and the divine origin of Science is demonstrated through the holy influence of Truth in healing sickness and sin. This healing power of Truth must have been far anterior to the period in which Jesus lived. It is as ancient as “the Ancient of days.” It lives through all Life, and extends throughout all space.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 146:23)

The term CHRISTIAN SCIENCE was introduced by the author to designate the scientific system of divine healing. ...

Christian Science differs from material science, but not on that account is it less scientific. On the contrary, Christian Science is pre-eminently scientific, being based on Truth, the Principle of all science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 123:16, 30)

This apodictical Principle points to the revelation of Immanuel, “God with us,” — the sovereign ever-presence, delivering the children of men from every ill “that flesh is heir to.” Through Christian Science, religion and medicine are inspired with a diviner nature and essence; fresh pinions are given to faith and understanding, and thoughts acquaint themselves intelligently with God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 107:7)

Many imagine that the phenomena of physical healing in Christian Science present only a phase of the action of the human mind, which action in some unexplained way results in the cure of disease. On the contrary, Christian Science rationally explains that all other pathological methods are the fruits of human faith in matter, ...

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 reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. xi:1–7 (to 1st ,), 9–14)

Divine Science adjusts the balance as Jesus adjusted it. ...

The nature of Christianity is peaceful and blessed, but in order to enter into the kingdom, the anchor of hope must be cast beyond the veil of matter into the Shekinah into which Jesus has passed before us; and ... righteous as well as through their sorrows and afflictions. Like our Master, we must depart from material sense into the spiritual sense of being.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 40:8–9, 31–2 (to and); 41:4 righteous)

The theology of Christian Science includes healing the sick.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 145:31–32)

Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 136:1–2)

CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 583:12–19)

Jesus illustrated the divine Principle and the power of immortal Mind by healing sickness and sin and destroying the foundations of death.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 171:14)

The verity of Mind shows conclusively how it is that matter seems to be, but is not. Divine Science, rising above physical theories, excludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 123:11)

Divine Science rolls back the clouds of error with the light of Truth, and lifts the curtain on man as never born and as never dying, but as coexistent with his creator.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 557:18)

To himself, mortal and material man seems to be substance, but his sense of substance involves error and therefore is material, temporal.

On the other hand, the immortal, spiritual man is really substantial, and reflects the eternal substance, or Spirit, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 301:6–11 (to 3rd ,))

... Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are substance, as the Scriptures use this word in Hebrews: “The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Spirit, the synonym of Mind, Soul, or God, is the only real substance.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468:17–22 Substance)

Science relates to Mind, not matter. It rests on fixed Principle and not upon the judgment of false sensation. ... Truth is ever truthful, and can tolerate no error in premise or conclusion.

If you wish to know the spiritual fact, you can discover it by reversing the material fable, be the fable pro or con, — be it in accord with your preconceptions or utterly contrary to them.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 128:27–28; 129:5–10)

Life, Truth, and Love are the realities of divine Science. They dawn in faith and glow full-orbed in spiritual understanding. As a cloud hides the sun it cannot extinguish, so false belief silences for a while the voice of immutable harmony, but false belief cannot destroy Science armed with faith, hope, and fruition.

What is termed material sense can report only a mortal temporary sense of things, whereas spiritual sense can bear witness only to Truth. ...

Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, involves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, reality.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 298:2–10, 13–15)

“The prayer of faith shall save the sick,” says the Scripture. What is this healing prayer? ... It is neither Science nor Truth which acts through blind belief, nor is it the human understanding of the divine healing Principle as manifested in Jesus, whose humble prayers were deep and conscientious protests of Truth, — of man’s likeness to God and of man’s unity with Truth and Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 12:1–2 (to ?), 10)

Love for God and man is the true incentive in both healing and teaching.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 454:17–18)

The test of all prayer lies in the answer to these questions: Do we love our neighbor better because of this asking?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 9:5–7)

... what greater justification can any deed have, than that it is for the good of one’s neighbor?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 440:15–16 what)

When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded; ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 205:22–23 (to ;))

The physician who lacks sympathy for his fellow-being is deficient in human affection, and we have the apostolic warrant for asking: “He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” Not having this spiritual affection, the physician lacks faith in the divine Mind and has not that recognition of infinite Love which alone confers the healing power.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 366:12–19)

Our Master said to every follower: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature! . . . Heal the sick! . . . Love thy neighbor as thyself!” It was this theology of Jesus which healed the sick and the sinning.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 138:27–31)

The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another’s good. Love giveth to the least spiritual idea might, immortality, and goodness, which shine through all as the blossom shines through the bud.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 518:15–21)

My weary hope tries to realize that happy day, when man shall recognize 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 and is doing for mankind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 55:16–21)

In infinite Life and Love there is no sickness, sin, nor death, and the Scriptures declare that we live, move, and have our being in the infinite God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 381:17)

Brood o’er us with Thy shelt’ring wing, / ’Neath which our spirits blend / Like brother birds, that soar and sing, / And on the same branch bend. / The arrow that doth wound the dove / Darts not from those who watch and love.

