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, August 9, 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: SPIRIT
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist
Prelude on "Union Seminary" by Charles Callahan
Hymn Tune Prelude on "Rhosymedre" by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Hymn 391
Charles H. Barlow, words
William Knapp, music
Why search the future and the past?
Why do ye look with tearful eyes
And seek far off for paradise?
Before your feet Life’s pearl is cast.
As deathless as His spirit free,
The Perfect lives and works today
As in the ancient prophets’ lay,
Where there’s an open eye to see.
Of all that was and is to come
The present holds the Mind and Cause;
For God lives in eternal laws,
And here today upholds His throne.
Then rise and greet the signs that prove
Unreal the ages’ long lament;
The “one far-off divine event”
Is now, and that event is Love.
Scriptural Selection
Matthew 7:15, 16 (to .)
I Samuel 28:3–8, 11–17
Psalms 1:1–3
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 475
Mildred Spring Case, alt., words
Alfred Morton Smith, music
Forget not who you are, O child of God,
For God demands of you reflection pure;
Your heritage is goodly, and your home,
In Spirit’s warm embrace, is safe, secure.
You are the child of Spirit, sinless, pure—
Yours is a perfect beauty, born of Soul—
Complete with health, vitality, and grace.
For is not God, your Father, perfect, whole?
Your understanding, too, comes straight from God.
For in that Mind, magnificent and clear,
You are conceived by Love, a perfect child,
Unhampered by the flesh, or doubt, or fear.
So now look up to God’s pure holy light
And greet with fearless joy each coming day.
Of royal birth, you are a King’s own child—
And God is yours, and you are God’s alway.
Words alteration © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music © 1941 Historic Church of the Ascension, Atlantic City, NJ. (administered by the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey).
Notices
Solo
Rebecca Minor, Guest Soloist of The Mother Church
You’re Everything
Your love is ever there for me.
You unconditionally care for me
Despite my earthward tendencies.
You've always been a rock for me.
You move each stumbling block for me
Unphased by my dependency.
Sometimes I get swept away
And wrapped up in the day to day.
So I would like to take this moment
To praise You loud and clear!
CHORUS
You're everything:
In my heart, my head, my being.
Your Spirit is reality,
Where Truth will always be
You're everything:
Doesn't matter where I go
Or what I do, I'm still with You
And I'll always hear Your call.
You're all in all.
It's grace that I will surely find
When I hush my chattering mind
And listen for Your gentle voice.
It silences all pain and fear
Until Your wisdom is all I hear;
It guides me to the higher choice.
There's so much healing I can share
With those who need to know You care.
Enable me to lift them up
The way You've lifted me.
CHORUS
You're everything:
In my heart, my head, my being.
Your Spirit is reality,
Where Truth will always be
You're everything:
Doesn't matter where I go
Or what I do, I'm still with You
And I'll always hear Your call.
You're all in all.
You are all in all
You're everything to me
You won't let me fall
Because You're all in all
Words and music by Rebecca Minor
© 2010 by Rebecca Minor
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
I Corinthians 12:13 We
. . . We have all received the one Spirit.
The Golden Text is from the New Life Version.
Responsive Reading:
Exodus 19:3, 4 I bare, 5, 8 (to 1st .); 20:1–5 (to :), 22
Psalms 104:24 (to :), 30 (to :), 31
Ex. 19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
4 . . . I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do.
20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:
22 And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
Ps. 104:24 O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all:
30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created:
31 The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
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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Morning by Alfred Hollins
Hymn 591
Peter J. Henniker-Heaton, words
Kevin McCarter, music
We cannot turn away from God
Because, whichever way we face,
Spirit is there. In every place,
Every direction, everywhere,
Spirit is there.
Whether we turn to left or right,
To north or south or east or west,
We meet with Love—and we are blessed.
Upward or down, below, above,
We meet with Love.
Whether we plunge to ocean trench
Or plot our course for farthest space,
Love’s law controls. Whatever race
We enter toward whatever goals,
Love’s law controls.
Whether we build for centuries hence
Or let tomorrow bound our aim,
God sets the pace. Always the same,
With instant and eternal grace,
God sets the pace.
Words © 1972 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music © 2008 Kevin McCarter.
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:
Proverbs 1:23 I
Postlude
Fantasia on ‘Come Holy Spirit,’ BWV 651 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Copyright
The Golden Text for "Spirit" is from the New Life Version, copyright © 1969 and 2003. Used by permission of Barbour Publishing, Inc., Uhrichsville, OH 44683. All rights reserved.
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