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, January 11, 2026
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Robert Witney, Second Reader
Subject: SACRAMENT
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
O Man, Bemoan Thy Great Sin, BWV 622 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Elegy by G.T. Thalben-Ball
Hymn 333
Samuel Longfellow, words
Isaac Smith, music
The loving friend to all who bowed
Beneath life’s weary load,
From lips baptized in humble prayer,
His consolations flowed.
The faithful witness to the truth,
His just rebuke was hurled
Out from a heart that burned to break
The fetters of the world.
No hollow rite, no lifeless creed,
His piercing glance could bear;
But longing hearts which sought him found
That God and heaven were there.
Scriptural Selection
Mic. 6:6–8
Matt. 5:3–12
Matt. 6:22
I Tim. 4:12 be
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 300
Mary Baker Eddy, words
G. Thalben-Ball, music
Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound?
Felt ye the power of the Word?
’Twas the Truth that made us free,
And was found by you and me
In the life and the love of our Lord.
Mourner, it calls you,—“Come to my bosom,
Love wipes your tears all away,
And will lift the shade of gloom,
And for you make radiant room
Midst the glories of one endless day.”
Sinner, it calls you,—“Come to this fountain,
Cleanse the foul senses within;
’Tis the Spirit that makes pure,
That exalts thee, and will cure
All thy sorrow and sickness and sin.”
Strongest deliverer, friend of the friendless,
Life of all being divine:
Thou the Christ, and not the creed;
Thou the Truth in thought and deed;
Thou the water, the bread, and the wine.
Notices
Solo
Tessa Frost, Guest Soloist of The Mother Church
I’ll Do Your Will
Oh my God I delight in doing Your will
Yes, Your law is in my heart
Your word is true and You fulfill
So I’ll do Your will
When I consider what You've given me -
The sacred scriptures and the healing ministry of Christ
I ask myself what have I sacrificed?
Have I sacrificed?
In this age of confusion
I'm so glad to know
That Your clear commandments
Will unfailingly show me the way
And Your mercy is new every day.
It’s new every day
So if You say to love my brother I will
And if sin dances around me I'll stand still
And if the sick call out for help I won't deny
And I thank You for the answers You will surely supply.
Oh my God I delight in doing Your will
Yes, Your law is in my heart
Your word is true and You fulfill.
So I, I’ll do Your will.
Music and Lyrics by Rebecca Minor
© 2014 Rebecca Minor
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Psalms 51:10, 12 (to ;)
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. . . . Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
Responsive Reading:
Mark 1:4–8
John 3:27 A, 28 I said, 31, 34–36 (to :)
Mark 1:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judæa, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
6 And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
John 3:27 . . . A man can receive nothing, except it be given man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
28 . . . I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:
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.
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Adagio (from Fantasy in C Major) by César Franck
Hymn 447
COMMUNION DOXOLOGY Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, words
Désirée Goyette, music
Be Thou, O God, exalted high;
And as Thy glory fills the sky,
So let it be on earth displayed,
Till Thou art here and now obeyed.
Music © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
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
Ps. 23:1 (to ;), 3 (to :), 6
Postlude
Praeludium in B minor, BWV 544/1 by Johann Sebastian Bach
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