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Listen live on Sundays at 10 am Eastern time or hear a replay until midnight Saturday night (ET). The service lasts one hour and an organ prelude and postlude extend 7–10 minutes before and after the service. An audio replay is available within 30–60 minutes after the service ends.

Sunday services are conducted by a First and Second Reader and include music, hymns, prayer, and readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural selections are from the King James Version of the Bible.


Sunday, February 9, 2025

Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Mimi Oka, First Reader
Don Wallingford, Second Reader

Subject: SPIRIT

Prelude

Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church

Prelude on ”Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether” (Union Seminary) by Charles Callahan
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by J.S. Bach (arr. Maurice Duruflé)

Hymn 44

Felicia D. Hemans, adapted, words
König’s Choralbuch, arr. by W. H. Havergal, music

Come to the land of peace;
From shadows come away;
Where all the sounds of weeping cease,
And storms no more have sway.

Fear hath no dwelling here;
But pure repose and love
Breathe through the bright, celestial air
The spirit of the dove.

In this divine abode,
Change leaves no saddening trace;
Come, trusting heart, come to thy God,
Thy holy resting-place.

Scriptural Selection

II Cor. 3:2–6, 8
II Cor. 4:1–6, 13–15 2nd we

Prayer

Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy
(Read in context)

Hymn 468

Mary Alice Dayton, words
Cherie Brennan, music

Eternal Mind the Potter is,
And thought th’ eternal clay:
The hand that fashions is divine,
His works pass not away.
Man is the noblest work of God,
His beauty, power and grace,
Immortal; perfect as his Mind
Reflected face to face.

God could not make imperfect man
His model infinite;
Unhallowed thought He could not plan,
Love’s work and Love must fit.
Life, Truth and Love the pattern make,
Christ is the perfect heir;
The clouds of sense roll back, and show
The form divinely fair.

God’s will is done; His kingdom come;
The Potter’s work is plain.
The longing to be good and true
Has brought the light again.
And man does stand as God’s own child,
The image of His love.
Let gladness ring from every tongue,
And heaven and earth approve.

Music © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Notices

Solo

Josh Henn, Soloist of The Mother Church

The Inhabitant Shall Not Say, I Am Sick

“You are sick,” they said.
“But that isn’t the truth”
And the woman shook her head
“The Bible declares, he that dwelleth in God
shall not say I am sick” she said
And she held to the truth thro’ a starless night,
Till the morning proved that her words were right,

“You are tired,” they said.
But she smiled at that.
“How can I be tired,” said she,
“When the only work is work for God,
and He is my life, you see?”
And she quietly went her busy way,
With a happy song in her heart all day.

“You are poor, “ they said.
But she only thought
How little they know!
God speed The day when the world awakes
to find that love is its only need.
And she still maintained, as her fortune grew,
Not money, but love if they only knew!

“You’re afraid, “ they said.
But she whispered low
As if talking to someone near
“Father since love is the only power,
What is there left to fear?”
And giving her hand to that unseen guide,
She crossed thru the waters at His side.

O the world knows not of the peace that comes
To a soul at one with God.
It is only those who are toiling on
in the path the Master trod,
Who can feel thru the dark,
that loving hand,
And, holding it fast, can understand.

Words by Louise Knight Wheatley (Based on Isaiah 33:24)
Music by Leta Bishop Graff

Explanatory Note

Golden Text and Responsive Reading

Golden Text:  

Psalms 62:11

God has spoken plainly, and I have heard it many times: Power, O God, belongs to you;
The Golden Text is from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation.

.Responsive Reading:  

Ezekiel 37:1–5, 10, 11 (to 2nd :), 12 (to ;), 13 ye, 14

1 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost:
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God;
13 . . . ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

The Bible Lesson-Sermon, the Explanatory Note, Golden Text and Responsive Reading are from the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson, a publication copyrighted by the Christian Science Publishing Society.


Offertory and collection

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Choral by Flor Peeters


Hymn 405

Charles Wesley John Taylor, adapted, words
Samuel Webbe, revised, music

Glory be to God on high,
God whose glory fills the sky;
Peace on earth to man is given,
Man, the well-beloved of heaven.
Gracious Father, in Thy love,
Send Thy blessings from above;
Let Thy light, Thy truth, Thy peace
Bid all strife and tumult cease.

Mark the wonders of His hand:
Power no empire can withstand;
Wisdom, angels’ glorious theme;
Goodness one eternal stream.
All ye people, raise the song,
Endless thanks to God belong;
Hearts o’erflowing with His praise,
Join the hymns your voices raise.

Scientific Statement of Being

From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.468, line 8

Correlative Scripture

I John 3:1-3 

Benediction.

Rev. 12:10 Now (to :), 12 (to 1st .)

Postlude

Chorale variations on "Veni Creator Spiritus" by Maurice Duruflé

Copyright.

The Golden Text for "Spirit" is from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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