Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 Roundtable
Happiness is Unselfish, and Requires all Mankind to Share It
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Love
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Morning Prayer
Repeat the following affirmations silently several times each day not with strained anxiety to get something out of them, but trying calmly to realize the meaning of the words:
God is All; there is no evil.
All is harmony; there is no discord.
All is health; there is no sickness.
All is Spirit; there is no matter.
All is joy; there is no sorrow.
All is Truth; there is no falsehood.
All is faith; there is no fear.
All is Life; there is no death.
All is Love; there is no hate.
from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 282
Daily Watch
399 — WATCH that you seek to love others, rather than to seek to have others love you. When you seek to have others love you, you are clinging to earth. When you seek to love others, without regard for whether that love is returned, you are on the highroad to heaven. Mrs. Eddy once said, “In human love you seek someone to love; in divine Love you seek to love.” At another time she said, “In human love you expect something for yourself; in divine Love you expect something for all.”
Discussion points
And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job 42 : 10
6. 57 : 18-30
Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it. The wintry blasts of earth may uproot the flowers of affection, and scatter them to the winds; but this severance of fleshly ties serves to unite thought more closely to God, for Love supports the struggling heart until it ceases to sigh over the world and begins to unfold its wings for heaven.
I make strong demands on love, call for active witnesses to prove it, and noble sacrifices and grand achievements as its results.
from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 250
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Luke 6 : 32
Kinship with all life by J. Allen Boone
Anna Breytenbach — How Diablo Became Spirit
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston S. Churchill
The following is taken from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter:
34 — WATCH that you be consistent in your handling of error, not overlooking an error in yourself, or claiming immunity from it, while you continue to hold it as real in another. One burned-out bulb in a string of Christmas tree lights that are connected in series, will cause them all to go out. As God’s children we are all banded together in the bonds of love. To see one of God’s little ones as a burned- out bulb, or as cut off from God, and hence under the control of error, shuts off your current, and robs you of your spiritual light.
I see myself as God’s own child,
As perfect in His sight.
I see my brother-man as well,
A perfect child of light.
Then to complete my prayer,
I see him seeing me aright-
I see him seeing me seeing him
As perfect in Love’s sight.
Golden Text: Galatians 6 : 2
“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
The Brother’s Keeper by Mary Brookins
Our Own And Another’s Burden by Bertha V. Zerega
Philippians 2:12
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling
10. 138 : 17-31
Jesus established in the Christian era the precedent for all Christianity, theology, and healing. Christians are under as direct orders now, as they were then, to be Christlike, to possess the Christ-spirit, to follow the Christ-example, and to heal the sick as well as the sinning. It is easier for Christianity to cast out sickness than sin, for the sick are more willing to part with pain than are sinners to give up the sinful, so-called pleasure of the senses. The Christian can prove this to-day as readily as it was proved centuries ago.
Our Master said to every follower: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature! … Heal the sick! … Love thy neighbor as thyself!” It was this theology of Jesus which healed the sick and the sinning.
11. 571 : 15-21
At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one divinity.
13. 467 : 9-16
It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brotherhood of man will be established. Having no other gods, turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, having that Mind which was also in Christ.
2. 454 : 17-24
Love for God and man is the true incentive in both healing and teaching. Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of Truth. Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept. Patience must “have her perfect work.”
Mothers In Israel by Margaret L. Marshall
Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 454
“Whose Daughter Art Thou?” by Clara S. Streeter
6. Proverbs 31
10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.