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Golden Text | Psalms 119:89, 90 (to :)
For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Thy
faithfulness is unto all generations:
Responsive Reading | I Thessalonians 1:1 Grace, 5 our (to ;);
2:1, 4, 7 we, 11–13
Acts 2:39
1 . . . Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father,
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
5 . . . our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also
in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance;
1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you,
that it was not in vain:
4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the
gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God,
which trieth our hearts.
7 . . . we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth
her children:
11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged
every one of you, as a father doth his children,
12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you
unto his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because,
when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us,
ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth,
the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you
that believe.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and
to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God
shall call.
Section 1
The Bible
1 | Psalms 119:137, 140, 142
137 Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy
judgments.  
140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.  
142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
and thy law is the truth.  
2 | Psalms 105:4, 8–10
4Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.  
8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word
which he commanded to a thousand generations.  9 Which
covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to
Israel for an everlasting covenant:  
3 | Psalms 107:20
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered
20
them from their destructions.  

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4 | Romans 16:25–27 (to 1st .) measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive
25Now to him that is of power to stablish you according Christ, Truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the prophets
to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to 24 caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ, which
the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the baptized these seers in the divine nature, the essence of
world began,  26 But now is made manifest, and by the scrip- Love.
tures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the
everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedi- 3 | 503:12–15
ence of faith:  27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Spiritual
Christ for ever.   12 Divine Science, the Word of harmony

God, saith to the darkness upon the face of error, “God

5 | Hebrews 13:8 is All-in-all,” and the light of ever-present Love illumines
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.   15 the universe.

Section 1 4 | 112:16
Science and Health From the infinite One in Christian Science comes one
Principle and its infinite idea, and with this infinitude
1 | 146:23 18 come spiritual rules, laws, and their demon- Unchanging
Divine Science derives its sanction from the Bible, stration, which, like the great Giver, are “the Principle

24 and the divine origin of Science is demonstrated through same yesterday, and to-day, and forever;” for thus are
the holy influence of Truth in healing sick- Christian 21 the divine Principle of healing and the Christ-idea charac-
ness and sin. This healing power of Truth Science as terized in the epistle to the Hebrews.  
old as God
27 must have been far anterior to the period in
which Jesus lived. It is as ancient as “the Ancient of 5 | 259:6 (only), 11
days.” It lives through all Life, and extends throughout 6 In divine Science, man is the true image of God.
30 all space.
The Christlike understanding of
2 | 333:19–26 12 scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Prin-
The divine ciple and idea, — perfect God and perfect man, — as the
Throughout all generations both before and Principle basis of thought and demonstration.  
and idea
after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spirit-
21 ual idea, — the reflection of God, — has come with some

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6 | 271:1–5 before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after
1 Christ’s the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earth-
Christianity is the chain of scientific being reappearing quake:  12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was
3 in all ages, maintaining its obvious correspondence with not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.  13 And
the Scriptures and uniting all periods in the design of it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in
God.   his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the
cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said,
7 | 372:17–18 What doest thou here, Elijah?  14 And he said, I have been
Chris- very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children
18 tian Science and Christianity are one.   of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine
altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even
Section 2 I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.  15 And
The Bible the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilder-
ness of Damascus:  
6 | Isaiah 2:3 Come 18 I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees
3Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which
to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his hath not kissed him.  19 So he departed thence, and found
ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve
go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.   yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah
passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.  
7 | I Kings 18:46 the (to ;)
46 the hand of the Lord was on Elijah;   9 | Romans 11:2–5 Wot
2 Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he
8 | I Kings 19:9, 11–15 Go (to 1st :), 18 I have, 19 maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,  3 Lord,
9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars;
behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto and I am left alone, and they seek my life.  4 But what saith
him, What doest thou here, Elijah?   the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself
11 Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the
And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong image of Baal.  5 Even so then at this present time also there
wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks is a remnant according to the election of grace.  

