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, June 14, 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: GOD THE PRESERVER OF MAN
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Three Antiphons (from Vêpres du Commun) by Marcel Dupré
II. His Left Hand Is Under My Head, and His Right Hand Doth Embrace Me
III. O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem
V. How Fair and How Pleasant Art Thou
Hymn 80
James Montgomery*, words
Johann H. Schein, music
God is our refuge and defense,
In trouble our unfailing aid;
Secure in His omnipotence,
What foe can make our heart afraid?
There is a river pure and bright,
Whose streams make glad the heavenly plains;
Where, in eternity of light,
The city of our God remains.
Built by the word of His command,
With His unclouded presence blest,
Firm as His throne the bulwarks stand;
There is our home, our hope, our rest.
Scriptural Selection
II Chronicles 20:1, 2 (to ;), 3–6, 13–15, 17, 18, 20–22, 30
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 53
based on a hymn by John R. Macduff, words
Melody by John Dowland, music
Everlasting arms of Love
Are beneath, around, above;
God it is who bears us on,
His the arm we lean upon.
He our ever-present guide
Faithful is, whate’er betide;
Gladly then we journey on,
With His arm to lean upon.
From earth’s fears and vain alarms
Safe in His encircling arms,
He will keep us all the way,
God, our refuge, strength and stay.
Notices
Solo
Evan Bryant, Soloist of The Mother Church
Christ My Refuge
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.
Words by Mary Baker Eddy
Music by Fenella Farrar Bennetts
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Psalms 16:1
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
Responsive Reading:
Psalms 37:3, 4, 7, 11 the, 19, 23, 24, 28 (to :), 40 (to :); 140:7, 12
Nehemiah 9:6 (to 2nd ;)
Ps. 37:3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4 Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
11 . . . the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever:
40 And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them:
140:7 O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
12 I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Neh. 9:6 Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all;
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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Liturgical Improvisation II by George Oldroyd
Hymn 359
William P. McKenzie, words
Franz Abt, music
Trust the Eternal when the shadows gather,
When joys of daylight seem so like a dream;
God the unchanging pities like a father;
Trust on and wait, the daystar yet shall gleam.
Trust the Eternal, for the clouds that vanish
No more can move the mountains from their base
Than sin’s illusive wreaths of mist can banish
Light from His throne or loving from His face.
Trust the Eternal, and repent in meekness
Of that heart’s pride which frowns and will not
yield,
Then to thy child-heart shall come strength in weakness,
And thine immortal life shall be revealed.
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
Isaiah 41:10
Postlude
Fugue in G Major, BWV 541/2 by Johann Sebastian Bach
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