"Ye
are a chosen
generation, a
royal
priesthood, an
holy nation, a
peculiar
people; that ye
should shew
forth the
praises of him
who hath called
you out of
darkness into
his marvellous
light." — I
Peter 2:9.
According
to Our
Faith "Because
we gain quickly a
certain intellectual
grasp of the letter of
Christian Science, we
are tempted to call this
spiritual understanding.
Using this letter, even
though with commendable
zeal, we may find our
efforts failing to bring
the healing we so long
to have
manifested."
Demarcation "The
word demarcation as used
in Science and Health is
of the deepest
significance, and the
idea which it embodies
cannot be too often
pondered and applied in
the working out of our
human
problems."
Cause
and
Effect
"What impressed me in
this occurrence was the
fact that the accident
was detected as a
condition in human
thought before it had a
physical expression, and
that a period of time
intervened between the
mental disturbance and
its physical
manifestation."
Ailments
Healed "About
five years ago I was
indeed at man's
extremity, but it proved
to be God's opportunity;
for an understanding of
man's relationship to
God came to me through
the reading of the
Christian Science
literature."
"He
shall call upon me, and
I will answer
him" "Today,
after several years of
study and more beautiful
demonstrations than I
could enumerate, —
one, the healing of a
disease of over twenty
years' standing, —
I thank God for the most
practical, purifying,
and elevating influence
that ever came into my
life."
These
informal analyses were
prepared and recorded by
Stanley C. Larkin in
1985. His purpose, as
outlined by Mrs. Eddy in
Pulpit and Press,
p.22, was as follows:
"When the doctrinal
barriers between the
churches are broken, and
the bonds of peace are
cemented by spiritual
understanding and Love,
there will be unity of
spirit, and the healing
power of Christ will
prevail."
The
analyses were prepared
using old cassette
technology, so please
allow for the directions
to start and stop the
tape player. To study
the Bible lesson with
the audio clip, it would
be helpful to have the
printed lesson
available.
Mary
Baker
Eddy's
Teaching
"Divinity
Embracing
Humanity"
The
Christian
Science
Standard
Vol. 14, No.
4
"The
more I
understand
true
humanhood,
the
more I
see it
to be
sinless,
-- as
ignorant
of sin
as is
the
perfect
Maker."
--
Mary
Baker
Eddy
_____
The
teaching of
"divinity
embracing
humanity" is
essential to
our salvation,
our
transfiguration,
in the endtime.
A
misunderstanding
of Mary Baker
Eddy's teaching
on this subject
impedes and
retards
individual and
collective
spiritual
growth. It
would prevent
Christian
Scientists from
understanding
and
demonstrating
the human and
divine
coincidence
which is the
way of escape
from the
material sense
of things.
In
Volume 4 we
read,
"How do drugs
and hygiene and
animal
magnetism heal?
They don't
heal. It is
only the faith
in them which
brings about a
result
which
they call healing. In
reality they only
exchange a belief in
disease for another
belief called health.
Materia medica
classifies health as the
absence of disease from
the body. Mrs. Eddy
tells us that 'Health is
the consciousness of the
unreality of pain and
disease; or, rather, the
absolute consciousness
of harmony and of
nothing else.' (Rud.
11:13-15)"
"In
this age the
earth will help
the woman; the
spiritual idea
will be
understood."
--
Mary
Baker Eddy,
Science and
Health, p.
570
_____
The
very real, but
unrecognized questions
agitating the world in
this endtime are not
those issues and events
reported in the press.
Rather, they are those
questions relating to
the second coming of
Christ and the place of
Mrs. Eddy in Scriptural
prophecy.
"Health
is not a condition of
matter, but of Mind; nor
can the material senses
bear reliable testimony
on the subject of
health. The Science of
Mind-healing shows it to
be impossible for aught
but Mind to testify
truly or to exhibit the
real status of man.
Therefore the divine
Principle of Science,
reversing the testimony
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 false
evidence, and refutes
materialistic
logic."
— Mary Baker
Eddy
"Whatever
may be the prevailing
opinion as to the tenets
of her faith and its
lasting benefit to the
great cause of
religion,
none
can deny that Mrs. Eddy was a
remarkable personality, one of
the great characters which stand
out in bold relief in the history
of the nineteenth century in
spiritual affairs."
".
. . In the secret of His presence / All
the seeming fades away, / All the shadows,
all the dreaming, / As we wake to God's
own day — / Wake to man as His
reflection, / Safe in Love, reality; / In
the secret of His presence / We shall find
eternity." — Mabel A.
Birdno
