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 9, 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: ADAM AND FALLEN MAN
Prelude:
Stephen Loher, Assistant Organist
Aria in F by George F. Handel
Hymn 14
Mary I. Mesechre, words
Arranged from Johann Sebastian Bach, music
Arise, arise and shine,
On thee hath dawned the day;
God is thy sun, and Christ thy light,
Be thou a steadfast ray.
Sing praise, O waking heart,
For all thy God hath wrought;
For Truth’s clear light on thee hath shone,
And purified thy thought.
No more shall sin and wrong
Obscure the light divine,
For God hath given thee His Son,
And lo, all things are thine.
Arise, arise and shine,
Uplift thee from the sod,
And let thy living light show forth
Man’s unity with God.
Scriptural Selection
Numbers 22:1–3,4 2nd And, 5, 6, 10–12, 18
Numbers 24:10
Numbers 23:1 (to 1st ,), 8
Psalms 56:9, 10 (to :), 11–13
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 437
Joachim Neander; tr. Robert Bridges; adapt. Fenella Bennetts, alt., words
Herbert Howells, music
All my hope on God is founded;
Day by day my trust is new.
Through the trials of life He guides me,
Only good and only true.
God alone, dearly known,
Calls my heart to be His own.
Earthly treasures, pride and glory,
Human power and worldly trust,
Though with care and toil are builded,
In the end will fall to dust.
But God’s power, hour by hour,
Is my temple and my tower.
Daily does th’almighty Giver
Bounteous gifts on us bestow.
Love’s desire our soul delighteth,
Joy attends us where we go.
Blessings stand at God’s hand,
Healing flows at Love’s command.
Now from man to God eternal
Endless thanks and praise be sung.
Hearts made new are anthems raising
Through the love of Christ, His Son.
Hear God’s call, one and all,
We who follow shall not fall.
Words adaptation © 2008 Fenella Bennetts. Music © 1938 Novello & Company, Limited. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
Notices
Solo
Josh Henn, Soloist of The Mother Church
The Garment
She humbly came behind him
Jostled by the crushing mass
She knew if she could touch him,
Her healing would come to pass.
Desperately she reached out
To touch the garment’s hem.
To partake of the anointing of
Christ whom God had sent.
As her hand reached out and brushed the cloth,
Jesus perceived her troubled soul,
And he gently spoke, “Be of good comfort.
Thy faith hath made thee whole.”
Tears of relief and joy flowed
From her grateful eyes.
In that instant she was healed,
For Truth could not be disguised!
She went her way rejoicing,
No longer enslaved, but free.
Just as the blind man had been healed,
Now she, too, could see.
She humbly came behind him
Jostled by the crushing mass
She knew if she could touch him,
Her healing would come to pass.
Desperately she reached out
To touch the garment’s hem.
To partake of the anointing of
Christ whom God had sent.
As her hand reached out and brushed the cloth,
Jesus perceived her troubled soul,
and he gently spoke, “Be of good comfort.
Thy faith hath made thee whole.”
From this pilgrim’s story
Comes hope for all who are oppressed.
If we may but touch the garment of Truth,
We, too, shall be blessed.
Carolyn Kardinal, words and music
Words and music © 2009 C. Kardinal
Courtesy of Watchfire Music, all rights reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Responsive Reading:
Genesis 1:1, 3, 4 (to :), 26–28, 31 (to 1st .)
Proverbs 26:2 the curse
Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good:
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
Prov. 26:2 . . . the curse causeless shall not come.
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 Hymn 474
Hymn 474
Elizabeth C. Adams, alt., words
Joy Tessman and Scott Martin; transc. Robert Wyckoff, alt., music
Father, we Your loving children
Lift our hearts in joy today,
Knowing well that You will keep us
Ever in Your blessed way.
You are Love and You are wisdom,
You are Life and You are All;
In Your Spirit living, moving,
We shall neither faint nor fall.
Come we daily then, dear Father,
Open hearts and willing hands,
Eager ears, expectant, joyful,
Ready for Your right commands.
We would hear no other voices,
We would heed no other call;
You alone are good and gracious,
You our Mind and You our All.
In Your house securely dwelling,
Where Your children live to bless,
Seeing only Your creation,
We can share Your happiness,
Share Your joy and spend it freely.
Loyal hearts can feel no fear;
We Your children know You, Father,
Love and Life forever near.
Father, we Your loving children
Lift our hearts in joy today,
Knowing well that You will keep us
Ever in Your blessed way.
Words © 1932, renewed 1960 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Words alteration © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music © 1987 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music transcription © 2008 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
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:
Leviticus 26:13
Postlude
Voluntary on Michael (Hymn 437)
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