Sunday, March 5th, 2023 Roundtable

You must feel and know that God alone governs man; that His government is harmonious; that He is too pure to behold iniquity, and divides His power with nothing evil or material; that material laws are only human beliefs, which govern mortals wrongfully.

— from Rudimental Divine Science, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 10

Oh, may the light that is never dim so encompass you, that no night is there. May His angels hold thee in their power, and Songs of Science be heard in the intuitions of thought, till your life is in tune with the rhythm of God.

— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 224

499 — WATCH that you realize that the error connected with the claim of animal magnetism, is not that the devil is in us, but that God is out of us. We can regard war, sickness and sin as merely phases of the claim that man is absent. When we realize the ever-presence of man, we know that there can be no war, no sin, sickness or death, since man is the Christ idea of God, forever reflecting the harmony of divine Love.

— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

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GOLDEN TEXT: PSALM 146 : 5

“Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God”

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“An Interview with Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy”, from The Christian Science Sentinel, June 17, 1905, by Sibyl Wilbur

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ANGELS. God’s thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality.

— from the Glossary of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 581

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Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy.

From — Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 476

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Abide in Love. Nothing can touch or harm you in Love. Know that you live in Love. Love is God as Life itself. Take this understanding with you and bless others with Love.

— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 229

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Article: “What Prospers Healing?” by David Keyston

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Christian Scientists are quite willing to admit that Jesus fulfilled Bible prophecy, but they are not willing to admit the same for Mrs. Eddy. Isn’t it interesting that the people of Jesus’ time were willing to admit that Moses and the prophets fulfilled prophecy and God’s plan, but not Jesus? For years, those who accepted and saw Mrs. Eddy’s place in Bible prophecy as the Woman, have, by the general Christian Science population been regarded as emotional fools. With regard to my articles, in the many letters I received over the years, very few were written in opposition; of those, none was able to use the books to prove his or her contention that Mrs. Eddy was not the woman, while I have used the books extensively to prove she was. It is becoming increasingly apparent from which corner the emotion is coming. Christian Scientists are deifying board members in churches, officials in Boston, teachers and practitioners, even readers. If our position cannot be defended in the books, our position is not worth defending.

Just as we saw the danger grow in Germany as the result of resisting Mrs. Eddy’s place, so we subsequently saw what the official stand of The Mother Church in publishing the Six Points in recognition of her fulfillment of Bible prophecy produced. When these Six Points were published in the June 5, 1943 Sentinel, there were six major turning points in World War II which favored the Allies, who, until that point, were losing the war. The truth about these points was seen prior to this time, but it had no great effect on the world until the official position of the Christian Science Board of Directors concerning this issue was declared and published.

Can you imagine what in our time the official rejection of these Six Points has brought to the world? No need to imagine, we can see what has resulted: severe climatic, social, political and economic turmoil. Everything in our nation and in the world is out of control and headed for destruction, devastation, and desolation. Now [1988] we’re being told there never were 57 pages of material culled from published and unpublished statements of Mrs. Eddy’s that concerned her place in prophecy and that were condensed into these Six Points. And also, that there had only ever been a few pages, and now even those few pages cannot be found. I know of several individuals who saw the 57 pages in the Archives many years ago. Why the conspiracy to keep this material hidden? The committee of six who prepared the report on Mrs. Eddy’s place said, “We feel that the period of silence with regard to our Leader’s true status as revelator and messenger has continued too long, and that it is high time the veil was gently lifted.” (Association address by Roscoe Drummond.)

We are faced with the present Board of Directors [1988] trying to convince us that the boards of 1943 and 1962 were wrong, as were all the editors and associate editors of the periodicals who originally compiled the Six Points. The boards and editors of 1943 and 1962 were in a prosperous healing atmosphere, while the current Board of Directors presides over a rapidly deteriorating movement.

— from In Defense of Mary Baker Eddy, and the Remnant of Her Seed by Paul Smillie

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“Job” article within this address.“No Big Power Veto”, from 1948 Association Address, by Herbert E. Rieke

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