Responsive Reading: Psalm 24 : 1-6

1.     The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

2.     For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

3.     Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?

4.     He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

5.     He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6.     This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob.

1. II Timothy 4 : 18 (the) (to .)

18     …the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever.

2. Psalm 86 : 2

2     Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

3. I Peter 3 : 11-14

11     Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

12     For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

13     And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

14     But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

4. Psalm 5 : 12

12     For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

5. Genesis 6 : 1 (to 2nd ,), 5 (God), 8, 9 (Noah was), 13 (to 1st ,), 14, 17-19, 22

1     And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,

5     God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

8     But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

9     Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

13     And God said unto Noah,

14     Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

17     And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

18     But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

19     And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

22     Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

6. Genesis 7 : 1, 7, 17, 23

1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

7     And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

17     And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

23     And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

7. Genesis 8 : 14-17 (to 1st ,)

14     And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

15     And God spake unto Noah, saying,

16     Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

17     Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee,

8. Genesis 9 : 1, 8, 11 (I), 12

1     And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

8     And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

11     I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

12     And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

9. Hebrews 11 : 1-3, 6, 7

1     Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

2     For by it the elders obtained a good report.

3     Through 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.

6     But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

7     By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

10. II Timothy 2 : 19 (the)-21

19     …the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

20     But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

21     If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

11. Job 22 : 21, 30

21     Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

30     He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

12. Job 11 : 18

18     And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

1. 232 : 7-8

Security for the claims of harmonious and eternal being is found only in divine Science.

2. 203 : 3-6

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.

3. 254 : 10-12

When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path.

4. 183 : 21-25

Divine Mind rightly demands man’s entire obedience, affection, and strength. No reservation is made for any lesser loyalty. Obedience to Truth gives man power and strength. Submission to error superinduces loss of power.

5. 19 : 26-28

If living in disobedience to Him, we ought to feel no security, although God is good.

6. 91 : 5-8

Let us rid ourselves of the belief that man is separated from God, and obey only the divine Principle, Life and Love. Here is the great point of departure for all true spiritual growth.

7. 241 : 23-30

One’s aim, a point beyond faith, should be to find the footsteps of Truth, the way to health and holiness. We should strive to reach the Horeb height where God is revealed; and the corner-stone of all spiritual building is purity. The baptism of Spirit, washing the body of all the impurities of flesh, signifies that the pure in heart see God and are approaching spiritual Life and its demonstration.

8. 337 : 14 (Christian)-19

Christian Science demonstrates that none but the pure in heart can see God, as the gospel teaches. In proportion to his purity is man perfect; and perfection is the order of celestial being which demonstrates Life in Christ, Life’s spiritual ideal.

9. 272 : 19-27

It is the spiritualization of thought and Christianization of daily life, in contrast with the results of the ghastly farce of material existence; it is chastity and purity, in contrast with the downward tendencies and earthward gravitation of sensualism and impurity, which really attest the divine origin and operation of Christian Science. The triumphs of Christian Science are recorded in the destruction of error and evil, from which are propagated the dismal beliefs of sin, sickness, and death.

10. 91 : 9-15

It is difficult for the sinner to accept divine Science, because Science exposes his nothingness; but the sooner error is reduced to its native nothingness, the sooner man’s great reality will appear and his genuine being will be understood. The destruction of error is by no means the destruction of Truth or Life, but is the acknowledgment of them.

11. 540 : 5-16

In Isaiah we read: “I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things;” but the prophet referred to divine law as stirring up the belief in evil to its utmost, when bringing it to the surface and reducing it to its common denominator, nothingness. The muddy river-bed must be stirred in order to purify the stream. In moral chemicalization, when the symptoms of evil, illusion, are aggravated, we may think in our ignorance that the Lord hath wrought an evil; but we ought to know that God’s law uncovers so-called sin and its effects, only that Truth may annihilate all sense of evil and all power to sin.

12. 581 : 8-14

Ark. Safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth, proved to be as immortal as its Principle; the understanding of Spirit, destroying belief in matter.

God and man coexistent and eternal; Science showing that the spiritual realities of all things are created by Him and exist forever. The ark indicates temptation overcome and followed by exaltation.

13. 407 : 6-16

Man’s enslavement to the most relentless masters — passion, selfishness, envy, hatred, and revenge — is conquered only by a mighty struggle. Every hour of delay makes the struggle more severe. If man is not victorious over the passions, they crush out happiness, health, and manhood. Here Christian Science is the sovereign panacea, giving strength to the weakness of mortal mind, — strength from the immortal and omnipotent Mind, — and lifting humanity above itself into purer desires, even into spiritual power and good-will to man.

14. 201 : 7 (Truth)-12

Truth makes a new creature, in whom old things pass away and “all things are become new.” Passions, selfishness, false appetites, hatred, fear, all sensuality, yield to spirituality, and the superabundance of being is on the side of God, good.

15. 458 : 23-31

The Christianly scientific man reflects the divine law, thus becoming a law unto himself. He does violence to no man. Neither is he a false accuser. The Christian Scientist wisely shapes his course, and is honest and consistent in following the leadings of divine Mind. He must prove, through living as well as healing and teaching, that Christ’s way is the only one by which mortals are radically saved from sin and sickness.

16. 371 : 26-32

Mankind will improve through Science and Christianity. The necessity for uplifting the race is father to the fact that Mind can do it; for Mind can impart purity instead of impurity, strength instead of weakness, and health instead of disease. Truth is an alterative in the entire system, and can make it “every whit whole.”

17. 324 : 4-5

The purification of sense and self is a proof of progress.

18. 323 : 6-12

Through the wholesome chastisements of Love, we are helped onward in the march towards righteousness, peace, and purity, which are the landmarks of Science. Beholding the infinite tasks of truth, we pause, — wait on God. Then we push onward, until boundless thought walks enraptured, and conception unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory.