august 14th, 2024
From The Bible
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.Deuteronomy 6:4–7
... The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, ...Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.Isaiah 64:8
... O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.Isaiah 29:16
... shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? ...Psalm 61:1, 2
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
... when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.Psalm 119:145
... I will keep thy statutes. ...Psalm 119:152
... I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.Isaiah 45:11
Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, ... Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. I have made the earth, and created man upon it: ...
I have raised him up in righteousness, ...Matthew 9:35
And 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.John 9:1–3, 6, 7
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
When he had thus spoken, he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, ... He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.Matthew 15:29
And Jesus departed from thence, ...Matthew 13:2, 3, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, ...
And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, ...
... The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and ...
... when the blade was sprung up, ... then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, ...
... Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? ...
... he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.Matthew 13:24
¶ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, ...Luke 8:5–15
A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; ... and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, ...
And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. ...
And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? And he said, ...
... The seed is the word of God. Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, ...
They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, ... and in time of temptation fall away.
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.Matthew 15:32
¶ Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, ...Matthew 7:24–27
... whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, ... and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, ... and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.Matthew 19:16–22
¶ And, ... one came and said unto him, ... what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, ... if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, ...
... Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? Jesus said unto him, ... go and sell that thou hast, ... and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.Ephesians 5:1, 2
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, ...Acts 10:38
... who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; ...Ephesians 3:14, 17, 19
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ...
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, ...
... might be filled with all the fulness of God.Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Science and Health 256:12, 19
“Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord.” ...
Who is it that demands our obedience? He who, in the language of Scripture, “doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou?”Science and Health 14:9
To be “with the Lord” is to be in obedience to the law of God, to be absolutely governed by divine Love, — by Spirit, not by matter.Science and Health 184:12–17
Truth, Life, and Love are the only legitimate and eternal demands on man, and they are spiritual lawgivers, enforcing obedience through divine statutes.
Controlled by the divine intelligence, man is harmonious and eternal.Science and Health 138:14–15, 17–18
The supremacy of Spirit was the foundation on which Jesus built. ...
Jesus established in the Christian era the precedent for all Christianity, theology, and healing.Science and Health 136:1–5
Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and the sinning.Science and Health 483:32
Christianity will never be based on a divine Principle and so found to be unerring, until its absolute Science is reached. When this is accomplished, neither pride, prejudice, bigotry, nor envy can wash away its foundation, for it is built upon the rock, Christ.Science and Health 182:32
The law of Christ, or Truth, makes all things possible to Spirit; but the so-called laws of matter would render Spirit of no avail, and demand obedience to materialistic codes, thus departing from the basis of one God, one lawmaker. To suppose that God constitutes laws of inharmony is a mistake; discords have no support from nature or divine law, however much is said to the contrary.Science and Health 27:17
Jesus’ parables explain Life as never mingling with sin and death. He laid the axe of Science at the root of material knowledge, that it might be ready to cut down the false doctrine of pantheism, — that God, or Life, is in or of matter.Science and Health 296:23–28
When the evidence of Spirit and matter, Truth and error, seems to commingle, it rests upon foundations which time is wearing away. Mortal mind judges by the testimony of the material senses, until Science obliterates this false testimony.Science and Health 72:13
Mortal belief (the material sense of life) and immortal Truth (the spiritual sense) are the tares and the wheat, which are not united by progress, but separated.Science and Health 300:13
The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the immutable and perfect. The inharmonious and self-destructive never touch the harmonious and self-existent. These opposite qualities are the tares and wheat, which never really mingle, though (to mortal sight) they grow side by side until the harvest; then, Science separates the wheat from the tares, through the realization of God as ever present and of man as reflecting the divine likeness.Science and Health 371:26–30
Mankind will improve through Science and Christianity. The necessity for uplifting the race is father to the fact that Mind can do it; for Mind can impart purity instead of impurity, strength instead of weakness, and health instead of disease.Science and Health 583:12
Church. ...
The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, ...Science and Health 57:32–2
To happify existence by constant intercourse with those adapted to elevate it, should be the motive of society.Science and Health 61:4–9, 27
The good in human affections must have ascendency over the evil and the spiritual over the animal, or happiness will never be won. The attainment of this celestial condition would improve our progeny, diminish crime, and give higher aims to ambition.
