Sunday, September 7th, 2025 Roundtable
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Morning Prayer
If the heart stays young, old age can never become anything but ennobled thereby. Years do not make one grow old if one grows in grace. Decay does not belong to matter so much as to mind. Now I believe that if we kept our mind fixed on God, Life, Truth and Love, He will advance us in our years to a higher understanding and change our hope into faith, and our faith into spiritual understanding, and our words into works, and our ultimate faith into the fruition of entering into the Kingdom. …
Trust to His care; make faith in Him your staff; it will not bend.
from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 14 and 15 of the Addenda
Daily Watch
468 — WATCH that you realize that mortal mind is fundamentally pessimistic. If one does not know this, he may personalize this pessimism, and believe that when he feels it, it is his own. The antidote is to affirm God’s rule, that all things are working together for good to them that love God.
A sick man is the victim of the pessimism of the carnal mind. He may know of others who have been healed by Christian Science; yet he is haunted by the suggestion that perhaps he will be one who is not. If on Wednesday he could gain the positive assurance that next Monday morning he would awaken healed, he would find himself healed the very next morning!
At times we need to declare that it is high time that we open our dull eyes to see that we are the top dog instead of being the underdog! As a son of God we are the boss, and mortal mind and its pessimism is ruled out!
Discussion points
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Now two things you must carry with you from morning to night, and night to morning, are the words; RIGHT IDENTIFICATION and RE-INTERPRETATION. Re-interpret everything you see, hear, taste, or touch and smell. Reinterpret it all back to its original state, that is Godhood. Be sure that you practice right identification, knowing that all that appears to you is God appearing — God appearing as the individual man, woman or child, God appearing as the plant, animal, crops, and then knowing what the human eye sees, what the human ear hears, is the false picture presented by this thing I call “hypnotism or suggestion.” The same that presents the two train or car tracks coming together, or presents the sky as hitting the mountains. Be sure you realize and are willing not to go so absolute that you won’t reinterpret what is appearing to you on the scene.
The Practice of Christian Science by Bicknell Young
We have it only as we live it.
from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 126
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Golden Text: Hebrews 11 : 6
“Without faith it is impossible to please [God].”
Faith: trust or confidence, a firm, cordial belief in the veracity of God, in all the declarations of his word; or a full and affectionate confidence in the certainty of those things which God has declared, and because he has declared them. [Webster 1828]
Faith is believing all God has said in His Word; Faith is accepting scriptural truth as a firm fact. Faith is having the assurance that what we hope for in Christ will certainly come to pass. Indeed, without faith it is impossible to please God.
Walking by faith means we are to rely completely on all that God has said in His Word…through the holy Scriptures, as we listen…follow His directions, and trust in the Lord with all our heart. We are to walk by faith and not by sight. Nor are we to live by trusting in what we imagine or what we feel.
The man or woman who lives by faith uses life’s stumbling-blocks as stepping stones. Faith allows obstacles to be changed into opportunities, and wounds that are inflicted become a witness to the generous grace He pours out into our lives in great abundance. When we live by faith, we remain in fellowship with the Lord, and can become healing balm and a godly comfort in the lives of others, who are facing similar difficulties.
James 2:18
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Evangelical, justifying, or saving faith is the assent of the mind to the truth of divine revelation, on the authority of God’s testimony, accompanied with a cordial assent of the will or approbation of the heart; an entire confidence or trust in God’s character and declarations, and in the character and doctrines of Christ, with an unreserved surrender of the will to his guidance, and dependence on his merits for salvation. In other words, that firm belief of God’s testimony, and of the truth of the gospel, which influences the will, and leads to an entire reliance on Christ for salvation.
3. 387 : 27-32
The history of Christianity furnishes sublime proofs of the supporting influence and protecting power bestowed on man by his heavenly Father, omnipotent Mind, who gives man faith and understanding whereby to defend himself, not only from temptation, but from bodily suffering.
Matthew 9:22
But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
2. 373 : 1-5
If we are Christians on all moral questions, but are in darkness as to the physical exemption which Christianity includes, then we must have more faith in God on this subject and be more alive to His promises.
Science and Health, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 390 to 394
Mrs. Eddy — The Woman by Annie M. Knott
Detractor — One who takes away or impairs the reputation of another injuriously; one who attempts to lessen the worth or honor of another.
The 1828 Webster’s Dictionary
Calumniator — One who slanders; one who falsely and knowingly accuses another of a crime or offense, or maliciously propagates false accusations or reports.
The 1828 Webster’s Dictionary