Sunday, June 18th, 2017


Subject — Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?

Golden Text: Psalm 19 : 1


“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”


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Responsive Reading: Psalm 114 : 1-8

1.     When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

2.     Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

3.     The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

4.     The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

5.     What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

6.     Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

7.     Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

8.     Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.


Lesson Sermon

The Bible


1.     Psalm 104 : 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31

24     O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

25     So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

27     These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

28     That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

30     Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

31     The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.


2.     Exodus 15 : 22 (Moses)-27

22     ...Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

23     And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

24     And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

25     And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

26     And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

27     And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.


3.     Exodus 16 : 2-4, 12-15, 35

2     And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

3     And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

4     Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

12     I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.

13     And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

14     And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

15     And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

35     And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.


4.     Exodus 17 : 1-6

1     And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

2     Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

3     And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

4     And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

5     And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.

6     Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.


5.     Job 37 : 5-7, 10-12

5     God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

6     For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

7     He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

10     By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

11     Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:

12     And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.


6.     Amos 4 : 13

13     For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.



Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures


1.     295 : 5-8

God creates and governs the universe, including man. The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind that makes them.


2.     143 : 26-27

Mind is the grand creator, and there can be no power except that which is derived from Mind.


3.     133 : 8-10, 15-18

In Egypt, it was Mind which saved the Israelites from belief in the plagues. In the wilderness, streams flowed from the rock, and manna fell from the sky.

Even in captivity among foreign nations, the divine Principle wrought wonders for the people of God in the fiery furnace and in kings' palaces.


4.     240 : 1-9

Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love, but human belief misinterprets nature. Arctic regions, sunny tropics, giant hills, winged winds, mighty billows, verdant vales, festive flowers, and glorious heavens, - all point to Mind, the spiritual intelligence they reflect. The floral apostles are hieroglyphs of Deity. Suns and planets teach grand lessons. The stars make night beautiful, and the leaflet turns naturally towards the light.


5.     209 : 5-8, 10-11, 16-30

Mind, supreme over all its formations and governing them all, is the central sun of its own systems of ideas, the life and light of all its own vast creation; and man is tributary to divine Mind.

The world would collapse without Mind, without the intelligence which holds the winds in its grasp.

The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember that they all must give place to the spiritual fact by the translation of man and the universe back into Spirit. In proportion as this is done, man and the universe will be found harmonious and eternal.

Material substances or mundane formations, astronomical calculations, and all the paraphernalia of speculative theories, based on the hypothesis of material law or life and intelligence resident in matter, will ultimately vanish, swallowed up in the infinite calculus of Spirit.


6.     545 : 10-17

Man, created by God, was given dominion over the whole earth. The notion of a material universe is utterly opposed to the theory of man as evolved from Mind. Such fundamental errors send falsity into all human doctrines and conclusions, and do not accord infinity to Deity. Error tills the whole ground in this material theory, which is entirely a false view, destructive to existence and happiness.


7.     547 : 15-22

In its history of mortality, Darwin's theory of evolution from a material basis is more consistent than most theories. Briefly, this is Darwin's theory, - that Mind produces its opposite, matter, and endues matter with power to recreate the universe, including man. Material evolution implies that the great First Cause must become material, and afterwards must either return to

Mind or go down into dust and nothingness.


8.     551 : 12-16

Evolution describes the gradations of human belief, but it does not acknowledge the method of divine Mind, nor see that material methods are impossible in divine Science and that all Science is of God, not of man.


9.     547 : 25-32

The true theory of the universe, including man, is not in material history but in spiritual development. Inspired thought relinquishes a material, sensual, and mortal theory of the universe, and adopts the spiritual and immortal.

It is this spiritual perception of Scripture, which lifts humanity out of disease and death and inspires faith.


10.     293 : 13-20

The material so-called gases and forces are counterfeits of the spiritual forces of divine Mind, whose potency is Truth, whose attraction is Love, whose adhesion and cohesion are Life, perpetuating the eternal facts of being. Electricity is the sharp surplus of materiality which counterfeits the true essence of spirituality or truth, - the great difference being that electricity is not intelligent, while spiritual truth is Mind.


11.     275 : 25-30

Our material human theories are destitute of Science. The true understanding of God is spiritual. It robs the grave of victory. It destroys the false evidence that misleads thought and points to other gods, or other so-called powers, such as matter, disease, sin, and death, superior or contrary to the one Spirit.


12.     139 : 4-9

From beginning to end, the Scriptures are full of accounts of the triumph of Spirit, Mind, over matter. Moses proved the power of Mind by what men called miracles; so did Joshua, Elijah, and Elisha. The Christian era was ushered in with signs and wonders.


13.     134 : 31-10

A miracle fulfils God's law, but does not violate that law. This fact at present seems more mysterious than the miracle itself. The Psalmist sang: "What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye little hills, like lambs? Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob." The miracle introduces no disorder, but unfolds the primal order, establishing the Science of God's unchangeable law. Spiritual evolution alone is worthy of the exercise of divine power.


14.     135 : 21-32

It has been said, and truly, that Christianity must be Science, and Science must be Christianity, else one or the other is false and useless; but neither is unimportant or untrue, and they are alike in demonstration. This proves the one to be identical with the other. Christianity as Jesus taught it was not a creed, nor a system of ceremonies, nor a special gift from a ritualistic Jehovah; but it was the demonstration of divine Love casting out error and healing the sick, not merely in the name of Christ, or Truth, but in demonstration of Truth, as must be the case in the cycles of

divine light.


15.     519 : 9-11

Thus the ideas of God in universal being are complete and forever expressed, for Science reveals infinity and the fatherhood and motherhood of Love.


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