Sunday, June 22nd, 2025 Roundtable
Everything in the Universe Belongs to God
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Is The Universe, Including Man, Evolved By Atomic Force?
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Morning Prayer
Good is infinite. If we limit good and concede power to evil, how can we expect to escape that which we believe has power to hold us in bondage? The First Commandment forbids us to believe in a power apart from God. There is no error of any name or nature in my consciousness that can resist, hide, or escape the Truth. The light of Truth and Life and Love shines straight through my belief of evil and banishes it, chasing it into its native nothingness.
My desire is to know and obey God’s law, to be filled with all the fulness of Spirit knowing only the consciousness of God, good.
My health, strength, life, intelligence, action, etc., are subject to the governing and controlling power of the divine Mind, and to nothing else, for there is no other power.
from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 107
Daily Watch
464 — WATCH that you perceive the lesson sickness is intended to teach, namely, that matter and a material sense of man are wholly undesirable, and hence only worthy to be disposed of, in order that the man of God may be revealed. The temptation under sickness is to be so disturbed that one cannot think clearly, or work constructively.
A Christian Scientist is one who has put his hand to the plough in order to break up material belief. He is not loyal to God, however, if he permits himself to look back at the harmony he once had in a human sense, and to long for it. Read Science and Health, 96:4-27. link
Discussion points
Sickness is the schoolmaster, leading you to Christ; first to faith in Christ; next to belief in God as omnipotent; and finally to the understanding of God and man in Christian Science, whereby you learn that God is good, and in Science man is His likeness, the forever reflection of goodness. Therefore good is one and All.
from Rudimental Divine Science, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 11
Question. — What is the scientific statement of being?
Answer. — There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 468
…progress is the law of God…
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 233
1. Psalm 46 : 4
“There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.”
“The imagery presented in this verse depicts a life-giving river that represents God’s refreshing presence in the midst of turmoil. The city of God is portrayed as a place of joy and security, contrasting sharply with the surrounding chaos it faces. The water imagery evokes the spirit of divine sustenance and protection, reminiscent of how the waters of Siloam were associated with life and safety for ancient Jerusalem. This verse highlights that despite overwhelming calamities—symbolized by roaring waters and shaking mountains—the presence of God is a source of comfort and stability.
In the context of this Psalm, the promise of divine help is paramount. It assures believers that they can find joy and strength in God’s promises, even amidst the fiercest adversities… Trusting in God fosters an inner peace that counters external disturbances and fears. The text encourages readers to draw upon God’s infallible strength, reinforcing that His presence amidst His people is both a refuge and a source of enduring gladness. The verse reminds us that true joy comes from recognizing God’s abiding support despite life’s challenges.
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On one side there will be discord and dismay; on the other side there will be Science and peace.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 96
Psalm 91:8
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 306
1. Psalm 46 : 1-3 (to 1st .), 4-7 (to 1st .), 8 (to 2nd ,), 9, 10
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
8 Come, behold the works of the Lord,
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Golden Text: Psalm 24 : 1
“The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”
Mrs. Eddy was always a ‘minute woman.’ She said that Christian Scientists, having Principle as their measuring rods, should be the most methodical people in the world in the ordering of their personal lives, their homes, and their business affairs.
from Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy, by Irving Tomlinson, page 165
“Every Man in His Place” by Myrtle T. Sutherland
Gideon’s Three Hundred by Louise Knight Wheatley
The Religious Side of Queen Victoria
An account of the religious side of Queen Victoria’s character has just been written by the Rev. Dr. Alexander MacKennal, a distinguished Congregational minister of Bowden, England, and president of the National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches of Great Britain. Dr. MacKennal’s account appeared in The Congregationalist, January 26, and was as follows: —
“A prosperous reign is a sore trial to the integrity of a people; we have not come out of it unscathed. We might have been destroyed by it, but we have had a monarch whose personal character has been a standing witness for virtue and godliness, and whose influence has always been exerted in favor of whatsoever things are true and honorable and pure and holy and of good report.
