Christian
Science
Bible Lesson
May 29 - June 4, 2023.
"Come,
and let us
declare in Zion
the work of the
Lord our God.
He hath made
the earth by
his power, he
hath
established the
world by his
wisdom, and
hath stretched
out the heaven
by his
understanding." —
Jeremiah 51:10,
15.
Dreams ",
, , this false sense of
existence, of physical
life, seems so real to
human consciousness that
mortals, until awakened
by Christian Science,
unquestioningly accept
it as a fact of being,
not knowing that they
are thereby being
cheated out of a
glorious heritage, the
heritage of the children
of God."
Doing
Our
Best
"It is a confession of
half-heartedness, in
seeking the kingdom of
God, that we are so
easily satisfied with
being and doing less
than our
best."
Devotion
and
Consecration "Christian
Scientists may turn with
profit to the history of
the early Christian
church. During that
period there were
persecutions even unto
death, which called
forth the greatest
devotion and
consecration to the
Christ. Material wealth
was parted with gladly;
and the so-called good
things of material
living were considered a
snare. The aim,
apparently, of these
early Christians was to
gain the wealth of
spirituality."
Heart
Filled with
Gratitude "i
few years ago the top of
my thumb was cut off
through the middle of
the nail and up, not
taking the bone. I
declared the truth at
once, and placed it on
again."
Hearing
Impairment
Healed "For
over a year I was
noticeably deaf, being
unable to hear an
ordinary conversation
unless it was especially
directed to me; neither
could I hear many
consecutive words from a
speaker's platform,
although seated in close
proximity to the
speaker."
"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
