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, September 20, 2026
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Eric Bashor, Guest Second Reader
Subject: MATTER
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 537/1 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Adagio (from Organ Symphony No. 5) by Charles-Marie Widor
Hymn 515
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Ryan Vigil, 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 © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Scriptural Selection
Gen. 2:8 the, 9, 16, 17 (to :)
Gen. 3:1–6, 8–11 (to 1st ?)
Ex. 20:1–5 (to :)
Ps. 46:6
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 180
based on the Danish of Jens N. L. Schjørring, words
C. F. Jaehnigen, music
Love the Lord thy God:
Love is staff and rod
For heart and soul and mind.
In this command forever strong,
To silence thoughts of wrong
All laws fulfillment find.
Here we rest content:
Good from God is sent
Where seeds of Love are sown.
Who as himself his neighbor loves,
By constant purpose proves
His neighbor’s good his own.
They whose every thought
Still from Love is sought,
In Soul, not flesh, abide.
Love’s presence gives a joy untold:
Now may we all behold
The Spirit and the bride.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
From Sense to Soul
From sense to Soul my pathway lies before me,
From mist and shadow into Truth’s clear day;
The dawn of all things real is breaking o’er me,
My heart is singing: I have found the way.
I reach Mind’s open door, and at its portal
I know that where I stand is holy ground;
I feel the calm and joy of things immortal,
The loveliness of Love is all around.
The way leads upward and its goal draws nearer,
Thought soars enraptured, fetterless and free;
The vision infinite to me grows clearer,
I touch the fringes of eternity.
Words by Violet Hay
Music by Peter B. Allen
Words © The Christian Science Board of Directors
Music © 2002 Peter B. Allen, PBA Music Publishing, All Rights Reserved
Courtesy of Watchfire Music, all rights reserved
Explanatory Note
Subject: MATTER
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Habakkuk 2:20 the
. . . the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Responsive Reading:
Isaiah 40:5, 6 All, 8; 44:6, 8, 21 I have, 24 I am
Revelation 21:5 Behold (to 1st .), 6 I am (to 2nd .)
Isa. 40:5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
6 . . . All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
44:6 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
21 . . . I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
24 . . . I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Rev. 21:5 . . . Behold, I make all things new.
6 . . . I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
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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I Call to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, BWV 639 by J.S. Bach
Hymn 94
Stephen G. Bulfinch, adapted, words
Jeremiah Clark, music
Hath not thy heart within thee burned
At evening’s calm and holy hour,
As if its inmost depths discerned
The presence of a loftier power?
It was the voice of God that spake
In silence to thy silent heart,
And bade each worthier thought awake,
And every dream of earth depart.
O voice of God, forever near,
In low, sweet accents whispering peace,
Make us Thy harmonies to hear
Whose heavenly echoes never cease.
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 103:2–4
Postlude
"Great" Fugue in G minor, BWV 542/2 by J.S. Bach
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