May 10th, 2023

From The Bible

Isa. 52:7 (to 1st ;), 7 4th that

¶ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; ... that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! 

Isa. 52:1 (to 2nd ;), 1 2nd O (to :), 2 (to 1st ,), 9 for (to 3rd ,)

Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; ... O Jerusalem, the holy city: ...

Shake thyself from the dust; arise, ...

... for the Lord hath comforted his people, ...

Isa. 33:5 2nd he, 22 (to 2nd ,)

... he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. ...

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, ...

Ps. 113:7

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; 

Matt. 4:23

¶ And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 

Matt. 15:30

And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: 

Matt. 5:1 (to 1st ,), 2 he, 9, 17, 18, 43, 44 (to 1st ,), 44 do, 45 ; 6:9 (to ,), 10 (to 1st .)

And seeing the multitudes, ...

... he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, ...

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. ...

... ¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. ...

... ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, ... do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. ...

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, ...

Thy kingdom come. ...

Luke 10:1, 2 (to 1st ,), 3 (to :), 5, 8 (to 2nd ,), 9–11 heal

After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. Therefore said he unto them, ...

Go your ways: ...

And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. ...

And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, ...

... heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. 

Acts 13:46 (to 2nd ,), 47 the, 48 (to :), 50, 51; 14:8–10, 19 (to 1st ,), 19 3rd and, 20 (to 3rd ,), 20 2nd and

Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, ...

... the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: ...

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium. ...

... ¶ And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. ...

... ¶ And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, ... and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead. Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, ... and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. 

Ps. 119:165

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. 

II Tim. 2:24 the, 25 (to 1st ;)

... the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; ...

Gal. 5:14

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

II Tim. 4:5

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. 

Ps. 48:1 (to 2nd ,), 2, 8 2nd God (to 1st .), 9, 11 (to 1st ,), 11 because, 14 (to :)

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, ...

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. ...

... God will establish it for ever. ...

We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. ...

Let mount Zion rejoice, ... because of thy judgments. ...

For this God is our God for ever and ever: …

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

SH 599:6–7

Zion. Spiritual foundation and superstructure; inspiration; spiritual strength. 

SH 592:18

New Jerusalem. Divine Science; the spiritual facts and harmony of the universe; the kingdom of heaven, or reign of harmony. 

SH 575:22–25 (to 1st ,)

As the Psalmist saith, “Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.” It is indeed a city of the Spirit, ...

SH 575:10–13 (to 1st .), 20–21 (to ,)

The builder and maker of this New Jerusalem is God, as we read in the book of Hebrews; and it is “a city which hath foundations.” ... This city is wholly spiritual, ...

SH 138:14–15

The supremacy of Spirit was the foundation on which Jesus built. 

SH 91:1

The Revelator tells us of “a new heaven and a new earth.” Have you ever pictured this heaven and earth, inhabited by beings under the control of supreme wisdom? 

SH 561:16

John saw the human and divine coincidence, shown in the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity in Life and its demonstration, — reducing to human perception and understanding the Life which is God. In divine revelation, material and corporeal selfhood disappear, and the spiritual idea is understood. 

SH 112:16

From the infinite One in Christian Science comes one Principle and its infinite idea, and with this infinitude come spiritual rules, laws, and their demonstration, which, like the great Giver, are “the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever;” for thus are the divine Principle of healing and the Christ-idea characterized in the epistle to the Hebrews. 

SH 128:4–6

The term Science, properly understood, refers only to the laws of God and to His government of the universe, inclusive of man. 

SH 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. 

SH 276:4–9

When the divine precepts are understood, they unfold the foundation of fellowship, in which one mind is not at war with another, but all have one Spirit, God, one intelligent source, in accordance with the Scriptural command: “Let this Mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” 

SH 231:30

Man, governed by his Maker, having no other Mind, — planted on the Evangelist's statement that “all things were made by Him [the Word of God]; and without Him was not anything made that was made,” — can triumph over sin, sickness, and death. 

SH 233:22

To reveal this truth was our Master's mission to all mankind, including the hearts which rejected him. 

SH 30:14–21, 28–30

Rabbi and priest taught the Mosaic law, which said: “An eye for an eye,” and “Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” Not so did Jesus, the new executor for God, present the divine law of Love, which blesses even those that curse it. 

As the individual ideal of Truth, Christ Jesus came to rebuke rabbinical error and all sin, sickness, and death, — to point out the way of Truth and Life. ...

... Only in this way can we bless our enemies, though they may not so construe our words. 

SH 535:10–11

Divine Science deals its chief blow at the supposed material foundations of life and intelligence. 

SH 368:27–29

Admit the existence of matter, and you admit that mortality (and therefore disease) has a foundation in fact. 

SH 262:27–28 (to 1st .)

The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man's origin. 

SH 550:15–20 The

The continual contemplation of existence as material and corporeal — as beginning and ending, and with birth, decay, and dissolution as its component stages — hides the true and spiritual Life, and causes our standard to trail in the dust. 

