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Truth is the only antidote to pandemic fears
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
1. Hymn 258
Hymn 258 v. 3
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Adapted
(258)
TON-Y-BOTEL
WELSH HYMN MELODY
Oft to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side.
A great cause, God’s new Messiah,
Shows to each the bloom or blight,
So can choice be made by all men
Twixt the darkness and the light.
New occasions teach new duties,
Time makes ancient creeds uncouth;
They must upward still and onward
Who would keep abreast of Truth,
And serenely down the future
See the thought of men incline
To the side of perfect justice
And to God’s supreme design.
Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet ’tis Truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong,
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above His own.
The Bible
1. Rom 6:16
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his
servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness?
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2. Deut 13:1-3 (to ,), 6-8 (to ;)
1 IF there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth
thee a sign or a wonder,
2
And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee,
saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us
serve them;
3
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet,
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¶ If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the
wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee
secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not
known, thou, nor thy fathers;
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Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto
thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other
end of the earth;
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Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him;
3. Ezek. 34:2 Woe, 4, 22 (to ;), 23 I, 30 (to 1st ,)
2 Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the
shepherds feed the flocks?
4
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which
was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye
brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that
which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
22
Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey;
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I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my
servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
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Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them,
4. John 8:32 ye
32 ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
5. I Kings 8:37, 39 (to 1st ,), 39 3rd and, 40
37 ¶ If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew,
locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of
their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
39
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place,and give to every man
according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou
only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
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That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou
gavest unto our fathers.
6. Num. 16:1 (to 1st ,), 1 Dathan (to 5th ,), 1 took, 3 (to 1st ,), 4, 23, 24, 26, 31, 32, 41-46 (to :), 46-48 4th the, 50
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NOW Korah,Dathan and Abiram,took men:
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And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron,
4
And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
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¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle
of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
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And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the
tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be
consumed in all their sins.
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¶ And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words,
that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
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And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
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¶ But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the
people of the LORD.
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And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses
and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the
congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD
appeared.
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And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
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¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in
a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
46
¶ And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off
the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and
make an atonement for them:the plague is begun.
47
And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the
congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and
he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
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And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
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And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation: and the plague was stayed.
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7. Ps. 91:1-7, 9-11
1 HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the
shadow of the Almighty.
2
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him
will I trust.
3
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the
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noisome pestilence.
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He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust:
his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
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Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that
flieth by day;
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Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that
wasteth at noonday.
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A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it
shall not come nigh thee.
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Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most
High, thy habitation;
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There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy
dwelling.
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For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
8. Jer. 34:17 behold (to 2nd ;)
17 behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the
pestilence, and to the famine;
Science and Health
1. SH 168:15-17
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Because man-made systems insist that man becomes
sick and useless, suffers and dies, all in consonance with
the laws of God, are we to believe it?
The divine
authority
2. SH 210:25
What is termed matter, being unintelligent, cannot say,
“I suffer, I die, I am sick, or I am well.” It is the so27
called mortal mind which voices this and appears to itself to make good its claim. To
mortal sense, sin and suffering are real, but immortal
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sense includes no evil nor pestilence. Because immortal
sense has no error of sense, it has no sense of error; therefore it is without a destructive element.
3. SH 96:12-21
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This material world is even now becoming the arena
for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord
and dismay; on the other side there will be
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Science and peace. The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want
and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new
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phases until their nothingness appears. These disturb-
Matter mindless
Arena of contest
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ances will continue until the end of error, when all
discord will be swallowed up in spiritual Truth.
Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization.
4. SH 82:31-2
In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a
greater development of power, it is wise earnestly to
83:1 consider whether it is the human mind or the divine
Mind which is influencing one.
5. SH 196:31-2, 5-7
The press unwittingly sends forth many sorrows and
diseases among the human family. It does this by giv197:1 ing names to diseases and by printing long descriptions
which mirror images of disease distinctly in thought. A minutely described dis6
ease costs many a man his earthly days of comfort. What
a price for human knowledge!
SH 196:25-30
Many a hopeless case of disease is induced by a single
post mortem examination, — not from infection nor from
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contact with material virus, but from the fear of the
disease and from the image brought before the mind; it
is a mental state, which is afterwards outlined on the
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body.
6. SH 228:3-6
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The transmission of disease or of certain idiosyncrasies of mortal mind would be impossible if this great fact
of being were learned, — namely, that nothing
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inharmonious can enter being, for Life is God.
7. SH 424:28-31
To prevent or to cure scrofula and other so-called hereditary diseases, you must destroy the belief in these ills
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and the faith in the possibility of their transmission.
8. SH 153:25-8
13654:1
We weep because others weep, we yawn because they
yawn, and we have smallpox because others have it; but
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mortal mind, not matter, contains and carries
the infection. When this mental contagion is understood,
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No fleshly
heredity
Mind removes
scrofula
Source of
contagion
we shall be more careful of our mental conditions, and we shall avoid loquacious tattling about
disease, as we would avoid advocating crime. Neither
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sympathy nor society should ever tempt us to cherish
error in any form, and certainly we should not be error’s
advocate.
Disease arises, like other mental conditions, from association. Since it is a law of mortal mind that certain
diseases should be regarded as contagious, this law obtains credit through association, — calling up the fear that
creates the image of disease and its consequent manifestation in the body.
