2nd Church, Berkeley Readings, 2/24/16
- SH Ps. 133:1
- 1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
- SH Ps. 119:45 1st I
- 45 …I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
- SH Acts 21:39 1st Paul; 22:2 (to 1st :), 22, 27, 28
- 39 …Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people. 2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: 22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live. 27 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. 28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
- SH Gal. 5:1
- 1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
- SH II Cor. 3:17 1st where
- 17 …where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
- SH Acts 12:1, 5, 6 (to 1st :), 7-10
- 1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. 5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. 6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: 7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. 8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. 9 And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. 10 When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.
- SH John 8:1, 2, 12 1st saying, 13, 14 (to 1st ;), 32-36
- 1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. 12 …saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. 13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true. 14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
- SH 225:25-31
- The despotic tenden-
cies, inherent in mortal mind and always ger-
minating in new forms of tyranny, must be rooted out
through the action of the divine Mind.
Men and women of all climes and races are still in
bondage to material sense, ignorant how to obtain their
freedom.
- SH 226:5-21, 29
- The voice of God in behalf of the African slave was
still echoing in our land, when the voice of the herald of
this new crusade sounded the keynote of uni-
versal freedom, asking a fuller acknowledg-
ment of the rights of man as a Son of God, demanding
that the fetters of sin, sickness, and death be stricken
from the human mind and that its freedom be won, not
through human warfare, not with bayonet and blood, but
through Christ’s divine Science.
God has built a higher platform of human rights, and
He has built it on diviner claims. These claims are not
made through code or creed, but in demonstra-
tion of “on earth peace, good-will toward men.”
Human codes, scholastic theology, material medicine and
hygiene, fetter faith and spiritual understanding. Divine
Science rends asunder these fetters, and man’s birthright
of sole allegiance to his Maker asserts itself.
I saw be-
fore me the awful conflict, the Red Sea and the wilder-
ness; but I pressed on through faith in God, trusting
Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide me into the land
of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of
man are fully known and acknowledged.
- SH 228:11
- The enslavement of man is not legitimate. It will
cease when man enters into his heritage of freedom, his
God-given dominion over the material senses.
Mortals will some day assert their freedom in
the name of Almighty God. Then they will control their
own bodies through the understanding of divine Science.
Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize har-
mony as the spiritual reality and discord as the material
unreality.
- SH 225:14
- The history of our country, like all history, illustrates
the might of Mind, and shows human power to be propor-
tionate to its embodiment of right thinking. A
few immortal sentences, breathing the omnipo-
tence of divine justice, have been potent to break despotic
fetters and abolish the whipping-post and slave market;
but oppression neither went down in blood, nor did the
breath of freedom come from the cannon’s mouth. Love
is the liberator.
- SH 230:1-2, 4
- If sickness is real, it belongs to immortality; if true,
it is a part of Truth.
But if sickness and sin are illusions, the awakening from
this mortal dream, or illusion, will bring us into health,
holiness, and immortality. This awakening is the for-
ever coming of Christ, the advanced appearing of Truth,
which casts out error and heals the sick. This is the sal-
vation which comes through God, the divine Principle,
Love, as demonstrated by Jesus.
- SH 227:14-19, 21-26
- Discerning the rights of man, we cannot fail to fore-
see the doom of all oppression. Slavery is not the legiti-
mate state of man. God made man free.
Paul said, “I was free born.” All men should
be free. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is lib-
erty.
Christian Science raises the standard of liberty and
cries: “Follow me! Escape from the bondage of sick-
ness, sin, and death!” Jesus marked out the
way. Citizens of the world, accept the “glori-
ous liberty of the children of God,” and be free! This
is your divine right. -
83 God made all His creatures free
391 Why search the future and the past?
175 Lo, He sent His word and healed them
Ps. 133:1
Ps. 119:45 I
Acts 21:39 Paul; 22:2 (to :), 22, 27, 28
Gal. 5:1
II Cor. 3:17 where
Acts 12:1, 5, 6 (to :), 7-10
John 8:1, 2, 12 saying, 13, 14 (to 1st ;), 32-36
SH 225:25-31
SH 226:5-21, 29
SH 228:11
SH 225:14
SH 230:1-2, 4
SH 227:14-19, 21-26
Ps. 119:45 I
Acts 21:39 Paul; 22:2 (to :), 22, 27, 28
Gal. 5:1
II Cor. 3:17 where
Acts 12:1, 5, 6 (to :), 7-10
John 8:1, 2, 12 saying, 13, 14 (to 1st ;), 32-36
SH 225:25-31
SH 226:5-21, 29
SH 228:11
SH 225:14
SH 230:1-2, 4
SH 227:14-19, 21-26
83 God made all His creatures free
391 Why search the future and the past?
175 Lo, He sent His word and healed them
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