Sunday November 21st, 2021 Roundtable

Beloved children, the world has need of you, — and more as children than as men and women: it needs your innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontaminated lives. You need also to watch, and pray that you preserve these virtues unstained, and lose them not through contact with the world. What grander ambition is there than to maintain in yourselves what Jesus loved, and to know that your example, more than words, makes morals for mankind!

— from Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, page 110

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The spiritual man’s consciousness and individuality are reflections of God. They are the emanations of Him who is Life, Truth, and Love. Immortal man is not and never was material, but always spiritual and eternal.

— from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 336

444 — WATCH lest you treat the body directly, when you have a physical disease or claim. Paul tells us to be absent, or to retreat from the body, in order to be present with the Lord. One might coin a word and declare that, when one has a physical ill or pain, the demand is to “de-body” his thought, — to retreat from the body, rather than to treat the body, — in order that he may work wholly in the realm of thought.

— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

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GOLDEN TEXT: Psalm 18 : 26

“With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure.”

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Forum posts — Forum: Soul and Body — November 21st, 2021

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Article — “Individuality” by Herbert Eustace

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Article — “What Christmas Means To Me” by Mary Baker Eddy

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At one point in the early years in the Chicago area, healing work suddenly came to a halt. This was most unusual, as previously Chicago had been perhaps the finest field for healing in the country. The best healers, including those having studied with Mrs. Eddy, could not heal. The situation became so alarming that a group was delegated to see Mrs. Eddy about their difficulties in healing. She patiently listened to their problem, and when their tale of woe was told she said, “You will have to learn to love me more.” No more was said, and she left the room. They went back to Chicago and told the Christian Scientists Mrs. Eddy’s message. They took the message to heart and the healing work was successful again.

— from “You Will Have to Learn to Love Me More”, by David Keyston

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The ancient Christians were healers. Why has this element of Christianity been lost? Because our systems of religion are governed more or less by our systems of medicine. The first idolatry was faith in matter. The schools have rendered faith in drugs the fashion, rather than faith in Deity. By trusting matter to destroy its own discord, health and harmony have been sacrificed. Such systems are barren of the vitality of spiritual power, by which material sense is made the servant of Science and religion becomes Christlike.

— from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 146

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Final Readings

From the October 1900 issue of the Christian Science Journal

 To know the beauty of cleanness
And make a place in thine own heart for her,
The heart must be clean and sweet;
We must love our neighbor to get his love,—
As we measure, he will mete.

By Alice Cary

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From the December 1898 issue of the Christian Science Journal

                    Take Joy home,
And make a place in thine own heart for her,
And give her time to grow, and cherish her!
Then will she come and often sing to thee
When thou art working in the furrows! ay,
Or weeding in the sacred hour of dawn.
       It is a comely fashion to be glad —
       Joy is the grace we say to God.

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