Sunday October 3rd, 2021 Roundtable

Mortal mind is to be denied; Spirit overcomes it. We must cease to admit in our thinking the reality and power in themselves of sin, sickness and death, of misery, pain, evil in all forms; and we must steadfastly and persistently think the Truth which stands opposite to them. We do in this way overcome discordant conditions of consciousness now. Everyone who persists in this course many times each day will have signs of the lessening of all evil. (For additional text, see page 282.)

— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 267

Repeat the following affirmations silently several times each day not with strained anxiety to get something out of them, but trying calmly to realize the meaning of the words:

All is harmony; there is no discord.
God is All; there is no evil
All is health; there is no sickness.
All is Spirit; there is no matter.
All is joy; there is no sorrow.
All is Truth; there is no falsehood.
All is faith; there is no fear.
All is Life; there is no death.
All is Love; there is no hate.

— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 282

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

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GOLDEN TEXT: John 7 : 24

“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

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When God heals the sick or the sinning, they should know the great benefit which Mind has wrought. They should also know the great delusion of mortal mind, when it makes them sick or sinful. Many are willing to open the eyes of the people to the power of good resident in divine Mind, but they are not so willing to point out the evil in human thought, and expose evil’s hidden mental ways of accomplishing iniquity.

Why this backwardness, since exposure is necessary to ensure the avoidance of the evil? Because people like you better when you tell them their virtues than when you tell them their vices. It requires the spirit of our blessed Master to tell a man his faults, and so risk human displeasure for the sake of doing right and benefiting our race. Who is telling mankind of the foe in ambush? Is the informer one who sees the foe? If so, listen and be wise. Escape from evil, and designate those as unfaithful stewards who have seen the danger and yet have given no warning.

— from Science and Health, 1910, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 570

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Nothing is real and eternal, — nothing is Spirit, — but God and His idea. Evil has no reality. It is neither person, place, nor thing, but is simply a belief, an illusion of material sense.

— from Science and Health, 1910, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 71

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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

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Forum post — Consessions Outworn by Parthens

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Forum post — Unreality — October 3rd, 2021

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Article: “Posession” by Mary Baker Eddy

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Rev. Norcross enrolled in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College and attended the Primary Class taught by Mrs. Eddy which convened on September 17. The teacher found him to be earnest and sincere although limited by his years of theological training.



His belief in the power and comprehensiveness of his theological teaching vanished in one outburst, when in the classroom Mrs. Eddy put some question to him, and then worked him down to where all his arguments rested upon a single point, respecting which she asked a question that she knew he must answer rightly if he would be honest with himself and with her. He did not disappoint her expectation, and when the answer came, he burst out with the statement, ‘Then all my years of theological study don’t amount to that’ (snapping his fingers). Mrs. Eddy laughed until the tears ran down her cheeks, and all the class burst into merriment, but the beauty of the event was that everyone felt how charged Mr. Norcross was with honesty of purpose, in the manliness of his admission.

— from The Healer, by David Keyston, pages 101-102

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The article shared at the close was “Defining Success Differently”, Written by Joshua Becker

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