Scientific Mental Healing

Wednesday Bible Readings

oCTOBER 2ND, 2024

From The Bible

¶ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
(Matthew 11:28)

¶ And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. ...

But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
(Matthew 14:22, 24–32)

And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
(II Thessalonians 1:7)

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ...

Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. ...

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
(Hebrews 4:9–12, 14, 16)

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
(II Corinthians 12:9)

¶ Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
(Jeremiah 30:10)

The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
(Zephaniah 3:17)

... the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
(John 14:26 the, 27)

Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
(Acts 2:26–28)

For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: ...
(Isaiah 30:15 (to :))

... My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
(Exodus 33:14 My)

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

When the ocean is stirred by a storm, then the clouds lower, the wind shrieks through the tightened shrouds, and the waves lift themselves into mountains. We ask the helmsman: “Do you know your course? Can you steer safely amid the storm?” He answers bravely, but even the dauntless seaman is not sure of his safety; nautical science is not equal to the Science of Mind.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 67:4–11)

WIND. That which indicates the might of omnipotence and the movements of God’s spiritual government, encompassing all things. Destruction; anger; mortal passions.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 597:27)

The lightnings and thunderbolts of error may burst and flash till the cloud is cleared and the tumult dies away in the distance. Then the raindrops of divinity refresh the earth. As St. Paul says: “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God” (of Spirit).
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 288:14)

The testimony of the material senses is neither absolute nor divine. I therefore plant myself unreservedly on the teachings of Jesus, of his apostles, of the prophets, and on the testimony of the Science of Mind. Other foundations there are none. All other systems — systems based wholly or partly on knowledge gained through the material senses — are reeds shaken by the wind, not houses built on the rock.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 269:21)

Mortal testimony can be shaken.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 297:28 (only))

The struggle for Truth makes one strong instead of weak, resting instead of wearying one.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 426:9–11)

Faith should enlarge its borders and strengthen its base by resting upon Spirit instead of matter.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 430:6–7)

God rests in action. Imparting has not impoverished, can never impoverish, the divine Mind. No exhaustion follows the action of this Mind, according to the apprehension of divine Science. The highest and sweetest rest, even from a human standpoint, is in holy work.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 519:25)

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 197:16 (only))

This human belief, alternating between a sense of pleasure and pain, hope and fear, life and death, never reaches beyond the boundary of the mortal or the unreal. When the real is attained, which is announced by Science, joy is no longer a trembler, nor is hope a cheat.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 298:16–20)

Had Blondin believed it impossible to walk the rope over Niagara’s abyss of waters, he could never have done it. His belief that he could do it gave his thought-forces, called muscles, their flexibility and power which the unscientific might attribute to a lubricating oil. His fear must have disappeared before his power of putting resolve into action could appear.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 199:25)

Mortals are inclined to fear and to obey what they consider a material body more than they do a spiritual God. All material knowledge, like the original “tree of knowledge,” multiplies their pains, for mortal illusions would rob God, slay man, and meanwhile would spread their table with cannibal tidbits and give thanks.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 214:19)

Nothing but the power of Truth can prevent the fear of error, and prove man’s dominion over error.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 380:19)

Christian Science silences human will, quiets fear with Truth and Love, and illustrates the unlabored motion of the divine energy in healing the sick.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 445:19–21)

Individuals are consistent who, watching and praying, can “run, and not be weary; . . . walk, and not faint,” who gain good rapidly and hold their position, or attain slowly and yield not to discouragement.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 254:2–6)

Mind’s infinite ideas run and disport themselves.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 514:7–8)

Thus it is with man, who is but the humble servant of the restful Mind, though it seems otherwise to finite sense.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 119:31–1)

Fright is so great at certain stages of mortal belief as to drive belief into new paths.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 251:7–8)

As frightened children look everywhere for the imaginary ghost, so sick humanity sees danger in every direction, and looks for relief in all ways except the right one.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 371:11–14 (to 1st .))

