Theme: Heed
Hymn 5
Irving C. Tomlinson
A voice from heaven we have heard,
The call to rise from earth;
Put armor on, the sword now gird,
And for the fight go forth.
The foe in ambush claims our prize,
Then heed high heaven's call.
Obey the voice of Truth, arise,
And let not fear enthrall.
The cause requires unswerving might:
With God alone agree.
Then have no other aim than right;
End bondage, O be free.
Depart from sin, awake to love:
Your mission is to heal.
Then all of Truth you must approve,
And only know the real.
Readings from the Bible.
Deuteronomy 27:9 Moses,10
Moses and the priests the
Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this
day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the
Lord thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee
this day.
Joshua 22:1‑6
Then Joshua called the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, And said unto
them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and
have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: Ye have not left your
brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the
commandment of the Lord your God. And
now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them:
therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your
possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side
Jordan. But take diligent heed to do the
commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to
love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and
with all your soul. So Joshua blessed
them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.
I Chronicles 22:12,13
Only the Lord give thee
wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou
mayest keep the law of the Lord thy God.
Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and
judgments which the Lord charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and
of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.
II Chronicles 19:4‑7
Jehoshaphat (to :)
Jehoshaphat dwelt at
Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount
Ephraim, and brought them back unto the Lord God of their fathers. And he set judges in the land throughout all
the fenced cities of Judah, city by city, And said to the judges, Take heed
what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the
judgment. Wherefore now let the fear of
the Lord be upon you; take heed and do it:
Job 36:21‑30
Take heed, regard not
iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. Behold, God exalteth by his power: who
teacheth like him? Who hath enjoined him
his way? or who can say, Thou hast
wrought iniquity? Remember that thou
magnify his work, which men behold.
Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. Behold, God is great, and we know him not,
neither can the number of his years be searched out. For he maketh small the drops of water: they
pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: Which the clouds do drop and
distil upon man abundantly. Also can any
understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and
covereth the bottom of the sea.
Psalms 119:7‑16
I will praise thee with
uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not
utterly.
Wherewithal shall a young man
cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let
me not wander from thy commandments. Thy
word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy
statutes. With my lips have I declared
all the judgments of thy mouth. I have
rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect
unto thy ways. I will delight myself in
thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Matthew 24:3‑13 as
as he sat upon the mount of
Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall
these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of
the world? And Jesus answered and said
unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive
many. And ye shall hear of wars and
rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to
pass, but the end is not yet. For nation
shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be
famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be
afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my
name's sake. And then shall many be
offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall
deceive many. And because iniquity shall
abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mark 8:14‑21
#Now the disciples had
forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one
loaf. And he charged them, saying, Take
heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. And they reasoned among themselves, saying,
It is because we have no bread. And when
Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread?
perceive ye not yet, neither understand?
have ye your heart yet hardened?
Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not
remember? When I brake the five loaves
among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say
unto him, Twelve. And when the seven
among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they
said, Seven. And he said unto them, How
is it that ye do not understand?
Luke 11:33‑36
No man, when he hath lighted
a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a
candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. The light of the body is the eye: therefore
when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine
eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not
darkness. If thy whole body therefore be
full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when
the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
I Corinthians 3:6‑11
I have planted, Apollos
watered; but God gave the increase. So
then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God
that giveth the increase. Now he that
planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own
reward according to his own labour. For
we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's
building. According to the grace of God
which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation,
and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth
thereupon. For other foundation can no
man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
I Corinthians 10:12 let,13
let him that thinketh he standeth take heed
lest he fall. There hath no temptation
taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation
also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
II Peter 1:19
We have also a more sure word
of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that
shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your
hearts:
Readings from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
62:8
If parents create in their babes a desire for
incessant amusement, to be always fed, rocked, tossed, or talked to, those
parents should not, in after years, complain of their children's fretfulness or
frivolity, which the parents themselves have occasioned. Taking less "thought for your life, what
ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink"; less thought "for your body what
ye shall put on," will do much more for the health of the rising
generation than you dream. Children
should be allowed to remain children in knowledge, and should become men and
women only through growth in the understanding of man's higher nature.
225:5
You may know when first Truth leads by the fewness
and faithfulness of its followers. Thus
it is that the march of time bears onward freedom's banner. The powers of this world will fight, and will
command their sentinels not to let truth pass the guard until it subscribes to
their systems; but Science, heeding not the pointed bayonet, marches on. There is always some tumult, but there is a
rallying to truth's standard.
232:16‑7
In our age Christianity is again
demonstrating the power of divine Principle, as it did over nineteen hundred years
ago, by healing the sick and triumphing over death. Jesus never taught that drugs, food, air, and
exercise could make a man healthy, or that they could destroy human life; nor
did he illustrate these errors by his practice.
He referred man's harmony to Mind, not to matter, and never tried to
make of none effect the sentence of God, which sealed God's condemnation of
sin, sickness, and death.
In the sacred sanctuary of Truth are voices
of solemn import, but we heed them not.
It is only when the so‑called pleasures and pains of sense pass away in
our lives, that we find unquestionable signs of the burial of error and the
resurrection to spiritual life.
There is neither place nor opportunity in
Science for error of any sort. Every day
makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of
Christian power. These proofs consist
solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit,
as Jesus destroyed them. This is an
element of progress, and progress is the law of God, whose law demands of us
only what we can certainly fulfil.
298:25‑17
Angels are not etherealized human beings,
evolving animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial visitants,
flying on spiritual, not material, pinions.
Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter
what their individualism may be. Human
conjecture confers upon angels its own forms of thought, marked with
superstitious outlines, making them human creatures with suggestive feathers;
but this is only fancy. It has behind it
no more reality than has the sculptor's thought when he carves his "Statue
of Liberty," which embodies his conception of an unseen quality or
condition, but which has no physical antecedent reality save in the artist's
own observation and "chambers of imagery."
My angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at
the door of some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried its fondest
earthly hopes. With white fingers they
point upward to a new and glorified trust, to higher ideals of life and its
joys. Angels are God's
representatives. These upward‑soaring
beings never lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but guide to the divine
Principle of all good, whither every real individuality, image, or likeness of
God, gathers. By giving earnest heed to
these spiritual guides they tarry with us, and we entertain "angels
unawares."
400:9‑29
Mortals obtain the harmony of health, only as
they forsake discord, acknowledge the supremacy of divine Mind, and abandon their
material beliefs. Eradicate the image of
disease from the perturbed thought before it has taken tangible shape in
conscious thought, alias the body,
and you prevent the development of disease.
This task becomes easy, if you understand that every disease is an
error, and has no character nor type, except what mortal mind assigns to it. By lifting thought above error, or disease,
and contending persistently for truth, you destroy error. When we remove disease by addressing the
disturbed mind, giving no heed to the body, we prove that thought alone creates
the suffering. Mortal mind rules all
that is mortal. We see in the body the
images of this mind, even as in optics we see painted on the retina the image
which becomes visible to the senses. The
action of so‑called mortal mind must be destroyed by the divine Mind to bring
out the harmony of being. Without divine
control there is discord, manifest as sin, sickness, and death.
409:20‑21 np
The real man is spiritual and
immortal, but the mortal and imperfect so‑called "children of men"
are counterfeits from the beginning, to be laid aside for the pure
reality. This mortal is put off, and the
new man or real man is put on, in proportion as mortals realize the Science of
man and seek the true model.
We have no right to say that life depends on
matter now, but will not depend on it after death. We cannot spend our days here in ignorance of
the Science of Life, and expect to find beyond the grave a reward for this
ignorance. Death will not make us
harmonious and immortal as a recompense for ignorance. If here we give no heed to Christian Science,
which is spiritual and eternal, we shall not be ready for spiritual Life
hereafter.
"This is life eternal," says Jesus,‑‑is, not shall be; and then he defines everlasting life as a present
knowledge of his Father and of himself,‑‑the knowledge of Love, Truth, and
Life. "This is life eternal, that
they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast
sent." The Scriptures say,
"Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God," showing that
Truth is the actual life of man; but mankind objects to making this teaching
practical.
Every trial of our faith in God makes us
stronger. The more difficult seems the
material condition to be overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our faith
and the purer our love. The Apostle John
says: "There is no fear in Love, but perfect Love casteth out fear. . . .
He that feareth is not made perfect in Love." Here is a definite and inspired proclamation
of Christian Science.
462:9
If the student goes away to practise Truth's
teachings only in part, dividing his interests between God and mammon and
substituting his own views for Truth, he will inevitably reap the error he
sows. Whoever would demonstrate the
healing of Christian Science must abide strictly by its rules, heed every
statement, and advance from the rudiments laid down. There is nothing difficult nor toilsome in
this task, when the way is pointed out; but self‑denial, sincerity,
Christianity, and persistence alone win the prize, as they usually do in every
department of life.
525:17
In the Gospel of John, it is declared that
all things were made through the Word of God, "and without Him [the logos, or word] was not anything made that was made." Everything good or worthy, God made. Whatever is valueless or baneful, He did not
make,‑‑hence its unreality. In the
Science of Genesis we read that He saw everything which He had made, "and,
behold, it was very good." The
corporeal senses declare otherwise; and if we give the same heed to the history
of error as to the records of truth, the Scriptural record of sin and death favors
the false conclusion of the material senses.
Sin, sickness, and death must be deemed as devoid of reality as they are
of good, God.
Silent prayer followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s Prayer.
Hymn 263
From the Swedish of J. O. Wallin
Only God can bring us gladness,
Only God can give us peace;
Joys are vain that end in sadness,
Joy divine shall never cease.
Mid the shade of want and sorrow
Undisturbed, our hearts rejoice;
Patient, wait the brighter morrow;
Faithful, heed the Father's voice.
As the stars in order going,
All harmonious, He doth move;
Heavenly calm and comfort showing,
Comes the healing word of Love.
Who the word of wisdom heareth
Feels the Father Love within,
Where as dawn the shadow cleareth,
Love outshines the night of sin.
So we find the true atonement,
Know in God the perfect Friend;
For in Love is our at‑one‑ment,
Where all hearts in Him may blend.
Here from prisoning pain and sorrow
Have we all a sure release,
Only God can bring us gladness,
Only God can give us peace.
Sharing of experiences, testimonies and remarks by members of the congregation.
Hymn 329
Frederic W. Root
The heavens declare the glory
Of Him who made all things;
Each day repeats the story,
Each night its tribute brings.
To earth's remotest border
His mighty power is known;
In beauty, grandeur, order,
His handiwork is shown.
His law man's pathway brightens,
His judgments all are pure,
His Word the thought enlightens,
And ever shall endure.
To heed His testimony,
And Wisdom's way to hold,
Is sweeter far than honey,
And better far than gold.
In daily contemplation
Of Thee, I take delight;
O, let my meditation
Lay hold of Thee aright.
O, aid me in suppression
Of idle thought or word;
O, keep me from transgression,
Redeemer, strength, and Lord.
