Golden Text
Psalms 25:5 (to ;)
5Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation;
Responsive Reading
Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 43:3 I am (to :), 6–9 bring; Isaiah 42:1 (to 2nd ;), 3; Psalms 31:1 (to ;), 3, 4 thou, 5, 23 (to :), 24
Isa. 25:1O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
43:3. . . I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour:
6. . . bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
7Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
8Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
42:1Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth;
3A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Ps. 31:1In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust;
3For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
4. . . thou art my strength.
5Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
23O love the Lord, all ye his saints:
24Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
Section 1
The Bible
Deuteronomy 32:3 ascribe, 4
3ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Psalms 86:12, 15 thou
12I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
15thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
Psalms 91:9, 10
9Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
10There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Psalms 100:5 (to 2nd ;)
5For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
Psalms 33:4 the
4the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth.
Science and Health with Key to the Scripturesby Mary Baker Eddy
330:19–20
God is what the Scriptures declare Him to be, — Life, Truth, Love.
465:14
The attributes of God are justice, mercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on.
293:28
Christian Science brings to light Truth and its supremacy, universal harmony, the entireness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil.
130:26–2
All evil
unnatural
If thought is startled at the strong claim of Science for the supremacy of God, or Truth, and doubts the supremacy of good, ought we not, contrariwise, to be astounded at the vigorous claims of evil and doubt them, and no longer think it natural to love sin and unnatural to forsake it, — no longer imagine evil to be ever-present and good absent? Truth should not seem so surprising and unnatural as error, and error should not seem so real as truth.
2:16–17
Goodness attains the demonstration of Truth.
Section 2
The Bible
Psalms 69:13 my
13my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Psalms 89:1 (to :), 14 (to :)
1I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever:
14Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne:
I Kings 3:5–7, 9–12 (to ;)
5In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
6And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
7And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
9Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
10And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
11And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
12Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart;
I Samuel 12:22 the, 24 serve
22the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.
24serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he hath done for you.
Science and Health
11:27–31
Prayer cannot change the unalterable Truth, nor can prayer alone give us an understanding of Truth; but prayer, coupled with a fervent habitual desire to know and do the will of God, will bring us into all Truth.
254:10–12
When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path.
505:16–17, 26–28
Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth.
This understanding is not intellectual, is not the result of scholarly attainments; it is the reality of all things brought to light.
67:32–2
The epoch approaches when the understanding of the truth of being will be the basis of true religion.
99:9–11
Truth has furnished the key to the kingdom, and with this key Christian Science has opened the door of the human understanding.
Section 3
The Bible
Psalms 57:1, 3 God
1Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
3God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
I Kings 4:1 Solomon
1Solomon was king over all Israel.
I Kings 3:16–20, 22 (to 1st .), 24–28
16Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
17And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
18And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
19And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
22And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son.
24And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
25And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
26Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
27Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
28And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
II Timothy 2:15
15Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Science and Health
275:10–12, 17–23, 26 (only), 31 (only)
To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science, you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle of all that really is.
No wisdom is wise but His wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.
The divine
completeness
Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understanding, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is God, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, — that is, all power, all presence, all Science.
The true understanding of God is spiritual.
Truth, spiritually discerned, is scientifically understood.
129:5
Truth is ever truthful, and can tolerate no error in premise or conclusion.
287:22–23
Error is false, mortal belief; it is illusion, without spiritual identity or foundation, and it has no real existence.
538:3–4, 7
Truth should, and does, drive error out of all selfhood. Truth is a two-edged sword, guarding and guiding.
Radiant with mercy and justice, the sword of Truth gleams afar and indicates the infinite distance between Truth and error, between the material and spiritual, — the unreal and the real.
542:5–8, 19–21
Though error hides behind a lie and excuses guilt, error cannot forever be concealed. Truth, through her eternal laws, unveils error.
Retribution
and remorse
Let Truth uncover and destroy error in God’s own way, and let human justice pattern the divine.
Section 4
The Bible
Psalms 43:2 thou (to :), 3 (to :), 5
2thou art the God of my strength:
3O send out thy light and thy truth:
5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Matthew 8:5–10, 13
5And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
6And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
7And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
8The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
9For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
10When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
13And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
Psalms 30:2 my
2my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
John 17:17 thy word
17thy word is truth.
Science and Health
497:3
As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
473:10–15, 26–31
Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal sickness and sin through Christian Science, and attributes all power to God. Jesus is the name of the man who, more than all other men, has presented Christ, the true idea of God, healing the sick and the sinning and destroying the power of death.
Jesus established what he said by demonstration, thus making his acts of higher importance than his words. He proved what he taught. This is the Science of Christianity. Jesus proved the Principle, which heals the sick and casts out error, to be divine.
12:10
It is neither Science nor Truth which acts through blind belief, nor is it the human understanding of the divine healing Principle as manifested in Jesus, whose humble prayers were deep and conscientious protests of Truth, — of man’s likeness to God and of man’s unity with Truth and Love.
23:32
The Hebrew verb to believe means also to be firm or to be constant. This certainly applies to Truth and Love understood and practised. Firmness in error will never save from sin, disease, and death.
285:27
Salvation
is through
reform
As mortals reach, through knowledge of Christian Science, a higher sense, they will seek to learn, not from matter, but from the divine Principle, God, how to demonstrate the Christ, Truth, as the healing and saving power.
261:4
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts.
142:31
Truth is God’s remedy for error of every kind, and Truth destroys only what is untrue. Hence the fact that, to-day, as yesterday, Christ casts out evils and heals the sick.
Section 5
The Bible
Hebrews 13:8
8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.
Matthew 15:30
30And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them:
John 8:1, 2, 12–14 I am (to 1st ;), 18, 26 he, 31, 32
1Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
2And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
12I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
13The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.
14Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true;
18I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
26he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Science and Health
vii:13–20
The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping-stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal.
110:25
The
demonstration
lost and found
Jesus demonstrated the power of Christian Science to heal mortal minds and bodies. But this power was lost sight of, and must again be spiritually discerned, taught, and demonstrated according to Christ’s command, with “signs following.” Its Science must be apprehended by as many as believe on Christ and spiritually understand Truth.
368:2–4, 10
Real and
counterfeit
The confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error is unreal.
Results of
faith in Truth
Against the fatal beliefs that error is as real as Truth, that evil is equal in power to good if not superior, and that discord is as normal as harmony, even the hope of freedom from the bondage of sickness and sin has little inspiration to nerve endeavor. 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.
428:8
To divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear, — this is the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep away the false and give place to the true. Thus we may establish in truth the temple, or body, “whose builder and maker is God.”
Section 6
The Bible
Psalms 25:5
5Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
Acts 8:5–8 Philip
5Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
6And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
7For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
8And there was great joy in that city.
III John 1:4
4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
Science and Health
390:9
Truth will at length compel us all to exchange the pleasures and pains of sense for the joys of Soul.
234:4
Crumbs of
comfort
Whatever inspires with wisdom, Truth, or Love — be it song, sermon, or Science — blesses the human family with crumbs of comfort from Christ’s table, feeding the hungry and giving living waters to the thirsty.
x:22–25
The divine Principle of healing is proved in the personal experience of any sincere seeker of Truth. Its purpose is good, and its practice is safer and more potent than that of any other sanitary method.
viii:12–15
The question, What is Truth, is answered by demonstration, — by healing both disease and sin; and this demonstration shows that Christian healing confers the most health and makes the best men.
144:27
When the Science of being is universally understood, every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be the universal panacea.
535:17
Truth is indeed “the way.”