Oct 11th, 2023

From The Bible

Ps. 61:1, 2

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. 

I Chron. 16:31

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The Lordreigneth. 

Jer. 23:32

Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord. 

I Kings 19:1 Ahab, 2 (to 3rd ,), 2 if, 3 (to 3rd ,), 9 (to 1st ,), 9 3rd and (to 2nd ,), 9 the, 10 (to 1st ,), 10 2nd the (to 2nd ,), 10 2nd and, 13 4th And, 15 (to 1st :)

... Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, ... if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time. And when he saw that,he arose, and went for his life, ...

... ¶ And he came thither unto a cave, ... and, ... the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, ... the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, ... and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. ...

... And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? ...

And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: ...

Isa. 48:17 (to God), 17 2nd which

Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God ... which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 

Dan. 6:1 (to ,), 2 (to :), 4 (to 1st ;), 6 (to 1st ,), 7 2nd to, 9, 11, 13 (to 2nd ,), 13 regardeth, 15 Know, 16 (to 1st .), 19, 20 3rd and (to 3rd ,), 20–22 is (to ;), 25 (to ;), 26 (to 2nd ,), 26 3rd and, 27

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, ...

And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: ...

... ¶ Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; ...

Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, ...

... to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. ...

Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. ...

Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. ...

Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, ... regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. ...

... Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed. Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. ...

Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. 

... and said to Daniel, O Daniel, ... is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; ...

... ¶ Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; ...

I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, ... and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end. He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. 

Ps. 18:0 A (to 4th ,), 2 (to 1st ,), 2 in (to 2nd ;), 4, 6 (to 2nd ,), 16 (to 1st ,), 17 (to :), 49

... A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, ...

The Lord is my rock, ... in whom I will trust; ...

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. ...

In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, ...

He sent from above, ...

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: ...

Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name. 

Acts 12:1–3 Herod (to 1st .), 4 2nd and (to ;), 5 but, 7 (to 3rd ,), 7 3rd and (to 4th ,), 7 saying, 8 (to 1st ,), 8 bind (to 1st .), 8 5th and, 9 (to 1st ;), 10 (to :), 11 (to 5th ,)

... Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. ...

... and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; ...

... but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. ...

And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, ... and he smote Peter on the side, ... saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. And the angel said unto him, ... bind on thy sandals. ... and follow me. And he went out, and followed him; ...

When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: ...

And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, ...

Ps. 91:1, 9 (to 1st ,), 9 thy, 10 (to ,), 11 (to ,)

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ...

Because thou hast made the Lord, ... thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, ...

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, ...

Matt. 9:35 Jesus

... Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 

Matt. 24:3 (to 3rd ,), 3 what, 4 (to ,)

¶ And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, ... what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, ...

Luke 21:8 Take (to 1st :), 9 when (to ;), 10 Nation, 11 (to ;), 17–19, 22, 31 when, 33, 36 (to 2nd ,)

... Take heed that ye be not deceived: ...

... when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; ...

... Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; ...

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake. But there shall not an hair of your head perish. In your patience possess ye your souls. ...

For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. ...

... when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. ...

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. ...

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, ...

Luke 10:8 (to 1st ,), 9 heal

And into whatsoever city ye enter, ...

... heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. 

Ps. 90:1, 2 (to 1st ,), 2 even

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, ... even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 

Job 22:25 (to 2nd ,), 26

Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, ...

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. 

John 3:16 God (to 2nd ,), 17 that

... God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, ...

... that the world through him might be saved. 

Rev. 12:10 (to :)

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: ...

Luke 10:11 be

... be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

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

SH 16:30 (only)

Thy kingdom come. 

SH 16:20–25

Only as we rise above all material sensuousness and sin, can we reach the heaven-born aspiration and spiritual consciousness, which is indicated in the Lord’s Prayer and which instantaneously heals the sick. 

Here let me give what I understand to be the spiritual sense of the Lord’s Prayer: 

SH 16:31; 17:2, 10, 14

Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present. 

