Golden Text
I Timothy 6:6 godliness, 11 follow
6. . . godliness with contentment is great gain.
11. . . follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Responsive Reading
Deuteronomy 28:2 all, 3, 5, 6, 8 (to ;), 9; Deuteronomy 8:3 man; Deuteronomy 30:14 the
28:2. . . all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
3Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
5Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
8The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto;
9The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
8:3. . . man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
30:14. . . the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Section 1
The Bible
Proverbs 12:27 the substance, 28 (to ;)
27the substance of a diligent man is precious.
28In the way of righteousness is life;
Psalms 143:1, 10
1Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
10Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
Psalms 71:16
16I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
Psalms 17:15
15As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Matthew 5:6
6Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Science and Health with Key to the Scripturesby Mary Baker Eddy
330:11–12
God is infinite, the only Life, substance, Spirit, or Soul, the only intelligence of the universe, including man.
300:28
The universe reflects and expresses the divine substance or Mind; therefore God is seen only in the spiritual universe and spiritual man, as the sun is seen in the ray of light which goes out from it. God is revealed only in that which reflects Life, Truth, Love, — yea, which manifests God’s attributes and power, even as the human likeness thrown upon the mirror, repeats the color, form, and action of the person in front of the mirror.
286:21–26
Spiritual
thoughts
God’s thoughts are perfect and eternal, are substance and Life. Material and temporal thoughts are human, involving error, and since God, Spirit, is the only cause, they lack a divine cause. The temporal and material are not then creations of Spirit. They are but counterfeits of the spiritual and eternal.
301:6–13
To himself, mortal and material man seems to be substance, but his sense of substance involves error and therefore is material, temporal.
On the other hand, the immortal, spiritual man is really substantial, and reflects the eternal substance, or Spirit, which mortals hope for. He reflects the divine, which constitutes the only real and eternal entity.
2:4, 28
Right
motives
Are we benefited by praying? Yes, the desire which goes forth hungering after righteousness is blessed of our Father, and it does not return unto us void.
The unspoken desire does bring us nearer the source of all existence and blessedness.
Section 2
The Bible
Micah 6:6 (to 1st ?), 8
6Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God?
8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
I Timothy 4:8 godliness
8godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
I Timothy 6:6 godliness, 17–19
6godliness with contentment is great gain.
17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
18That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
19Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Titus 2:11 the, 12
11the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Psalms 107:8, 9
8Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
9For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Ephesians 5:9 the
9the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;
Science and Health
213:11–12
Every step towards goodness is a departure from materiality, and is a tendency towards God, Spirit.
301:17–24
Inverted
images
and ideas
As God is substance and man is the divine image and likeness, man should wish for, and in reality has, only the substance of good, the substance of Spirit, not matter. The belief that man has any other substance, or mind, is not spiritual and breaks the First Commandment, Thou shalt have one God, one Mind. Mortal man seems to himself to be material substance, while man is “image” (idea).
239:5
Right views
of humanity
Take away wealth, fame, and social organizations, which weigh not one jot in the balance of God, and we get clearer views of Principle. Break up cliques, level wealth with honesty, let worth be judged according to wisdom, and we get better views of humanity.
269:9–11, 14–20
Human philosophy has made God manlike. Christian Science makes man Godlike. The first is error; the latter is truth.
Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul.
These ideas are perfectly real and tangible to spiritual consciousness, and they have this advantage over the objects and thoughts of material sense, — they are good and eternal.
275:14–15
All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God.
Section 3
The Bible
Hebrews 11:1, 3
1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
II Chronicles 3:1 Solomon, 6 (to :)
1Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
6And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty:
II Chronicles 5:1, 7, 10, 13, 14
1Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
7And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
10There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
13It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;
14So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
II Chronicles 6:3, 12, 14, 18
3And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
12And he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
14And said, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
18But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
Proverbs 28:20 (to :)
20A faithful man shall abound with blessings:
Science and Health
279:3
A New Testament writer plainly describes faith, a quality of mind, as “the substance of things hoped for.”
468:17 Substance
Spiritual
synonyms
Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are substance, as the Scriptures use this word in Hebrews: “The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Spirit, the synonym of Mind, Soul, or God, is the only real substance. The spiritual universe, including individual man, is a compound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit.
512:8–9
Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power, and also by holy thoughts, winged with Love.
