Sunday, March 15th, 2026 Roundtable

Beloved Father-Mother, God, give me wisdom to meet the problems I may have to meet today; give me understanding to deny error and to proclaim the truth. Give me grace to keep silent when speech is unnecessary. There is no strife, for Truth, risen Truth will destroy error of every sort. And heaven is right here. God gives abundance of intelligence and opportunity. I cannot be impoverished mentally, physically, spiritually, or financially. God is substance and I reflect that substance.

Realize to yourself daily more than once that the fields are white and ready for the harvest, that divine Love always has met every human need, the need for work as well as any other; that Mind is ever active and you reflect divine activity; that the source of supply supplies every need; that there is plenty of work for all, and yours belongs to you and no one else can do it. It comes to you direct and the supply is abundant, and know all the time that this is so. Never let a lack of anything stay a moment with you. It is rank error and brings all sorts of disease and difficulty.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 60

148 — WATCH lest, when you are whipped by your human experiences to speed you up spiritually, as one would whip a sluggish horse to make him go, you complain, and turn around to investigate what it is that is whipping you. Jesus admonishes us, after we have put our hand to the plough, not to look back. When you do, it tends to slow you up and to nullify the good that you should be doing.

Mrs. Eddy once declared, “Error is nothing but erroneous thought, and we must never give in to it or go down before it. We must go ahead of error, and keep ahead of error all the way.” This statement shows that if we look back, error may have a chance to catch up with us…

Let us suppose that a sense of lack appears in your experience. Instead of trying to discover the human reasons for this happening, should you not regard it as a whip, the purpose of which is to start you working with more fervor — not for money as matter, but for a higher spiritual consciousness of the fact that, as a child of God, you are not dependent upon, nor do you need, matter, or material money as such, since you are God’s child, cared for in every way? This realization would bring you the supply you needed.

500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

Real Treasure by Luther P. Cudworth

from the June 1, 1912 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel

When one looks about in these days of world-wide prosperity and sees the immense amount of material treasure, the wealth which an ever-increasing proportion of the earth’s inhabitants has succeeded in accumulating, the gorgeous display of luxury at private as well as state functions, he is apt to look upon his own little belongings or his apparent lack of them from an entirely new view-point. How little we know, however, of the lack of the real substance, of joy, peace, and spiritual understanding, which may characterize the experience of those who are thus displaying their material wealth! Are not the lives of most rich men filled with cares and anxieties with which none of us would desire to be burdened? Can we judge from the material evidence of what a man really possesses?

Considering material wealth in this perspective, we perceive its real value, or rather lack of value, and withhold all judgment of personality or individual weakness. The Master said, “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal; for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also;” and from this it is manifest that there is a rightful treasure which it is our privilege to have. In Proverbs we read, “There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.” This is the true wealth which will satisfy all our desires. It is the real substance which sustains and supports. If this rightful treasure is a thing from God, it is ours by inheritance, for we are “heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;” so too if from God, its supply is infinite, for we cannot conceive of God’s supply being limited.

Thus we come logically to the point where we perceive that the Christian’s supply is unlimited, a condition aptly illustrated to the writer by a man who is said to be “out of breath” from some strenuous physical exertion. There is plenty of air for him to breathe, and his only lack is the ability either through a belief of exhaustion or fear to inhale all that the system demands. Thus too is God’s infinite supply of life, truth, and love, the real substance, always at hand, and our only possible lack is an ability to grasp the truth of being and assimilate it, thereby finding all we need or can rightly desire. This better understanding of Life will surely eventuate in better living, an understanding of Love, a right perception of Truth, the necessary wisdom to solve aright all our problems; hence a more harmonious existence.

It is true wisdom therefore to concentrate our whole activity in the effort to know more of God and His creations, and in the measure of our success we certainly cannot suffer from the want of any of the necessities and comforts of life, and more than this we should not desire. Surely our gratitude should be unbounded, and we should heed the words of Moses, “When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.”

Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Substance

Harmony is the evidence of substance. Healing is proof of substance. Love is a proof of substance; Mind, Principle, Soul, and Spirit are the substance of things hoped for by Christian Scientists. As one grows in understanding, he grows in substance, and what he gains is incapable of discord and decay.

