Sunday September 26th, 2021 Roundtable
A Call to Arms
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Reality
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Morning Prayers
God is what the Scriptures declare Him to be, — Life, Truth, Love. Spirit is divine Principle, and divine Principle is Love, and Love is Mind, and Mind is not both good and bad, for God is Mind; therefore there is in reality one Mind only, because there is one God. … The Scriptures imply that God is All-in-all. From this it follows that nothing possesses reality nor existence except the divine Mind and His ideas.
— from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 330, 331
Discussion Points
336 — WATCH lest you cause an error known about another to be your own mental downfall. We fall mentally whenever we regard error as real, whether it be in ourselves or in another. When error is presented to us, let us regard it as nothing and use it as an opportunity to go higher.
— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter
Golden Text — “Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?” — Christ Jesus” — John 11 : 40
Rules for overcoming animal magnetism:
1. See what it is trying to do.
2. Know that it cannot do it.
3. See that it is not done.
To accomplish this:
1. Be patient.
2. Be meek.
3. Be vigilant.
4. Be sober.
5. Be loving
— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, the “Blue Book,”
by Mary Baker Eddy, page 170
— The 1910 Coup, by Myrtle Stewart
— “The Lesson of the Grass” can be found in Daystar Foundation “Library Notes” Part 1, by William P. McKenzie, C.S.B., page 4
BELIEVING. Firmness and constancy; not a faltering nor a blind faith, but the perception of spiritual Truth. Mortal thoughts, illusion.
— from the Glossary of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 582
Whoever would demonstrate the healing of Christian Science must abide strictly by its rules, heed every statement, and advance from the rudiments laid down.
— from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 462
BELOVED Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them. It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full. There is no door through which evil can enter, and no space for evil to fill in a mind filled with goodness. Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited.
The self-seeking pride of the evil thinker injures him when he would harm others. Goodness involuntarily resists evil. The evil thinker is the proud talker and doer. The right thinker abides under the shadow of the Almighty. His thoughts can only reflect peace, good will towards men, health, and holiness.
— from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 210
Love for God and man is the true incentive in both healing and teaching.
— from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 454
Final Readings
CALL TO ARMS
In 1905 on the 13th of June, our leader called all her members to pray each day for the amicable settlement of the war between Russia and Japan. On the 27th of June, she requested us to cease our special prayer and explained her insight and God’s blessing. (See Miscellany by Mary Baker Eddy, page 281)
Today we have an even greater demand that our Leader has made. “The hour is come. THE GREAT BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS UPON US. The powers of evil are leagued together in secret conspiracy against our LORD and against His Christ, as expressed in Christian Science. … Will you give yourselves wholly and irrevocably … to the Salvation of the world from sin, disease and death. … Answer at once and practically, and answer aright.” (Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, page 177: 4)
Our duty to mankind is right now and immediately, to pray daily for the destruction of this pandemic and its agencies in social media and their miasma in promoting this error. We must deny it, rebuke it, and affirm God as All in All – letting this baseless evil fall.
In Christian Science verses Pantheism page 5 and 6 she has shown us how we must do this and just as Jesus did it, cast it down as a lie and we must continue our work until it falls. Put our heel with our full weight of prayer and rebuke upon this LIE and LIAR until it is cast out into its own oblivion.
Our Leader writes the following. “Christian Science translated Mind God to mortals. It is the infinite calculus defining the line plane space and fourth dimension of Spirit. It absolutely refutes the amalgamation, transmigration, absorption or annihilation of individuality. It shows the impossibility of transmitting human ills, or evil, from one individual to another: that all true thoughts revolve in God’s orbits: they come from God and return to Him, – and untruths belong not to His creation, therefore they are null and void. It hath no peer, no competitor, for it dwelleth in Him beside whom ‘there is none other.’” (Miscellaneous Writings 22:10) … “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter.” (Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, page 340 )
— by Graeme Strang CS.