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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, March 24, 2024

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

Mimi Oka, First Reader
Don Wallingford, Second Reader

Subject: MATTER

Prelude

Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church

Rêverie by Louis Vierne
Welsh Hymn Tune Prelude: "Rhosymedre" by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Hymn 274

Charles Wesley*, words
Justin H. Knecht, music

Partners of a glorious hope,
Lift your hearts and voices up;
Nobly let us bear the strife,
Keep the holiness of life.

Still forget the things behind,
Follow God, the only Mind,
To the mark unwearied press,
Seize the crown of righteousness.

In our lives our faith be known,
Faith by holy actions shown;
Faith that mountains can remove,
Faith that always works by love.

Scriptural Selection

Isa. 1:18 (to :), 19
Ps. 33:5–13 the, 18, 20–22
Ps. 57:7

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 550

Mary Baker Eddy, words
16th c. French melody; harm. Robert Rockabrand, music

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.

Music harmonization © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Notices

Solo

Josh Henn, Soloist of The Mother Church

All Things Are Possible 
Music and Lyrics by Sondra Elkins

Oh, exalt His name, Oh, exalt His name.
Dear child of God, dear child of God.
All things are possible, all things are possible.

On my path He has lifted me over all my fears.
On my path He has shown me the way of Truth.
As the exalted vision of Love never fails,
He lifts my soul to triumph over all my fears.

Oh, exalt His name, Oh, exalt His name.
Dear child of God, dear child of God.
All things are possible, all things are possible.

On my path hurtful wrongs and loss
sometimes stopped my way.
On my path I learned to embrace the light,
and as the rays of Truth set my soul on fire,
I watch the sweet morning dawning and the
night disappears.

Hallelujah.

Oh, exalt His name, Oh, exalt His name.
Dear child of God, dear child of God.
All things are possible, all things are possible.
Hallelujah.

© Sondra Elkins 2015

Explanatory Note

Golden Text and Responsive Reading

Golden Text:  

Matthew 17:20 if

. . . if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.
The Golden Text is from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®.

Responsive Reading:  

Exodus 13:3 Moses (to :); 14:5, 7, 13 (to :), 15, 16 lift (to :), 21, 22
Luke 1:37

Ex. 13:3 . . . Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place:
14:5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to-day:
15 And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
16 . . . lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it:
21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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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Voluntary by Samuel Jackson


Hymn 411

Frederic W. Root based on hymn by Martin Luther, words
Martin Luther, music

All power is given unto our Lord,
On Him we place reliance;
With truth from out His sacred word
We bid our foes defiance.
With Him we shall prevail,
Whatever may assail;
He is our shield and tower,
Almighty is His power;
His kingdom is forever.

Rejoice, ye people, praise His name,
His care doth e’er surround us.
His love to error’s thralldom came,
And from its chains unbound us.
Our Lord is God alone,
No other power we own;
No other voice we heed,
No other help we need;
His kingdom is forever.

O then give thanks to God on high,
Who life to all is giving;
The hosts of death before Him fly,
In Him we all are living.
Then let us know no fear,
Our King is ever near;
Our stay and fortress strong,
Our strength, our hope, our song;
His kingdom is forever.

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 Thess. 5:23 the (to ;), 24

Postlude

Toccata in D minor, BuxWV 155 by Dietrich Buxtehude

Copyright

The Golden Text for "Matter" is from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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