Sunday, August 10th, 2025 Roundtable
The Ability to Hear God’s Voice is Fundamental
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Spirit
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Morning Prayer
Look away from body to Spirit. My being is spiritual, my life, my intelligence, are spiritual; my senses are spiritual; my life is hid with Christ in God, and there is no other existence.
from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 108
God, good, Spirit, is ever-present and man is His image and likeness. This is a rule that will solve any problem.
from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 119
Daily Watch
39 — WATCH lest, when you perceive that the spiritual structure you are building seems to depend for its continued support upon a spiritual sense in you which seems too frail, immature and intangible to maintain it, you permit fear and doubt to cause you to believe that this spiritual sense has been smothered, or is likely to be. In reality man’s desire for God, and his ability to find Him and to reflect Him, are qualities which materiality can never impair. The error is wholly a trick of deception, that claims to blind one as to where to find God, and as to the nature of the error that claims to hide Him. The argument that our spiritual nature has been or can be smothered is a trick of animal magnetism. Is the reflecting power of a mirror impaired by the dust that falls on it?
Discussion points
Take this thought and carry it with you. God is Spirit. I am His child, made in His image and likeness. Jesus’ teachings will restore to me that which I seem to have lost — the likeness of my Father.
from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 126
Napoleon looked for lucky generals, so it is said, by which he meant those generals who do not associate defeat with their campaigns. There are plenty of people today to whom the thought of failure or sickness seldom occurs. They are not lucky; they are normal. Divine Mind diffuses spiritual ideas in man—thoughts of strength, confidence, gladness, plenitude. Listen for them and act upon them. “Hear, O Israel,” is the commandment, is it not? We are not lacking resources, stamina, and ability, but lacking appreciation of their presence. Assurances of present abundance are not farfetched. Think them out and dwell upon them, whether they pertain to career, home, or health. Put forth industrious effort to bring these assurances to pass. Then will this supposedly grudging world begin to yield more bountifully. Spiritual law is made operative in human affairs.
from “Normal Living” by Peter V. Ross
Listening to God by Gilbert Carpenter
The Real Man by Helen Ward Banks
Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 476 to 477
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 261
Golden Text: John 4 : 24
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
On Looking Up by Henry C. Burchell
II Corinthians 10 : 5
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
The Beatitudes by Doris White Evans
Self-love is more opaque than a solid body. In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error, — self-will, self-justification, and self-love, — which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 242
Mr. Kimball asked Mrs. Eddy what would happen to the Christian Science Movement if she should pass on. She replied” ‘It would degenerate into material prosperity.’ He then asked what would happen if she ascended. She hesitated, before answering with a beatific smile, ‘The Mother Church would be dissolved.’
from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 252
Ways That Are Vain by Mary Baker Eddy
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
Responsive Reading: Romans 8
1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Final Readings
Concord, N. H., June 1 1905.
Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy,
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.
My Dear Leader:— I take pleasure in giving you a testimony from Mrs. Allen, wife of General C. C. Allen of Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Allen is a member of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of that city and her home is at 1100 Eighth Street. All that Mrs. Allen could tell me of the patient was that his name was Carter, and that he worked for the City of London Company of Los Angeles. Mrs. Allen’s impression is that Mr. Carter is now in San Francisco. Her testimony was given at our service last evening, and is as follows:—
“Two years ago I had a man come to my house to repair some window-shades in the parlor. When he had finished his work I asked him to come to my study. I left him in my room for a time, and when I returned he said, ‘I see that you are a Christian Scientist,’ because he saw my literature in the room. Then he said, ‘I was healed by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.’ I said, ‘I want you to tell me all about it.’ Then he gave me these facts: ‘About eighteen years ago, while living in Boston, I fell from the third story of a building on which I was working, to the pavement. My leg was broken in three places. I was taken to a hospital, where they tried to help me. They said that the leg was so bad that it would have to be amputated. I said, “No, I would rather die.” They permitted it to heal as best it might, and as a result I had to wear an iron shoe eight or nine inches high. I was called to Mrs. Eddy’s home on Commonwealth Avenue, in Boston, to do some light work. Mrs. Eddy came into the room where I was busy, and observing my condition, kindly remarked, “I suppose you expect to get out of this some time.” I answered, “No; all that can be done for me has been done, and I can now manage to get around with a cane.” Mrs. Eddy said, “Sit down and I will treat you.” When she finished the treatment she said, “You go home and take off that iron shoe, and give your leg a chance to straighten out.” I went home and did as I was told, and now I am so well that, so far as I know, one leg is as good as the other.’ “