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)
