At Wednesday testimony meetings, you’ll hear hymns and readings specially selected for the day from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Scriptural selections are from the King James Version of the Bible. You’ll also hear testimonies of healing and remarks on Christian Science submitted by listeners.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Hymns: Bryan Ashley, Organist
Voluntaries: Stephen Loher, Assistant Organist
Prelude
Voluntary on Ton-Y-Botel (Hymn 258)
Descant homage to Geoffrey Shaw
Hymn 258
James Russell Lowell, adapted, words
Welsh Hymn Melody, music
Oft to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side.
A great cause, God’s new Messiah,
Shows to each the bloom or blight,
So can choice be made by all men
Twixt the darkness and the light.
New occasions teach new duties,
Time makes ancient creeds uncouth;
They must upward still and onward
Who would keep abreast of Truth,
And serenely down the future
See the thought of men incline
To the side of perfect justice
And to God’s supreme design.
Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet ’tis Truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong,
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above His own.
Readings
Readings from the Bible, and correlative passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Prayer
Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer, its spiritual interpretation being omitted.
Hymn 69
James J. Rome, words
Orlando Gibbons, music
Give me, O Lord, an understanding heart,
That I may learn to know myself in Thee,
To spurn the wrong and choose the better part
And thus from sinful bondage be set free.
Give me, O Lord, a meek and contrite heart,
That I may learn to quell all selfish pride,
Bowing before Thee, see Thee as Thou art
And ’neath Thy sheltering presence safely hide.
Give me, O Lord, a gentle, loving heart,
That I may learn to be more tender, kind,
And with Thy healing touch, each wound and smart
With Christly bands of Love and Truth to bind.
Notices
Experiences, testimonies and remarks on Christian Science
Hymn 125
John Milton, adapted, words
Alexander R. Reinagle, music
How lovely are Thy dwellings, Lord,
From noise and trouble free;
How beautiful the sweet accord
Of those who pray to Thee.
Lord God of Hosts, that reigns on high,
They are the truly blest
Who on Thee only will rely,
In Thee alone will rest.
For God the Lord, both sun and shield,
Gives grace and glory bright;
No good from him shall be withheld
Whose ways are just and right.
Postlude
Voluntary on St Peter (Hymn 125)
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