In short, children should be told not to believe in ghosts, because there are no such things. If belief in their reality is destroyed, terror of ghosts will depart and health be restored. The objects of alarm will then vanish into nothingness, no longer seeming worthy of fear or honor.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 352:26–30)

If a child is exposed to contagion or infection, the mother is frightened and says, “My child will be sick.” The law of mortal mind and her own fears govern her child more than the child’s mind governs itself, and they produce the very results which might have been prevented through the opposite understanding.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 154:16–21)

Truth’s immortal idea is sweeping down the centuries, gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning. ... The promises will be fulfilled. The time for the reappearing of the divine healing is throughout all time; and whosoever layeth his earthly all on the altar of divine Science, drinketh of Christ’s cup now, and is endued with the spirit and power of Christian healing.

In the words of St. John: “He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 55:15–16, 21–28)

When we reach our limits of mental endurance, we conclude that intellectual labor has been carried sufficiently far; but when we realize that immortal Mind is ever active, and that spiritual energies can neither wear out nor can so-called material law trespass upon God-given powers and resources, we are able to rest in Truth, refreshed by the assurances of immortality, opposed to mortality.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 387:5)

When mentality gives rest to the body, the next toil will fatigue you less, for you are working out the problem of being in divine metaphysics; and in proportion as you understand the control which Mind has over so-called matter, you will be able to demonstrate this control.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 217:19–24)

Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm of Mind?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 264:9–10)

The highest and sweetest rest, even from a human standpoint, is in holy work.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 519:28)

Christian Science, understood, coincides with the Scriptures, and sustains logically and demonstratively every point it presents. ... It presents the calm and clear verdict of Truth against error, uttered and illustrated by the prophets, by Jesus, by his apostles, as is recorded throughout the Scriptures.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 358:9–11, 15)

Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious — as Life eternally is — can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 495:16–20)

The consciousness of Truth rests us more than hours of repose in unconsciousness.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 218:7)

Alternative Intelligence

Wednesday Bible Readings

September 25th, 2024

From The Bible

John 1:1 (to 1st ,), 1 2nd and, 3–5

In the beginning was the Word, ... and the Word was God. … All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 

Isa. 56:1 (to 1st ,)

Thus saith the Lord, ...

Isa. 55:8 my (to 2nd ,), 9

... my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, ...For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 

Eccl. 1:2 (to 2nd ,), 2 all; 2:4, 5 (to ,), 11

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, ... all is vanity. ...I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, ...Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. 

Eccl. 7:29

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. 

Gen. 3:1 (to .), 2 (to ,), 3–5 of, 23 (to ,)

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. ...And the woman said unto the serpent, ...
... of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. ...Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, ...

Gen. 10:1 (to 1st ,); 11:1, 4 (to 4th ,), 5, 6 (to 2nd ,), 6 now, 7 let (to 3rd ,), 8, 9 (to ;)

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, ... And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. ...And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, ...And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, ... now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. ... let us go down, and there confound their language, ...So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; ...

Jer. 9:23, 24 (to :)

¶ Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty manglory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: ...

Job 3:2, 3

And Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 

Job 38:1–4, 36; 42:1, 2, 5

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. ...Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? … Then Job answered the Lord, and said, I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. … I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. 

Prov. 2:6

For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. 

Ps. 18:28 the

... the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. 

II Cor. 4:6

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to givethe light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 

Matt. 5:1 (to 1st :), 2 2nd and; 6:22, 23 (to .), 24 Ye

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: ... and taught them, saying, ...The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. ...
... Ye cannot serve God and mammon. 

John 8:12

¶ Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. 

John 7:14–16

¶ Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 

John 5:19 Verily, 30 (to 1st :)

... Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. ...

I can of mine own self do nothing: ...

Ps. 118:27 (to :)

God is the Lord, which hath shewed us light: ...

Rom. 11:33

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! 

I Cor. 1:20 (to 1st ?), 20 3rd where

Where is the wise? ... where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 

I Cor. 2:16

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

SH 525:17–20, 22–25 (to ;)

In the Gospel of John, it is declared that all things were made through the Word of God, “and without Him [the logos, or word] was not anything made that was made.” ... In the Science of Genesis we read that He saw everything which He had made, “and, behold, it was very good.” The corporeal senses declare otherwise; ...

SH 92:11–16

In old Scriptural pictures we see a serpent coiled around the tree of knowledge and speaking to Adam and Eve. This represents the serpent in the act of commending to our first parents the knowledge of good and evil, a knowledge gained from matter, or evil, instead of from Spirit. 

SH 529:21–23

Whence comes a talking, lying serpent to tempt the children of divine Love? The serpent enters into the metaphor only as evil. 

SH 481:12–15

The forbidden fruit of knowledge, against which wisdom warns man, is the testimony of error, declaring existence to be at the mercy of death, and good and evil to be capable of commingling. 

SH 306:32–2

The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream, the deep sleep, in which originated the delusion that life and intelligence proceeded from and passed into matter. 

SH 170:32

Matter, which takes divine power into its own hands and claims to be a creator, is a fiction, in which paganism and lust are so sanctioned by society that mankind has caught their moral contagion. 

SH 534:18–20

Paul says in his epistle to the Romans: “The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 

SH 583:20–21 (to ;), 23 the

Creator. Spirit; Mind; intelligence; the animating divine Principle of all that is real and good; ... the opposite of matter and evil, which have no Principle; God, who made all that was made and could not create an atom or an element the opposite of Himself. 

SH 469:7–8 (to .), 9

Question. — What is intelligence? 
Answer. ... It is the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind, of the triune Principle, — Life, Truth, and Love, — named God. 

SH 256:6–7

Mind, not matter, is the creator. 

SH 287:24–25

The supposition that life, substance, and intelligence are in matter, or of it, is an error. 

SH 269:29–5; 270:7

The theories I combat are these: (1) that all is matter; (2) that matter originates in Mind, and is as real as Mind, possessing intelligence and life. The first theory, that matter is everything, is quite as reasonable as the second, that Mind and matter coexist and cooperate. One only of the following statements can be true: (1) that everything is matter; (2) that everything is Mind. Which one is it? …. Matter and Mind are opposites. ... If one is real, the other must be unreal. Only by understanding that there is but one power, — not two powers, matter and Mind, — are scientific and logical conclusions reached. Few deny the hypothesis that intelligence, apart from man and matter, governs the universe; and it is generally admitted that this intelligence is the eternal Mind or divine Principle, Love. 

SH 249:32

We run into error when we divide Soul into souls, multiply Mind into minds and suppose error to be mind, then mind to be in matter and matter to be a lawgiver, unintelligence to act like intelligence, and mortality to be the matrix of immortality. 

SH 192:1

The belief that a pulpy substance under the skull is mind is a mockery of intelligence, a mimicry of Mind. 

SH 478:20–23, 24–27

How can intelligence dwell in matter when matter is non-intelligent and brain-lobes cannot think? Matter cannot perform the functions of Mind. ... From beginning to end, whatever is mortal is composed of material human beliefs and of nothing else. That only is real which reflects God. 

SH 78:24

God is not in the medley where matter cares for matter, where spiritism makes many gods, and hypnotism and electricity are claimed to be the agents of God’s government. 

SH 450:29–2

Knowing the claim of animal magnetism, that all evil combines in the belief of life, substance, and intelligence in matter, electricity, animal nature, and organic life, who will deny that these are the errors which Truth must and will annihilate? 

SH 171:25–27

The so-called laws of matter are nothing but false beliefs that intelligence and life are present where Mind is not. 

SH 263:1, 20

Mortals are egotists. They believe themselves to be independent workers, personal authors, and even privileged originators of something which Deity would not or could not create. The creations of mortal mind are material. Immortal spiritual man alone represents the truth of creation. ...There can be but one creator, who has created all. Whatever seems to be a new creation, is but the discovery of some distant idea of Truth; else it is a new multiplication or self-division of mortal thought, as when some finite sense peers from its cloister with amazement and attempts to pattern the infinite. 

