Sunday, April 6th, 2025 Roundtable
God Has Not Given You the Spirit of Fear
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Unreality
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Morning Prayer
Oh, keep me ever seeing Thee and seeing as Thou seest, my Life, my joy, my All.
Oh, that an influx of divine light and glory may enter each and every one of our hearts, and that you be enduced anew with power from on high.
God, forgive me for having any doubt, fear or lack of faith that all things are possible with Thee.
from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 51
Daily Watch
273 — WATCH that you understand what Mrs. Eddy meant when she said (Mis. 210), “… error, when found out, is two-thirds destroyed, and the remaining third kills itself.”
Once Mrs. Eddy said, “Could you, my dear ones, but see the grandeur of your outlook, the sublimity of your hope, and the infinite capacity of your being, you would do what? Let error kill itself. It comes to you for life and you give it the only life it has — in belief.”
The deduction is that error is uncovered or found out, only when you see that you have given it all the life it has in belief. When you see this, at once you withdraw such support, and thus the error is two-thirds destroyed. Then the remaining third, which is the manifestation, having no support, kills itself.
Discussion points
Man is not made to till the soil.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 517 to 518
Christian Scientists cannot watch too sedulously, or bar their doors too closely, or pray to God too fervently, for deliverance from the claims of evil.
from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 114
Be of good cheer; the warfare with one’s self is grand; it gives one plenty of employment, and the divine Principle worketh with you, — and obedience crowns persistent effort with everlasting victory.
from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 118
Think of the wonder of such oneness, Allness, wholeness, which excludes all error to the point of nothingness and thus assures your serene and permanent immunity from every suggestion of suffering, doubt and fear! Fear is the belief in the existence of something contrary to good—the belief that something can happen contrary to divine Love. But Love’s all-presence, all-power, all-action frees from any such suggestion, proving fear to be nothing more than a mindless mis-conception, totally incapable of influencing the son of God, incapable of invading the one and only consciousness, your consciousness. Fear is incapable of trespassing upon the health and harmony and peace which are your natural state.
Addresses and Other Writings on Christian Science by Doris Dufour Henty
Suppose that you are making a journey by air. You know that as divine idea you can never be in a plane. The truth about a plane is some spiritual fact, an idea of Mind always included within consciousness. Science and Health tells us that the ideas of Mind “are obedient to the Mind that makes them” (p. 295), and that all “that God imparts moves in accord with Him” (p. 515). So then, the spiritual fact relating to the plane is that plane is an idea within Mind, is controlled by Mind, is obedient to Mind, and is moving in accord with Mind. When the idea is held in such flawless security, any false move, any impediment or impairment, is impossible. Incidental to this Mind-controlled idea would be a safe and harmonious flight, free from fear.
Man is never in any material circumstance: he is never in a ship; he is never in a home. Every idea—wisdom, beauty, joy, all that constitutes heaven—is included within your glorious being.
Addresses and Other Writings on Christian Science by Doris Dufour Henty
I shall not fear. How can I fall
When God is here and He is all,
And there is nought beside?
How can I yield to sin’s demand
When God is at my very hand,
And I with Him abide?
Why should I bow my knee to shame,
When I hear my Redeemer’s name
And know He knows no wrong?
Nor can I say that I am weak;
God is my strength. How could I seek
For more or be more strong?
O then I shall not live in doubt;
Almighty God can hold me out
Of fear and sinful ways.
My life shall be no lying dream,
But a reality whose theme
Shall be to sing His praise.
“I am afraid!” O binding, stifling word.
How much of good you have delayed,
Because men thought they were afraid
And let your lying whisperings be heard.
Yet what are you? A presence, truth, or power?
Can you overthrow ought that is real,
Or one command of God repeal?
Can you withstand the light of truth one hour?
Ah, no, you blackened cloud of nothingness.
Man need not in your bonds be held;
By Truth and Love you are dispelled.
And men may rise from fear to sure success.
The disciples had toiled all night in vain. They were working on a material basis—the barren, fruitless basis where persons believe themselves beset by adverse material conditions and difficulties which they must endeavour to surmount. We do not need to struggle so hard, but simply to acknowledge (that is, understand) the presence of perfection now.
Addresses and Other Writings on Christian Science by Doris Dufour Henty
Chapter Twenty-one, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter
Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve By S. Ella Shelhamer
He who clothes the lilies will tend you and gird you with strength in Truth and Love, and so establish the labor of your hands in His vineyard. Never distrust, never doubt the All-Love, for it never faileth. As your day, so shall your strength be. Be patient, and let faith grow stronger and stronger each day of this pilgrimage.
from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 139
Virtue Medicine: Gratitude, Courage, Forgiveness, Awe, Honesty, Joy, Laughter, Generosity, Charity, and Hope
Thy Will Be Done by J. R. Mosley
5. John 4 : 24
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Effectual Prayer by Blanche Hersey Hogue
4. Lamentations 3 : 23
23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
“Throughout his life, the truth of God that was faithfully taught by Jeremiah the prophet, was rejected and ridiculed by all and sundry. This was bad enough, but when He saw the destruction and devastation of Jerusalem, he fell into deep depression and wept and mourned over the ruins of the beautiful city of God.
However, in his distress hope was revived as Jeremiah looked away from himself to the Lord, and called to mind the loving-mercies, deep-compassion, and long-suffering of God for all His rebellious people. And so he declares this beautiful truth: “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is His faithfulness.”…only as we look away from ourselves, our problems, and our own limited perspectives, and call to mind the greater reality of His loving-mercies, deep-compassion, and long-suffering, do we recognize the steadfast love of the Lord which never ceases.
Only as we turn our eyes away from our own disappointments and look to His wider purpose and plan, do we discover that His mercies never come to an end, for they are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness.”