"All
the days of my
appointed time
will I wait,
till my change
come. Thou
shalt call, and
I will answer
thee: thou wilt
have a desire
to the work of
thine
hands." —
Job 14:14,
15.
"Where
art
thou?"--MBE "The
'Alpha and Omega' of
Christian Science voices
this question: Where do
we hold intelligence to
be? Is it in both evil
and good, in matter as
well as
Spirit?"
Divine
Revelation "We
can rightly claim to be
followers of Christ
Jesus, or true believers
in the oneness of God,
only as we consistently
and constantly strive to
rise above the degrading
bondage of sin and of
slavery to the physical
body, — as we prove
to ourselves and to the
world that we are indeed
the children of God by
our likeness to the
Father."
The
Way Out of
Self-seeking
"Through all time men
have struggled to gain
personal good for
themselves, only to see
what they imagined to be
yet higher objects
ahead, and, pursuing
them, have finally
acknowledged that they
have won little if any
real satisfaction from
their
efforts."
"Absent
from the body...present
with the
Lord" "I
came to Christian
Science, as thousands of
others, in search of
health. A member of my
family had been
wonderfully benefited by
its teaching; and, after
a noted specialist in
New York had pronounced
my case beyond the reach
of material means, I
turned in my despair to
God."
Baby
Healed "It
is over two years since
we first heard of
Christian Science as a
method of healing.
Material means had been
exhausted for our six
months' old baby girl
and we expected her to
pass on at any
time."
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