“The Queen had to choose her husband, and the soundness of her heart and judgment is seen in her choice of Prince Albert. He brought the simplicity of Lutheran piety and the largeness of German culture to refine the hard English habit and set its judgment free. To him we owe the inscription on the Royal Exchange in London, ‘The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof,’ and the prominence of a like inscription in the Exhibition of 1851. He loved to have about him men with whom he could talk of religion, the Bible, Christian life and doctrine. A certain intellectual freedom, robustness of faith, and largeness of fellowship mark the piety of the royal household. Dean Stanley and Dr. Caird, Baron Bunsen and Archbishop Tait and less known Benjamin Woodward represent different churches and various religious habits, and all spoke freely with the Queen and the Prince Consort. These were, however, cultivated men; one might value their friendship for other reasons than their piety. The Queen was interested in the religion of all with whom she had to do and showed concern for humble as well as for scholarly godliness. When one of her servants died at Windsor, she sent for the minister of the Congregational Church, of which the woman had been a member, and asked him to conduct a funeral service in the porch before the body was sent away for burial, and she herself was present. Her religious tastes have also been simple. She has herself told us how her heart rose into her throat when Norman McLeod prayed without a book for her and her children.
“The simplicity and directness of her religious life are the more noticeable because she has been a strict observer of court etiquette. She has regarded the restrictions of her position, and has not attended dissenting places of worship, as have some of her family, both before and after her. Nonconformists have no good ground for resentment of this. They have seen in the personal respect she has paid to Nonconformists, and in her insistence that they should be recognized on public occasions, both what was her feeling and what her policy in regard to them. One of those on the steps of St. Paul’s in 1897 remembered an incident which had happened at Windsor ten years before. ‘The three denominations,’ as they are called — Baptist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian — have the right of access to the throne in recognition of their services in establishing the present dynasty. They wished to offer addresses to her Majesty on her first jubilee, and were invited to go up, in company with several other deputations. It was a various gathering which went to court that day. There were lords-lieutenants of counties and mayors of boroughs, heads of learned societies, the Scottish and Irish Universities, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal Society, and many others, last of all came five fishermen from Grimsby, in blue jerseys, who were there to represent the North Sea industries. The first to be presented were the lords-lieutenants and the mayors. The Queen received them seated. But when the ‘representatives of religious bodies’ were announced she rose and received them and their addresses standing. The act was intended to be significant. Perhaps not one of these men was known to her even by name; they had come from the dissenting churches and the undenominational societies. They were representatives of religion, and that was enough.”
from the February 14, 1901 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel
Responsive Reading: Psalm 95 : 1-7
1. O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
Jenny Lind, when asked the secret of her marvelous power as a singer, said, “I sing to God.” She forgot the people and looked into God’s face and sang. Every singer should sing to God. Every Christian should certainly sing to God. That is what this psalm teaches: “O come, let us sing unto the Lord.” Our lives should be full of worship. It is not enough to be joyous—we must put our joy into praise to God. Even if we are in sorrow, we should praise. In the ancient worship, incense was the emblem of prayer. Prayer is fragrance. An old rabbinical legend represents an angel standing at the gate of heaven to receive earth’s prayers and praisings, as they arose, and as he caught them they turned to roses in his hands. Earth’s worship is fragrance in heaven. We should never cease to worship God. “The Lord is a great God, and a great King. … O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God.”
Signs of the Times, with contributions from Theodore P. Stephens, Felix R. Hill, Jr. from the May 9, 1925 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel [From the Canadian Baptist, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 22, 1925]
The spiritual power of a scientific, right thought, without a direct effort, an audible or even a mental argument, has oftentimes healed inveterate diseases.
from Rudimental Divine Science, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 9
SONGS
Little silent songs,
We sing to Thee, O God!
They are joyous and sweet;
They show the ever-presence
Of Thy love.
Perhaps upon life’s dusty highway
Some weary and sin-burdened soul
May hear them—and, arrested, pause—
Wondering what this radiance is,
Whence this unsought, undreamt
Gladness comes;
Aware that heaven hath somehow
Touched his earth—
And guided by
The music of Soul,
May seek—
And so find—
Thee.
The little songs smile,
Are glad
And we go on
Singing … singing …
Songs.
from “O come, let us sing unto the Lord” by Dorothy M. Kingdon from the August 25, 1928 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel
T’aint So, Honey by Herbert W. Eustace
“Every knee shall bow” by Ella W. Hoag
Virtue medicine: Humility
I again repeat, Follow your Leader, only so far as she follows Christ.