If thou the bending reed wouldst break / By thought or word unkind, / Pray that his spirit you partake, / Who loved and healed mankind: / Seek holy thoughts and heavenly strain, / That make men one in love remain.

Learn, too, that wisdom’s rod is given / For faith to kiss, and know; / That greetings glorious from high heaven, / Whence joys supernal flow, / Come from that Love, divinely near, / Which chastens pride and earth-born fear,

Through God, who gave that word of might / Which swelled creation’s lay: / “Let there be light, and there was light.” / What chased the clouds away? / ’Twas Love whose finger traced aloud / A bow of promise on the cloud.

Thou to whose power our hope we give, / Free us from human strife. / Fed by Thy love divine we live, / For Love alone is Life; / And life most sweet, as heart to heart / Speaks kindly when we meet and part.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 30)

With one accord in one place, / In joyful praise of God’s grace, / We join together in one divine embrace. / A rushing mighty Spirit / Descends from heaven, hear it: / “I have touched your heart / And made whole your heart, / Now go walk in My light.” / All can hear of it, / Hearts revealing it, / Gently moved by Your might.

Of one accord, of one Mind, / Our healing mission we find. / We pray together—our lives in worship bind. / The Comforter is with us; / Its presence here assures us: / “I am guiding you / And uniting you / Through the love of God’s Son. / I am blessing you; / I am healing you; / I am making you one.”
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 601)

O Life that maketh all things new, / The blooming earth, the thoughts of men; / Our pilgrim feet, wet with Your dew, / In gladness hither turn again.

From hand to hand the greeting flows, / From eye to eye the signals run, / From heart to heart the bright hope glows, / The seekers of the Light are one:

One in the freedom of the truth, / One in the joy of paths untrod, / One in the heart’s perennial youth, / One in the larger thought of God;—

The freer step, the fuller breath, / The wide horizon’s grander view; / The sense of Life that knows no death,— / The Life that maketh all things new.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 542)

God Given Dominion

Wednesday Bible Readings

March 18th, 2026

From The Bible

1 ... God created the heaven and the earth. 26 ¶ And God 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. (Genesis 1:1 God, 26)

1 Now 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. 2 And 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. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 ... God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. 6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. ... 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; 8 And 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; ... 10 Come 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? 12 And 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. 13 ... and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And 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. 15 And 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. (Exodus 3:1–3, 4 God, 6 (to 1st .), 7, 8 (to ;), 10–12, 13–15 3rd and)

1 And 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. 2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. 3 And 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. 4 And 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: 5 That 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. 10 ¶ And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. 11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. 17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs. (Exodus 4:1–5, 10–12, 17)

17 ¶ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. 21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: (Exodus 13:17, 18, 21)

5 ¶ And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? 6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: 7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. 9 ... the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, ... 10 ¶ And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD. 13 ¶ And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. 14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. 15 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, ... 15 ... speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: 16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. (Exodus 14:5–7, 9 the (to 4th ,), 10, 13–15 (to 1st ,), 15 speak, 16)

21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. 30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; ... (Exodus 14:21, 22, 30 (to ;))

6 ... thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. 7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: ... 18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever. (Exodus 15:6 2nd thy, 7 (to :), 18)

1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. 6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. 8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. 14 ... and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done. 15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. (Mark 5:1–8, 14 2nd and, 15)

5 ¶ And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. 7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. 8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. 9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. 10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. 13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. (Matthew 8:5–10, 13)

13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout ... (Psalms 145:13 (to throughout))

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14)

10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. (I Peter 5:10, 11)

10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD. (Psalms 146:10)

Truth has no beginning. The divine Mind is the Soul of man, and gives man dominion over all things. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 307:25–26)

Nothing is more disheartening than to believe that there is a power opposite to God, or good, and that 30 God endows this opposing power with strength to be used against Himself, against Life, health, harmony. Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern 1 man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 380:28–1)

Nothing but the power of Truth can prevent the fear of 21 error, and prove man’s dominion over error. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 380:19)

And God said: “Let us make man in our image, after 24 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 27 creepeth upon the earth.” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 475:23)