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Section 2
Science and Health
8 | 585:9–11 (to ;)
9 Elias. Prophecy; spiritual evidence opposed to mate-
rial sense; Christian Science, with which can be discerned
the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold;
9 | 293:28
Christian Science
brings to light Truth and its supremacy, universal har-
30 mony, the entireness of God, good, and the nothingness
of evil.
10 | 225:5–6, 8
You may know when first Truth leads by the few-
6 ness and faithfulness of its followers.
Truth’s
The powers of this world will fight,
9 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
12 always some tumult, but there is a rallying to truth’s
standard.
11 | 288:3
3 The suppositional warfare between truth and error is
only the mental conflict between the evidence of the spir-
itual senses and the testimony of the material The great
6 senses, and this warfare between the Spirit and conflict
flesh will settle all questions through faith in and the un-
derstanding of divine Love.
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12 | 559:8–10, 12 (only)
The “still, small voice”
9 of scientific thought reaches over continent and ocean
to the globe’s remotest bound.
12 It is heard in the desert and in dark places of fear.
13 | 323:28–32
The effects of Christian Science are not so much seen
as felt. It is the “still, small voice” of Truth Childlike
30 uttering itself. We are either turning away receptivity
from this utterance, or we are listening to it and going
up higher.
Section 3
The Bible
10 | Matthew 9:35–38 Jesus
ordeal 35 Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching
in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the king-
dom, and healing every sickness and every disease among
the people.  36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was
moved with compassion on them, because they fainted,
and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is
plenteous, but the labourers are few;  38 Pray ye therefore
the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers
into his harvest.  
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11 | John 14:12, 15–17 (to 1st ;), 25, 26
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.   Comforter I understand to be Divine Science.
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.  16 And I will
pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter,
that he may abide with you for ever;  17 Even the Spirit of
truth;   divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present
with you.  26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach
you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you.  
Section 3
Science and Health
14 | 147:24–29
24 Our Master healed the sick, practised Christian heal-
ing, and taught the generalities of its divine Principle to
his students; but he left no definite rule for A definite rule
27 demonstrating this Principle of healing and discovered
preventing disease. This rule remained to be discovered
in Christian Science.
15 | 271:20–22
Our Master said, “But the Comforter . . . shall
21 teach you all things.” When the Science of Christianity
appears, it will lead you into all truth.
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16 | 55:27
27 In the words of St. John: “He shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.” This
17 | 107:1
1 In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or
Christian
3 named my discovery Christian Science. God Science
discovered
had been graciously preparing me during many
years for the reception of this final revelation of the ab-
6 solute divine Principle of scientific mental healing.
18 | 109:16–22
I knew
the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God,
18 and that cures were produced in primitive Christian
healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the
Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute
21 conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and dem-
onstration.
19 | xi:9–21
9 The physical healing of Christian Science results
now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine
Principle, before which sin and disease lose their real-
12 ity in human consciousness and disappear as naturally
and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and
sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works
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15 are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are
the sign of Immanuel, or “God with us,” — a divine
influence ever present in human consciousness and re-
18 peating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,
To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense],
And recovering of sight to the blind,
21 To set at liberty them that are bruised.
Section 4
The Bible
12 | Habakkuk 2:2 Write
2 Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that
he may run that readeth it.  
13 | Proverbs 1:8
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake
not the law of thy mother:  
14 | Proverbs 22:17–21
17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise,
and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.  18 For it is
a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall
withal be fitted in thy lips.  19 That thy trust may be in the
Lord, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels
and knowledge,  21 That I might make thee know the cer-
tainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer
the words of truth to them that send unto thee?  
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Christian Science
15 | Matthew 13:52 Therefore
52Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto
the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an
householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure
things new and old.  
Section 4
Science and Health
20 | x:3–4, 11–13
3 The first edition of Science and Health was pub-
lished in 1875.
The author has not compromised conscience to suit
12 the general drift of thought, but has bluntly and hon-
estly given the text of Truth.
21 | 147:14–20
Although this volume contains the complete Science of
15 Mind-healing, never believe that you can absorb the whole
