"For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand"II Tim 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
2 Timothy 4:6.
These are the hieroglyphics of DeityEditorial Note: Eddy calls flowers "hieroglyphs of Deity" on page 240 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.. Paul like his divine Master was a man of sorrowsIsa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Editorial Note: This passage has often been taken by Christians, including Mary Baker Eddy, to be a prophecy of Jesus.: throughout his apostleship we find him loosing his gravity towards sin.
We find him traveling all through Asia Minor visiting the churches: we read of the account of his bidding farewell to the church of Ephesus and he says to them when they wept at his departure "What mean ye to weep and to break my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." Acts 21:13. Although his journey would carry him through a region of beautiful sceneryAs Written:sceanery he was filled with sorrow. At Jerusalem he was taken and scourged for polluting the temple. He said to the high priest who commanded him to be smitten "God shall smite the thou whited wall for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law."Acts 23:3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law? He differed from the Master. Paul manifested self-confidence. Jesus let alone his defenseAs Written:defence of matter. Paul followed like a reformer that he was, meeting mankind on their own plane. His history must repeat itself. The Christian Scientist must follow in his footsteps. They must be ready to bear testimony for the hope that is within them, and begin by repeating the text "For I am now ready to be offered."II Tim 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. We have chosen who we will serve. Out of the furnace He has chosen us: are we ready to be offered. Have we chosen Life, Truth Love. Do we love God as well as we love health &c, if so we will forget all else, we will be ready when we lay down our duties here.
Are you willing to be offered, to become as a fool for Christ's sakeI Cor 4:10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. . Take hold of Omnipotent power: can you come with authority to fight for its claim, and fight for humanity. Nothing but the lives of the prophets and apostles fight will help you. And now let us gird ourselves as Paul, because we cannot be understood if we speak in an unknown tongue. They don't understand us let them remain so and be patient.
We can possessAs Written:posess the power of spirit only as we cease to believe in an opposite power
Christian Science has come today as of old even the claim of man to be the image and likeness of God. Sin hides heaven, sickness prevents harmony in this Divine power the three in one we've our remedy for them all. There is before us this problem of life in matter: this Divine feature that God is Omnipotent: God is Life, Therefore the matter die, God is spirit therefore he destroys matter, and we have this almighty arm to help us work our way from the material to the spiritual.
There before us is sin sickness and death: Let us speak cannot now die therefore
they who have mastered govern sin sickness & death. Is it only your material sen that seems beaten. there is not a law here that Deity has to master, reverseAs Written:revers your sense of power and take hold of Divine sense of power It is only when we leave
the Principle of a phenomenon that we lose a true sense. Mind should utter itself
and not matter, a sense of mans power in union with Deity: the idea will work togetherAs Written:togather with Deity. We should never separateAs Written:seperate ourselves from God, but say I am Deity's now andAs Written:an not annother'sAs Written:anothers, and you have the victory. Are you willing to let go the old for the new, if so
are you ready to leave the old for the new. God has got to be the master, array yourselves against
drugs &c. man can take a bigger dose of truth than Arsenic. The prophets in the furnaceDan 3:19 ¶Then was
Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against
Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed–nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than
it was wont to be heated. Dan 3:20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed–nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Dan 3:21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Dan 3:22 Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot,
the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed–nego. Dan 3:23 And these three men, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed–nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Dan 3:24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst
of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. Dan 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire,
and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Dan 3:26 ¶Then
Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said,
Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed–nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then
Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed–nego, came forth of the midst of the fire. Dan 3:27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered
together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair
of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had
passed on them. proved the power of mind over our systems. Say to this disturbed body "peace be still."Mark 4:39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the
wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Jesus had power to say to the man with the withered hand, stretch forth thine arm handMark 3:5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. : not knowing that we give to matter the power to act and mind not to act, we are fighting ourselves, a kingdom divided against ourselves: we are not saying "great is Diana"Acts 19:28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. Acts 19:34 But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. but great is hygieneAs Written:hygene &c. Mind is proved to control the body; if mind governs in one instance it governs in all, there is not an exception it is proven that mind governs every part of the system We look up at the beautiful sun and say that it is affecting us producing sunstrokes &c. Mind governs all: God said I give you dominion over all the earth, this that we call sunstroke, palsy &c lies all within the minds jurisdiction and the body is obedient in every a all the priest demonstra antidote. Body and mind should be governed by God: but we become idolaters, God is left out of the question. I come with the str that God is all
I will know nothing among you but Christ and him crucifiedI Cor 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. in small things we learn the Principle and proved and you are exclaiming