SH 581:17–22

Babel. Self-destroying error; a kingdom divided against itself, which cannot stand; material knowledge. The higher false knowledge builds on the basis of evidence obtained from the five corporeal senses, the more confusion ensues, and the more certain is the downfall of its structure. 

SH 124:3–4 (to 2nd ,), 7–9 (to ,), 11–12

Physical science (so-called) is human knowledge, — a law of mortal mind, a blind belief, ... Having neither moral might, spiritual basis, nor holy Principle of its own, this belief mistakes effect for cause and seeks to find life and intelligence in matter, ... In a word, human belief is a blind conclusion from material reasoning. 

SH 567:18 (only, to ,), 19–21 claiming (to ,), 21–23 and

That false claim — that ancient belief, ... claiming that there is intelligence in matter either to benefit or to injure men — is pure delusion, ... and it is cast out by Christ, Truth, the spiritual idea, and so proved to be powerless. 

SH 262:9–18

We cannot fathom the nature and quality of God’s creation by diving into the shallows of mortal belief. We must reverse our feeble flutterings — our efforts to find life and truth in matter — and rise above the testimony of the material senses, above the mortal to the immortal idea of God. These clearer, higher views inspire the Godlike man to reach the absolute centre and circumference of his being. 
Job said: “I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth Thee.” 

SH 215:12

Whatever is governed by God, is never for an instant deprived of the light and might of intelligence and Life. 

SH 273:29–3

Science shows that material, conflicting mortal opinions and beliefs emit the effects of error at all times, but this atmosphere of mortal mind cannot be destructive to morals and health when it is opposed promptly and persistently by Christian Science. Truth and Love antidote this mental miasma, and thus invigorate and sustain existence. 

SH 284:28–32

According to Christian Science, the only real senses of man are spiritual, emanating from divine Mind. Thought passes from God to man, but neither sensation nor report goes from material body to Mind. The intercommunication is always from God to His idea, man. 

SH 72:9–12 As

As light destroys darkness and in the place of darkness all is light, so (in absolute Science) Soul, or God, is the only truth-giver to man.

Hymn. 201

O do not bar your mind / Against the light of good; / But open wide, let in the Word, / And Truth will be your food. 

Truth will from error free / Your long enslaved mind, / And bring the light of liberty / Where it shall be enshrined. 

Hid treasures it reveals / To all who know its power; / And all who will may light receive / In this most gracious hour. 

Then open wide your heart / To Truth and Light and Love; / You then shall know your life is hid / With Christ in God above. 

Words: Charles Parsons

Music: Henry J. Gauntlett

Hymn. 240

O Spirit, source of light, / Thy grace is unconfined; / Dispel the gloomy shades of night, / Reveal the light of Mind. 

Now to our eyes display / The truth Thy words reveal; / Cause us to run the heavenly way, / Delighting in Thy will. 

Thy teachings make us know / The mysteries of Thy love; / The vanity of things below, / The joy of things above. 

Words: Benjamin Beddome, adapted

Music: Arr. from G. F. Händel

Hymn. 29

Breaking through the clouds of darkness, / Black with error, doubt, and fear; / Lighting up each somber shadow, / With a radiance soft and clear; / Filling every heart with gladness, / That its holy power feels, / Comes the Christian Science gospel, / Sin it kills and grief it heals. 

Christlike in its benedictions, / Godlike in its strength sublime; / Conquering every subtle error, / With a meekness all divine, / It has gone across the ocean, / It is known in every land, / And our sisters and our brothers / Are united in one band. 

Words: Florence L. Heywood

Mercy & Justice, over all

June 12th, 2024

From The Bible

Isa. 42:1 (to :), 3

Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: ...
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. 

