Bible Study from April 29th, 2023

“O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.” — Psalm 98:1.

There must be new songs on new occasions of triumph. It would have been absurd for Miriam with her timbrel to conduct the music of the daughters of Israel to some old sonnet that they had learned in Egypt. Nay, an old song could not have spoken out the feelings of that generation, much less could it have served to utter a voice, the jubilant notes of which distant posterity should echo. They must have a new song while they cry the one unto the other, “Sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.” The like had never been known before, but henceforth father to son must show forth its fame. In after times, when Deborah and Barak had routed the hosts of Sisera, they did not borrow Miriam’s song; but they had a new psalm for the new event. They said, “Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.” In after years, at the building of the temple, or on the solemn feast days, it was ever the wont of the inspired poets of the age to cry, “O come, let us sing unto the Lord a new song.” Thus the grateful notes of praise have gathered volume and augmented their compass as the ages have rolled onwards and these as it were only the rehearsals for a grand oratorio.

The “new song which they shall sing before the throne, when the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures shall fall before God upon their faces,” and worship him for ever and ever? Would that our ears could anticipate that tremendous burst of “Hallelujah! hallelujah! hallelujah! the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.”

“— A Sermon (No.496) Delivered on Sunday Evening, December 28th, 1862, by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington

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Richmond Hill, N. Y. (First Church).—Walter W. Kantack made the following remarks when introducing John C. Lathrop, a Christian Science lecturer, to his audience:—

In the ninety-eighth psalm we read: “O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. The Lord hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.” In our time the right hand and holy arm of God have again been revealed, and countless numbers who have been helped and healed through the teachings of Christian Science are singing this new song. The work in this community is but one tone in this universal song of thanksgiving.

“The Lectures” from Christian Science Sentinel, June 24, 1922

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Link to article: “What Prospers Healing?” by David L. Keyston, from May 1997, originally featured at this link on the Healing Unlimited website.

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Link to: Biographies of Mary Baker Eddy

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Book: The History of The Christian Science Movement, volume one and two, by William Lyman Johnson

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If the right thinker and worker’s servitude is duly valued, he is not thereby worshipped. One’s idol is by no means his servant, but his master. And they who love a good work or good workers are themselves workers who appreciate a life, and labor to awake the slumbering capability of man.

from, Message to The Mother Church, Boston, Massachusetts, June, 1900 June, 1900 by Mary Baker Eddy, page 3

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Joy and gratitude are two essential ingrediants in healing.

— Plainfield Roundtable

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