Christian Science Healing
Wednesday Evening Readings for June 23, 2021
From The Bible
Ps. 147:5, 6 (to
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. The Lord lifteth up the meek: …
Mal. 4:2 unto (to
… unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; …
Matt. 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.
Matt. 4:24 2nd and
… and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Matt. 11:5
The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Matt. 9:37, 38
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Luke 9:1, 6
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. …
And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
Acts 5:12 (to
¶ And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; …
Acts 3:1 (to ,), 2 (to 1st ,), 2 to, 4 (to 1st ,), 4 said, 6 Silver, 7 (to :), 8, 9; 4:8–10, 22
Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, …
And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, … to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; …
And Peter, … said, Look on us. …
… Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: …
And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. …
For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
Heb. 13:20 (to 3rd ,), 21 (to 1st ,), 21 through (to 1st .)
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, …
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, … through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. …
Eph. 5:14 Awake (to 2nd ,), 14 2nd and
… Awake thou that sleepest, … and Christ shall give thee light.
Rev. 21:2 (to 2nd ,), 3 (to 3rd ,), 3 4th and, 4, 10, 22, 23 (to 1st ,), 23 for (to 3rd ,); 22:2 (to 3rd ,), 2 3rd and, 6 (to :), 7 blessed
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, …
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, … and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. …
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, …
And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, … for the glory of God did lighten it, …
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, … and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. …
And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: …
… blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
John 4:34 (to 1st ,), 35
Jesus saith unto them, …
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
Joel 3:11 (to 2nd ,), 13 (to
Assemble yourselves, and come, …
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: …
Selections from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
SH 546:23 (only)
Christian Science is dawning upon a material age.
SH 226:22–29
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. The lame, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the sick, the sensual, the sinner, I wished to save from the slavery of their own beliefs and from the educational systems of the Pharaohs, who to-day, as of yore, hold the children of Israel in bondage.
SH x:3–9
The first edition of Science and Health was published in 1875. Various books on mental healing have since been issued, most of them incorrect in theory and filled with plagiarisms from Science and Health. They regard the human mind as a healing agent, whereas this mind is not a factor in the Principle of Christian Science.
SH 546:27
The proof that the system stated in this book is Christianly scientific resides in the good this system accomplishes, for it cures on a divine demonstrable Principle which all may understand.
SH 127:16
Christian Science reveals God, not as the author of sin, sickness, and death, but as divine Principle, Supreme Being, Mind, exempt from all evil. It teaches that matter is the falsity, not the fact, of existence; that nerves, brain, stomach, lungs, and so forth, have — as matter — no intelligence, life, nor sensation.
SH 119:25–31 (to ,); 120:7–9
In viewing the sunrise, one finds that it contradicts the evidence before the senses to believe that the earth is in motion and the sun at rest. As astronomy reverses the human perception of the movement of the solar system, so Christian Science reverses the seeming relation of Soul and body and makes body tributary to Mind. Thus it is with man, …
Science reverses the false testimony of the physical senses, and by this reversal mortals arrive at the fundamental facts of being.
SH 417:20–21
To the Christian Science healer, sickness is a dream from which the patient needs to be awakened.
SH 227:23–24; 228:27–29 (to 1st .)
Jesus marked out the way. …
… The humble Nazarene overthrew the supposition that sin, sickness, and death have power.
SH 44:10
He met and mastered on the basis of Christian Science, the power of Mind over matter, all the claims of medicine, surgery, and hygiene.
SH 476:28–29 (to ;), 32–4
When speaking of God’s children, not the children of men, Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you;” … Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.
SH 51:19–21
His consummate example was for the salvation of us all, but only through doing the works which he did and taught others to do.
SH 406:1–5 (to 1st ,), 5–6 offering
The Bible contains the recipe for all healing. “The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” Sin and sickness are both healed by the same Principle. The tree is typical of man’s divine Principle, … offering full salvation from sin, sickness, and death.
SH 339:25–27 (to
The basis of all health, sinlessness, and immortality is the great fact that God is the only Mind; …
SH 195:11
The point for each one to decide is, whether it is mortal mind or immortal Mind that is causative. We
should forsake the basis of matter for metaphysical Science and its divine Principle.
SH 423:18–22 (to ;), 24
The metaphysician, making Mind his basis of operation irrespective of matter and regarding the truth and harmony of being as superior to error and discord, has rendered himself strong, instead of weak, to cope with the case; … Both Science and consciousness are now at work in the economy of being according to the law of Mind, which ultimately asserts its absolute supremacy.
SH 380:32–1
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.
SH 262:28–30
To begin rightly is to end rightly. Every concept which seems to begin with the brain begins falsely.
SH 191:1–2, 4
The brain can give no idea of God’s man. It can take no cognizance of Mind. …
As mortals give up the delusion that there is more than one Mind, more than one God, man in God’s likeness will appear, and this eternal man will include in that likeness no material element.
SH 151:18–21 The
The blood, heart, lungs, brain, etc., have nothing to do with Life, God. Every function of the real man is governed by the divine Mind.
SH 372:1–3
Remember, brain is not mind. Matter cannot be sick, and Mind is immortal. The mortal body is only an erroneous mortal belief of mind in matter.
SH 407:21–24
If delusion says, “I have lost my memory,” contradict it. No faculty of Mind is lost. In Science, all being is eternal, spiritual, perfect, harmonious in every action.
SH 423:27–32
Ossification or any abnormal condition or derangement of the body is as directly the action of mortal mind as is dementia or insanity. Bones have only the substance of thought which forms them. They are only phenomena of the mind of mortals.
