Golden Text: Rom 11:33 (to 1st !)  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!

Responsive Reading: Prov 8:1,10,11,14,18-22,24,25,32 (to :),33-35; Prov 10:22

1  Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

10  Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

11  For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

14  Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

18  Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

19  My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

20  I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

21  That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

22  The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

24  When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

25  Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

32  Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children:

33  Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

34  Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

35  For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

22  The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

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( 1)   Ps 104:24,30 (to :),31 O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.    Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created:     The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.

( 2)   Rom 1:20 the (to ;) the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead;

( 3)   II Cor 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

( 4)   II Cor 4:18 we we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

( 5)   I Tim1:17 (to 1st .) Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever.

( 6)   Ex 20:1,3 And God spake all these words, saying,     Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

( 1)   330:11     I.  God is infinite, the only Life, substance, Spirit, or Soul, the only intelligence of the universe, including man.  Eye hath neither seen God nor His image and likeness. Neither God nor the perfect man can be discerned by the material senses. The individuality of Spirit, or the infinite, is unknown, and thus a knowledge of it is left either to human conjecture or to the revelation of divine Science.

( 2)   278:4-5 Spirit is the only substance and consciousness recognized by divine Science.

( 3)   301:20-24 The belief that man has any other substance, or mind, is not spiritual and breaks the First Commandment, Thou shalt have one God, one Mind. Mortal man seems to himself to be material substance, while man is "image" (idea).

( 4)   337:22 The visible universe and material man are the poor counterfeits of the invisible universe and spiritual man. Eternal things (verities) are God's thoughts as they exist in the spiritual realm of the real. Temporal things are the thoughts of mortals and are the unreal, being the opposite of the real or the spiritual and eternal.

( 5)   468:17-18 Substance Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay.

( 6)   480:1-2 When the substance of Spirit appears in Christian Science, the nothingness of matter is recognized.

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( 7)   Prov 23:4 (to :) Labour not to be rich:

( 8)   I Tim 6:10,11,17,18 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.     Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

( 9)   Isa 58:10 if,11 if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

( 7)   335:12 Spirit is the only substance, the invisible and indivisible infinite God. Things spiritual and eternal are substantial. Things material and temporal are insubstantial.

( 8)   325:32 A false sense of life, substance, and mind hides the divine possibilities, and conceals scientific demonstration.

( 9)   257:24-27 Who hath found finite life or love sufficient to meet the demands of human want and woe, — to still the desires, to satisfy the aspirations?

(10)   239:5,20     Take away wealth, fame, and social organizations, which weigh not one jot in the balance of God, and we get clearer views of Principle. Break up cliques, level wealth with honesty, let worth be judged according to wisdom, and we get better views of humanity.    The objects we pursue and the spirit we manifest reveal our standpoint, and show what we are winning.

(11)   15:25-2     Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God. Self-forgetfulness, purity, and affection are constant prayers.  Practice not profession, understanding not belief, gain the ear and right hand of omnipotence and they assuredly call down infinite blessings. Trustworthiness is the foundation of enlightened faith. Without a fitness for holiness, we cannot receive holiness.     A great sacrifice of material things must precede this advanced spiritual understanding.

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(10)   II Cor 9:7,8 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

(11)   II Chron 23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the Lord's people.

(12)   II Chron 24:4,7 (to :),8,10-13 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord.    For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the Lord did they bestow upon Baalim.    And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the Lord.     And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again.  Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance. And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the Lord. So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.

(13)   Col 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

(14)   Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

(12)   79:31-3 Giving does not impoverish us in the service of our Maker, neither does withholding enrich us.  We have strength in proportion to our apprehension of the truth, and our strength is not lessened by giving utterance to truth.

(13)   595:7-9 (to ;) TEMPLE.  Body; the idea of Life, substance, and intelligence; the superstructure of Truth; the shrine of Love;

(14)   265:3-5 Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged.

(15)   275:14 All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God. These are His attributes, the eternal manifestations of the infinite divine Principle, Love. No wisdom is wise but His wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.

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(15)   Mark 1:1,32 they,34 (to ;) The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;    they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.     And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils;

(16)   John 10:24,25,30,31,39 but,40,42 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt?  If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.     I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.    but he escaped out of their hand, And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.     And many believed on him there.

