Christian
Science
Bible Lesson ____________________________
March
17 - 23,
2025.
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"The heavens shall
vanish away like smoke,
and the earth shall wax
old like a garment, and
they that dwell therein
shall die in like
manner: but my salvation
shall be for ever, and
my righteousness shall
not be
abolished."
Contagion--MBE "If
only the people would
believe that good is
more contagious than
evil, since God is
omnipresence, how much
more certain would be
the doctor's success,
and the clergyman's
conversion of
sinners."
The
Kingdom
Established
"The kingdom of God is
the eternal fact, and
its recognition by all
peoples and their
rulers, also obedience
to its laws, should be
the chief concern of all
nations."
The
Light of
Truth "Christian
Science very speedily
shows the earnest,
honest student that he
can never get rid of
evil until he recognizes
evil as evil."
Mental
Illness
Healed "In
the fall of 1913 my wife
was declared insane by
our physician, who had
certainly done all that
he could for
her."
Misconception
Overcome
"Having the highest
regard for the mental
attributes of this
friend, and believing
that she had been
deceived, I started
making a study of
Christian Science wholly
for the purpose of
pulling it to pieces
that I might undeceive
her."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
What
Our Leader
Says
MARY
BAKER EDDY
"Beloved
Christian Scientists,
keep your minds so
filled with Truth and
Love, that sin, disease,
and death cannot enter
them. It is plain that
nothing can be added to
the mind already full.
There is no door through
which evil can enter,
and no space for evil to
fill in a mind filled
with goodness. Good
thoughts are an
impervious armor; clad
therewith you are
completely shielded from
the attacks of error of
every sort. And not only
yourselves are safe, but
all whom your thoughts
rest upon are thereby
benefited.
"
The self-seeking pride
of the evil thinker
injures him when he
would harm others.
Goodness involuntarily
resists evil. The evil
thinker is the proud
talker and doer. The
right thinker abides
under the shadow of the
Almighty. His thoughts
can only reflect peace,
good will towards men,
health, and
holiness."
The
First Church of Christ,
Scientist, and
Miscellany, p.
210
"Advanced
scientific
students are
ready for
Christ and
Christmas" Mary
Baker
Eddy
Miscellaneous
Writings, p.
308
The
Christian
Science
Standard
Vol. 13, No.
1
"Christ
and
Christmas
illustrates
and
interprets
Mary
Baker
Eddy
as the
representative
of the
second
coming
of
Christ."
_____
The
following
Standard
is an exegesis
of the first
four plates in
Christ and
Christmas,
Mary Baker
Eddy's
undeniable
confession of
herself as the
second
appearing in
the flesh of
the Christ,
presented in
Scriptural
texts,
illustrations,
and verses.
"Christ and
Christmas
was an
inspiration
from beginning
to end. The
power of God
and the wisdom
of God was even
more manifest
in it and
guided me more
perceptibly, as
those of my
household can
attest, than
when I wrote
Science and
Health."
(Johnson,
History of
the Christian
Science
Movement,
v.2,
p.448)
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
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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.
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