Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
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At our Sunday services at our Christian Science branch church, you’ll hear music, singing, scriptural readings, prayer, and a sermon. The sermon is based on a weekly Bible lesson from our Pastor: the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
Wednesday meetings are similar to the Sunday services, but the scriptural selections are customized to the needs of the congregation and occasion. You’ll also hear fellow attendees share insights, experiences, and healings they’ve had as a result of their prayer and study of Christian Science.
‘No purer and more exalted teachings ever fell upon human ears than those contained in what is commonly known as the Sermon on the Mount’ (Ret. 91:5-8. Mary Baker Eddy).
Our bright, comfortable bookshop and study room has recently undergone a renovation, bringing new colour and energy into this beautiful space. All are welcome to come in to read, study, and purchase the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. An experienced Christian Scientist is on hand to welcome you and answer any questions you may have.
Christian Science Sunday School is a weekly one-hour session where young people are taught the Bible and the power of prayer. We welcome children and young people up to age 20.
If you know of a young person who might be interested in joining an online Sunday School, please contact the clerk at scssclerk60@gmail.com.
Members of the Scarborough Christian science Society support the everyday running of the church. This includes prayerful support of all our activities and the opportunity to volunteer as an usher, reading room attendant, Sunday School teacher, or other position. You don’t need to live locally to become a member of our happy family!
For information about applying for membership, please contact our clerk at scssclerk60@gmail.com.
3pm BST
Christian Science practitioner and member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Christian Science Society
60 Ramshill Road
Scarborough YO11 2QG
We hear everywhere of the challenges of this moment. Civil chaos, mental health issues and climate or pandemic-related social and economic worries dominate the news. Some are asking, “Is there a lasting, healing solution to these challenges?”
Alison Hughes, CS
Alison Hughes is a Christian Science practitioner and member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.
10am-2pm BST
Christian Science Society
60 Ramshill Road
Scarborough YO11 2QG
In common with all Christian Science Churches our services do not contain personal preaching. We don’t have an ordained ministry. Instead our Pastor is two books – The Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
This means our Pastor is available 24-7, you can even take our Pastor on holiday with you – our members normally do!
Our Sunday Sermons are comprised of selections from our Pastor, and are read by Readers elected from the local membership. The same sermons are delivered in Christian Science Churches around the world and studied by Christian Scientists during the week before the Sunday service. They are available to study in a variety of formats – all sold in our Christian Science Reading Room – where they can also be studied free of charge on the premises.
Christian Science Sunday School is a weekly one-hour session where young people are taught the Bible and the power of prayer. We welcome children and young people up to age 20. Each class is taught by experienced members of the Christian Science Society in Scarborough. The Sunday School curriculum is centred on the study of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, written by the founder of the religion Mary Baker Eddy.
Younger classes are taught the Ten Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer, the Sermon on the Mount, and bible stories. Older students learn how prayer is a practical way to see and feel the presence of God in their lives. Students and/or their families do not have to be Christian Scientists to attend Sunday School.
These meetings are less formal than the Sunday service. Wednesday meetings include hymns and readings from the bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, but unlike the Sunday service, the scriptural selections are customised to the needs of the congregation and occasion. The readings are followed by an opportunity for anybody to share insights, experiences, and healings they’ve had as a result of their prayer and study of Christian Science.
Yes! Anyone can use the facilities in a Reading Room and they are free to all. The Reading Room is open to anyone searching for answers to life’s deepest questions as well as those just wanting something interesting to read while they have their lunch!
The reading room is provided as a service to the community by the local branch of the Christian Science Society here in Scarborough, which holds services in another part of the same building. A member of the society serves as Librarian, and the reading room is attended by volunteers from the membership.
If you have questions about Christian Science, spirituality or healing, whether you are a questioning sceptic, an agnostic pondering life’s deeper meaning, a Bible student, a minister preparing a sermon, or just a curious passerby, the attendants are happy to try to answer them and to assist you in finding what you are looking for. You are also free to explore the resources of the Reading Room on your own and at your own pace.
Mary Baker Eddy (1821 – 1910) was a pioneer in exploring the relationship between spirituality and health. Chronically ill for much of her early life, she sought help from a range of conventional and alternative therapies without finding lasting relief. However, experimentation with homeopathic remedies and unmedicated pills (placebos) convinced her that the true basis of health must be mental rather than physical. At the same time, as an avid reader of the Bible – in an era when women were largely barred from religious leadership and theological discussion – she frequently pondered Christ Jesus’ promises that his followers should perform the same works of healing that he did, and she questioned why such healing had not continued beyond the first few centuries after his time.
Yes. Mary Baker Eddy was a lifelong student of the Bible. And she’d always wanted to find solutions to human suffering. When she was critically injured in 1866, she turned to God with her whole heart. While reading accounts of Jesus’ swift, powerful healings, she experienced a new sense of God. She saw that God, Spirit, is the only reality. And she was completely healed. She wanted to understand what happened, so she studied the Bible and found universal and dependable laws of God. These laws are the foundation of Christian Science.
Yes. Jesus’ words and actions naturally inspire us to rise up and follow him. In Christian Science, this is more than worship. His love was so powerful that it rouses us to love God supremely and to love others as ourselves. Learning from Jesus evokes a desire to obey him and emulate his works. This includes healing the sick by becoming so filled with the eternal Christ spirit that all fear and doubt vanish. Christ is that Word of God lived so abundantly by Jesus that we can discern it in all ages. Christ, the title given to Jesus, is the healing power that dissolves suffering in exchange for the profound feeling of being loved and being well. Mary Baker Eddy finds in Scriptures evidence that Jesus was human—among us—but he was the divinely appointed Messiah, or as he said himself, “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:16).
Yes. Good health is vital whether we’re talking about our bodies, relationships, finances, or environment. What can we do when we feel the need for healing in any area of our lives?
In the New Testament of the Bible, Jesus says, “Whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these…” (John 14:12, NIV). By following his teachings and understanding the spiritual laws he practised, Christian Scientists are committed to spiritual healing that includes both physical cures of disease and dysfunction as well as the reformation and restoration of lives.
Mary Baker Eddy’s work Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures shows how the healings in the Bible were accomplished, and how we can claim that same healing for ourselves, our families, and our world.
By understanding the complete goodness of God and our inseparability from that goodness, inspired men and women can find answers to the wide spectrum of human needs as well as transformation of character and lives. Anyone can learn and apply these spiritually scientific ideas to the contemporary demands we face and find resolution that proves God’s goodness.
This unique approach to healing has proven effective for generations of Christian Scientists, many times after a medical diagnosis indicated a condition was incurable. Christian Science healing is not faith healing, positive thinking, or self-hypnosis. It calls for Christian faith in and understanding of God as unconditionally and dependably good, to whom nothing is impossible. Its practice is Christian—living according to Jesus’ teaching and example. And its practice is scientific—living according to the spiritual laws of God that can be learned, understood, and proven through healing and regeneration.
Christian Scientists are always free to choose for themselves and their families the kind of health care that meets their needs. However, by practising Christian Science, many have lived happy and healthy lives free of drugs and other systems of physical care.
Find out more about Christian Science healing HERE.
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