Matt. 9:35 (to 1st ,), 35 healing

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, ... healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 

Luke 13:10–14 (to 2nd ,), 15 (to 2nd ,), 16 ought

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. ¶ And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, ...
The Lord then answered him, and said, ...
... ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? 

Matt. 9:10–13

¶ And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that,he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 

Matt. 5:2, 7, 43–45

And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, ...
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. ...
... ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 

Mark 15:25

And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. 

Luke 23:34 (to 1st .)

¶ Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. ...

Mic. 6:8

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

SH 465:9 God (only, to is), 9–10 infinite (to 1st ,), 10 Life, 14

... God is ... infinite Mind, ... Life, Truth, Love. ...
... The attributes of God are justice, mercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on. 

SH 340:23 (only, to 2nd ,), 23–24 constitutes (to 1st ;), 28 equalizes (only, to ;), 28 and

One infinite God, good, ... constitutes the brotherhood of man; ... equalizes the sexes; ... and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed. 

SH 6:17 (only)

“God is Love.” 

SH 35:30 (only); 36:7

The design of Love is to reform the sinner. ... Escape from punishment is not in accordance with God’s government, since justice is the handmaid of mercy. 

SH 6:18–25 (to 1st ,)

To suppose that God forgives or punishes sin according as His mercy is sought or unsought, is to misunderstand Love and to make prayer the safety-valve for wrong-doing. 
Jesus uncovered and rebuked sin before he cast it out. Of a sick woman he said that Satan had bound her, ...

SH 22:30–31

Justice requires reformation of the sinner. Mercy cancels the debt only when justice approves. 

SH 36:19–21, 30–31

A selfish and limited mind may be unjust, but the unlimited and divine Mind is the immortal law of justice as well as of mercy. ...
Religious history repeats itself in the suffering of the just for the unjust. 

SH 40:17–19

Was it just for Jesus to suffer? No; but it was inevitable, for not otherwise could he show us the way and the power of Truth. 

SH 20:16–20 (to ,)

“Despised and rejected of men,” returning blessing for cursing, he taught mortals the opposite of themselves, even the nature of God; and when error felt the power of Truth, the scourge and the cross awaited the great Teacher. Yet he swerved not, ...

SH 51:6 (only)

Jesus could have withdrawn himself from his enemies. 

SH 20:20 (only, to ,)

Yet he swerved not, ...

SH 51:28 His

His spirituality separated him from sensuousness, and caused the selfish materialist to hate him; but it was this spirituality which enabled Jesus to heal the sick, cast out evil, and raise the dead. 

SH 391:17–18

Justice is the moral signification of law. Injustice declares the absence of law. 

SH 63:12–13, 15–20 2nd it

Civil law establishes very unfair differences between the rights of the two sexes. ... it is a marvel why usage should accord woman less rights than does either Christian Science or civilization. 
Our laws are not impartial, to say the least, in their discrimination as to the person, property, and parental claims of the two sexes. 

SH 64:1–2

Want of uniform justice is a crying evil caused by the selfishness and inhumanity of man. 

SH 29:1–2

Christians must take up arms against error at home and abroad. 

SH 225:23–25

Legally to abolish unpaid servitude in the United States was hard; but the abolition of mental slavery is a more difficult task. 

SH 226:22; 227:3–8 (to ,)

I saw before me the sick, wearing out years of servitude to an unreal master in the belief that the body governed them, rather than Mind. ...
I saw that the law of mortal belief included all error, and that, even as oppressive laws are disputed and mortals are taught their right to freedom, so the claims of the enslaving senses must be denied and superseded. The law of the divine Mind must end human bondage, ...

SH 430:17–19, 25 Judge; 432:16–17 (to 1st ,), 18 and (only, to ,); 433:6–7, 24

Suppose a mental case to be on trial, as cases are tried in court. A man is charged with having committed liver-complaint. ... Judge Medicine is on the bench. ...
The Judge asks if by doing good to his neighbor, it is possible for man to become diseased, ... and merit punishment, ...
... His conclusion is, that laws of nature render disease homicidal. ...
... For this crime Mortal Man is sentenced to be tortured until he is dead. “May God have mercy on your soul,” is the Judge’s solemn peroration. 

