Sunday June 6th, 2021 Roundtable

1. Pray God to help you awake to the claims of error, and awake to the truth that destroys them.

2. Whenever error would try to make sin, sickness, disease or death seem real, Good overrules it, and it makes them more unreal to us.

3. Good reverses every evil argument and effort, and brings out the opposite good. Declare continually your own perfection and freedom, and let the true and divine idea destroy the mesmerism that argues that you are sad and unhappy. This idea is your Saviour.

— from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 8

God created all through Mind, and made all perfect and eternal.

— from Science and Health, 1910, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 205

182 — WATCH lest you judge the experience of the Master, or of Mrs. Eddy from the standpoint of effect instead of cause.

When one contemplates the miracles of the Master and the present-day achievements of Mary Baker Eddy, it savors of temerity and presumption — in fact it seems impossible — even to suggest the possibility of duplicating them. But when one learns that their works were the works of God, divine Mind, operating through them by reflection, then one can trace back to cause, and perceive the possibility of anyone who really desires to, being able to follow in their footsteps.

When Mrs. Eddy wrote in “The Book of Presidents,” “Follow my teachings only so far as they follow Christ’s in word and deed,” it might seem presumptuous for one to admit that he might follow Christ, or to assume that he could determine whether Mrs. Eddy’s teachings followed Christ; yet to do this is the demand of Christian Science.

It is only by understanding cause, that one sees the possibility of following Christ unfolded. With both the Master and our Leader it was their human emptiness that enabled God to work through them.

— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

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GOLDEN TEXT: Psalm 139 : 14

“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.”

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Sunday, December 7th, 1941–Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet.

After making plans, organizing his staff, Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat–you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war. On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters every where you looked.

As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, “Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?” Admiral Nimitz’s reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, “The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it was?”

Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, “What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?” Nimitz explained:

Mistake number one : The Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk – we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.

Mistake number two : When the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.

Mistake number three : Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That’s why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or God was taking care of America.

Anyway you look at it – Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism.

— Excerpt from Reflections on Pearl Harbor by Admiral Chester Nimitz

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— Hymn 115 The Christian Science Hymnal

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The sabbath day is not, then, a period of time, or a diurnal rotation of our terrestrial globe: it is that degree of unfoldment when, through repentance and regeneration, the human mind has been cleansed of all error and mortality, thus bringing to humanity the recognition and realization of God’s allness; it is spiritual understanding, individualized and identified as man and the universe; it is that degree of enlightenment when labor and exertion have ceased to be regarded as material and the harmonious activity of divine Mind is recognized as ever present; it is the kingdom of God within us.

— “The Sabbath Day” from Christian Science Journal, August 1918 by Peter S. Johnston

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Forum post — “Give Place” by Parthens

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(S.& H. 90:8-12; also see marginal note “Mind is substance”) Treatment in Christian Science is constant revelation and therefore creation; therefore a real treatment cannot be a formula. Mind is action.

Treatment is Mind demanding, supplying its own evidence. (S.& H. 199:8-12) There are only three things to consider in a treatment: First, cause; Second, substance; Third, law. Covering these three essential points thoroughly, you have covered the essential points in connection with every suggestion.

— Excerpt from “Practice” in, Addresses by Martha Wilcox

Complete Article — “Practice” Addresses by Martha Wilcox

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