Sunday, March 30th, 2025 Roundtable
Faith vs Unbelief
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Reality
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Morning Prayer
Lord, may Thy truth upon the heart
Now fall and dwell as heavenly dew,
And flowers of grace in freshness start
Where once the weeds of error grew.
From Hymn 322
There was never a moment in which evil was real. This great fact concerning all error brings with it another and more glorious truth, that good is supreme. As there is none beside Him, and He is all good, there can be no evil.
Simply uttering this great thought is not enough! We must live it, until God becomes the All and Only of our being.
from No and Yes, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 24 to 25
Daily Watch
437 — WATCH that you realize that animal magnetism, or mortal mind, has not a thing to give you. Hence in reality Science does not demand of you to sacrifice anything, except a wrong way of looking at things.
A pair of binoculars has nothing to offer you except something to look through; and all you see is distorted, if they are out of focus. Mortal mind offers us distorted reality. Then if any part of that distortion appears to be beautiful or desirable, how much more so will the view seem, as we give up mortal mind for divine Mind, and perceive reality as it is.
Discussion points
11. 264
As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible.
The Revelator had not yet passed the transitional stage in human experience called death, but he already saw a new heaven and a new earth. Through what sense came this vision to St. John? Not through the material visual organs for seeing, for optics are inadequate to take in so wonderful a scene. Were this new heaven and new earth terrestrial or celestial, material or spiritual? They could not be the former, for the human sense of space is unable to grasp such a view. The Revelator was on our plane of existence, while yet beholding what the eye cannot see, — that which is invisible to the uninspired thought. This testimony of Holy Writ sustains the fact in Science, that the heavens and earth to one human consciousness, that consciousness which God bestows, are spiritual, while to another, the unillumined human mind, the vision is material. This shows unmistakably that what the human mind terms matter and spirit indicates states and stages of consciousness.
from Chapter 16 — The Apocalypse, in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy
1. 492 : 3-4
For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence.
One Universal Journey by Ella W. Hoag
My business is to love. There may be other things
That I must likewise do,
Yet this I know is true:
They are but means to manifest Love’s offerings.
Just as we say the sun gives light and warmth benign,
Brings sundry plants to birth
And blesses all the earth;
And yet we know its only business is to shine.
My business is to love. Not just as I direct,
But as the smiling sun
Beams down on everyone,
Impartial, universal love must I reflect.
Poem 327 from Daily Angels, vol. 1, by Max Dunaway
If I forget to love, then I forget as well
To be at one with good, where I should ever dwell;
Forget to take my food of life, my daily rest;
Forget how fellow man and I by God are blest.
If I forget to love, then I forget the peace
That flows into the heart and makes rich joys increase,
Forget the fullest, sweetest sense that man can know;
Forget the Principle that heals all earthly woe.
If I forget to love, then I forget to live;
Forget to take the good that God Himself would give;
Forget the best on earth, the best in heaven above;
Forget that I exist, if I forget to love.
Poem 332 from Daily Angels, vol. 1, by Max Dunaway
The Treasury of David
Psalm 34:15
“The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous.” He observes them with approval and tender consideration; they are so dear to him that he cannot take his eyes off them; he watches each one of them as carefully and intently as if there were only that one creature in the universe. “His ears are open unto their cry.” His eyes and ears are thus both turned by the Lord towards his saints; his whole mind is occupied about them: if slighted by all others they are not neglected by him. Their cry he hears at once, even as a mother is sure to hear her sick babe; the cry may be broken, plaintive, unhappy, feeble, unbelieving, yet the Father’s quick ear catches each note of lament or appeal, and he is not slow to answer his children’s voice.
From BibleHub.com
Unity Watch for Thursday, March 27th, 2025
Let’s work in unity with the following paragraph from Herbert Eustace:
“You cannot play with your understanding of Christian Science. The time for trifling has passed. No wonder Mrs. Eddy is reported to have said to a friend, ‘This hour is the acme of hate against Love, and Love alone can meet it.’ Are you willing to allow your world to fall into destruction? Or are you going to settle the question instantly and declare, ‘This testimony halts right here. My thinking stays on one side and one side only, the side of God.’ Then remember, ‘To affirm anything is to assert its possibility’ and that when you affirm that which is true, although human reasoning and sight may say it is not true at all, you will bring it to pass. Why? Because it is already the fact.”
from Christian Science, Its Clear, Correct Teaching, by Herbert Eustace, page 415
Golden Text: Psalm 34 : 15
“The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.”
Responsive Reading: Hebrews 3
12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Unbelief And Faith By Rev. William P. McKenzie
Matthew 13 : 5, 6
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Responsive Reading: Hebrews 3 : 14
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end.
Confidence Versus Discouragement by Edward A. Kimball
How I have tried to run my own affairs!
And sometimes those of other people, too.
Yet daily they grew worse to my despair,
Until at last I knew not what to do.
And now, dear God, I bring all things to You
And ask that You will take them in Your hand.
You be the ruler; show me what to do
And I will humbly serve at Your command.
So shall my ways become more sound and true
To learn intelligence and You are one;
And I shall do what You would have me do,
And do it, too, as You would have it done.
Poem 253 from Daily Angels, vol. 1, by Max Dunaway