SH 434:19 (only, to Science), 20–21 opens (to :), 30–32 the; 435:2–4, 7

Then Christian Science ... opens the argument for the defence: ...
... the lower court has sentenced Mortal Man to die, but God made Man immortal and amenable to Spirit only. ... Who or what has sinned? Has the body or has Mortal Mind committed a criminal deed? ... The body committed no offence. Mortal Man, in obedience to higher law, helped his fellow-man, an act which should result in good to himself as well as to others. 

SH 440:30–34 (to ,); 441:2 explained, 8–9 (to :), 15–17; 442:1–3 Man (to 1st .), 5–6 (to ,), 7–8 Not

I appeal to the just and equitable decisions of divine Spirit to restore to Mortal Man the rights of which he has been deprived. 
Here the counsel for the defence closed, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, ... explained from his statute-book, the Bible, that any so-called law, which undertakes to punish aught but sin, is null and void. 
... He concluded his charge thus: ...
... Our law refuses to recognize Man as sick or dying, but holds him to be forever in the image and likeness of his Maker. ...
... Man is adjudged innocent of transgressing physical laws, because there are no such laws. ...
The Jury of Spiritual Senses agreed at once upon a verdict, ... Not guilty. Then the prisoner rose up regenerated, strong, free. 

SH 106:6–9

Like our nation, Christian Science has its Declaration of Independence. God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. 

SH 390:13–16 (to ,), 29–2

Let your higher sense of justice destroy the false process of mortal opinions which you name law, ...
... Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit. 

SH 542:19–21

Let Truth uncover and destroy error in God’s own way, and let human justice pattern the divine. 

SH 497:24 And

... And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.

Hymn. 460

Come, O fount of every blessing, / Tune our hearts to sing Your grace. / Streams of mercy never ceasing, / Call for songs of deepest praise. / While the truth of life’s perfection / Fills our hearts with joy and love, / Teach us ever to be faithful, / May we still Your goodness prove. 

Come, O fount of every vision, / Lift our eyes to what will come. / See the lion and the young lamb / Dwell together in Your home. / Hear the cries of war fall silent, / Feel our love glow like the sun. / When we all serve one another, / Then our heaven is begun. 

Come, O fount of inspiration, / Turn our lives to higher ways. / Lift our gloom and desperation, / Show the promise of this day. / Help us bind ourselves in union, / Help our hands tell of our love. / With Your grace, O fount of justice, / Earth be fair as heaven above. 

Words: verse 1 Robert Robinson, adapt., alt.; verses 2, 3 Eugene B. Navias, alt.

Music: American melody, Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1813

Hymn. 500

I awake each morn to a brand-new day, / Singing Hallelujah! as I go on my way, / For my heart is fixed on this one guarantee: / The Love that is All holds me tenderly. 

REFRAIN / Tender mercies, oh tender mercies, / Tender mercies are holding me. / Tender mercies, oh tender mercies, / Tender mercies are holding me. 

I can walk with Love through the valley of fear, / Singing Hallelujah! O, my Savior is here! / For my empty longing no hope can fulfill, / But Love meets all need and bids want be still. / / REFRAIN / So no matter the need and no matter the threat, / I’m secure in Your love, no fear, no regret. / Can there be a sweeter comfort, a grace more divine, / Than the thought that Your love is here and is mine? / / REFRAIN 

Words: Susan Booth Mack Snipes

Music: Susan Booth Mack Snipes

Hymn. 340

There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, / Like the wideness of the sea; / There’s a kindness in His justice, / Which is more than liberty. 

For the love of God is broader / Than is seen by human mind, / And the heart of the Eternal / Is most wonderfully kind. 

If our love were but more simple, / We should take Him at His word; / And our lives would be all sunshine / In the sweetness of our Lord. 

Words: Frederick W. Faber*

Music: Edmund S. Carter