The Archive · 1941

Lesson Sermon

First Church of Christ, Scientist "Mind". was the subject of the. Lesson Sermon read in all Churches of Christ Scientist, throughout the world yesterday. Golden Text:—Phil, 2:13, "It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure," Among the citations which comprised the Lesson Sermon was the following from the Bible:—Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?.... Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding, (Isa, 40). Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord, Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord. (Jer, 23)

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 eve lasting I am is not bounded nor compressed within the narrow limits of physical humanity, nor can He be understood aright through mortal concepts, The precise form of God must be of small importance in comparison with' the sublime question, What is infinite Mind or divine Love?.... Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understanding, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is God, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience—that is, all power, all presence, all Science,"

German Oppression "You at home, oppressed by the enemy, are as active i~ this struggle as we free Norwegians outside the boundaries of Norway. Your active contribution towards the fight agains tyranny consists, strange as it seems, in passive resistance. And the free 4 Norway in the rest of the world is fighting today. First of all our Mercantile Fleet performs inestimable work for the Allied cause. Our Navy, our Army and Air Force take part and are growing stronger da "You understand now that, Ger many attacked in order to force us Salvage Tug Helping Havre Maru Hakodate, Feb. 23.

A salvage tug sailed from here last night to assist the 5,467 ton Havre Maru reported aground and distressed two miles south of Cape Gongen, Aomori Prefecture at 8 o'clock las! night. The crew of 43 aboard the stranded vessel was stated to be safe—Domeli.

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