21 “Let them have dominion.” All that God imparts moves in accord with Him, reflecting goodness and power. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 515:21 (only), 22)

30 Divine Love blesses its own ideas, ... Man is not made to till the soil. His birthright is dominion, not subjection. He is lord of the belief in earth 3 and heaven, — himself subordinate alone to his Maker. This is the Science of being. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 517:30 (only, to ,), 31)

The notion 12 of a material universe is utterly opposed to the theory of man as evolved from Mind. Such fundamental errors send falsity into all human doctrines and conclusions, 15 and do not accord infinity to Deity. Error tills the whole ground in this material theory, which is entirely ... ... false view, destructive to existence and happiness. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 545:11–16 (to entirely), 17 false (only))

The condemnation of mortals to till the ground means this, — that mortals should so improve material belief 9 by thought tending spiritually upward as to destroy materiality. Man, created by God, was given dominion over the whole earth. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 545:7–11)

Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual understanding and the consciousness of man’s dominion over the whole earth. This understanding casts out error and heals the sick, and with it you can speak 30 “as one having authority.” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 14:25)

6 The Hebrew Lawgiver, slow of speech, despaired of making the people understand what should be revealed to him. When, led by wisdom to cast down his 9 rod, he saw it become a serpent, Moses fled before it; but wisdom bade him come back and handle the serpent, and then Moses’ fear departed. In 12 this incident was seen the actuality of Science. Matter was shown to be a belief only. The serpent, evil, under wisdom’s bidding, was destroyed through understanding 15 divine Science, and this proof was a staff upon which to lean. The illusion of Moses lost its power to alarm him, when he discovered that what he apparently saw was really 18 but a phase of mortal belief. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 321:6)

When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling 15 steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither 18 fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious — as Life eternally is — can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 495:14–20)

You conquer error by denying its verity. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 339:31–32)

Mind is the 9 master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness, sin, and death. Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind governs, and that in Science man reflects God’s government. 18 (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 393:8–10 (to 1st .), 16–18)

It is man’s moral right to annul an unjust sentence, a sentence never 30 inflicted by divine authority. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 381:28)

9 I hope, dear reader, I am leading you into the understanding of your divine rights, your heaven-bestowed harmony, — that, as you read, you see there is no 12 cause (outside of erring, mortal, material sense which is not power) able to make you sick or sinful; and I hope that you are conquering this false sense. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 253:9–14)

We must look where we would walk, and we must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we 12 have our being. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 264:10)

Man, created by God, was given dominion over the whole earth. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 545:10–11)

21 Christ illustrates that blending with God, his divine Principle, which gives man dominion over all the earth. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 316:21)

Fear Not

Wednesday Bible Readings

March 4th, 2026

From The Bible

BIBLE

When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ...

... Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
(Deuteronomy 20:1, 3 Hear, 4)

¶ Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp. And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down. And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice. Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel? And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber. ¶ And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan. Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about. And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
(II Kings 6:8–17)

¶ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. ...

And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
(Isaiah 35:3–5, 10)

¶ 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: ...

... ¶ 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. But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole. And 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. And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise. And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: ...
(Luke 8:41, 49–55 (to :))

¶ And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, Saying, 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. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out. And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about. ¶ And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her. And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them. ¶ Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
(Luke 4:33–40)

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. ...

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ...

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. ...

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
(Romans 8:1, 2, 6, 8, 9 (to 1st .), 14, 15)

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
(II Timothy 1:7)

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
(Luke 12:32)


SCIENCE AND HEALTH
We cannot build safely on false foundations. Truth makes a new creature, in whom old things pass away and “all things are become new.” Passions, selfishness, false appetites, hatred, fear, all sensuality, yield to spirituality, and the superabundance of being is on the side of God, good.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 201:7)

If we pray to God as a corporeal person, this will prevent us from relinquishing the human doubts and fears which attend such a belief, and so we cannot grasp the wonders wrought by infinite, incorporeal Love, to whom all things are possible.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 13:20–24)

If we are sensibly with the body and regard omnipotence as a corporeal, material person, whose ear we would gain, we are not “absent from the body” and “present with the Lord” in the demonstration of Spirit. ... To be “present with the Lord” is to have, not mere emotional ecstasy or faith, but the actual demonstration and understanding of Life as revealed in Christian Science. To be “with the Lord” is to be in obedience to the law of God, to be absolutely governed by divine Love, — by Spirit, not by matter.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 14:1–5, 6)

The less that is said of physical structure and laws, and the more that is thought and said about moral and spiritual law, the higher will be the standard of living and the farther mortals will be removed from imbecility or disease.