9. SH 179:21
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Treatises on anatomy, physiology, and health, sustained
by what is termed material law, are the promoters of sickness and disease. It should not
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be proverbial, that so long as you read medical works you
will be sick.
SH 180:17
Doctors should not implant disease in the thoughts of
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their patients, as they so frequently do, by declaring disease to be a fixed fact, even before they go to
work to eradicate the disease through the ma21
terial faith which they inspire. Instead of furnishing
thought with fear, they should try to correct this turbulent
element of mortal mind by the influence of divine Love
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which casteth out fear.
Medical works
objectionable
Wrong and right
way
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10. SH 185:32-4
A patient under the influence of mortal mind is healed
186:1 only by removing the influence on him of this mind, by
emptying his thought of the false stimulus
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and reaction of will-power and filling it with
the divine energies of Truth.
11. SH 174:30-8
We should understand that the cause of disease
obtains in the mortal human mind, and its cure comes
from the immortal divine Mind. We should prevent the
175:1 images of disease from taking form in thought, and we
should efface the outlines of disease already formulated in
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the minds of mortals.
When there are fewer prescriptions, and less thought is
given to sanitary subjects, there will be better
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constitutions and less disease. In old times
who ever heard of dyspepsia, cerebro-spinal meningitis,
hay-fever, and rose-cold?
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False stimulus
Novel diseases
12. SH 378:26-28
God
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never endowed matter with power to disable Life or to
chill harmony with a long and cold night of discord.
13. SH 227:30
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If God had instituted material laws to govern man,
disobedience to which would have made man ill, Jesus
would not have disregarded those laws by healing in
228:1 direct opposition to them and in defiance of all material
conditions.
14. SH 232:19-22
Jesus never taught that drugs, food, air, and exercise could make a man healthy, or that they could de21
stroy human life; nor did he illustrate these errors by his
practice.
15. SH 384:6-12
God never
punishes man for doing right, for honest labor, or for
deeds of kindness, though they expose him to fatigue,
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cold, heat, contagion. If man seems to incur the penalty
through matter, this is but a belief of mortal mind, not
an enactment of wisdom, and man has only to enter his
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protest against this belief in order to annul it.
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16. SH 377:26
The cause of all so-called disease is mental, a mortal
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fear, a mistaken belief or conviction of the necessity and
power of ill-health; also a fear that Mind is helpless to
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378:1
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defend the life of man and incompetent to control it. Without this ignorant human belief, any circumstance is of itself powerless to produce suffering. It is latent belief in
disease, as well as the fear of disease, which associates sickness with certain circumstances and causes the two to
appear conjoined, even as poetry and music are reproduced in union by human memory. Disease has no intelligence. Unwittingly you sentence yourself to suffer.
The understanding of this will enable you to commute this
self-sentence, and meet every circumstance with truth.
Disease is less than mind, and Mind can control it.
17. SH 536:1-8
In the Apocalypse it is
written: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for
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the first heaven and the first earth were passed
away; and there was no more sea.” In St.
John’s vision, heaven and earth stand for spir6
itual ideas, and the sea, as a symbol of tempest-tossed
human concepts advancing and receding, is represented
as having passed away.
New earth and
no more sea
18. SH 150:26
The doctrine that man’s harmony is gov27
erned by physical conditions all his earthly days, and that
he is then thrust out of his own body by the operation of
matter, — even the doctrine of the superiority of matter
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over Mind, — is fading out.
19. SH 127:30-2 (to 1st .)
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Christian Science eschews what is called natural science,
in so far as this is built on the false hypotheses that matter is
128:1
its own lawgiver, that law is founded on material conditions, and that these are final and overrule the might of
divine Mind.
20. SH 419:18
Think less of material conditions
and more of spiritual.
21. SH 125:5-6
Moral conditions will be found always har6
monious and health-giving.
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Hymn #2 v. 2
2. Hymn 99
Hymn 99
NINETY-FIRST PSALM I
ADAPTED FROM TATE AND BRADY
(99)
BERA
JOHN E. GOULD, ARR. BY W. E. YOUNG
He that hath God his guardian made,
Shall underneath th’ Almighty’s shade
Fearless and undisturbed abide;
Thus to myself of Him I’ll say,
He is my fortress, shield and stay,
My God; in Him I will confide.
His tender love and watchful care
Shall free thee from the fowler’s snare,
From every harm and pestilence.
He over thee His wings shall spread
To cover thy unguarded head.
His truth shall be thy strong defense.
He gives His angels charge o’er thee,
No evil therefore shalt thou see;
Thy refuge shall be God most high;
Dwelling within His secret place,
Thou shalt behold His power and grace,
See His salvation ever nigh.
Hymn #3
3. Hymn 326
Hymn 326
JAMES MONTGOMERY*
(326)
TRURO
PSALMODIA EVANGELICA, 1790
The Christian warrior, see him stand
In all the armor of his God;
The Spirit’s sword is in his hand;
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His feet are with the gospel shod:
In panoply of truth complete,
Salvation’s helmet on his head,
With righteousness, a breastplate meet,
And faith’s broad shield before him spread.
With this omnipotence he moves;
From this the alien armies flee;
Until he more than conqueror proves,
Through Christ, who gives him victory.
Thus strong in his Redeemer’s strength,
Sin, death and hell he tramples down,
Fights his good fight and wins at length,
Through mercy, an immortal crown.
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