... Enable us to know, — as in heaven, so on earth, — God is / omnipotent, supreme. / ...

... And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth / us from sin, disease, and death. 

... For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over / all, and All. 

SH 225:29–31; 226:14–17

Men and women of all climes and races are still in bondage to material sense, ignorant how to obtain their freedom. ...

God has built a higher platform of human rights, and He has built it on diviner claims. These claims are not made through code or creed, but in demonstration of “on earth peace, good-will toward men.” 

SH 228:14–15

Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God. 

SH 581:3; 587:5 (only, to .), 5–6 2nd the (to 3rd ,), 8 intelligence

Almighty. All-power; infinity; omnipotence. ...

God. ... the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, ... intelligence. 

SH 469:7–11

Question. — What is intelligence? 

Answer. — Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. It is the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind, of the triune Principle, — Life, Truth, and Love, — named God. 

SH 97:29–32; 98:15

Christianity is again demonstrating the Life that is Truth, and the Truth that is Life, by the apostolic work of casting out error and healing the sick. ...

Beyond the frail premises of human beliefs, above the loosening grasp of creeds, the demonstration of Christian Mind-healing stands a revealed and practical Science. It is imperious throughout all ages as Christ’s revelation of Truth, of Life, and of Love, which remains inviolate for every man to understand and to practise. 

SH 40:25–28, 31–5

Our heavenly Father, divine Love, demands that all men should follow the example of our Master and his apostles and not merely worship his personality. ...

The nature of Christianity is peaceful and blessed, but in order to enter into the kingdom, the anchor of hope must be cast beyond the veil of matter into the Shekinah into which Jesus has passed before us; and this advance beyond matter must come through the joys and triumphs of the righteous as well as through their sorrows and afflictions. 

SH 243:4–13

The divine Love, which made harmless the poisonous viper, which delivered men from the boiling oil, from the fiery furnace, from the jaws of the lion, can heal the sick in every age and triumph over sin and death. It crowned the demonstrations of Jesus with unsurpassed power and love. But the same “Mind . . . which was also in Christ Jesus” must always accompany the letter of Science in order to confirm and repeat the ancient demonstrations of prophets and apostles. 

SH 202:24–25; 203:7–8

Our beliefs about a Supreme Being contradict the practice growing out of them. ...

If God were understood instead of being merely believed, this understanding would establish health. 

SH 202:26; 203:3

We admit that God has almighty power, is “a very present help in trouble;” and yet we rely on a drug or hypnotism to heal disease, as if senseless matter or erring mortal mind had more power than omnipotent Spirit. 

... In the Science of Christianity, Mind — omnipotence — has all-power, assigns sure rewards to righteousness, and shows that matter can neither heal nor make sick, create nor destroy. 

SH 469:25–30

We lose the high signification of omnipotence, when after admitting that God, or good, is omnipresent and has all-power, we still believe there is another power, named evil. This belief that there is more than one mind is as pernicious to divine theology as are ancient mythology and pagan idolatry. 

SH 82:28–2; 83:6–7

When wandering in Australia, do we look for help to the Esquimaux in their snow huts? 

In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a greater development of power, it is wise earnestly to consider whether it is the human mind or the divine Mind which is influencing one. ...

Science only can explain the incredible good and evil elements now coming to the surface. 

SH 225:25

The despotic tendencies, inherent in mortal mind and always germinating in new forms of tyranny, must be rooted out through the action of the divine Mind. 

SH 96:12–13, 15–18, 25

This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces. ... The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears. ...

As this consummation draws nearer, he who has shaped his course in accordance with divine Science will endure to the end. As material knowledge diminishes and spiritual understanding increases, real objects will be apprehended mentally instead of materially. 

SH 174:9–14

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. 

SH 299:11–14 (to ,), 15

Angels are God’s representatives. These upward-soaring beings never lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but guide to the divine Principle of all good, ... By giving earnest heed to these spiritual guides they tarry with us, and we entertain “angels unawares.” 

