Sunday, April 19th, 2026 Roundtable

There is no power in evil; the reverse is true, God is the power. He is infinite; then your work is the Christ power against nothingness; hold there, know it and there is nothing else; know it is with power and what else is there? Nothing; then the work is done, God did it.

God’s child can never make a mistake; can never lose an opportunity, never cause a regret. His life is bright with abundant goodness, hope and promise. Love has a plan and purpose for everyone to fulfill and none can escape it or fail to perform the will of God.

Trust in God. God is Life. God is infinite; therefore, if we are the image and likeness of infinity, we have no beginning and no end, and are His image and likeness; that is my life insurance.

from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 17 of the Addenda

135 — WATCH lest you believe that your best growth will come through the effort to treat cases of sickness year after year, like a cook who, once having learned to make biscuits, continues to make them year after year. As a student grows spiritually, the healing should be accomplished from an increasingly higher understanding. It should be done more and more through the Spirit, and less and less through argument. It should broaden and extend beyond the mere healing of physical ailments.

As the student advances in spiritual understanding, less of the human is mixed with his perception of truth; hence his work becomes less stereotyped and more inspirational. He regards each case that comes to him as an original problem that he must take up with God. His endeavors gradually outgrow the ideal of simply trying to make mortal man harmonious in the flesh. He seeks to help him to throw off a mortal sense of man, although, of course, healing physical sickness will still remain the most impressive phenomenon to convince mortals of the power of Mind.

If a student is progressing, he will watch lest an overconscientious sense of duty lead him to permit those in trouble to make such overwhelming demands upon his time and thought, that he becomes thought-weary, and hence loses that brightness, freshness and spontaneity of thought that is so essential. Mrs. Eddy once wrote, “Jesus did what he saw was best for his own spiritual welfare, no matter if the multitude did throng him. He left them and went up into the mountain to refresh himself. He did not look around and say, ‘Just see how many need help — no mount for me today or tonight.’ He left them and went and returned refreshed and helped them more.”

The student should never forget that he must keep his spiritual confidence and expectancy alive, since it is not the arguments that heal, but the spiritual unction that brings forth expectancy in both the patient and the practitioner. It is expectancy that brings spiritual animus and prepares the way for God’s law to operate. God does the healing, and our arguments merely prepare the patient, so that God will take him up.

500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

Christian Science Practice, from Collected Writings by Bicknell Young

Job 42:10
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

The Other Wise Man by Van Dyke

The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, — a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 1

His holy humility, unworldliness, and self-abandonment wrought infinite results.

from Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 91 to 92

Divine Oneness by Elsie A. Koefoed

The Cry in the Desert by William Bradford Turner

A Sound Mind, from Sermons and Articles by Doris White Evans

“Jesus’ life, outwardly, was one of the most troubled lives that was ever lived. Tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, — the waves breaking over it all the time. But the inner life was a sea of glass. The great calm was always there. At any moment you might have gone to Him and found rest.” — Henry Drummond.

As found in Dominion Within by Rev. G. A. Kratzer

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hymn 207

Immortals And Mortals by Rev. A. M. Knott

Immortality Brought to Light by Dorothy Rieke

2. Matthew 5 : 1-12, 48
1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Meekness and Restoration by Florence Roberts

Unity Of The Sermon On The Mount by Wilton H. Mckerral

Divine Companionship by Blanche H. Hogue

Oneness, from Collected Writings by Bicknell Young

History Corner from the September 2016 Love is the Liberator

Mrs. Eddy’s Great Granddaughter

from the February 2000 Plainfield Newsletter

Dear Friends,

During this season of love, I’d like to share a story with you. It is a story of a gift of love, the greatest gift I have ever received.

In 1985, late October, my brother Bill, wife Evelyn, and my sister Mary joined me on our first visit to Boston and New Hampshire. We were invited to join a tour group from Longyear to visit the homes of Mary Baker Eddy, that they own and maintain.

It was a cold day, rain fell off and on. One of our last stops was at Bow. The sun had come out, but it was still quite cool. As we stood on that quiet hillside, I was thinking of a young Mary flitting over the fields, or sitting and reading qui­etly by a comer of her childhood home.

My sister Mary and I were standing where the rocks outlining the Baker home formed a V- shaped, sheltered corner. Mary and I looked down, there at our feet was a wild violet in full bloom! The violet was the color our Dad had so often told us was the color of his Grandmother’s eyes. Both my sister and I felt that only she could have left this lovely, loving gift for us to find. She was with us as we stood there, welcoming us to her home. Others in the group suggested we pick the flowers. We could only shake our heads; no. We both felt this was a gift so great, it had to be left, untouched, where it had been placed. On our journey back to Boston the sun came out again, and stretched across the sky was a glo­ rious rainbow, as she had promised in her poetry.

Was there a special reason for the violets and rainbow? We can only answer with our hearts — love, the greatest of all gifts.

Mary and I have talked about this experience many times. It is a trµe story, one I’ve never written down before, but want to now share with my Plainfield Christian Science family. We never shared this gift of love with those in Boston, as we felt they would try to “explain” it away.

My love to all of you.

Dorothy Glover McArthur

Dorothy Glover McArthur spent her last years as a member of the Plainfield Christian Science Church, Independent.