Responsive Reading: Jeremiah 30 : 12, 13, 17; Revelation 7 : 16, 17; Revelation 22 : 1, 2

12.     For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

13.     There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

17.     For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord;

16.     They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

17.     For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

1.     And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

2.     In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

1. Exodus 15 : 26 (I am)

26     I am the Lord that healeth thee.

2. Jeremiah 17 : 5-10, 12-14

5     Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

6     For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

7     Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

8     For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

9     The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

10     I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

12     A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

13     O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

14     Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

3. II Chronicles 7 : 14

14     If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

4. Isaiah 9 : 2, 6, 7

2     The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

6     For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

7     Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

5. Mark 1 : 1, 14, 15, 21-26, 29-32, 34 (to 1st ,)

1     The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

14     Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

15     And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

21     And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.

22     And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.

23     And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

24     Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

25     And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

26     And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.

29     And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

30     But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.

31     And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.

32     And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.

34     And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases,

6. Mark 5 : 25-34

25     And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,

26     And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,

27     When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.

28     For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.

29     And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

30     And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?

31     And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

32     And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.

33     But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

34     And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

7. John 14 : 12

12     Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

8. James 5 : 13 (to 1st .), 14, 15

13     Is any among you afflicted? let him pray.

14     Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

15     And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

1. 129 : 21-26

We must abandon pharmaceutics, and take up ontology, — "the science of real being." We must look deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things. Can we gather peaches from a pine-tree, or learn from discord the concord of being? 

2. 411 : 20-23

The procuring cause and foundation of all sickness is fear, ignorance, or sin. Disease is always induced by a false sense mentally entertained, not destroyed. Disease is an image of thought externalized.

3. 180 : 17-24

Doctors should not implant disease in the thoughts of their patients, as they so frequently do, by declaring disease to be a fixed fact, even before they go to work to eradicate the disease through the material faith which they inspire. Instead of furnishing thought with fear, they should try to correct this turbulent element of mortal mind by the influence of divine Love which casteth out fear.

4. 416 : 24-2

The sick know nothing of the mental process by which they are depleted, and next to nothing of the metaphysical method by which they can be healed. If they ask about their disease, tell them only what is best for them to know. Assure them that they think too much about their ailments, and have already heard too much on that subject. Turn their thoughts away from their bodies to higher objects. Teach them that their being is sustained by Spirit, not by matter, and that they find health, peace, and harmony in God, divine Love.

5. 153 : 16-24

You say a boil is painful; but that is impossible, for matter without mind is not painful. The boil simply manifests, through inflammation and swelling, a belief in pain, and this belief is called a boil. Now administer mentally to your patient a high attenuation of truth, and it will soon cure the boil. The fact that pain cannot exist where there is no mortal mind to feel it is a proof that this so-called mind makes its own pain — that is, its own belief in pain.

6. 417 : 20-26

To the Christian Science healer, sickness is a dream from which the patient needs to be awakened. Disease should not appear real to the physician, since it is demonstrable that the way to cure the patient is to make disease unreal to him. To do this, the physician must understand the unreality of disease in Science.

7. 370 : 23-2

According to both medical testimony and individual experience, a drug may eventually lose its supposed power and do no more for the patient. Hygienic treatment also loses its efficacy. Quackery likewise fails at length to inspire the credulity of the sick, and then they cease to improve. These lessons are useful. They should naturally and genuinely change our basis from sensation to Christian Science, from error to Truth, from matter to Spirit.

Physicians examine the pulse, tongue, lungs, to discover the condition of matter, when in fact all is Mind.

8. 376 : 17-27

If the body is material, it cannot, for that very reason, suffer with a fever. Because the so-called material body is a mental concept and governed by mortal mind, it manifests only what that so-called mind expresses. Therefore the efficient remedy is to destroy the patient's false belief by both silently and audibly arguing the true facts in regard to harmonious being, — representing man as healthy instead of diseased, and showing that it is impossible for matter to suffer, to feel pain or heat, to be thirsty or sick. Destroy fear, and you end fever.

9. 371 : 26-32

Mankind will improve through Science and Christianity. The necessity for uplifting the race is father to the fact that Mind can do it; for Mind can impart purity instead of impurity, strength instead of weakness, and health instead of disease. Truth is an alterative in the entire system, and can make it "every whit whole."

10. 146 : 2-7

The ancient Christians were healers. Why has this element of Christianity been lost? Because our systems of religion are governed more or less by our systems of medicine. The first idolatry was faith in matter. The schools have rendered faith in drugs the fashion, rather than faith in Deity.

11. 230 : 1-2, 4-10

If sickness is real, it belongs to immortality; if true, it is a part of Truth. … But if sickness and sin are illusions, the awakening from this mortal dream, or illusion, will bring us into health, holiness, and immortality. This awakening is the forever coming of Christ, the advanced appearing of Truth, which casts out error and heals the sick. This is the salvation which comes through God, the divine Principle, Love, as demonstrated by Jesus.

12. 483 : 5-12

We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal, and this Mind must be divine, not human. Mind transcends all other power, and will ultimately supersede all other means in healing. In order to heal by Science, you must not be ignorant of the moral and spiritual demands of Science nor disobey them. Moral ignorance or sin affects your demonstration, and hinders its approach to the standard in Christian Science.

13. 142 : 28-4

God being All-in-all, He made medicine; but that medicine was Mind. It could not have been matter, which departs from the nature and character of Mind, God. Truth is God's remedy for error of every kind, and Truth destroys only what is untrue. Hence the fact that, to-day, as yesterday, Christ casts out evils and heals the sick.

14. 144 : 20-22, 27-29

Truth, and not corporeal will, is the divine power which says to disease, "Peace, be still."

When the Science of being is universally understood, every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be the universal panacea.