Christian
Science
Bible Lesson
March 27 - April 2,
2023.
"Seeing
then that all
these things
shall be
dissolved, what
manner of
persons ought
ye to be in all
holy
conversation
and godliness,
Looking for and
hasting unto
the coming of
the day of
God." —
II
Peter
3:11,12.
Christian
Ordinances "While
to many Christian people
symbols seem necessary
to the observance of
Baptism and the
Eucharist, there comes a
time when outward rite
not only fails to meet
the deepest human need,
but when it tends to
obscure the spiritual
sense."
Perception
and
Impression
"It was through the
agency of spiritual
perception that Jesus
the Wayshower was able
to keep himself separate
from and uninfluenced by
the sense-evidence of
the material
world."
Pharaoh "How
we do rejoice that in
these latter days we
have the full revelation
of Christ, Truth, in
Christian Science, the
understanding of which
gives man dominion and
power now to enter into
the promised land where
'neither moth nor rust
doth corrupt,' and where
nothing can enter 'that
defileth, neither
whatsoever worketh
abomination, or maketh a
lie.'"
Awakeninf
from an Awful
Dream "
Through work and worry I
began to decline in
health, and my condition
became worse, until I
was a nervous wreck, and
spent most of my time in
bed."
Astigmatism
Healed "As
soon as I began to read
the book, I felt that in
some way I was being
helped and spiritually
uplifted."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
WHAT
OUR LEADER
SAYS
Mrs.
Eddy's
Reply
"You
can never demonstrate
spirituality until you
declare yourself to be
immortal and understand
that you are so.
Christian Science is
absolute; it is neither
behind the point of
perfection nor advancing
towards it; it is at
this point and must be
practised therefrom.
Unless you fully
perceive that you are
the child of God, hence
perfect, you have no
Principle to demonstrate
and no rule for its
demonstration. By this I
do not mean that mortals
are the children of God,
— far from it. In
practising Christian
Science you must state
its Principle correctly,
or you forfeit your
ability to demonstrate
it." —
Mary Baker Eddy
Miscellany,p.
242 ______
"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
_____
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
