Sunday, June 9th, 2019 Roundtable
Christ to Comfort and Restore Me
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: God the Only Cause and Creator
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Morning Prayers
Father, teach me how to still the clamoring of sense, and fill my place as listener, that I may hear Thy voice and grow to understand Thy Word, and so become Thy messenger. Then teach me how to banish pride and stubborn will that I may be Thy representative – with no false sense of human zeal, that every word may bless and heal, when I Thy message give.
— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 61
Discussion points
46 — WATCH lest you retain the old superstition regarding death as a doorway to a better state of being. This error causes people to say of one who has passed on, “He is better off,” and to feel regarding one who is very ill that perhaps death would be a release under the circumstances. This suggestion gives death more power than Life to relieve man of woe.
Graduation from school benefits a pupil because he has done all the work in the lower grade satisfactorily. On page 60 of the Christian Science Journal, Volume 4, Mrs. Eddy writes, “When we have done our work here so well that it needs not to be done over again, the death-change increases all our joys and our means of advancement.”
— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter
Golden Text — “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” — John 1 : 3
Forum post — Gaining “more correct views of God and man” by Jeremy from NJ
Jesus never intimated that God made a devil, but he did say, “Ye are of your father, the devil.” All these sayings were to show that mind in matter is the author of itself, and is simply a falsity and illusion.
— Citation 12 from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 554 : 24 (Jesus)-28
Jesus said of personified evil, that it was “a liar, and the father of it.” Truth creates neither a lie, a capacity to lie, nor a liar. If mankind would relinquish the belief that God makes sickness, sin, and death, or makes man capable of suffering on account of this malevolent triad, the foundations of error would be sapped and error’s destruction ensured;
— Citation 11 from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 357 : 7-13
The Psychologist and The Magician — Introductory Comment — Read by Carol Conroy
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The Psychologist and The Magician — The Story, Part 1 — Read by Carol Conroy
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The Psychologist and The Magician — The Story, Part 2 — Read by Carol Conroy
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Forum post — Thus said the Lord that created thee by Joanne from FL
10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
13 For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
— Isaiah 41: 10-13 from the King James Bible
Forum post — First Commandment by Lynda from PA
Forum post — Protection All Around by Parthens
Everlasting arms of Love
Are beneath, around, above;
God it is who bears us on,
His the arm we lean upon.
He our ever-present guide
Faithful is, whate’er betide;
Gladly then we journey on,
With His arm to lean upon.
From earth’s fears and vain alarms
Safe in His encircling arms,
He will keep us all the way,
God, our refuge, strength and stay.
— Hymn 53 from the Christian Science Hymnal
Forum post — “overcometh the world” by Susanne from VT
Forum post — Take Heed of Your Spiritual Heritage Florence from GA
Stick to the truth of being in contradistinction to the error that life, substance, or intelligence can be in matter. Plead with an honest conviction of truth and a clear perception of the unchanging, unerring, and certain effect of divine Science. Then, if your fidelity is half equal to the truth of your plea, you will heal the sick.
— from Science and Health, 1910, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 418
The transmission of disease or of certain idiosyncrasies of mortal mind would be impossible if this great fact of being were learned, — namely, that nothing inharmonious can enter being, for Life is God. Heredity is a prolific subject for mortal belief to pin theories upon; but if we learn that nothing is real but the right, we shall have no dangerous inheritances, and fleshly ills will disappear.
— from Science and Health, 1910, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 228