Excerpts from 1937 College by Bicknell Young

Treasure
1. Wealth accumulated;
2. A great quantity of any thing collected for future use.
3. Something very much valued.
4. Great abundance.

From the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary

Responsive Reading: Hebrews 11
27. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Benson Commentary

Hebrews 11:27. By faith — Namely, in the power of God to preserve and conduct him and them, notwithstanding Pharaoh’s rage and threatening; he forsook Egypt — Taking all the Israelites with him; not fearing the wrath of the king — As he did many years before, when he fled from Egypt into Midian: see Exodus 2:14-15. For he endured — Continued resolute and immoveable; as seeing him who is invisible — Keeping the eye of his mind continually fixed on that great invisible Being, whose presence and friendship is of such importance, that the person who fixes his regards on him, will never by any consideration be influenced knowingly to offend him, nor be much impressed with the fear of any person or thing that would tempt him to do this. This character of God is here given with peculiar propriety. Moses was now in that condition, and had those difficulties to encounter, wherein he continually stood in need of divine power and assistance: whence this should come he could not discern by his senses: his bodily eye could behold no present assistant; for God was invisible: but he saw him by faith, whom he could not see with his bodily eyes, and thus seeing him he found him a present help, no less than if he had been manifest to his senses. A double act of Moses’s faith is intended herein; 1st, A clear, distinct view and apprehension of God’s omnipresence, power, and faithfulness; and, 2d, A steady trust in him on account of these perfections. This he relied on, to this he trusted, that God was everywhere present with him, able to protect and assist him, and faithful to his promises. Of these things he had as certain a persuasion, as if he had seen God working with him and for him with his bodily eyes. This sense of God he continually had recourse to in all his hazards and difficulties, and thereby endured courageously to the end.

The Hebrew Lawgiver, slow of speech, despaired of making the people understand what should be revealed to him. When, led by wisdom to cast down his rod, he saw it become a serpent, Moses fled before it; but wisdom bade him come back and handle the serpent, and then Moses’ fear departed. In this incident was seen the actuality of Science. Matter was shown to be a belief only. The serpent, evil, under wisdom’s bidding, was destroyed through understanding divine Science, and this proof was a staff upon which to lean. The illusion of Moses lost its power to alarm him, when he discovered that what he apparently saw was really but a phase of mortal belief.

It was scientifically demonstrated that leprosy was a creation of mortal mind and not a condition of matter, when Moses first put his hand into his bosom and drew it forth white as snow with the dread disease, and presently restored his hand to its natural condition by the same simple process. God had lessened Moses’ fear by this proof in divine Science, and the inward voice became to him the voice of God, which said: “It shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.” And so it was in the coming centuries, when the Science of being was demonstrated by Jesus, who showed his students the power of Mind by changing water into wine, and taught them how to handle serpents unharmed, to heal the sick and cast out evils in proof of the supremacy of Mind.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 321

“Through Faith We Understand” by Richard P.Verrall

Pleasure and Pain by Annie M. Knott

A Better Country by Blanche H. Hogue

Oil. Consecration; charity; gentleness; prayer; heavenly inspiration.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 592

“A pot of oil” by Florence Davis Keller

John 15:2
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

A Shepherd Looks At Psalm 23 by Phillip Keller

“We each dwell in our own world of consciousness, we look out through the windows of this consciousness and behold the passing procession of mortal mind.

“Day after day we have been lured forth, have been pressed into the whirl, lost our individual peace and poise in divine Mind, and found ourselves dragged through the meanness, the uncleanness, and pain of the procession.

“We seek to regain our own house of consciousness, wiser for the experience, thinking we will not again become a part of error’s pageant, but here let the newer understanding of Love guard well your door, stay in your own house of mental demonstration, keep your peace. For idle curiosity, criticism, or even false sympathy may lure you forth.

“Wherein lies the wisdom of the serpent? To hide itself. Therefore hide yourself in the understanding of Christian Science, be it great or small.

“We have all in some way needed the experience we have had. Never be found as a Christian Scientist mourning over an experience. It is a thing of the past, but not so the manifold power and presence of God resulting therefrom.”

from Christian Science, Its Clear, Correct Teaching, by Herbert Eustace, page 567 to 568