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, July 26, 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: TRUTH
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist
Before Thy Throne I Now Appear, BWV 668 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Postlude pour l'Office de Complies, JA 29 by Jehan Alain
Hymn 541
Adrienne M. Tindall, alt., words
Welsh melody; harm. David Evans, music
O God, my Friend and Guardian,
In all my times of need
I yield me to Your guiding,
And follow where You lead.
No shadows of the darkness
Will dim the light You send,
And night becomes the morning
By Your divine command.
Forever Father-Mother,
Your children everywhere
Are cherished in Your loving,
Your kind, Your perfect care.
All-knowing and all-seeing,
All-powerful, divine—
I know Your ever-presence
Is healing humankind.
You sent Your Son as Savior
That joy and health increase;
Your justice and Your mercy
Will give the world its peace.
And when I humbly listen,
I know my Guide is wise;
The pathway may seem rugged,
But heaven is its prize.
Words © 1990 Adrienne M. Tindall. Music harmonization from the Revised Church Hymnary, 1927. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Scriptural Selection
Psalms 61:1–4 (to 1st .), 5–7
John 18:28 (to :), 29, 30, 33–38
Psalms 86:11
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 514
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Mindy Jostyn; arr. CSPS, music
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.
Music © 1998 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music arrangement © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord
Teach me thy way, O Lord;
I will walk in thy truth:
Unite my heart to fear thy name,
Be merciful unto me.
Bow down thine ear,
O Lord, hear me:
For I am poor and needy.
Preserve my soul;
For I am holy:
I will trust in thee.
Rejoice the soul of thy servant:
For unto thee, do I lift up my soul.
I call to thee with my troubles,
For God alone does wondrous things:
I will praise thee Lord my God,
With all my heart and glory.
Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me;
Into thine hand I place my spirit,
Thou hast redeemed me,
God of truth.
I will trust in thee.
Teach me thy way, O Lord;
I will walk in thy truth.
I will praise thee Lord my God forever more.
I will praise thee Lord of my God forever more.
Words from Psalms
Music by John Gilmore
© 2008 Johnny Rand Music Publishing
Courtesy of Watchfire Music, all rights reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Psalms 25:5 (to ;)
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation;
Responsive Reading:
Isaiah 25:1; 43:3 I am (to :), 6–9 bring; 42:1 (to 2nd ;), 3
Psalms 31:1 (to ;), 3, 4 thou, 5, 23 (to :), 24
Isa. 25:1 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
43:3 . . . I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour:
6 . . . bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth;
3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Ps. 31:1 In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust;
3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
4 . . . thou art my strength.
5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
23 O love the Lord, all ye his saints:
24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
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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Blessed Ye Who Live in Faith Unswerving, Op. 122 No.6 by Johannes Brahms
Hymn 104
Duncan Sinclair, words
Mark J. Monk, music
Help us, O Lord, to bear the cross,
The cross our Master bore;
To brave the senses’ angry shock,
Our faith secure upon the rock
Of Christ, forevermore.
Grant us, O Love, the strength to drink
Thy cup on earth below,
The inspiration that it brings,
The hope serene that from it springs
To lighten every woe.
Give us, O Truth, Thou light of men,
Thy benediction rare,
That courage may sustain our way
Out of the darkness into day,
Thy day, celestial, fair.
Thus shall our Spirit, Mind divine,
Lead us to heaven’s bowers:
The cross laid down; the victory won
O’er sense and self; revealed the Son;
The crown forever ours.
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:
Psalms 32:8
Postlude
Salvation Has Come to Us, BWV 638 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Fanfare by William Mathias
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