Sunday, December 8th, 2024 Roundtable
Your Premonitions Will Save You
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: God The Only Cause And Creator
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Morning Prayer
…God is All-in-all, the only creator of the only universe and man. We are His children and we do realize the all-fulness of the omnipotence of God. …
There is no error of any name or nature in my consciousness that can resist, hide, or escape the Truth. The light of Truth and Life and Love shines straight through my belief of evil and banishes it, chasing it into its native nothingness.
My desire is to know and obey God’s law, to be filled with all the fullness of Spirit, knowing only the consciousness of God, good.
My health, strength, life, intelligence, action, etc., are subject to the governing and controlling power of the divine Mind, and to nothing else, for there is no other power.
from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 77
Daily Watch
473 — WATCH lest you accept the suggestion that error has a cause or an effect. It is a belief without a cause or effect. Once Mrs. Eddy summed up the entire claim of evil as being typified by the serpent, “existing without a cause.” The discussion of cause and effect in relation to error is merely to enable us to translate matter into mind, and to comprehend Mrs. Eddy’s statement on page 105 of Miscellaneous Writings, “Nothing appears to the physical senses but their own subjective state of thought.”
Discussion points
Christian Science never healed a patient without proving with mathematical certainty that error, when found out, is two-thirds destroyed, and the remaining third kills itself.
from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 210
Daily Duties by Mary Baker Eddy
1. In a general sense, the cause, source or origin of any thing; that from which a thing proceeds;
Part of the definition of “Principle” from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary
Elijah by Rev. Arthur Reeves Vosburgh
6. 257 : 15-21
divine Love, — is the father of the rain
Cause and Effect by Bliss Knapp
Your premonitions are what will save you, if you employ them. The evil always works beforehand on the minds of those in health to fear, or to believe they cannot help those it intends to slay, and if only this preparatory mental malpractice is understood, as I now trust it will be by you hereafter, it enables the individual to watch better and to have oil in his lamp, for each experience of this kind is a bridal, that weds you to Life and Love everlasting.
from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, as given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 122
If this Science has been thoroughly learned and properly digested, we can know the truth more accurately than the astronomer can read the stars or calculate an eclipse.”
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 84
Trust in Truth, and have no other trusts.
from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 171
8. Joel 2
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.
Isaiah’s Job by Albert Jay Nock
The author has not compromised conscience to suit the general drift of thought, but has bluntly and honestly given the text of Truth.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 8
No human pen nor tongue taught me the Science contained in this book, Science and Health; and neither tongue nor pen can overthrow it.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 110
Only: Single; This and no other. This above all others. He is the only.
Cause: That which produces an effect; that which impels into existence, or by its agency or operation produces what did not before exist; that by virtue of which any thing is done; that from which any thing proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
Creator: The thing that creates, produces or causes.
Create: To produce; to bring into being from nothing; to cause to exist.
Mrs Eddy writes in Science and Health on page 207 “There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause.”
Ecclesiastes 3: 14…”Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.“
Matthew Poole’s Commentary
“Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever;” all God’s counsels or decrees are eternal and unchangeable, and his providence works effectually, so as men cannot resist or hinder it.”
“Nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it;” men can neither do any thing besides or against God’s counsel and providence, nor hinder any work or act of it.”
“That men should fear before him”; not that men should make this an occasion of despair, or idleness, or dissoluteness, as some abuse this doctrine, but that, by the consideration of his sovereign and irresistible power in the disposal of all persons and things as pleaseth him, men should learn to trust in him, to submit to him, to fear to offend or rebel against him, and more carefully and industriously to study to please him.”