(16)   133:24 That he made "himself equal with God," was one of the Jewish accusations against him who planted Christianity on the foundation of Spirit, who taught as he was inspired by the Father and would recognize no life, intelligence, nor substance outside of God.

(17)   315:3-12     That saying of our Master, "I and my Father are one," separated him from the scholastic theology of the rabbis.  His better understanding of God was a rebuke to them. He knew of but one Mind and laid no claim to any other. He knew that the Ego was Mind instead of body and that matter, sin, and evil were not Mind; and his understanding of this divine Science brought upon him the anathemas of the age.     The opposite and false views of the people hid from their sense Christ's sonship with God.

(18)   316:3 The real man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship. Christ, Truth, was demonstrated through Jesus to prove the power of Spirit over the flesh, — to show that Truth is made manifest by its effects upon the human mind and body, healing sickness and destroying sin.

(19)   43:28 The Science Jesus taught and lived must triumph over all material beliefs about life, substance, and intelligence, and the multitudinous errors growing from such beliefs.

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(17)   John 6:2,5,6,8-13 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.     When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.     One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many? And Jesus said, Make the men sit down.  Now there was much grass in the place.  So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would. When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.

(18)   Phil 4:19 my my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

(20)   494:10-11 Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

(21)   90:2 How were the loaves and fishes multiplied on the shores of Galilee, — and that, too, without meal or monad from which loaf or fish could come?

(22)   206:15     In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes, — Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply.

(23)   530:5     In divine Science, man is sustained by God, the divine Principle of being. The earth, at God's command, brings forth food for man's use. Knowing this, Jesus once said, "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink," — presuming not on the prerogative of his creator, but recognizing God, the Father and Mother of all, as able to feed and clothe man as He doth the lilies.

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(19)   John 7:14 Jesus Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

(20)   John 2:19-22 Destroy (to ;) Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them;

(21)   John 20:19,24-28 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.    But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord.  But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

(24)   27:10     That Life is God, Jesus proved by his reappearance after the crucifixion in strict accordance with his scientific statement: "Destroy this temple [body], and in three days I [Spirit] will raise it up."  It is as if he had said: The I — the Life, substance, and intelligence of the universe — is not in matter to be destroyed.

(25)   317:16-4     The individuality of man is no less tangible because it is spiritual and because his life is not at the mercy of matter. The understanding of his spiritual individuality makes man more real, more formidable in truth, and enables him to conquer sin, disease, and death. Our Lord and Master presented himself to his disciples after his resurrection from the grave, as the self-same Jesus whom they had loved before the tragedy on Calvary.     To the materialistic Thomas, looking for the ideal Saviour in matter instead of in Spirit and to the testimony of the material senses and the body, more than to Soul, for an earnest of immortality, — to him Jesus furnished the proof that he was unchanged by the crucifixion. To this dull and doubting disciple Jesus remained a fleshly reality, so long as the Master remained an inhabitant of the earth. Nothing but a display of matter could make existence real to Thomas. For him to believe in matter was no task, but for him to conceive of the substantiality of Spirit —  to know that nothing can efface Mind and immortality, in which Spirit reigns — was more difficult.

(26)   301:6-16 To himself, mortal and material man seems to be substance, but his sense of substance involves error and therefore is material, temporal.     On the other hand, the immortal, spiritual man is really substantial, and reflects the eternal substance, or Spirit, which mortals hope for. He reflects the divine, which constitutes the only real and eternal entity. This reflection seems to mortal sense transcendental, because the spiritual man's substantiality transcends mortal vision and is revealed only through divine Science.

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(22)   Acts 10:38 God God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

(23)   Eph 3:14-21 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.  Amen.

(27)   241:19-21     The substance of all devotion is the reflection and demonstration of divine Love, healing sickness and destroying sin.

(28)   136:1-5     Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and the sinning.

(29)   583:12-19 CHURCH.  The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.     The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.

(30)   518:15 The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good. Love giveth to the least spiritual idea might, immortality, and goodness, which shine through all as the blossom shines through the bud. All the varied expressions of God reflect health, holiness, immortality —  infinite Life, Truth, and Love.