First Church of Christ, Scientist "LOVE" was the subject of the Lesson Sermon which was read in Churches of Christ, Scientist, January throughout the world, Golden Text: 1 John 4:16. We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dewelleth in love dewelleth in God, and God in him.
Among the citations which comprise the Lesson Sermon is the following from the Bibi These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not.... And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand... Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead. cast out devils freely ye have received, freely give. (Matthew 10:5,7.8.)
The Lesson Sermon also includes the following passage from the Christian Science Textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy.
"The supremacy of Spirit was the foundation on which Jesus built, Jesus established in the Christian era the precedent for all Christian theology, and healing. Christians are under as direct orders now, as they were then, to be Christlike, to possess the Christ-spirit, to follow the Christ-example, and to heal the sick as well as the sinning. Our Masters said to every follower: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature!.... Heal the sick!,... Love thy neighbour as thyself!" It was this theology of Jesus which healed the sick and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.