Truth - 1/28/1917

​TRUTH
January 28, 1917

Golden Text
Zech 8:16 speak
speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: 


Responsive Reading
II Chron 30:1,6,9,13,18-20,26
And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel. 

So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. 

For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him. 

And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation. 

For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written.  But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good Lord pardon every one 

That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. 

And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. 

So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem. 


Section I
( 1)   Ps 143:8,10 
Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. 

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. 

( 2)   Is 58: 6,8 
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward. 

( 3)   Rev 2:26,28 
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: 

And I will give him the morning star. 

( 4)   Ps 130:5,6 
I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. 


( 1)   591:23 
MORNING.  Light; symbol of Truth; revelation and progress. 

( 2)   223:14 
    The question, "What is Truth," convulses the world.  Many are ready to meet this inquiry with the assurance which comes of understanding; but more are blinded by their old illusions, and try to "give it pause." "If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." 

( 3)   vii:2-10 
The wakeful shepherd beholds the first faint morning beams, ere cometh the full radiance of a risen day. So shone the pale star to the prophet-shepherds; yet it traversed the night, and came where, in cradled obscurity, lay the Bethlehem babe, the human herald of Christ, Truth, who would make plain to benighted understanding the way of salvation through Christ Jesus, till across a night of error should dawn the morning beams and shine the guiding star of being. 

( 4)   127:4,23 
If God, the All-in-all, be the creator of the spiritual universe, including man, then everything entitled to a classification as truth, or Science, must be comprised in a knowledge or understanding of God, for there can be nothing beyond illimitable divinity. 

    There is no physical science, inasmuch as all truth proceeds from the divine Mind. Therefore truth is not human, and is not a law of matter, for matter is not a lawgiver. Science is an emanation of divine Mind, and is alone able to interpret God aright.  It has a spiritual, and not a material origin. It is a divine utterance, - the Comforter which leadeth into all truth. 

( 5)   viii:12-15 
The question, What is Truth, is answered by demonstration, - by healing both disease and sin; and this demonstration shows that Christian healing confers the most health and makes the best men. 


Section II
( 5)   Is 5:1,2,4,7,13 
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.  My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. 

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. 

( 6)   Rom 7:21-24 
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 

( 7)   John 8:31,32 
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 


( 6)   287:27-32 
The five material senses testify to truth and error as united in a mind both good and evil. Their false evidence will finally yield to Truth, - to the recognition of Spirit and of the spiritual creation. 
    Truth cannot be contaminated by error. 

( 7)   288:9-17 
    Superstition and understanding can never combine.  When the final physical and moral effects of Christian Science are fully apprehended, the conflict between truth and error, understanding and belief, Science and material sense, foreshadowed by the prophets and inaugurated by Jesus, will cease, and spiritual harmony reign. The lightnings and thunderbolts of error may burst and flash till the cloud is cleared and the tumult dies away in the distance. 

( 8)   223:25-31 
    Peals that should startle the slumbering thought from its erroneous dream are partially unheeded; but the last trump has not sounded, or this would not be so. Marvels, calamities, and sin will much more abound as truth urges upon mortals its resisted claims; but the awful daring of sin destroys sin, and foreshadows the triumph of truth. 

( 9)   493:6 
All the evidence of physical sense and all the knowledge obtained from physical sense must yield to Science, to the immortal truth of all things. 


Section III
( 8)   Ps 108:3-6 
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth; That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me. 

( 9)   Ps 31:4,5 
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. 

(10)   Ps 45:3,4,6 
Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 

Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 

(11)   II Cor 13:8 
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 


(10)   454:4-5,11 
    Teach your students the omnipotence of Truth, which illustrates the impotence of error. 

That evil or matter has neither intelligence nor power, is the doctrine of absolute Christian Science, and this is the great truth which strips all disguise from error. 

(11)   453:6-8 
    Right and wrong, truth and error, will be at strife in the minds of students, until victory rests on the side of invincible truth.  

(12)   538:3-4,7 
    Truth should, and does, drive error out of all selfhood.  Truth is a two-edged sword, guarding and guiding. 

Radiant with mercy and justice, the sword of Truth gleams afar and indicates the infinite distance between Truth and error, between the material and spiritual, -  the unreal and the real. 

(13)   367:30 
    Because Truth is infinite, error should be known as nothing. Because Truth is omnipotent in goodness, error, Truth's opposite, has no might. Evil is but the counterpoise of nothingness. The greatest wrong is but a supposititious opposite of the highest right. The confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error is unreal. Error is a coward before Truth. Divine Science insists that time will prove all this. Both truth and error have come nearer than ever before to the apprehension of mortals, and truth will become still clearer as error is self-destroyed. 

