Sunday, September 8th, 2024 Roundtable
“The Father…He Doeth the Works.”
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Man
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Morning Prayers
The Christianly scientific man reflects the divine law, thus becoming a law unto himself. He does violence to no man. Neither is he a false accuser. The Christian Scientist wisely shapes his course, and is honest and consistent in following the leadings of divine Mind. He must prove, through living as well as healing and teaching, that Christ’s way is the only one by which mortals are radically saved from sin and sickness.
— from Science and Health, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 458
In Science, man is the manifest reflection of God, perfect and immortal Mind. He is the likeness of God; and His likeness would be lost if inverted or perverted.
…You must feel and know that God alone governs man; that His government is harmonious; that He is too pure to behold iniquity, and divides His power with nothing evil or material;
… You must learn to acknowledge God in all His ways.
— from Rudimental Divine Science, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 7, 10
Discussion points
63 — WATCH lest you endeavor to cast out wrong thoughts, without including wrong thinking in this effort. We have the thought, and the thinking of the thought. The effort to cast out wrong thoughts is palliative and temporary. The claim of wrong thoughts will assail us until we remove our capacity to think wrong thoughts.
Evil suggestions will come as long as one believes that he is receptive to them. Only when one neutralizes this wrong receptivity, by knowing that God’s child is open only to God’s thoughts, will the latter be established as man’s native and natural state of consciousness. The only way to be certain that your radio would never again receive anything from an undesirable station, would be to fix it so that it could never again be tuned to that particular wave length. Mrs. Eddy once wrote, “There is nothing in me that corresponds with, or responds to any form of evil.”
GOLDEN TEXT: Philippians 2 : 13
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
“Things to handle daily” — by Mary Baker Eddy
Final Readings
“Treatment for Supply”, by Mary Baker Eddy