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)
