"Pay
thy
debt" "Our
debt to divine Love is
very great, but we can
help to pay it by loving
one another, and this
can often be done by
setting an example of
true and noble living to
those who may not yet
see clearly the demands
of divine
Principle."
Look
Up! "Mrs.
Eddy tells us in the
Glossary to Science and
Health (p. 586) that
'eyes' mean 'spiritual
discernment, — not
material but mental.' In
the light of this
definition we can more
easily understand the
Biblical expression,
'Lift up your eyes, and
look.'"
Forgiveness
"To the burdened heart
longing to be rid of
sin, tied down as it has
been through false
education, not only to
the belief in the
reality of sin but also
to the fear of it,
Christian Science comes
with its glad offer of
redemption and lifts one
to an immediate sense of
hope, which the schools
have never given."
Lifted
Out of
Misery "I
had no near relatives,
was lonely, poor,
scarcely able to work;
and I was so unhappy
that it hardly seemed
worthwhile to struggle
against such seemingly
overwhelming
odds."
Freed
from
Discords ".
. . I know that only by
living this truth and
letting my light shine
can I hope to prove the
deep gratitude I
feel."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
NEW
FEATURE
An
Informal Audio Analysis
of this week's Lesson
We
are sorry there is no
audio analysis available
for this week's lesson
on
Love. _______
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
