Sunday, January 26th, 2025 Roundtable
How to Manifest Healing In Your Life
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Truth
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Morning Prayer
MEMORANDA
1. Pray God to help you awake to the claims of error, and awake to the truth that destroys them.
2. Whenever error would try to make sin, sickness, disease or death seem real, Good overrules it, and it makes them more unreal to us.
3. Good reverses every evil argument and effort, and brings out the opposite good.
Declare continually your own perfection and freedom, and let the true and divine idea destroy the mesmerism that argues that you are sad and unhappy. This idea is your Saviour.
Do not feel too much God’s dear methods of unfoldment as a rod, but make them a staff.
When others hate, oppose, ignore, help me, dear Lord, to love them more.
Love unselfed, love of one’s enemies, humility, moderation, strength, are the cardinals of Christian Science.
The divine law of Life, Truth and Love is a law of instant and complete expulsion and elimination of all poisons and impurities from the system. Why? Because the floodtides of divine Life, Truth and Love are pouring and surging through consciousness, uplifting, purifying, nourishing, healing, elevating, sustaining and energizing mankind.
Everything that comes to me today brings me a blessing. There is no mortal mind to see me today or know me today; or think it can through any of its so-called laws of malpractice rob me of all good or hinder me from being conscious here and now of my birthright which is dominion.
from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 8, 11, and 12 of the Addenda
Daily Watch
292 — WATCH that you send forth your scientific arrows of thought with power and then protect them against reversal. The entire volume of electricity present in the atmosphere is back of each lightning bolt. In like manner we should realize that the entire power of God is back of every affirmation of Truth that we make. When you read the arguments Mrs. Eddy used or gave to students to use, you can feel that she sent them out with such power, that they reached the mark and destroyed the error, in spite of error’s attempt to reverse and nullify them.
Once she declared, “Since malicious animal magnetism knows all the arguments of Christian Science, it is necessary to declare that no argument of mental malpractice can make null and void, antidote or reverse, any statement of Christian Science that you make.”
Nature puts a hard shell of protection on the coconut. In like manner we should guard our declarations of Truth in order that they may accomplish that whereunto they are sent.
Discussion points
Golden Text: Isaiah 25 : 7
“And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.”
6. 596 : 28 (to 2nd .)
Veil. A cover; concealment; hiding; hypocrisy.
The Unreality Of Evil By Rev. Arthur Reeves Vosburgh
Children of Israel by Margaret J. Sinclair
“Loose Him, And Let Him Go” By Rose Seelye-Miller
The Simplicity of Metaphysical Practice by Peter V. Ross
TRUTH, noun
1. Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be. The truth of history constitutes its whole value. We rely on the truth of the scriptural prophecies.
My mouth shall speak truth Proverbs 8:7.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth John 17:17.
2. True state of facts or things. The duty of a court of justice is to discover the truth Witnesses are sworn to declare the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
3. Conformity of words to thoughts, which is called moral truth
Shall truth fail to keep her word?
4. Veracity; purity from falsehood; practice of speaking truth; habitual disposition to speak truth; as when we say, a man is a man of truth
1. 497 : 3 (As)-4
As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
11. 288 : 31-2
The eternal Truth destroys what mortals seem to have learned from error, and man’s real existence as a child of God comes to light. Truth demonstrated is eternal life.
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.
The Word Made Flesh from Addresses by Martha Wilcox
Watching Point 317 from 500 Watching Points Carpenter
Never become discouraged, dear ones. This work is not humdrum, it is growth. It is repeating and defeating, repeating and defeating, repeating and defeating.
from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 185
Though the mills of God grind slowly,
Yet they grind exceeding small;
from Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 80
Final Readings
TRUTH. How am I seeing? Who am I seeing? What am I seeing? In Truth, I see only God’s image and likeness, for man is a transparency for Truth.
My vision proceeds from my love of Truth, from my conscious awareness of the idea, and therefore I see man to be the Son of God, or God expressed. “Man” includes the truth about everything, so I recognize both great and small to have divine significance. My focus is of infinite range.
My seeing, being spiritual, always has reference to Truth, and is attentive to what is true and divine. It is not dissipated in idle curiosity, but is steadfast on all that is of true worth.
I see that there is only one man, and therefore I recognize that one man’s good is all men’s good. I am quick to see my brother’s need and to supply it, mentally and spiritually, in order that my vision of man be whole and healthy. I see man unfallen, upright, Godlike. I love to practice seeing the truth, for true vision blesses both the seer and the seen. I judge or criticize no man, but allow Truth to deal with error in God’s own way.
In Truth, my manhood comprises both man and woman, in perfect balance. My manhood seeing is manifested in good far vision, seeing the abstract and impersonal truth clearly and steadily. My womanhood vision is manifested as good near sight, for I can bring home the wider truths, and see them in their details, as applying to me practically and comfortingly. My manhood sees with the intellect, my womanhood with the feeling. These two viewpoints (“eyes”) combine as one, for apprehension and comprehension are wedded in me.
(In the Gospels, every case of healing of the blind is accompanied by a reference to “thou son of David.” David typified the wedding of manhood and womanhood, the outward seeing and the inner conception. It is this spiritual activity of wedding the human and the divine which is the key of David, that opens our vision.)
In Truth, I am son, or derived. Therefore it is my heritage to enjoy God’s vision; no mortal inheritance ever gave it me or could deprive me of it.