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The Bulletin Board is for gratitude for Christian Science and the Church, as well as timely excerpts from the Bible, the works of Mrs. Eddy, and the early workers that help and encourage. We are very grateful for all posts that conform to these guidelines, but will edit or remove anything that the Practitioners feel is not in complete accord with pure Christian Science or in any way disrespectful of it.

We also ask that you keep your postings as concise as possible. If you quote the Bible, please use The King James Version, as this is what Mrs. Eddy used. Thank you!


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  • in reply to: On Earth As It Is In Heaven #6154
    Fairlie
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    Thank you, Parthens. I will watch this way too. In these times it could not be more important!

    in reply to: Gratitude #5108
    Fairlie
    Participant

    Faith was significant in both of Jesus’ healings as seen in this lesson.

    in reply to: Sunday Service 6-11-2017 #4316
    Fairlie
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    Gratitude for Amanda’s beautiful reading from Genesis and Psalms for the scriptural today at our Sunday service, 6/11/17.

    in reply to: Live unto him #3962
    Fairlie
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    Thank you for this beautiful post. How meaningful it is to live for him who gave his life for us. I am very grateful to God, Christ, Mrs. Eddy, and am very grateful to Plainfield to be shown the way and given opportunities to work for His purpose, instead of just a self-centered existence.

    in reply to: Neglect not the gift #3533
    Fairlie
    Participant

    Indeed, as our hymn says, “Our God is Love, unchanging Love And can we ask for more?” And (S&H) :The way is straight and narrow, which leads to the understanding that God is the only Life.” but “It is a warfare with the flesh,” and much gratitude to Plainfield for all the support in striving to live with God more and more.

    in reply to: Evil should be regarded as unnatural #3330
    Fairlie
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    Thanks to Plainfield, I am beginning to understand that there is nothing going on but good from God. Nothing negative is true. And that to try to heal by looking to human circumstances or seeming causes, what happened or didn’t happen, is hopeless. If God is all, anything else is a lie and the Adam dream. In this regard I have found Plainfield’s gift of Rev. Mason’s “Hints on Healing” very helpful to this understanding.

    in reply to: The mission of Christian Science #3294
    Fairlie
    Participant

    Much gratitude to Plainfield for enabling us to work toward “the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world.” The Bible studies and Roundtables week after week help me to try to reach the ability to live with God in daily walk and conversation in living with others in love.

    in reply to: The Awakening #3172
    Fairlie
    Participant

    Thank you for this post, the distinction between Jesus, “wearing in part a human form … the mediator between Spirit and the flesh, between Truth and error” and the Christ truth that he demonstrated, and which Mrs.Eddy explained to us. Yet one can very much appreciate Jesus’s Christly qualities of unworldliness (“The Son of Man hath no place to lay his head.”) and humility.

    in reply to: The uses of His rod #2866
    Fairlie
    Participant

    Yes, I have been grateful for your testimony ever since coming to Plainfield. It has encouraged me and made me know I am not alone. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health:”It is easier to desire Truth than to rid one’s self of error. Mortals may seek the understanding of Christian Science, but they will not be able to glean from Christian Science the facts of being without striving for them.”

    in reply to: Matter A Belief Only #2523
    Fairlie
    Participant

    When having a matter complaint, I claim what Mrs. Eddy explains, “Nothing inharmonious can enter being. For Life is God.” This helps me dispel the seeming difficulty and stay with God, the truth of my spiritual being.

    in reply to: The prophet of to-day #2066
    Fairlie
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    Thank you for this explanation, and to Plainfield for all the teaching, following Paul “in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.”(I Cor.14) And for the encouragement from our practitioners and the testimonies of others to advance in our practice, as we move forward in this line of light, and our seeing does become gradually more advanced, inspired, as we work and seek to obey.

    in reply to: It has been proven #1798
    Fairlie
    Participant

    Thank you for your thoughts, and much gratitude for this lesson about Jesus and his agony in the Garden. I am still trying to come to grips with it, to realize what he went through. And I am touched by his love when he finds Peter asleep, not speaking for himself, but for Peter, warning him: “Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

    in reply to: Our Vocation #1614
    Fairlie
    Participant

    Thank you! As we learn at Plainfield, “Christian Science is not an exception to the general rule, that there is no excellence without labor in a direct line. One cannot scatter his fire, and at the same time hit the mark.” The longer I’m at Plainfield, the more I understand that to pursue other vocations is impossible in doing the work for God and the world, for which I am very grateful. To have this purpose is the greatest gift God could offer me.

    in reply to: Then shall thy light rise #1344
    Fairlie
    Participant

    As Mrs.Eddy goes on to say, “We cannot circumscribe happiness within the limits of personal sense. The senses confer no real enjoyment.” I find this more and more as one consecrates one’s life to God, loving one another and giving through God’s direction.

    in reply to: "Be strong and of a good courage…" #456
    Fairlie
    Participant

    Thank you very much for this post sharing something you learned that is very helpful to work with.

    in reply to: Tenderness #455
    Fairlie
    Participant

    Thank you for these postings on tenderness. I think of Truth and Love as the strength of God together with His lovingkindness and tendermercy. How good, great,and wonderful is our God!

    in reply to: Are we benefited by praying?" #383
    Fairlie
    Participant

    Jesus’ explanation about prayer, after giving the disciples his prayer to Our Father, is very encouraging. He gives the illustration of someone’s going to a friend’s house at midnight to ask for three loaves because he has a guest who has just come to his home and he has nothing to offer him. But when the friend says no, as Jesus explains: “I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth” and he goes on to urge: ‘Ask,… seek, … knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” This illustration of persistence is so important in working for and with God to change one’s life.

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