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 197:11–16)

To hold yourself superior to sin, because God made you superior to it and governs man, is true wisdom. To fear sin is to misunderstand the power of Love and the divine Science of being in man’s relation 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 with divine Science. To fear them is impossible, when you fully apprehend God and know that they are no part of His creation.

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 Him was not anything made that was made,” — can triumph over sin, sickness, and death.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 231:20–2)

When man is governed by God, the ever-present Mind who understands all things, man knows that with God all things are possible. The only way to this living Truth, which heals the sick, is found in the Science of divine Mind as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 180:25)

Inasmuch as God is good and the fount of all being, He does not produce moral or physical deformity; therefore such deformity is not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error. Divine Science reveals these grand facts. On their basis Jesus demonstrated Life, never fearing nor obeying error in any form.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 243:32)

... Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understanding, and sin, disease, and death disappear. Christ, Truth, gives mortals temporary food and clothing until the material, transformed with the ideal, disappears, and man is clothed and fed spiritually. St. Paul says, “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling:” Jesus said, “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” This truth is Christian Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 442:20 Christ)

Christian Science silences human will, quiets fear with Truth and Love, and illustrates the unlabored motion of the divine energy in healing the sick.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 445:19–21)

Always begin your treatment by allaying the fear of patients. Silently reassure them as to their exemption from disease and danger. Watch the result of this simple rule of Christian Science, and you will find that it alleviates the symptoms of every disease. If you succeed in wholly removing the fear, your patient is healed. The great fact that God lovingly governs all, never punishing aught but sin, is your standpoint, from which to advance and destroy the human fear of sickness. Mentally and silently plead the case scientifically for Truth. You may vary the arguments to meet the peculiar or general symptoms of the case you treat, but be thoroughly persuaded in your own mind concerning the truth which you think or speak, and you will be the victor.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 411:27)

When fear disappears, the foundation of disease is gone.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 368:31–32)

I knew a person who when quite a child adopted the Graham system to cure dyspepsia. ... He passed many weary years in hunger and weakness, ... At this point Christian Science saved him, and he is now in perfect health without a vestige of the old complaint.

He learned that suffering and disease were the self-imposed beliefs of mortals, and not the facts of being; that God never decreed disease, — never ordained a law that fasting should be a means of health. Hence semi-starvation is not acceptable to wisdom, and it is equally far from Science, in which being is sustained by God, Mind. These truths, opening his eyes, relieved his stomach, and he ate without suffering, “giving God thanks;” ...

He learned that a dyspeptic was very far from being the image and likeness of God, — far from having “dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,” if eating a bit of animal flesh could overpower him. He finally concluded that God never made a dyspeptic, while fear, hygiene, physiology, and physics had made him one, contrary to His commands.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 221:1–2, 10–11 (to 1st ,), 14–24 (to ;); 222:22)

Error is not real, hence it is not more imperative as it hastens towards self-destruction. The so-called belief of mortal mind apparent as an abscess should not grow more painful before it suppurates, neither should a fever become more severe before it ends.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 251:1)

Moral courage is requisite to meet the wrong and to proclaim the right.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 327:23–24)

Moral courage is “the lion of the tribe of Juda,” the king of the mental realm. Free and fearless it roams in the forest. Undisturbed it lies in the open field, or rests in “green pastures, . . . beside the still waters.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 514:10–14)


HYMNS
How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, / Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word. / What more can He say than to you He hath said, / To you who to God for your refuge have fled:

Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed, / For I am thy God, I will still give thee aid; / I’ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, / Upheld by My gracious, omnipotent hand;

When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie, / My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply; / The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design / Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 123)

O gentle presence, peace and joy and power; / O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour, / Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight! / Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.

Love is our refuge; only with mine eye / Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall: / His habitation high is here, and nigh, / His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.

O make me glad for every scalding tear, / For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain! / Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear / No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain.

Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing; / In that sweet secret of the narrow way, / Seeking and finding, with the angels sing: / “Lo, I am with you alway,”—watch and pray.

No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain; / No night drops down upon the troubled breast, / When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain, / And mother finds her home and heav’nly rest.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 539)

In Love divine all earth-born fear and sorrow / Fade as the dark when dawn pours forth her light; / And understanding prayer is fully answered, / When trustingly we turn to God aright.

And as on wings of faith we soar and worship, / Held by God’s love above the shadows dim, / Hushed in the grandeur of a heart’s awakening, / Unfolds a joy unknown till found in Him.

Then in this radiant light of adoration, / We know that man beloved is in God’s care, / Not wrapped in fear nor bowed with tired labor, / But satisfied, complete, divinely fair.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 510)