APRIL 19th, 2023

From The Bible

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
(James 3:11, 12)

O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. ...

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
(Habakkuk 1:2, 3; 2:1)

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
(James 3:11, 12)

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. ...

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
(Psalms 36:7, 9)

... O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: ...
(Habakkuk 1:12 2nd O, 13 (to :))

And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthæ; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: ...

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
(Hebrews 11:32–35 (to 1st :); 12:11–14)

The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
(Proverbs 18:10)

And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. ...

... and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. ¶ But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: ...

And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. ...

And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. ...

... ¶ And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. ¶ And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. ...

Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. ¶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
(Genesis 19:1, 2 (to 1st .), 3 2nd and, 4, 6, 7, 9–11, 15–17, 24–26)

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: ...

... ¶ Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. ...

... ¶ Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. ...

... I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: ...

... ¶ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, ...

... Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
(Isaiah 51:1 (to :), 4, 5, 7, 15 I (to :), 17 (to 4th ,), 22 Behold)

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
(Psalms 25:5)

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
(John 8:32)

SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES by MARY BAKER EDDY

This strong point in Christian Science is not to be overlooked, — that the same fountain cannot send forth both sweet waters and bitter.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 455:28–30)

Divine Science does not gather grapes from thorns nor figs from thistles.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 276:30–31)

Science only can explain the incredible good and evil elements now coming to the surface. Mortals must find refuge in Truth in order to escape the error of these latter days.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 83:6–9)

Both truth and error have come nearer than ever before to the apprehension of mortals, and truth will become still clearer as error is self-destroyed.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 368:6)

The struggle for Truth makes one strong instead of weak, resting instead of wearying one.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 426:9–11)

Every mortal at some period, here or hereafter, must grapple with and overcome the mortal belief in a power opposed to God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 569:3)

Human sense may well marvel at discord, while, to a diviner sense, harmony is the real and discord the unreal.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 563:1–2)

Are material means the only refuge from fatal chances?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 394:24–25)

There is to-day danger of repeating the offence of the Jews by limiting the Holy One of Israel and asking: “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 135:17–19)

The remedy consists in probing the trouble to the bottom, in finding and casting out by denial the error of belief which produces a mortal disorder, never honoring erroneous belief with the title of law nor yielding obedience to it.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 184:8–12)

We must look deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 129:22–24)

Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 313:23–26)

As of old, evil still charges the spiritual idea with error's own nature and methods. This malicious animal instinct, of which the dragon is the type, incites mortals to kill morally and physically even their fellow-mortals, and worse still, to charge the innocent with the crime. This last infirmity of sin will sink its perpetrator into a night without a star.

The author is convinced that the accusations against Jesus of Nazareth and even his crucifixion were instigated by the criminal instinct here described. ... Until the majesty of Truth should be demonstrated in divine Science, the spiritual idea was arraigned before the tribunal of so-called mortal mind, which was unloosed in order that the false claim of mind in matter might uncover its own crime of defying immortal Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 564:3–12, 19)

If your endeavors are beset by fearful odds, and you receive no present reward, go not back to error, nor become a sluggard in the race.

When the smoke of battle clears away, you will discern the good you have done, and receive according to your deserving.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 22:14–20)

God is not the creator of an evil mind. Indeed, evil is not Mind. ...

The spiritual reality is the scientific fact in all things.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 207:8–9, 27 (only))

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)

When the ocean is stirred by a storm, then the clouds lower, the wind shrieks through the tightened shrouds, and the waves lift themselves into mountains. We ask the helmsman: “Do you know your course? Can you steer safely amid the storm?” He answers bravely, but even the dauntless seaman is not sure of his safety; nautical science is not equal to the Science of Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 67:4–11)

The destruction of error is by no means the destruction of Truth or Life, but is the acknowledgment of them.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 91:13)

What I term chemicalization is the upheaval produced when immortal Truth is destroying erroneous mortal belief. Mental chemicalization brings sin and sickness to the surface, forcing impurities to pass away, as is the case with a fermenting fluid.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 401:16)

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)

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.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 192:17)

Christian Science reveals incontrovertibly that Mind is All-in-all, that the only realities are the divine Mind and idea.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 109:4–6)

It is not wise to take a halting and half-way position or to expect to work equally with Spirit and matter, Truth and error.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 167:22–24)

When the smoke of battle clears away, you will discern the good you have done, and receive according to your deserving.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 22:18–20)

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, p. 368:2–4)

All the real is eternal.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 353:16 (only))

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)

The Science of Mind needs to be understood. Until it is understood, mortals are more or less deprived of Truth.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 490:12–14)

The world of error is ignorant of the world of Truth, — blind to the reality of man's existence, — for the world of sensation is not cognizant of life in Soul, not in body.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 13:29)

If we concede the same reality to discord as to harmony, discord has as lasting a claim upon us as has harmony.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 186:22–24)

Now I ask, Is there any more reality in the waking dream of mortal existence than in the sleeping dream?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 250:22–23)

All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 151:26–28)