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, November 16, 2025
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: MORTALS AND IMMORTALS
Prelude
Stephen Loher, Assistant Organist of The Mother Church
Agincourt Hymn by John Dunstable
Voluntary on Endless Song (Hymn 533)
Hymn 533
Pauline T., adapt., alt., words
Robert Lowry; harm. Robert Rockabrand, music
My life flows on in endless song
Above earth’s lamentation;
I hear the sweet though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation.
Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing;
It finds an echo in my soul.
How can I keep from singing?
What though my human comforts die,
The Lord my Savior liveth;
What though the darkness gather round,
Songs in the night God giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that Rock I’m clinging;
Since Love is God of heaven and earth,
How can I keep from singing?
I lift mine eyes, the cloud grows thin;
I see the blue above it.
And day by day this pathway smooths
Since first I learned to love it.
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
A fountain ever springing;
All things are mine since I am God’s.
How can I keep from singing?
Words adaptation and Music harmonization © 2008 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Scriptural Selection
Acts 16:16–26
Isa. 38:20
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 30
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Walter E. Young, music
Brood o’er us with Thy shelt’ring wing,
’Neath which our spirits blend
Like brother birds, that soar and sing,
And on the same branch bend.
The arrow that doth wound the dove
Darts not from those who watch and love.
If thou the bending reed wouldst break
By thought or word unkind,
Pray that his spirit you partake,
Who loved and healed mankind:
Seek holy thoughts and heavenly strain,
That make men one in love remain.
Learn, too, that wisdom’s rod is given
For faith to kiss, and know;
That greetings glorious from high heaven,
Whence joys supernal flow,
Come from that Love, divinely near,
Which chastens pride and earth-born fear,
Through God, who gave that word of might
Which swelled creation’s lay:
“Let there be light, and there was light.”
What chased the clouds away?
’Twas Love whose finger traced aloud
A bow of promise on the cloud.
Thou to whose power our hope we give,
Free us from human strife.
Fed by Thy love divine we live,
For Love alone is Life;
And life most sweet, as heart to heart
Speaks kindly when we meet and part.
Notices
Solo
Evan Bryant, Soloist of The Mother Church
Awake All Ye People
Awake all ye people, for now ye are free,
your Saviour has risen from the dead,
your Saviour lives, your Saviour lives.
For he hath destroyed the last enemy.
For God hath put all things under his feet.
Your God is Life and All-in-all.
Your God is Life and All-in-all, and All-in-all.
If ye then be risen, be risen with Christ,
then seek ye those things which are above,
which are above, which are above.
Set not your affections on things on the earth,
but set your affections on things above.
Your life is hid with Christ in God,
Your life is hid with Christ in God, with Christ in God.
Words from the Bible
(1 Cor. 15: 20, 26-28; Col. 3: 1-3)
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, adapted by M. B. Stearns
© Music 1971 Coburn Press, Sherman, Conn.
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Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Psalms 96:1 (to :)
O sing unto the Lord a new song:
Responsive Reading:
Colossians 3:2, 4, 9, 10, 12–16
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices
10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
The Responsive Reading is from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®.
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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Voluntary on Swanage (Hymn 200)
Hymn 200
Author Unknown*, words
E. Norman Greenwood, music
O daughter of Zion, awake from thy sadness;
Awake, for thy foes shall oppress thee no more;
And bright o’er thy hills dawns the daystar of gladness;
Arise, for the night of thy sorrow is o’er.
O many thy foes, but the arm that subdued them
And scattered their legions was mightier far;
They fled like the chaff from the scourge that
pursued them,
For vain were their steeds and their chariots
of war.
O daughter of Zion, the power that hath saved thee,
Extolled with the harp and the timbrel should be;
Then shout, for the foe is destroyed that enslaved thee;
Th’ oppressor is vanquished, and Zion is free.
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.
Hab. 3:19
Postlude
Processional on Lyra Davidica by Richard Purvis
(Based on Hymn 413)
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