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, September 14, 2025
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Melanie Daglian, Guest First Reader
Robert Witney, Second Reader
Subject: SUBSTANCE
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber (arr. William Strickland)
Hymn 224
John Ryland, adapted, words
Henry Hiles, music
O Lord, I would delight in Thee,
And on Thy care depend;
To Thee in every trouble flee,
My best, my ever Friend.
When all material streams are dried,
Thy fullness is the same;
May I with this be satisfied,
And glory in Thy name.
All good, where’er it may be found,
Its source doth find in Thee;
I must have all things and abound,
While God is God to me.
O that I had a stronger faith,
To look within the veil,
To credit what my Saviour saith,
Whose word can never fail.
He that has made my heaven secure,
Will here all good provide;
While Christ is rich, can I be poor?
What can I want beside?
O God, I cast my care on Thee;
I triumph and adore;
Henceforth my great concern shall be
To love and praise Thee more.
Scriptural Selection
Luke 8:40 when
Luke 12:13–21
Luke 6:30–35 (to:),36, 38, 45 (to ;)
Eph. 5:9
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 588
Fenella Bennetts, alt., words
British melody; arr. Fenella Bennetts, music
Though I may speak with moving words,
Which can inspire the human heart,
But have no love to seal their worth,
They are but sham and empty art.
Though I may give my worldly goods
Without a thought of self or gain,
Unless they bear the fruits of love,
They are as clouds without their rain.
Though I may search the deepest books,
Companion with the wisest men,
God’s loving voice still calls to me,
It bids me turn and look again.
Now I would learn to know this Love
Through meek and patient ministry,
Until my life has grown anew
And Love is All-in-all to me.
Words and Music arrangement © 2008 Fenella Bennetts.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
Satisfied
It matters not what be thy lot,
So Love doth guide;
For storm or shine, pure peace is thine,
Whate’er betide.
And of these stones, or tyrants’ thrones,
God able is
To raise up seed — in thought and deed —
To faithful His.
Aye, darkling sense, arise, go hence!
Our God is good.
False fears are foes — truth tatters those,
When understood.
Love looseth thee, and lifteth me,
Ayont hate’s thrall:
There Life is light, and wisdom might,
And God is All.
The centuries break, the earth-bound wake,
God’s glorified!
Who doth His will — His likeness still —
Is satisfied.
Words by Mary Baker Eddy
Music by Desiree Goyette
© 2001 Lightchild Publishing, BMI,
All Rights Reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Matthew 6:21 where
. . . where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Responsive Reading:
I Corinthians 13:1–8, 12, 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
The Responsive Reading is from the New King James Version®.
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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Récit de Chromhorne by François Couperin
Hymn 460
verse 1 Robert Robinson, adapt., alt.; verses 2, 3 Eugene B. Navias, alt., words
American melody, Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1813, music
Come, O fount of every blessing,
Tune our hearts to sing Your grace.
Streams of mercy never ceasing,
Call for songs of deepest praise.
While the truth of life’s perfection
Fills our hearts with joy and love,
Teach us ever to be faithful,
May we still Your goodness prove.
Come, O fount of every vision,
Lift our eyes to what will come.
See the lion and the young lamb
Dwell together in Your home.
Hear the cries of war fall silent,
Feel our love glow like the sun.
When we all serve one another,
Then our heaven is begun.
Come, O fount of inspiration,
Turn our lives to higher ways.
Lift our gloom and desperation,
Show the promise of this day.
Help us bind ourselves in union,
Help our hands tell of our love.
With Your grace, O fount of justice,
Earth be fair as heaven above.
Words verses 2, 3 © 1991 Eugene B. Navias.
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:
II Cor. 9:10
Postlude
Trumpet Voluntary in D Major by John Stanley (arr. Henry Coleman)
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