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, June 21, 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: IS THE UNIVERSE, INCLUDING MAN, EVOLVED BY ATOMIC FORCE?
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Adagio Molto (from Third Sonata, Op. 56) by Alexandre Guilmant
Lied (from 24 Pieces in Free Style) by Louis Vierne
Hymn 221
Margaret Glenn Matters, words
Justin H. Knecht, music
O Jesus, our dear Master,
Thy works, now understood,
Reveal their full effulgence
Through love and brotherhood.
Today Christ’s precious Science
Thy healing power makes plain:
With joy may all obey thee
And cast out sin and pain.
The Christ, eternal manhood,
As God’s own Son beloved,
A tender ever-presence
Within each heart is proved.
O God, our Father-Mother,
Thy name we see expressed
By man, who in Thy Science
Is perfect, holy, blessed.
O Science, God-sent message
To tired humanity,
Thou art Love’s revelation
Of Truth that makes us free.
Thy kingdom, God, within us
Shows forth Love’s sweet control.
God’s idea, man, rejoices;
He knows the reign of Soul.
Scriptural Selection
Ex 3:1–5;
Ex 4:1-4, 6-7
Isa 64:4 since
I Corinthians 2:9–12
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 160
Mary Baker Eddy, words
John Stainer, 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.
Notices
Solo
Evan Bryant, Soloist of The Mother Church
Mind Is The Grand Creator
"Mind is the grand creator" no power apart from Mind.
In every pure expression a vision of grace we find.
The morning bird's song, violet sunset, verdant hill,
Reflect the "color, form, expression" of Love's will.
Wisdom's illumination reveals beauty everywhere.
The symbols of Soul's creation lead us in a constant prayer
To the holy, sweet, "unsearchable realm of Mind,"
Where in time our true identity we find,
Each day a new awakening to Love's plan.
We'll know the "glories of earth and heaven and of man."
Words and music by Ed Bogas and Désirée Goyette
The text for this solo is inspired by and features the writings of Mary Baker Eddy
© 2001 Lightchild Publishing, BMI, All Rights Reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Golden Text: II Timothy 2:7 the
. . . the Lord will give you understanding in all things.
The Golden Text is from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition.
Responsive Reading:
Job 38:1 the, 2, 4–7, 18, 36; 42:1–3
Proverbs 2:6 the
Job 38:1 . . . the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
42:1 Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Prov. 2:6 . . . the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
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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Improvisation-Pastorale by Joseph Jongen
Hymn 510
Susan F. Campbell, words
Benjamin Russell Vaughan, music
In Love divine all earth-born fear and sorrow
Fade as the dark when dawn pours forth her light;
And understanding prayer is fully answered,
When trustingly we turn to God aright.
And as on wings of faith we soar and worship,
Held by God’s love above the shadows dim,
Hushed in the grandeur of a heart’s awakening,
Unfolds a joy unknown till found in Him.
Then in this radiant light of adoration,
We know that man beloved is in God’s care,
Not wrapped in fear nor bowed with tired labor,
But satisfied, complete, divinely fair.
Words © 1932, renewed 1960 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music © 2016 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
I Chronicles 22:12 the
Postlude
Prelude in E-flat Major, BWV 552/1 by Johann Sebastian Bach
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The Golden Text for "Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?" is from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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