Bible Study from June 1st, 2019

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: 2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

— Jude 1 : 1 – 2

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Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

— 2 Peter 1:2

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Contend: To strive; to use earnest efforts to obtain, or to defend and preserve.

— 1828 Websters Dictionary

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496 — WATCH that you realize that you are a terror to error, that your consciousness of God is so effective and powerful, and you are the custodian of such vast power, that the moment you apply it, it does things, it dissipates error and leaves the infinite good filling all space. The time must come when we recognize ourselves as aggressors, rather than merely defenders of the faith. There is a temptation to feel that there exists a great lie claiming to be power, and that we must forever protect ourselves against it. Like the knights of old we must ride forth with shield and sword to defend ourselves against error, so that we may destroy it. Yet this conception does not fit Mrs. Eddy’s statement that she used to do her work with the realization that God is All. The answer is that this phase of our experience is a necessary but passing one. We must recognize ourselves as terrors to error, until we can rise to the realization that there is no error, since God is All.

Some students fail because they regard animal mag­netism as a lion, and themselves as but a rabbit. We are the lion equipped with God’s power. The lie retreats when we face it with divine courage.

Mrs. Eddy once said,“Animal magnetism is powerless — but you must declare against it as though it had all power.”

— From500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

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If your feelings get hurt, get rid of your feelings.

— from 1937 College by Bicknell Young

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Prayer means that we desire to walk and will walk in the light so far as we receive it, even though with bleeding footsteps, and that waiting patiently on the Lord, we will leave our real desires to be rewarded by Him.

— from Science and Health, by Mary Baker Eddy page 9

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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

— by Shakespeare

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I wish as an act of justice that you hold sacredly in your memory that I assume no good or power of myself, that to God alone I ascribe all/ove, wi~dom and power, the All-in-all, the all good; that I am absolutely nothing, a mere instrument in God’s hands to be used as He will. This is the only position for anyone of us to be in.

— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 213

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Be Thou, O God, exalted high;
And as Thy glory fills the sky,
So let it be on earth displayed,
Till Thou art here and now obeyed.

— Hymn 1 from the Christian Science Hymnal

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