SH 307:31–8

Above error’s awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth still calls: “Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?” Until the lesson is learned that God is the only Mind governing man, mortal belief will be afraid as it was in the beginning, and will hide from the demand, “Where art thou?” 

SH 260:31–30

If we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain; for Life, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spirit, we find its opposite, matter. Now reverse this action. Look away from the body into Truth and Love, the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and immortality. Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts. 

The effect of mortal mind on health and happiness is seen in this: If one turns away from the body with such absorbed interest as to forget it, the body experiences no pain. Under the strong impulse of a desire to perform his part, a noted actor was accustomed night after night to go upon the stage and sustain his appointed task, walking about as actively as the youngest member of the company. This old man was so lame that he hobbled every day to the theatre, and sat aching in his chair till his cue was spoken, — a signal which made him as oblivious of physical infirmity as if he had inhaled chloroform, though he was in the full possession of his so-called senses. 

Detach sense from the body, or matter, which is only a form of human belief, and you may learn the meaning of God, or good, and the nature of the immutable and immortal. Breaking away from the mutations of time and sense, you will neither lose the solid objects and ends of life nor your own identity. Fixing your gaze on the realities supernal, you will rise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the bird which has burst from the egg and preens its wings for a skyward flight. 

SH 226:22; 227:3–8 (to ,)

I saw before me the sick, wearing out years of servitude to an unreal master in the belief that the body governed them, rather than Mind. ...

I saw that the law of mortal belief included all error, and that, even as oppressive laws are disputed and mortals are taught their right to freedom, so the claims of the enslaving senses must be denied and superseded. The law of the divine Mind must end human bondage, ...

SH 433:31–1 Christ

... Christ, Truth, the spirit of Life and the friend of Mortal Man, can open wide those prison doors and set the captive free. 

SH 435:31–33

The only jurisdiction to which the prisoner can submit is that of Truth, Life, and Love. 

SH 243:25

Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no sense of hatred. Life has no partnership with death. Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God. 

SH 379:6

The real jurisdiction of the world is in Mind, controlling every effect and recognizing all causation as vested in divine Mind. 

SH 469:13–18 The (to ;); 470:16 (only)

The exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind — called devil or evil — is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality. There can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; ...

... The children of God have but one Mind. 

SH 469:30–5

With one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good, the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which constitute divine Science. 

SH 208:5–6

The Scriptures say, “In Him we live, and move, and have our being.” 

SH 471:18–19

God is infinite, therefore ever present, and there is no other power nor presence. 

Christian science hymnals

Hymn. 181

Loving Father, we Thy children / Look to Thee in fear’s dark night / While the angels of Thy presence / Guide us upward to the light. 

Then we feel the power that lifts us / To Thy holy secret place, / Where our gloom is lost in glory / As we see Thee face to face. 

We would learn, O gracious Father, / To reflect Thy healing love. / May we all awake to praise Thee / For Thy good gifts from above. 

Make us strong to bear the message / To Thy children far and near: / Fear shall have no more dominion. / God is All, and heaven is here. 

Words: Rosemary B. Hackett

Music: Arr. from L. van Beethoven

Hymn. 204

O Father, Thy kingdom is come upon earth, / Thou rulest in all Thy creation; / Thou sendest Thy witnesses, telling Thy worth, / To call and entreat every nation, / With news of Thy mighty salvation. 

They lift up a light amid shadows of fear, / And Love is Thy banner above them; / No trouble shall touch them, no foes that appear / Shall e’er from their loyalty move them; / ’Tis Thou dost uphold and approve them. 

They go in Thy strength, and they speak in Thy name, / With power of Thy promise forth faring, / And during the battle the victory claim,— / Their trust in Thy truth is their daring, / Salvation to all men declaring. 

Words: from the swedish of Lina Sandell Berg

Music: Gunnar Wennerberg

Hymn. 207

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. 

Words: Mary Baker Eddy

Music: Frederick C. Atkinson, arr. by A. F. Conant