Sunday, July 27th, 2025 Roundtable
Truth is Always the Victor
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Truth
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Morning Prayer
All is Mind and Mind is God, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient good. God is my Mind. Divine Mind expresses every function of my body. No morbid nor torpid secretions can lodge in any part of my body. Nothing can obstruct the channels of Truth. No mortal or human opinions or theories can produce fear in my consciousness. The bowels of mercy are free and cooperate action daily, because good is the cause of all action, the same yesterday, today and forever. No illusion of fear can produce any abnormal manifestation on or of your functional action, since God governs all that He has made and there is nothing made that He did not make. Truth is an alterative to that entire system. Love is the only laxative and frees us from all bondage. No self-righteousness, no self-will, no self-fear — no fear of self. I live in God, good, the eternal consciousness of good every day, every moment.
from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 79 to 80
Daily Watch
283 — WATCH lest you accept the action of treatment as being Truth harmonizing matter, instead of being Truth freeing and spiritualizing thought from the false claims of matter. In Science we learn that the seeming disease on the body is as emphatically mental as is its cause in the human mind. In class Mrs. Eddy once said, “Now what of those who make a claim such as this: declaring the Truth harmonizes matter, that Truth will heal matter, or in any way making matter a reality to be healed? If we admit there is matter, then we must admit all the causes and effects, all the beliefs; there is no other way. Then never admit matter. Never for one moment admit a claim of anything to harmonize.”
Discussion points
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
John 8:11
…go, and sin no more.
Golden Text: John 8 : 32
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
4. 288
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.
Responsive Reading: Psalm 19 : 7-11 • Psalm 117 : 1, 2
7. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
8. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
10. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
1. O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
2. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever.
“The law of God cannot be made flexible. … In contradistinction to so-called material law, spiritual law is inflexible. It is never two-sided, nor can it be made to conform to human desire or will. It is the law of divine Principle, the law of absolute Truth, the law of immutable Love, the law of eternal Life. There is no physical or moral ill too insidious, or too deeply rooted, to be made to yield to this immutable law of God, good. There can be no law, decreeing a crippled condition, mental, physical or financial. … You are liberated by divine Love from every false claim of the flesh. The law of Spirit is supreme; it dominates the flesh, and you are God’s own child. Never born of the flesh, nor subject to it. … Divine Love maintains man forever at the point of completeness, preserves his every faculty and his individuality; guides each separate idea in continuous unfoldment of the infinite grandeur of spiritual creation.”
from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, as given by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 177 and 181
10. 371
Truth is an alterative in the entire system, and can make it “every whit whole.”
“Converting the soul” by Carra L. Thoreson
1. Proverbs 3 : 1-5, 21-23
1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
Psalm 117 : 3
“For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever.
“For his merciful kindness is great toward us — His kindness; his compassion; his love. All nations — all people — may say this, and therefore the psalm is adapted to universal praise. Especially may this be said in view of the love of God to mankind in the gift of a Saviour — a Saviour not for any one people especially or exclusively, but for the world. John 3:16
And the truth of the Lord endureth for ever — All that God has said: his declarations; his promises; his assurances of mercy. They are the same in all lands where they are made known, and they are the same in all ages of the world. Truth is a representation of things as they are; and truth, therefore, must be ever the same. What was true in the first ages of the world…is true now, and will always be true; and so, what God has affirmed at any one time will always remain the same in all ages and in all lands. What was truth to Abraham is truth to us; what was truth to Paul is truth to us; what was truth to the martyrs is truth to us; what is truth to us will be truth to all generations of the world in all lands, and will be truth forever.”
From Barnes Notes on The Bible
The Permanence Of Truth by Irving C. Tomlinson
4. Philippians 4
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
The habitual struggle to be always good is unceasing prayer.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 4
9. 254 : 10-15
When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path. Imperfect mortals grasp the ultimate of spiritual perfection slowly; but to begin aright and to continue the strife of demonstrating the great problem of being, is doing much.
The Christian’s Bank by S. J. Hare
2. I Kings 18
21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.
36 … let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible on 1 Kings 18
5. 372 : 26-32
In Christian Science, a denial of Truth is fatal, while a just acknowledgment of Truth and of what it has done for us is an effectual help. If pride, superstition, or any error prevents the honest recognition of benefits received, this will be a hindrance to the recovery of the sick and the success of the student.