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, May 17, 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: MORTALS AND IMMORTALS
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Prelude, Fugue and Variation by César Franck
Hymn 581
William P. McKenzie, alt., words
Jay Holcomb Frost, music
There are none friendless, none afraid,
The saving Truth who know,
Their shining path leads from the shade,
And up to light they go.
Truth sets us free from thought of sin;
It heals all sorrow’s blight.
Immortal joy is found therein,
And there shall be no night.
And O, may we, God’s children true,
God’s healing love make known,
And see by faith all things made new
When ruled by Love alone.
Music © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Scriptural Selection
Matt. 13:34 (to ;)
Luke 15:11–32 A
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 145
H., adapted, words
Irish Melody, 1749, music
In atmosphere of Love divine,
We live, and move, and breathe;
Though mortal eyes may see it not,
’Tis sense that would deceive.
The mortal sense we must destroy,
If we would bring to light
The wonders of eternal Mind,
Where sense is lost in sight.
For God, immortal Principle,
Is with us everywhere;
He holds us perfect in His love,
And we His image bear.
Notices
Solo
Evan Bryant, Soloist of The Mother Church
God So Loved the World
Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven,
and prayed for his disciples,
and prayed for his disciples.
That they might know Thee,
the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.
This is life eternal, life eternal.
God so loved the world,
God so loved the world,
That He gave His only begotten Son,
gave His only begotten Son.
God so loved the world,
That He gave His only Son,
gave His only begotten Son,
That whoso believeth,
believeth in Him should not,
should not perish,
but have everlasting life,
everlasting life.
Words from The Bible, adapted by Katherine K. Davis
Composed by George Frederic Handel
© MCMXLVIII (1948) by Carl Fischer Inc., New York, International Copyright Secured
All Rights Reserved including public performance
Courtesy of Watchfire Music, all rights reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
I John 3:2
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.
The Golden Text is from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®).
Responsive Reading:
II Timothy 1:1–3, 7, 9, 10
I Timothy 6:12 lay
I Corinthians 15:50–53
II Tim. 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
I Tim. 6:12 . . . lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
I Cor. 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,vbut we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
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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Andantino in E-flat by C. Franck
Hymn 218
Samuel Longfellow, words
Heinrich C. Zeuner, music
O Life that maketh all things new,
The blooming earth, the thoughts of men;
Our pilgrim feet, wet with Thy dew,
In gladness hither turn again.
From hand to hand the greeting flows,
From eye to eye the signals run,
From heart to heart the bright hope glows,
The seekers of the Light are one:
One in the freedom of the truth,
One in the joy of paths untrod,
One in the heart’s perennial youth,
One in the larger thought of God;—
The freer step, the fuller breath,
The wide horizon’s grander view;
The sense of Life that knows no death,—
The Life that maketh all things new.
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
Malachi 3:10
Postlude
Pièce héroïque by C. Franck
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