Sunday August 29th, 2021 Roundtable
The Healing Power of the Christ
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Christ Jesus
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Morning Prayers
Jesus proved that what he knew was the Christ, was the presence and power of God. Love is wisdom, and without wisdom there is no love.
— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 93
May divine Love so permeate the affections of all those who have named the name of Christ in its fullest sense, that no counteracting influence can hinder their growth or taint their examples.
— from Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, 223
Discussion Points
192 — WATCH lest, when you do not meet a case, you assume that you need more scientific and more complicated tools, rather than a more effectual use of the simple ones which Science has already furnished you. If we could have peered into the thought of the Master and seen how he worked, we probably would have been surprised at the simplicity of his scientific thought, and the simple declarations he used.
We should realize that the tools we have been given are sufficient for every need — just the simple facts of being which Science and Health teaches, with which we are already familiar. If a case does not yield, what is the trouble? Jesus’ skill as a metaphysician lay in his ability to apply just the right tool to the right place, to resolve every problem into a form which could easily be met through the primitive rules of Christian Science. He had a simple faith, yet with it he could move mountains of belief.
Remember that there is always a vulnerable point in error, and spiritual perception will enable you to find it in each case. Then your simple tools will be found adequate.
— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter
GOLDEN TEXT: I Timothy 2 : 5
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”
“Deflection” results when the true appearance of actual man is “turned aside” or “deviated” by thought passing through a mind unillumined by Truth. This deviation of thought causes the actual man at hand to appear as sinning mortal man; the actual man is not changed, but his actuality is seen in reversion or as deflection. …
Personality is neither life nor intelligence. It is a mere ghost or shadow and we should behold actual life and intelligence as Mind’s own omnipresence where the ghost or shadow seems to be. Even though with our outer eyes we see personal man, the untrue image, with our inner spiritual vision we are to behold the actual man, the perfect man that Jesus beheld. With our spiritual thought we are to look through deflection or the illusion of matter, and behold the perfect idea of divine intelligence. Mrs. Eddy once went to call on a patient. After she had looked at the sick man, she turned away and went to the window and looked out saying, “Dear Heavenly Father, forgive me for looking at matter.” The patient was instantly healed. If we see matter as anything other than a deflection of actual man, hence non-existent, we are not practicing the laws of divine Science.
— from Addresses by Martha Wilcox, page 162, 164
Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy.
— from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 476
A wise worker once said, “Be so instant in Truth that error is always too late.
— Sermons and Articles by Doris White Evans, page 70
Article — “Death Overcome” from Collected Writings by Bicknell Young
True practice, as our Leader says, is also teaching. “He who heals by teaching and teaches by healing, will graduate under divine honors.”
— from Class of 1923 Notes, by Joseph Mann
To Mrs. Annie M. Knott, C.S.D., principal of the Detroit Christian Science Institute, she gave warning that the time might come when medical thought might be so organized that it would make the practice of Christian Science almost impossible. The remedy given was not the counter power of Christian Science churches, but: When [that] time comes I want my students to take every means possible to make Science and Health available to the whole world.
From — Mary Baker Eddy’s Six Days of Revelation, page 321
Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no sense of hatred. Life has no partnership with death. Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God.
— from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 243
God’s law reaches and destroys evil by virtue of the allness of God.
— from No and Yes by Mary Baker Eddy, page 30
Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and the sinning. He claimed no intelligence, action, nor life separate from God. Despite the persecution this brought upon him, he used his divine power to save men both bodily and spiritually.
— from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 136
Final Readings
The great world lying in wickedness and disease is asking not so much what we preach and teach and write — but, what is the inward life of these professed adherents of this so-called new faith; and this is precisely as it should be. What follows? We may install in our pulpit the ablest preacher, one spiritually gifted and fully qualified for the work set before him; but, if the lives of his listeners are lacking in the common graces of spiritual purity and honesty, his words are shorn of real force for the world at large. We may seek out the wisest and most skillful teacher, one who combines perfect understanding of the letter of Christian Science with the outpouring love of Spirit, so that his face beams radiant with all inward grace and beauty; yet, if the coarse and brutish tastes and tendencies of his pupils incline them to continue in their old way of living, then is his beautiful and spiritual teaching proven seed sown upon stony ground. No harvest will result, for the seed cannot even take root. Christlike living, however, of pastor and listeners, of teacher and students, of author and readers, gives to preaching, teaching and literature the keenness of a two-edged sword; proves also per se the most powerful and universal agent for promulgation of the true knowledge of God and man, and thus insures speediest possible recovery of the world from the thraldom of the senses. Then, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
— “Letting Our Light Shine” from Christian Science Journal, September 1892 – A sermon preached in Chickering Hall, by the Pastor of the Church of Christ (Scientist) Boston, Mary Baker Eddy