Readings for September 15, 2021
From The Bible
7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
(Psalms 130:7)
25 ... there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; ...
26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, ...
28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, ...
30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
(Luke 2:25 there (to ;), 26, 27 (to 1st ,), 28, 29 (to 2nd ,), 30, 32)
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
(Lamentations 3:26)
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? ...
13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
15 ... then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; ...
(Job 11:7 (to 1st ?), 13, 15 then, 16, 18 (to ;))
21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
(Luke 3:21, 22)
1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, ...
5 ... saying, ...
16 ¶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
(Matthew 10:1, 5 (to 1st ,), 5 saying (to 3rd ,), 16)
22 ¶ And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, ...
34 ¶ And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.
35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
(Matthew 14:22 (to 2nd ,), 34–36)
21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ...
21 ... ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
(Matthew 21:21 (to 4th ,), 21 3rd ye)
20 ¶ And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
22 ... Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
(Matthew 9:20, 21, 22 Jesus)
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
6 ... for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
(Hebrews 11:1, 6 for)
23 ... continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, ...
(Colossians 1:23 continue (to 2nd ,))
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: ...
6 Therefore let us not sleep, ...
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
(I Thessalonians 5:5 (to :), 6 (to ,), 8)
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: ...
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
(Romans 8:24–26 (to 1st :), 28)
10 ... God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, ...
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 That ...
18 ... we might have a strong consolation, ...
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, ...
(Hebrews 6:10 God (to 1st ,), 17, 18 (to That), 18 we (to 3rd ,), 19 (to 2nd ,))
13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
(Romans 15:13)
Selections from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
A germ of in- finite Truth, though least in the kingdom of heaven, is the
27 higher hope on earth, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 361:25–27 (to ,))
DOVE. A symbol of divine Science; ...
27 hope and faith.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 584:26 (only, to 1st ;), 27 hope)
1 In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or
divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and Christian Science discovered
3 named my discovery Christian Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 107:1–3)
For three years after my discovery, I sought the solu-
12 tion of this problem of Mind-healing, searched the Scrip-
tures and read little else, ...
15 The search was sweet, calm, and
buoyant with hope, ... I knew
the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God,
18 and that cures were produced in primitive Christian
healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the
Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute
21 conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and dem-
onstration.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 109:11–13 (to ,), 15–16 (to ,), 16–22)
1 "The prayer of faith shall save the sick," says the
Scripture. What is this healing prayer? A mere re-
3 quest that God will heal the sick has no Prayer for the sick
power to gain more of the divine presence
than is always at hand. The beneficial effect of
6 such prayer for the sick is on the human mind, mak-
ing it act more powerfully on the body through a blind
faith in God. This, however, is one belief casting out
9 another, - a belief in the unknown casting out a belief
in sickness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 12:1–10)
1 Many imagine that the phenomena of physical heal-
ing in Christian Science present only a phase of the
3 action of the human mind, which action in some unex-
plained way results in the cure of disease. On the con-
trary, Christian Science rationally explains that all
6 other pathological methods are the fruits of human
faith in matter, ...
9 The physical healing of Christian Science results
now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine
Principle, before which sin and disease lose their real-
12 ity in human consciousness and disappear as naturally
and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and
sin to reformation.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. xi:1–7 (to 1st ,), 9–14)
Divine Science adjusts the balance as Jesus adjusted
9 it.
The nature of Christianity is peaceful and blessed,
but in order to enter into the kingdom, the anchor of
1 hope must be cast beyond the veil of matter into the
Shekinah into which Jesus has passed before us; ...
6 Like our Master, we must depart from material sense
into the spiritual sense of being.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 40:8–9, 31–2 (to ;); 41:6)
3 A New Testament writer plainly de-
scribes faith, a quality of mind, as "the substance of things
hoped for."
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 279:3)
6 To himself, mortal and
material man seems to be substance, but his sense of
substance involves error and therefore is material,
9 temporal.
On the other hand, the immortal, spiritual man is really
substantial, and reflects the eternal substance, or Spirit,
12 which mortals hope for.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 301:6–12)
... Substance is that which is eternal and inca-
18 pable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are
substance, ...
21 Spirit, the synonym
of Mind, Soul, or God, is the only real substance.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468:17–19 Substance (to ,), 21–22)
24 The infinite Truth of the Christ-cure has come to this
age through a "still, small voice," through silent utter-
ances and divine anointing which quicken and increase
27 the beneficial effects of Christianity. I long to see the
consummation of my hope, namely, the student's higher
attainments in this line of light.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 367:24)
The author has endeavored
6 to make this book the Æsculapius of mind as well as of
body, that it may give hope to the sick and heal them, ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 152:5–7 (to 2nd ,))
27 As mortals Salvation is through reform
reach, through knowledge of Christian Science, a higher
sense, they will seek to learn, not from matter, but from
30 the divine Principle, God, how to demonstrate the Christ,
Truth, as the healing and saving power.
1 To seek
Truth through belief in a human doctrine is not to un-
3 derstand the infinite. We must not seek the immutable
and immortal through the finite, mutable, and mortal,
and so depend upon belief instead of demonstration, for
6 this is fatal to a knowledge of Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 285:27; 286:1–6)
When Christ the great physician
Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into
21 a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understand-
ing, and sin, disease, and death disappear.