SH 63:5

In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin is not, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor does he pass through material conditions prior to reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the law of his being. 

SH 14:25

Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual understanding and the consciousness of man's dominion over the whole earth. This understanding casts out error and heals the sick, and with it you can speak “as one having authority.” 

SH 200:9–13

Life is, always has been, and ever will be independent of matter; for Life is God, and man is the idea of God, not formed materially but spiritually, and not subject to decay and dust. 

SH 482:27–29 Christian

Christian Science is the law of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God. 

SH 484:9–11 In

In divine Science, the supposed laws of matter yield to the law of Mind. 

SH 182:18–22, 32–4

Mind's government of the body must supersede the so-called laws of matter. Obedience to material law prevents full obedience to spiritual law, — the law which overcomes material conditions and puts matter under the feet of Mind. ...

... 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. 

SH 205:22, 32

When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded; whereas a belief in many ruling minds hinders man's normal drift towards the one Mind, one God, and leads human thought into opposite channels where selfishness reigns. ...

When we fully understand our relation to the Divine, we can have no other Mind but His, — no other Love, wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no consciousness of the existence of matter or error. 

SH 183:26–29

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. 

SH 40:25–28; 41:6

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. ...

... Like our Master, we must depart from material sense into the spiritual sense of being. 

SH 233:1–2

Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power. 

SH 483:30–32

One must fulfil one's mission without timidity or dissimulation, for to be well done, the work must be done unselfishly. 

SH 14:6

To be “present with the Lord” is to have, not mere emotional ecstasy or faith, but the actual demonstration and understanding of Life as revealed in Christian Science. 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. 

SH 497:13 We

... We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death. 

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 384:5–6

Let us reassure ourselves with the law of Love. 

SH 573:3–5, 9–17, 23

The Revelator was on our plane of existence, while yet beholding what the eye cannot see, — that which is invisible to the uninspired thought. ... This shows unmistakably that what the human mind terms matter and spirit indicates states and stages of consciousness. 

Accompanying this scientific consciousness was another revelation, even the declaration from heaven, supreme harmony, that God, the divine Principle of harmony, is ever with men, and they are His people. ... This is Scriptural authority for concluding that such a recognition of being is, and has been, possible to men in this present state of existence, — that we can become conscious, here and now, of a cessation of death, sorrow, and pain. This is indeed a foretaste of absolute Christian Science. Take heart, dear sufferer, for this reality of being will surely appear sometime and in some way. There will be no more pain, and all tears will be wiped away. When you read this, remember Jesus' words, “The kingdom of God is within you.” This spiritual consciousness is therefore a present possibility. 

Christian science hymnals

Hymn. 356

To Thee, O God, we bring our adoration, / To Love divine, in whom we live and move; / For Thou hast shown to us our perfect selfhood / In Thy loved Son, whom Jesus came to prove. 

We are Thy children, Thou our Father-Mother, / And we would ever follow Thy behest: / Help us to understand Thy holy counsel, / For in obedience lies our active rest. 

We, now redeemed through Love, return to Zion, / Singing to Thee our deeply grateful praise; / For we are Christ's, and Christ is Thine, O Father: / His joy remains in us through endless days. 

Words: Nellie B. Mace

Music: Thomas C. L. Pritchard

Hymn. 588

Though I may speak with moving words, / Which can inspire the human heart, / But have no love to seal their worth, / They are but sham and empty art. 

Though I may give my worldly goods / Without a thought of self or gain, / Unless they bear the fruits of love, / They are as clouds without their rain. 

Though I may search the deepest books, / Companion with the wisest men, / God's loving voice still calls to me, / It bids me turn and look again. 

Now I would learn to know this Love / Through meek and patient ministry, / Until my life has grown anew / And Love is All-in-all to me. 

Words: Fenella Bennetts, alt.

Music: British melody; arr. Fenella Bennetts

Hymn. 519

Lean on the sustaining infinite / And blessings will be yours. / Lean not on person, place, or thing, / Or economic laws; / But lean upon all-blessing God / Who will all needs supply / And give to all abundant good / That money cannot buy. 

Let the healing reign of Truth and Life, / The reign of Love divine, / Be now established within me / To show Soul's clear design / Of Oneness, indivisible— / Of God and me as one— / As water is to ocean wave, / As sunbeam is to sun. 

Love with a heart of tenderness / Your enemies and friends; / However hard this may appear, / This quality just mends. / For Love is God in action true, / A presence that is felt; / A healing and a saving power / That will all discord melt. 

So lean, and let, and love; / This is the balanced Way. / It's free from self-will, pressure, stress; / It welcomes in God's day. / The leaning is so gentle; / The letting is so free. / And loving is the only way / To think, and speak, and be. 

Words: Jill Gooding, alt.

Music: Andrew D. Brewis