(14)   559:10-16 
The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, "as when a lion roareth."  It is heard in the desert and in dark places of fear. It arouses the "seven thunders" of evil, and stirs their latent forces to utter the full diapason of secret tones. Then is the power of Truth demonstrated, - made manifest in the destruction of error. 


Section IV
(12)   Prov 12:18,19 
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. 

(13)   Ps 40:10,11 
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. 

(14)   Ps 145:18 
The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 

(15)   Ps 91:4,9,10 
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 

Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 


(15)   144:20-29 
Truth, and not corporeal will, is the divine power which says to disease, "Peace, be still." 
    Because divine Science wars with so-called physical science, even as Truth wars with error, the old schools still oppose it. Ignorance, pride, or prejudice closes the door to whatever is not stereotyped.  When the Science of being is universally understood, every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be the universal panacea. 

(16)   145:10-13 
The victory will be on the patient's side only as immortal Mind through Christ, Truth, subdues the human belief in disease. 

(17)   216:16-18 
If man is governed by the law of divine Mind, his body is in submission to everlasting Life and Truth and Love. 

(18)   401:7-11,16-18 
    If faith in the truth of being, which you impart mentally while destroying error, causes chemicalization (as when an alkali is destroying an acid), it is because the truth of being must transform the error to the end of producing a higher manifestation. 

    What I term chemicalization is the upheaval produced when immortal Truth is destroying erroneous mortal belief. 

(19)   135:12-15 
This is "the beauty of holiness," that when Truth heals the sick, it casts out evils, and when Truth casts out the evil called disease, it heals the sick. 


Section V
(16)   Ps 43:3 
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. 

(17)   Ps 85:10,11 
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 

(18)   John 1:14,17 
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 

(19)   Eph 4:17,18,20,21,25 
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 

But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 


(20)   353:10 
All must admit that Christ is "the way, the truth, and the life," and that omnipotent Truth certainly does destroy error. 

(21)   26:10 
    The Christ was the Spirit which Jesus implied in his own statements: "I am the way, the truth, and the life;" "I and my Father are one." This Christ, or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine nature, the godliness which animated him. Divine Truth, Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness, and death. His mission was to reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does for man. 

(22)   85:30 
The great Teacher knew both cause and effect, knew that truth communicates itself but never imparts error. 

(23)   149:29-8 
We need to understand the affirmations of divine Science, dismiss superstition, and demonstrate truth according to Christ. To-day there is hardly a city, village, or hamlet, in which are not to be found living witnesses and monuments to the virtue and power of Truth, as applied through this Christian system of healing disease. 
    To-day the healing power of Truth is widely demonstrated as an immanent, eternal Science, instead of a phenomenal exhibition. Its appearing is the coming anew of the gospel of "on earth peace, good-will toward men." 

(24)   323:28-32 
    The effects of Christian Science are not so much seen as felt. It is the "still, small voice" of Truth uttering itself. We are either turning away from this utterance, or we are listening to it and going up higher. 


Section VI
(20)   Prov 23:23 
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 

(21)   Zech 8:3 
Thus saith the Lord; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain. 

(22)   John 14:15-17 
If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 

(23)   John 16:13 
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 

(24)   II Cor 1:3,4 
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 


(25)   271:20-22,26-30 
    Our Master said, "But the Comforter . . . shall teach you all things." When the Science of Christianity appears, it will lead you into all truth.  

    Those, who are willing to leave their nets or to cast them on the right side for Truth, have the opportunity now, as aforetime, to learn and to practise Christian healing. The Scriptures contain it.  The spiritual import of the Word imparts this power. 

(26)   505:16-17,21 
    Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth. 

Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal. Spiritual understanding unfolds Mind, - Life, Truth, and Love, - and demonstrates the divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe in Christian Science. 

(27)   123:16-27 
    The term CHRISTIAN SCIENCE was introduced by the author to designate the scientific system of divine healing. 
    The revelation consists of two parts: 
    1. The discovery of this divine Science of Mind-healing, through a spiritual sense of the Scriptures and through the teachings of the Comforter, as promised by the Master. 
    2. The proof, by present demonstration, that the so-called miracles of Jesus did not specially belong to a dispensation now ended, but that they illustrated an ever-operative divine Principle. 

(28)   202:15 
    Outside of this Science all is mutable; but immortal man, in accord with the divine Principle of his being, God, neither sins, suffers, nor dies. The days of our pilgrimage will multiply instead of diminish, when God's kingdom comes on earth; for the true way leads to Life instead of to death, and earthly experience discloses the finity of error and the infinite capacities of Truth, in which God gives man dominion over all the earth.