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, April 26, 2026
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Melanie L. Daglian, Guest First Reader
Robert Witney, Second Reader
Subject: Probation After Death
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist
Melody by Horatio W. Parker
Prelude & Cantilena (from Suite in E Major) by Everett Titcomb
Hymn 135
Richard Massie, Tr., adapted, words
William H. Monk, music
I know no life divided,
O Lord of life, from Thee;
In Thee is life provided
For all mankind and me:
I know no death, O Father,
Because I live in Thee;
Thy life it is that frees us
From death eternally.
I fear no tribulation,
Since, whatsoe’er it be,
It makes no separation
Between my Lord and me:
Since Thou, my God and Father,
Dost claim me as Thine own,
I richly shall inherit
All good, from Thee alone.
Scriptural Selection
Romans 7:14 we, 18-25 (to 1st .)
Romans 8: 1-6, 11 if, 12-13
Philippians 3: 12 (to :), 13-15
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 325
Charles W. Everest, adapted, words
John Hatton, music
Take up thy cross, the Saviour said,
If thou wouldst my disciple be;
Thyself deny, the world forsake,
And humbly follow after me.
Take up thy cross, nor heed the shame;
Let not thy foolish pride rebel;
Thy Lord for thee the cross endured,
He conquered sin, and death, and hell.
Take up thy cross, in God’s own strength,
Calmly all fear and danger brave;
So shalt thou find immortal Life
Giveth thee victory o’er the grave.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
Christ My Refuge
O’er waiting harpstrings of the mind
There sweeps a strain,
Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind
The power of pain,
And wake a white-winged angel throng
Of thoughts, illumed
By faith, and breathed in raptured song,
With love perfumed.
Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show
Life’s burdens light.
I kiss the cross, and wake to know
A world more bright.
And o’er earth’s troubled, angry sea
I see Christ walk,
And come to me, and tenderly,
Divinely talk.
Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock,
Upon Life’s shore,
‘Gainst which the winds and waves can shock,
Oh, nevermore!
From tired joy and grief afar,
And nearer Thee, —
Father, where Thine own children are,
I love to be.
My prayer, some daily good to do
To Thine, for Thee;
An offering pure of Love, whereto
God leadeth me.
Words by Mary Baker Eddy
Music by Desiree Goyette
© 2001 Lightschild publishing BMI All Rights Reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Psalms 68:20
Our God is a God Who sets us free. The way out of death belongs to God the Lord.
The Golden Text is from the New Life Version.
Responsive Reading:
Titus 2:11–15 the (to 1st .)
Philippians 2:5, 9–11 God, 12 work, 13
Titus 2:11 . . . the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority.
Phil. 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
9 . . . God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 . . . work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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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Meditation by Flor Peeters
Hymn 392
Laura C. Nourse, words
Arthur S. Sullivan, music
With love and peace and joy supreme
We hail the new appearing;
From out the darkness and the dream,
The haven of rest is nearing.
With gifts of healing in his wings
To light the Christ now guides us,
The heart that knows him burns and sings,
For endless joy betides us.
His touch the door of Life unseals
And bids us freely enter,
His word the heaven of heavens reveals
With Love its bound and center.
For God is all, and Christ the way;
Our meek and bold defender
Has cleft the night and lo, the day
Bursts forth in mighty splendor.
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:
I John 2:25 this
Postlude
Salvation Has Come to Us, BWV 638 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Postlude by William Mathias
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