Sunday April 4th, 2021 Roundtable

May this glad Easter morn find the members of this dear church having a pure peace, a fresh joy, a clear vision of heaven here, — heaven within us, — and an awakened sense of the risen Christ. May long lines of light span the horizon of their hope and brighten their faith with a dawn that knows no twilight and no night. May those who discourse music to-day, sing as the angels heaven’s symphonies that come to earth.

May the dear Sunday School children always be gathering Easter lilies of love with happy hearts and ripening goodness. To-day may they find some sweet scents and beautiful blossoms in their Leader’s love, which she sends to them this glad morn in the flowers and the cross from Pleasant View, smiling upon them.

— from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 155

398 — WATCH that you realize both the nothingness and powerlessness of error. These points may seem to be one, and so they are; yet at times students believe that they can perceive the powerlessness of error without recognizing its nothingness, or vice versa. Perhaps some manifestation of error has disappeared, and yet the impression has remained, that if one had not seen its powerlessness in time, the result might have been disastrous. This is not recognizing its utter nothingness. Would you believe that you might have been drowned, if you had not recognized that the water in a lake that is only a mirage had no power to drown you?

When disease seems to be present, divine wisdom calls upon us to overcome the claim by perceiving its nothingness. But if some condition remains for a season, we should recognize that it has not the slightest power to harm us. Jesus proved that he could prevent any phase of evil from touching him, by seeing its nothingness; then he turned around and permitted his enemies to wreak their full vengeance upon his corporeality, in order to prove that he was in no way harmed by the experience.

— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

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GOLDEN TEXT: Revelation 19 : 6

“And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.”

RESPONSIVE READING: Revelation 19 : 11-16

11.     And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

12.     His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

13.     And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

14.     And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

15.     And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

16.     And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

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It is a sin to believe that aught can overpower omnipotent and eternal Life, and this Life must be brought to light by the understanding that there is no death, as well as by other graces of Spirit.

— from Science and Health, 1910, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 428

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Dr. Evelyn Fleet, psychologist associated with the University of London during WW2, related the following incident that occurred during the Luftwaffe Blitz: as she was helping to conduct people to safety, suddenly a bomb fell upon a nearby hospital in which quite a number of paralytic patients lay bedridden, some of whom had resided there for as much as 20 years. Moments after the explosion, she was astonished to see these same patients running down the stairs, exiting the hospital with perfectly coordinated limbs, heading for shelter.

Later, some of these patients “remembered” that they were not supposed to be able to walk, and, in so thinking, their bodies returned to their previous paralyzed state, but most of them remained completely healed.

— Forum Post by Parthens

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Negative fearful thinking is a sin and you will suffer until you stop it.

— Roundtable

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Sin is acting out a mistake.

— Roundtable

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Age is slow death. If anybody grows old, it means he will die. You don’t have to believe this. There is no more age than there is death. Age is one of the most persistent diseases in human belief. People may get over anything, but they are sure to succumb to age, according to belief.

— 1937 by Bicknell Young

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The greater works referred to by Jesus may quite well be the prevention of problems from arising. Certainly the best demonstration is to prevent a situation from arising.

— from Addresses by Martha Wilcox, page 37

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Teaching Testimony — There is no power over thee unless given from above. by Mary beth Singleterry

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Forum post — Mrs. Eddy Raised the Dead by Louise

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March 31, 1907 Easter – Resurrection

We must be resurrected; must put off the old man and put on the new. If you dress for Easter, your clothes are all in keeping – are clean. You do not put on some clean ones and some soiled ones. Neither can you put on part of the new man and part of the old; you must put on the whole of the new man – the spiritual idea.

If you put a new patch on an old garment, you still have the old garment. There is a time when you take off your old garments before you put on the new. Now if we patch up this body, try to make a better eye, a better limb, etc., we are not putting on the new.

We want to say: eye, you cannot talk to me, I have put you off. Rise to the spiritual sense, then your body will respond; then take no thought what you eat, your clothes, etc., for your heavenly Father knoweth ye have need of these things. This is the resurrection. The resurrection is not to be resurrected from matter – dust. There never was any life in matter to be resurrected. The resurrection is seeing the real man that was never in matter; he never was sick to be made well. That is the way I did the healing. I never saw the material man before me, but the real man, perfect, and this healed instantaneously, and no relapse. This is the way Jesus healed, as in S. & H. it reads, “Jesus beheld the perfect man,” etc. This is the resurrection.

— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 27

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