SH 246:18–20, 25
Time-tables of birth and death are so many conspiracies against manhood andwomanhood. … Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty, and holiness.
SH 248:5–7 (to ,)
Men and women of riper years and larger lessons ought to ripen into health and immortality, …
SH 217:29–30 (to 1st ?), 31–1 Do
You say, “Toil fatigues me.” But what is this me? Is it muscle or mind? … Do the muscles talk, or do you talk for them? Matter is non-intelligent.
SH 160:19–24
Can muscles, bones, blood, and nerves rebel against mind in one instance and not in another, and become cramped despite the mental protest?
Unless muscles are self-acting at all times, they are never so, — never capable of acting contrary to mental direction.
SH 412:16–18, 23
To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break the dream of the material senses. … Mentally insist that harmony is the fact, and that sickness is a temporal dream. Realize the presence of health and the fact of harmonious being, until the body corresponds with the normal conditions of health and harmony.
SH 395:6–10
Like the great Exemplar, the healer should speak to disease as one having authority over it, leaving Soul to master the false evidences of the corporeal senses and to assert its claims over mortality and disease.
SH 162:4
Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of Truth, which invigorates and purifies. Christian Science acts as an alterative, neutralizing error with Truth. It changes the secretions, expels humors, dissolves tumors, relaxes rigid muscles, restores carious bones to soundness. The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind.
SH 91:1–2
The Revelator tells us of “a new heaven and a new earth.”
SH 592:18–19 (to
New Jerusalem. Divine Science; the spiritual facts and harmony of the universe; …
SH 572:8–15 (to ,), 17–21 (to ;); 575:7–8 (to that), 8–11 and (to ,); 576:12–15, 18–20; 577:12–13 (to 1st ,)
In Science we are children of God; but whatever is of material sense, or mortal, belongs not to His children, for materiality is the inverted image of spirituality.
Love fulfils the law of Christian Science, and nothing short of this divine Principle, understood and demonstrated, can ever furnish the vision of the Apocalypse, … Under the supremacy of Spirit, it will be seen and acknowledged that matter must disappear.
In Revelation xxi. 1 we read: —
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; …
This sacred city, described in the Apocalypse (xxi. 16) as one that … and cometh “down from God, out of heaven,” represents the light and glory of divine Science. The builder and maker of this New Jerusalem is God, …
There was no temple, — that is, no material structure in which to worship God, for He must be worshipped in spirit and in love. The word temple also
means body. … What further indication need we of the real man’s incorporeality than this, that John saw heaven and earth with “no temple [body] therein”? …
This spiritual, holy habitation has no boundary nor limit, …
SH 428:8
To divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear, — this is the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep away the false and give place to the true. Thus we may establish in truth the temple, or body, “whose builder and maker is God.”
SH 503:10–11, 12–15
In the universe of Truth, matter is unknown. … Divine Science, the Word of God, saith to the darkness upon the face of error, “God is All-in-all,” and the light of ever-present Love illumines the universe.
SH 275:31–3 (to ,)
Truth, spiritually discerned, is scientifically understood. It casts out error and heals the sick.
Having one God, one Mind, unfolds the power that heals the sick, and fulfils these sayings of Scripture, “I am the Lord that healeth thee,” …
Ps. 103:1, 3 2nd who, 4
Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. …
… who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Ps. 92:4
For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
Hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal
Hymn. 421
From these Thy children gathered in Thy name, / From hearts made whole, from lips redeemed from woe, / Thy praise, O Father, shall forever flow. / Alleluia! Alleluia!
O perfect Life, in Thy completeness held, / None can beyond Thy omnipresence stray; / Safe in Thy Love, we live and sing alway / Alleluia! Alleluia!
O perfect Mind, reveal Thy likeness true, / That higher selfhood which we all must prove, / Joy and dominion, love reflecting Love. / Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thou, Soul, inspiring—give us vision clear, / Break earth-bound fetters, sweep away the veil, / Show the new heaven and earth that shall prevail. / Alleluia! Alleluia!
Words: Violet Hay
Music: Joseph Barnby
Hymn. 565
Rise up and walk, take up your bed. / With these few words the sickness fled. / Stretch forth your hand. Receive your sight. / Jesus’ commands reveal God’s might. / You are God’s purpose, His great design. / Beautiful, blameless, His child divine. / Holding your thought to the good and the true, / Spirit will form you anew.
REFRAIN / Rise up and walk! God made you free, / Born of His liberty. / Carefree and strong, you are His song, / Perfect for all to see. / Mountains and seas, great rising trees, / Echo the joyous song: / Heaven is here, harmony’s bliss / To everyone belongs.
Cleanse the lepers, heal the sick. / Cast out demons. Raise the dead. / Truth is revealed in every place, / Throughout all time, throughout all space. / Right in this moment, doing God’s will / “These works shall you do, and greater still.” / Standing triumphant upon holy ground, / Songs of the angels resound. / / REFRAIN
Words: Peter B. Allen
Music: Peter B. Allen
Hymn. 175
Lo, He sent His Word and healed them, / Still that Word of God is here. / Still its tender healing message / Speaks to every listening ear. / Truth divine, that overcometh / All the ills that seem to be, / In our hearts Thy Word abiding, / We may know Thee and be free.
Love divine, that faileth never, / Still Thy presence and Thy power / Mighty are to save and heal us, / Guard and guide us every hour. / Life divine, Thy Word proclaimeth / All true being one with Thee. / Sinless, fearless, whole, rejoicing, / Now and through eternity.
Words: Violet Hay
Music: Rowland H. Prichard
