Sunday, September 14th, 2025 Roundtable
How to Save the World
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Substance
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Morning Prayer
Inasmuch as I am God’s child, spiritual, and not material, I must be perfect. I am whole; I am free; I have all I need every hour; I am without fear, without anxiety; I live in Spirit, not in matter (error); I am not in danger; no one can harm me or deprive me of any good. I know no such thing as pain, suffering, or disease, for I am a reflection of Life, Truth and Love. I am never disappointed or grieved. The harmony of my being is never broken, because I live in the infinite. No condition of the body is essential to my happiness, for God, good, only, is the spring of all my joys. My life is hid with Christ in God. Therefore, I am immortal, for nothing can be lost or die in God.
from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, as given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 120
Daily Watch
488 — WATCH that you realize that, just as Mrs. Eddy’s demonstration and influence for good remains with us today to heal and bless all who avail themselves of it, so the temptation to stray, to which some of her students yielded, also remains as an error to be detected and handled.
Augusta Stetson put forth the argument that Christian Scientists should, by reason of their claims to all good, have the best of everything. Then under the cover of this argument she indulged in materiality. She would not have been misled in this way, had she realized that in Christian Science possessions are permissible only as they are evidences of divine Love demonstrated. Even as such they present a temptation and a danger. Job discovered this, and proved that the Master’s way was the safest, namely, to seek first the kingdom of God, and to have the things added.
Discussion points
If we do not control our possessions with the understanding that they are spiritual, they will control us with the belief that they are material.
from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy
Matthew 6:33
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
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 with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 71
How to Save the World by Nancy Beauchamp
…John Robinson wrote in 1620 to our Pilgrim Fathers: “When Christ reigns, and not till then, will the world have rest.”
from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 183
Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 106
Never was there a more solemn and imperious call than God makes to us all, right here, for fervent devotion and an absolute consecration to the greatest and holiest of all causes. The hour is come. The great battle of Armageddon is upon us. The powers of evil are leagued together in secret conspiracy against the Lord and against His Christ, as expressed and operative in Christian Science. Large numbers, in desperate malice, are engaged day and night in organizing action against us. Their feeling and purpose are deadly, and they have sworn enmity against the lives of our standard-bearers.
What will you do about it? Will you be equally in earnest for the truth? Will you doff your lavender-kid zeal, and become real and consecrated warriors? Will you give yourselves wholly and irrevocably to the great work of establishing the truth, the gospel, and the Science which are necessary to the salvation of the world from error, sin, disease, and death? Answer at once and practically, and answer aright!
from “Sunday Services on July Fourth” in Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 177
Too soon we cannot turn from disease in the body to find disease in the mortal mind, and its cure, in working for God.
from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 343
I am asked, “What are your politics?” I have none, in reality, other than to help support a righteous government; to love God supremely, and my neighbor as myself.
from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 276
Mrs. Eddy — The Woman, from the March 1910 issue of the Christian Science Journal by Annie M. Knott
Substance by Edward Earle Daniell
Psalm 37:3-6
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Trust, definition from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary
Delight, definition from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary
Commit, definition from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary
Hebrews 11:1
11 Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses].
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