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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, July 6, 2025
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: GOD
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Adagio con espressione (from Chorale Fantasia Op. 52/2) by Max Reger
Choral No. 1 in E Major (Part 1) by César Franck
Hymn 36
Horatius Bonar, adapted, words
Walter E. Young, music
Church of the ever-living God,
The Father’s gracious choice;
Amid the voices of this earth
How mighty is thy voice.
Thy words, amid the words of earth,
How noiseless and how pure;
Amid the hurrying crowds of time
Thy step how calm and sure.
Amid the restless eyes of earth
How steadfast is thine eye,
Fixed on the silent loveliness
That fills the morning sky.
Untiring praise we lift on high,
Unfaltering songs we sing,
Unending festival we keep
In presence of the King.
Scriptural Selection
Jer. 1:4 the, 5, 7 Say, 9 Behold, 10 ; 23:23, 24, 28, 29; 30:3, 8, 10, 11 (to 1st :), 17 (to ;), 19, 22
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 94
Stephen G. Bulfinch, adapted, words
Jeremiah Clark, music
Hath not thy heart within thee burned
At evening’s calm and holy hour,
As if its inmost depths discerned
The presence of a loftier power?
It was the voice of God that spake
In silence to thy silent heart,
And bade each worthier thought awake,
And every dream of earth depart.
O voice of God, forever near,
In low, sweet accents whispering peace,
Make us Thy harmonies to hear
Whose heavenly echoes never cease.
Notices
Solo
Josh Henn, Soloist of The Mother Church
I Am The Lord
I am the Lord
There is none else
There is no God beside me
I girded thee
Though thou hast not even known me
But know me from the rising sun to the west
There is none beside me
For I am the Lord
There is none else
There is no God beside me
I even I am he that comforteth you
Who art thou that thou should’st be
Afraid of a man that shall die
And of the son of man
Which shall be made as grass
For I am the Lord
There is none else
There is no God beside me
I girded thee
Though thou hast not even known me
Cease ye from man
Made of the earth
For wherein is he accounted of
But rather look ye
Only to Him
Whose life is in everlasting Love
For I am the Lord
There is none else
There is no God beside me
I girded thee
Though thou hast not even known me
I am the Lord
Text adapted from Isaiah 2:22; 45:5-6; 51:12
Music by Desiree Goyette
© 1994 Lightchild Publishing
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Isaiah 43:12 ye
. . . ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.
Responsive Reading:
John 1:1–4
Psalms 119:89, 97, 103, 104 (to :), 105, 111, 116 (to :), 127 I love, 129, 130, 151, 160; 77:13 who, 14
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Ps. 119:89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
97 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through thy precepts I get understanding:
105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live:
127 . . . I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
151 Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth.
160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
77:13 . . . who is so great a God as our God?
14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
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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He who lets only beloved God guide him BWV 690 (Hymn 216) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Hymn 573
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Raymond David Burkhart, music
Shepherd, show me how to go
O’er the hillside steep,
How to gather, how to sow,—
How to feed Thy sheep;
I will listen for Thy voice,
Lest my footsteps stray;
I will follow and rejoice
All the rugged way.
Thou wilt bind the stubborn will,
Wound the callous breast,
Make self-righteousness be still,
Break earth’s stupid rest.
Strangers on a barren shore,
Lab’ring long and lone,
We would enter by the door,
And Thou know’st Thine own;
So, when day grows dark and cold,
Tear or triumph harms,
Lead Thy lambkins to the fold,
Take them in Thine arms;
Feed the hungry, heal the heart,
Till the morning’s beam;
White as wool, ere they depart,
Shepherd, wash them clean.
Music © 2012 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music arrangement © 2016 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:
Isa. 41:10
Postlude
Choral No. 1 in E Major (Part 2) by C. Franck
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