Christian
Science
Bible Lesson
November 27 - December
3, 2023.
"Let
all the earth
fear the Lord:
let all the
inhabitants of
the world stand
in awe of him.
For he spake,
and it was
done; he
commanded, and
it stood
fast.."
Thanksgiving "The
true Thanksgiving thees
to those who can thank
God for every
opportunity to prove His
presence and allness in
spite of any and all the
suppositional arguments
which material sense may
claim to
present."
Seeking
First the
Kingdom
"As God's spiritual
reflection, man has
boundless opportunities,
infinite capabilities,
ceaseless occupation.
His capital is Mind's
resources, unlimited and
ever
available."
The
Second Coming of
Christ "The
year 1866 has been
referred to as the year
in which a number of
English theologians
looked for the end of
the 'present
dispensation;' but as
that time drew near
without any Millennial
symptoms, Dr. John
Cummings, the chief
exponent thereof, was
understood to have
modified his original
views considerably . .
."
Transformed
by Christian
Science ".
. . I went to my room,
opened my traveling-bag,
took out my copy of
Science and Health, and
also a box of
cigars."
"Rejoice!" "To
one student of Christian
Science the word rejoice
has taken on a wonderful
meaning since an
experience of a year ago
last winter which led
her to see the
importance of rejoicing
under every
circumstance."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
Mrs.
Eddy writes:
"In this age the earth
will help the
woman."
"Christian
Science is my only
ideal; and the
individual and his ideal
can never be severed. If
either is misunderstood
or maligned, it eclipses
the other with the
shadow cast by this
error." Mis
p. 105
"What
if the old dragon should
send forth a new flood
to drown the
Christ-idea? He can
neither drown your voice
with its roar, nor again
sink the world into the
deep waters of chaos and
old night.
In
this age the earth will
help the woman; the
spiritual idea will be
understood.
Those ready for the
blessing you impart will
give thanks. The waters
will be pacified, and
Christ will command the
wave." S&H
p. 570
"This
immaculate idea,
represented first by man
and, according to the
Revelator, last by
woman, will baptize with
fire; and the fiery
baptism will burn up the
chaff of error with the
fervent heat of Truth
and Love, melting and
purifying even the gold
of human
character." S&H
p.
565 ______
"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