... Jesus
27 said, "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the kingdom." This truth is
Christian Science.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 442:19–22 When, 26 Jesus)
If the reader of this book observes a great stir through-
6 out his whole system, and certain moral and physical
symptoms seem aggravated, these indications Effect of this book
are favorable. Continue to read, and the book
9 will become the physician, allaying the tremor which
Truth often brings to error when destroying it.
Let us suppose two parallel cases of bone-disease, both
similarly produced and attended by the same symptoms.
24 A surgeon is employed in one case, and a Bone-healing by surgery
Christian Scientist in the other. The sur-
geon, holding that matter forms its own conditions and
27 renders them fatal at certain points, entertains fears and
doubts as to the ultimate outcome of the injury. Not
holding the reins of government in his own hands, he
30 believes that something stronger than Mind - namely,
matter - governs the case. His treatment is therefore
tentative. This mental state invites defeat.
15 The matter-physician deals with matter as both his foe
and his remedy.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 422:5, 22–32 (to 2nd .); 423:15–16)
The Christian Scientist, understanding scientifically
9 that all is Mind, commences with mental causation, the
truth of being, to destroy the error. This cor- Scientific corrective
rective is an alterative, reaching to every part
12 of the human system.
18 The metaphysician, making Coping with difficulties
Mind his basis of operation irrespective of matter and
regarding the truth and harmony of being as superior to
21 error and discord, has rendered himself strong, instead
of weak, to cope with the case; ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 423:8–12, 18–22 (to ;))
3 Science depicts disease as error, as matter versus
Mind, and error reversed as subserving the facts of
health. To calculate one's life-prospects Unscientific introspection
6 from a material basis, would infringe upon
spiritual law and misguide human hope.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 319:3–7)
There-
fore the divine Principle of Science, reversing the testi-
21 mony of the physical senses, reveals man as harmoniously
existent in Truth, which is the only basis of health; and
thus Science denies all disease, heals the sick, overthrows
24 false evidence, and refutes materialistic logic.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 120:19)
Who that has felt the loss of human peace has not gained
24 stronger desires for spiritual joy?
The loss Blessings from pain
27 of earthly hopes and pleasures brightens the ascending
path of many a heart.
The pains of sense are salutary, if they wrench away
false pleasurable beliefs and transplant the affections
1 from sense to Soul, ...
Such is the sword of Decapitation of error
3 Science, with which Truth decapitates error,
materiality giving place to man's higher individuality and
destiny.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 265:23–24, 26–28, 31–1 (to 1st ,); 266:2)
12 As human thought changes from one stage to an-
other of conscious pain and painlessness, sorrow and
joy, - from fear to hope and from faith to understand-
15 ing, - the visible manifestation will at last be man gov-
erned by Soul, not by material sense.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 125:12–16)
9 Scripture informs us that "with God all things are
possible," - all good is possible to Spirit; ...
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 232:9–10 (to ;))
As a cloud hides the sun it
cannot extinguish, so false belief silences for a while the
6 voice of immutable harmony, but false belief cannot de-
stroy Science ...
Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, in-
volves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, real-
15 ity.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 298:4–7 (to Science), 13–15)
To understand
21 God strengthens hope, enthrones faith in Truth, and
verifies Jesus' word: "Lo, I am with you alway, even
unto the end of the world."
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 446:20)
Glory be to God, and peace to the struggling hearts!
Christ hath rolled away the stone from the door of hu-
18 man hope and faith, and through the reve- The stone rolled away
lation and demonstration of life in God, hath
elevated them to possible at-one-ment with the spiritual
21 idea of man and his divine Principle, Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 45:16)
Hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal
Hymn 539
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.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 539)
Hymn 437
All my hope on God is founded;
Day by day my trust is new.
Through the trials of life He guides me,
Only good and only true.
God alone, dearly known,
Calls my heart to be His own.
Earthly treasures, pride and glory,
Human power and worldly trust,
Though with care and toil are builded,
In the end will fall to dust.
But God's power, hour by hour,
Is my temple and my tower.
Daily does th'almighty Giver
Bounteous gifts on us bestow.
Love's desire our soul delighteth,
Joy attends us where we go.
Blessings stand at God's hand,
Healing flows at Love's command.
Now from man to God eternal
Endless thanks and praise be sung.
Hearts made new are anthems raising
Through the love of Christ, His Son.
Hear God's call, one and all,
We who follow shall not fall.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 437)
Hymn 533
My life flows on in endless song
Above earth's lamentation;
I hear the sweet though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation.
Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing;
It finds an echo in my soul.
How can I keep from singing?
What though my human comforts die,
The Lord my Savior liveth;
What though the darkness gather round,
Songs in the night God giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that Rock I'm clinging;
Since Love is God of heaven and earth,
How can I keep from singing?
I lift mine eyes, the cloud grows thin;
I see the blue above it.
And day by day this pathway smooths
Since first I learned to love it.
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
A fountain ever springing;
All things are mine since I am God's.
How can I keep from singing?
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 533)