298:2–4, 8–15, 22
Life, Truth, and Love are the realities of divine Science. They dawn in faith and glow full-orbed in spiritual understanding.
Truth’s
witness
What is termed material sense can report only a mortal temporary sense of things, whereas spiritual sense can bear witness only to Truth. To material sense, the unreal is the real until this sense is corrected by Christian Science.
Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, involves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, reality.
Spiritual ideas lead up to their divine origin, God, and to the spiritual sense of being.
368:14
When we come to have more faith in the truth of being than we have in error, more faith in Spirit than in matter, more faith in living than in dying, more faith in God than in man, then no material suppositions can prevent us from healing the sick and destroying error.
Section 4
The Bible
Jeremiah 31:3
3The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
John 3:16 God, 35
16God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
35The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
Matthew 14:14, 22, 24–27, 34–36
14And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
22And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
24But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
25And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
26And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
27But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
34And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.
35And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
36And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Science and Health
273:24
Spiritual law
the only law
Jesus walked on the waves, fed the multitude, healed the sick, and raised the dead in direct opposition to material laws. His acts were the demonstration of Science, overcoming the false claims of material sense or law.
203:3
Sure
reward of
righteousness
In the Science of Christianity, Mind — omnipotence — has all-power, assigns sure rewards to righteousness, and shows that matter can neither heal nor make sick, create nor destroy.
138:14–18, 27–31
The supremacy of Spirit was the foundation on which Jesus built. His sublime summary points to the religion of Love.
Jesus established in the Christian era the precedent for all Christianity, theology, and healing.
Healthful
theology
Our Master said to every follower: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature! . . . Heal the sick! . . . Love thy neighbor as thyself!” It was this theology of Jesus which healed the sick and the sinning.
278:28–3
Substance
is Spirit
All that we term sin, sickness, and death is a mortal belief. We define matter as error, because it is the opposite of life, substance, and intelligence. Matter, with its mortality, cannot be substantial if Spirit is substantial and eternal. Which ought to be substance to us, — the erring, changing, and dying, the mutable and mortal, or the unerring, immutable, and immortal?
241:19–21
The substance of all devotion is the reflection and demonstration of divine Love, healing sickness and destroying sin.
454:17–22
Love the
incentive
Love for God and man is the true incentive in both healing and teaching. Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of Truth.
365:15–19
Speedy
healing
If the Scientist reaches his patient through divine Love, the healing work will be accomplished at one visit, and the disease will vanish into its native nothingness like dew before the morning sunshine.
Section 5
The Bible
Romans 8:25 if
25if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
James 1:4 let
4let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Mark 6:34
34And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
John 14:8, 9 (to 1st ?), 11, 12, 16, 18, 19
8Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Science and Health
136:32–1
Jesus patiently persisted in teaching and demonstrating the truth of being.
43:28
The Science Jesus taught and lived must triumph over all material beliefs about life, substance, and intelligence, and the multitudinous errors growing from such beliefs.
332:19, 23–26 He
Holy Ghost
or Comforter
Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God — the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle, Love, and leading into all truth.
Christ
Jesus
He was appointed to speak God’s word and to appear to mortals in such a form of humanity as they could understand as well as perceive.
3:12
The Divine Being must be reflected by man, — else man is not the image and likeness of the patient, tender, and true, the One “altogether lovely;” but to understand God is the work of eternity, and demands absolute consecration of thought, energy, and desire.
4:3–5
What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
254:10
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.
Section 6
The Bible
Psalms 25:8 (to :), 9
8Good and upright is the Lord:
9The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
Proverbs 8:1, 20, 21 (to ;)
1Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
20I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
21That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance;
Matthew 5:5
5Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Science and Health
516:4–15
The substance, Life, intelligence, Truth, and Love, which constitute Deity, are reflected by His creation; and when we subordinate the false testimony of the corporeal senses to the facts of Science, we shall see this true likeness and reflection everywhere.
Love imparts
beauty
God fashions all things, after His own likeness. Life is reflected in existence, Truth in truthfulness, God in goodness, which impart their own peace and permanence. Love, redolent with unselfishness, bathes all in beauty and light. The grass beneath our feet silently exclaims, “The meek shall inherit the earth.”
270:23–24
Meekness and charity have divine authority.
272:3–5
The spiritual sense of truth must be gained before Truth can be understood. This sense is assimilated only as we are honest, unselfish, loving, and meek.
335:13–14
Things spiritual and eternal are substantial.