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 23, 2026
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Laurie Richardson, Guest First Reader
Robert Witney, Second Reader
Subject: MIND
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist
Consolation by Franz Liszt
Andante Religioso
Hymn 92
Thomas Cogswell Upham, adapted, words
Herbert S. Oakeley, music
Happy the man who knows
His Master to obey;
Whose life of love and labor flows,
Where God points out the way.
Rising to every task,
Soon as the word is given,
He doth not wait nor question ask
When orders come from heaven.
God’s will he makes his own,
And nothing can him stay;
His feet are shod for God alone,
And God alone obey.
Give us, O God, this mind,
Which waits but Thy command,
And doth its highest pleasure find
In Thy great work to stand.
Scriptural Selection
Job 28: 12 where, 13 - 20, 23, 24, 27, 28
Proverbs 3: 19, 5-8, 13
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 432
Josette Flamand, incl. Eng. tr., words
Gabriel Fauré; adapt. and arr. CSPS, music
Above all earthly gain,
I long to hear and know You,
Eternal Mind,
To be Your loving child,
To find the liberty
That You alone provide.
When, in humility,
I feel Your presence near me,
Your peace divine,
Hope leads me safe ashore;
I know Your love will guard
And guide me evermore.
Dear Love, rule out the fears
From all who flee oppression;
Dry up their tears,
Our Father-Mother God!
Your Word establishes
The rule of harmony;
Your goodness is revealed
And here for all to see.
English translation, Music arrangement © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
Consecration
Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to thee
Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in endless praise.
Take my hands, and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love;
Take my feet, and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee.
Take my voice and let it sing
Always, only, for my King.
Take my lips, and let them be
filled with messages from Thee.
Take my silver and my gold;
Not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect, and use
Ev’ry power as Thou shalt choose.
Take my will, and make it Thine;
It shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart, it is Thine own;
It shall be Thy royal throne.
Take my love; my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee.
Words by Frances R. Havergal
Music by John Ness Beck
Transcribed by Craig Courtney
© Beckenhorst Press, Inc.
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Romans 12:2 let
. . . let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
The Golden Text is from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation.
Responsive Reading:
Proverbs 2:6 the, 10, 11; 9:10
Psalms 25:4, 5, 9, 15; 119:10, 15, 18, 24, 27 (to :), 34
Prov. 2:6 . . . the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Ps. 25:4 Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.
5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
15 Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts:
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
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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Adagio K.356 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Hymn 253
Mary Baker Eddy, words
William Lyman Johnson, 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.
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:
Ephesians 4:23
Postlude
Prelude in C minor, BWV 546/1 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Copyright
The Golden Text for "Mind" is from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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