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, March 8, 2026
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: MAN
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Largo (from Sonata No. 2 in C minor) BWV 526/2 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantilène religieux by Théodore Dubois
Hymn 20
Kate L. Colby, adapted, words
Horatio W. Parker, music
Be true and list the voice within,
Be true unto thy high ideal,
Thy perfect self, that knows no sin,
That self that is the only real.
God is the only perfect One:
My perfect self is one with Him;
So man is seen as God’s own son,
When Truth dispels the shadows dim.
True to our God whose name is Love,
We shall fulfill our Father’s plan;
For true means true to God above,
To self, and to our fellow-man.
Scriptural Selection
Psalms 18:30–33
Acts 3:1–8, 11–13 (to ;), 16
Psalms 19:7
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 464
W. Brian Cork, words
W. Brian Cork; arr. CSPS, music
Dear Master, may I follow thee
With holy, deep sincerity,
Forming each thought to Christly mold,
Feeling your peace my heart enfold.
Lead me to worship God aright,
In truth, in spirit, seek the light;
Loving pure good with heart and soul,
Loving each neighbor, perfect, whole.
May I perceive all being one,
Perfect Father, perfect son;
Let me hold fast this heavenly view,
Finding each day my life made new.
May I see mortal self dissolve,
Take up the cross with firm resolve,
Seeking the victor’s crown each day,
Humble and loving all the way.
Words and Music © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Solo
Tessa Frost, Guest Soloist of The Mother Church
Living Truth
I know what they say,
It’s what we’re told every day,
That man is a mess, a slave to the grave.
It’s time that you knew we’ve all been fooled,
That story couldn’t be further from the Truth.
REFRAIN:
Man is God-made:
No mistakes, nothing to pay,
The living image of God’s grace,
Spiritual, forever safe.
Do you know what this means?
Get up, walk right out of the dream!
Sweet man, you are blessed:
Life’s eternal guest.
It’s time that we knew,
So we’ll never be fooled into thinking a lie
When we’re living Truth.
REFRAIN
BRIDGE
As for me, I see God’s face in righteousness!
As for me, I am satisfied when I awake in Thy likeness!
Yes, it’s time that we knew
So we’ll never be fooled into thinking a lie
When we’re living Truth.
We’re living proof!
Words and Music by Tessa E. B. Frost and Jay A.H. Frost
©2012 Frost Music Productions. http://www.jayandtessafrost.com/
All Rights Reserved #120619
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Responsive Reading:
I John 3:1–3
Psalms 63:1 (to 2nd ;), 3, 4
Psalms 18:30–32
I John 3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
2 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Ps. 63:1 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
3 Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.
4 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
18:30 This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
31 For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?—
32 the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.
The Responsive Reading is from The Holy Bible, English Standard 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.
Offertory and collection
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Voluntary in G by Samuel Jackson
Hymn 207
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Frederick C. Atkinson, arr. by A. F. Conant, music
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
His habitation high is here, and nigh,
His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.
O make me glad for every scalding tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain.
Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;
In that sweet secret of the narrow way,
Seeking and finding, with the angels sing:
“Lo, I am with you alway,”—watch and pray.
No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;
No night drops down upon the troubled breast,
When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain,
And mother finds her home and heav’nly rest.
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
James 1:17
Postlude
Offertoire sur les Grands Jeux by François Couperin
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