"We
know that the
Son of God is
come, and hath
given us an
understanding,
that we may
know him that
is true, and we
are in him that
is true, even
in his Son
Jesus Christ.
This is the
true God, and
eternal
life." — I
John
5:20.
The
"great white
throne" "The
Christ Science that
uncovers error as
impersonal and unreal
destroys it. If we
personalize error, we
give it, in belief, an
agent with which to
strike back."
The
Kingdom at
Hand "He
who has studied well the
letter and entered into
the spirit of Christian
Science, will gladly
face the light of Love's
guiding, assuring
presence, knowing that
whatever the issue, God
will abundantly prove
Himself to be all that
Holy Writ has declared
Him to be."
Healing
the
Sick "There
never has been and never
will be one failure in
Christian Science. God's
Word never fails. If
there seem to be
failures, it is for the
lack of Christian
Science."
Mental
Darkness
Dispelled "For
many years I longed to
know what we were and
what life meant. A
search of college
philosophy courses
brought no
solution."
Injuries
Healed "I
should like to tell
first of a healing my
little girl had five
years ago. She was
running across the road
in pursuit of her
brother when she was
knocked down and run
over by a
car."
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
