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, October 12, 2025
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Eli Reynolds, Guest Second Reader
Subject: ARE SIN, DISEASE, AND DEATH REAL?
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Elevation by Clément Loret
Adagio (from Concerto in B-flat Major) by Antonio Vivaldi
Meditation (from 24 Pieces in Free Style) by Louis Vierne
Hymn 229
John Greenleaf Whittier, adapted, words
F. Mendelssohn, arr., music
O Love divine, whose constant beam
Shines on the eyes that will not see,
And waits to bless us while we dream,
Nor leav’st us though we turn from Thee.
Nor bounds, nor clime, nor creed Thou know’st,
Wide as our need Thy favors fall;
The white wings of the Holy Ghost
Stoop unseen o’er the heads of all.
O Truth which sage and prophet saw,
Long sought without, but found within,
The rule of Love beyond all law,
The Life o’ercoming death and sin,
O shine on us with light which glowed
Upon the waiting shepherds’ way,
Who saw the darkness overflowed
With tides of everlasting day.
Scriptural Selection
Gen. 6:5, 8, 13 (to 2nd ;), 14, 18 with, 19 ; 7:10; 8:1, 14–16, 18, 19; 9:1
I Chron. 29:18
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 486
Maude DeVerse Newton, adapt., alt., words
Suzanne Montgomery, music
God sends the Word, the holy Word,
And grieving hearts are healed;
Uplifted they behold in light
Man’s heritage revealed;
For this we bless You, Lord.
You send Your Word, Your shining Word
Of Truth, forever one,
And all mankind rejoice to know
The dream of sorrow done;
For this we bless You, Lord.
You send Your Word, Your faithful Word,
And hosts who toil in vain
Reject the falsehood ages taught
And rise to Life again;
For this we bless You, Lord.
Words adaptation © 1932, renewed 1960 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Solo
Evan Bryant, Soloist of The Mother Church
Reality
If God doesn't know it, there's nothing to know.
If God didn't sow it, there's nothing to grow.
Unless He fashion it, favor it, have pride in it,
can reality abide in it?
If God doesn't see it, there's nothing to see.
If God couldn't Be it, there's nothing to Be.
But, if His tender love enfold it, embrace it,
nor time, nor tide erase it.
If God didn't plan it, it isn't a plan.
If God couldn't bless it, it isn't for man!
"God made the Heav’ns and earth, and all that is therein."
“And for His glory was ev’ry man created!”
If God doesn't know it, there's nothing to know.
If God didn't sow it, there's nothing to grow.
Unless He fashion it, favor it, have pride in it,
can reality abide in it?
If God couldn't hear it, it's never been heard.
If God didn't say it, it isn't "the word".
But if He order it, honor it, rejoice in it,
Then, hear Truth's voice in it!
Words and Music by Dorothy Chancellor Currey
Copyright 1958, DORBART Publishing Co.
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Nahum 1:9
What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Responsive Reading:
Genesis 11:1, 4–6, 8, 9 (to ;)
II Corinthians 10:4, 5
Gen. 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel;
II Cor. 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
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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Improvisation-Pastorale by Joseph Jongen
Hymn 296
Maria Louise Baum based on hymn by M. H. Tipton, words
James Nares, music
Rouse ye, soldiers of the cross,
And lift your banner high;
Servants of a mighty cause,
Put sloth and slumber by.
REFRAIN
Rouse ye, rouse ye, face the foe,
Rise to conquer death and sin;
On with Christ to victory go,
O side with God, and win!
Waken, hear your Captain’s call,
And follow where he trod;
Rout the cringing host of fear
By faith that walks with God.
REFRAIN
Rouse ye: long the conquest waits
For valor’s act supreme;
Rouse ye, rest not, do the deeds
That break the earthly dream.
REFRAIN
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:
Matt. 28:20 lo
Postlude
Festive Trumpet Tune by David German
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