meaning of the Science by a simple perusal Perusal and
practice
of this book. The book needs to be studied,
18 and the demonstration of the rules of scientific healing
will plant you firmly on the spiritual groundwork of
Christian Science.
22 | 547:6
6 You can prove for yourself, dear reader,
the Science of healing, and so ascertain if the author has
given you the correct interpretation of Scripture.
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23 | 126:22
I have set forth Christian Science and its application
to the treatment of disease just as I have discovered them.
24 I have demonstrated through Mind the effects Biblical
of Truth on the health, longevity, and morals basis
of men; and I have found nothing in ancient or in modern
27 systems on which to found my own, except the teachings
and demonstrations of our great Master and the lives of
prophets and apostles. The Bible has been my only au-
30 thority. I have had no other guide in “the straight and
narrow way” of Truth.
24 | 110:17
No human pen nor tongue
18 taught me the Science contained in this book, Science
and Health; and neither tongue nor pen can over-
throw it. This book may be distorted by shallow criti-
21 cism or by careless or malicious students, and its ideas
may be temporarily abused and misrepresented; but the
Science and truth therein will forever remain to be dis-
24 cerned and demonstrated.
Section 5
The Bible
16 | I John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in
18
tongue; but in deed and in truth.   immortality in deeds, for their Principle heals the sick
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17 | James 1:22–25 be
22be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
your own selves.  23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and
not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face
in a glass:  24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way,
and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and con-
tinueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer
of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.  
18 | Hebrews 12:12, 13
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the
12
feeble knees;  13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest
that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather
be healed.  
19 | II Thessalonians 2:16, 17
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our
16
Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting
consolation and good hope through grace,  17 Comfort your
hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.  
Section 5
Science and Health
25 | 354:9
9 The words of divine Science find their
and spiritualizes humanity.
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26 | 113:3
3 The letter Principle and
of Science plentifully reaches humanity to-day, practice
but its spirit comes only in small degrees. The vital part,
6 the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love. With-
out this, the letter is but the dead body of Science, —
pulseless, cold, inanimate.
27 | 454:31
Remember that the letter and mental
argument are only human auxiliaries to aid in bringing
1 thought into accord with the spirit of Truth and Love,
which heals the sick and the sinner.
28 | 414:26
Keep in mind the verity of being, — that man is
27 the image and likeness of God, in whom all being is
painless and permanent. Remember that man’s perfec-
tion is real and unimpeachable, whereas imperfection is
30 blameworthy, unreal, and is not brought about by divine
Love.
29 | 233:1
1 Every day makes its demands upon us for
higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power.
3 These proofs consist solely in the destruction Profession
of sin, sickness, and death by the power of and proof
Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. This is an element of
6 progress, and progress is the law of God, whose law de-
mands of us only what we can certainly fulfil.
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Section 6
The Bible
20 | Deuteronomy 11:1 thou
1 thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge,
and his statutes, and his judgments, and his command-
ments, alway.  
21 | Deuteronomy 29:29 those
29those things which are revealed belong unto us and
to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of
this law.  
22 | Isaiah 54:2, 3 (to ;), 13
2Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth
the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy
cords, and strengthen thy stakes;  3 For thou shalt break
forth on the right hand and on the left;  
13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and
great shall be the peace of thy children.  
23 | Acts 2:39
For the promise is unto you, and to your children,
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and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our
God shall call.  
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Section 6 32 | 174:14, 20
Science and Health Whoever opens the way in Christian Science is
15 a pilgrim and stranger, marking out the path for gen-
30 | 150:4 erations yet unborn.
To-day the healing power of Truth is widely demon-
strated as an immanent, eternal Science, instead of a Truth is revealed. It needs only to
6 phenomenal exhibition. Its appearing is the The main 21 be practised.
coming anew of the gospel of “on earth peace, purpose

good-will toward men.” This coming, as was promised

9 by the Master, is for its establishment as a permanent
dispensation among men; but the mission of Christian
Science now, as in the time of its earlier demonstration,
12 is not primarily one of physical healing. Now, as then,
signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical heal-
ing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demon-
15 strate its divine origin, — to attest the reality of the higher
mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the
world.

31 | 55:15–16, 21–22
15 Truth’s immortal idea is sweeping down the centuries,
gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning.

21 The promises will be ful-

filled.

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