... Nothing unworthy of perpetuity should be transmitted to children.Science and Health 236:28–4
Jesus loved little children because of their freedom from wrong and their receptiveness of right. While age is halting between two opinions or battling with false beliefs, youth makes easy and rapid strides towards Truth.
A little girl, who had occasionally listened to my explanations, badly wounded her finger. She seemed not to notice it. On being questioned about it she answered ingenuously, “There is no sensation in matter.”Science and Health 237:15–18, 21
Children should be taught the Truth-cure, Christian Science, among their first lessons, and kept from discussing or entertaining theories or thoughts about sickness. ... This makes Christian Science early available.Science and Health 183:23–24, 26–29
Obedience to Truth gives man power and strength. ...
Truth casts out all evils and materialistic methods with the actual spiritual law, — the law which gives sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, voice to the dumb, feet to the lame.Science and Health 380:4
Truth is always the victor. ...Science and Health 326:3–4, 12–14
If we wish to follow Christ, Truth, it must be in the way of God’s appointing. ...
We must forsake the foundation of material systems, however time-honored, if we would gain the Christ as our only Saviour.Science and Health 428:15
We should consecrate existence, ... to the eternal builder, the everlasting Father, to the Life which mortal sense cannot impair nor mortal belief destroy.Science and Health 269:21
The testimony of the material senses is neither absolute nor divine. I therefore plant myself unreservedly on the teachings of Jesus, of his apostles, of the prophets, and on the testimony of the Science of Mind. Other foundations there are none. All other systems — systems based wholly or partly on knowledge gained through the material senses — are reeds shaken by the wind, not houses built on the rock.Science and Health 454:5–9
The understanding, even in a degree, of the divine All-power destroys fear, and plants the feet in the true path, — the path which leads to the house built without hands “eternal in the heavens.”Hymnals
Hymn 293
Rock of Ages, Truth divine, / Be Thy strength forever mine; / Let me rest secure on Thee, / Safe above life’s raging sea. / Rock of Ages, Truth divine, / Be Thy strength forever mine.
Rock of Truth, our fortress strong, / Thou our refuge from all wrong, / When from mortal sense I flee, / Let me hide myself in Thee. / Rock of Ages, Truth divine, / Be Thy strength forever mine.
Christ, the Truth, foundation sure, / On this rock we are secure; / Peace is there our life to fill, / Cure is there for every ill. / Rock of Ages, Truth divine, / Be Thy strength forever mine.
Words: Frederic W. Root, based on a hymn by A. M. Toplady
Music: Thomas HastingsHymn 537
O church of God, built on a firm foundation, / Standing secure amid the storms of life, / Where all may come to learn of true salvation / And find release from discord, pain, and strife.
We hear the Word, in song and sermon spoken, / In silent prayer, we turn to God today; / Our humble hearts receive the blessed token / Of Truth that guides us in the upward way.
O Spirit, feed us with Your bread from heaven, / We drink Your living water and are free; / And every lesson that Your love has given, / Oh, may we learn it with humility.
We feel Your peace, Your arms of Love enfolding, / We lift our hearts in praise and gratitude. / We, from this hour, a glimpse of heaven beholding, / Go forward with our joy and strength renewed.
Words: Ruby Nilson, alt.
Music: William J. ReynoldsHymn 574
Shepherd, show me how to go / O’er the hillside steep, / How to gather, how to sow,— / How to feed Thy sheep; / I will listen for Thy voice, / Lest my footsteps stray; / I will follow and rejoice / All the rugged way.
Thou wilt bind the stubborn will, / Wound the callous breast, / Make self-righteousness be still, / Break earth’s stupid rest. / Strangers on a barren shore, / Lab’ring long and lone, / We would enter by the door, / And Thou know’st Thine own;
So, when day grows dark and cold, / Tear or triumph harms, / Lead Thy lambkins to the fold, / Take them in Thine arms; / Feed the hungry, heal the heart, / Till the morning’s beam; / White as wool, ere they depart, / Shepherd, wash them clean.
Words: Mary Baker Eddy
Music: Andrew D. Brewis, alt.
