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, February 8, 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: SPIRIT
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Prelude & Cromhorne en taille (from Suite du Premier Ton) by Gilles Jullien
Pavane by Eric Thiman
Hymn 367
Bernard Barton*, words
Richard Redhead, music
Walk in the light, so thou shalt know
That fellowship of love
His spirit only can bestow
Who reigns in light above.
Walk in the light, and thou shalt find
Thy heart made truly His,
Who dwells in cloudless light enshrined,
In whom no darkness is.
Walk in the light, and thou shalt own
Thy darkness past away,
Because that light on thee hath shone
In which is perfect day.
Walk in the light, and thou shalt see
Thy path, though thorny, bright;
For God by grace shall dwell with thee,
And God Himself is Light.
Scriptural Selection
Dan. 3:1, 4–6, 8, 9, 12–14, 16–18, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28
Ps 26:11 I,: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 247
Thomas H. Gill*, words
Henry Smart, music
O walk with God along the road,
Your strength He will renew;
Wait on the everlasting God,
And He will walk with you.
Ye shall not to your daily task
Without your God repair,
But on your work His blessing ask
And prove His glory there.
Ye shall not faint, ye shall not fail;
In Spirit ye are strong;
Each task divine ye still shall hail,
And blend it with a song.
Notices
Solo
Tessa Frost, Guest Soloist of The Mother Church
Feed My Sheep
Shepherd, show me how to go
O’er the hillside steep,
How to gather, how to sow, —
How to feed Thy sheep;
I will listen for Thy voice,
Lest my footsteps stray;
I will follow and rejoice
All the rugged way.
Thou wilt bind the stubborn will,
Wound the callous breast,
Make self-righteousness be still,
Break earth’s stupid rest.
Strangers on a barren shore,
Lab’ring long and lone,
We would enter by the door,
And Thou know’st Thine own;
So, when day grows dark and cold,
Tear or triumph harms,
Lead Thy lambkins to the fold,
Take them in Thine arms;
Feed the hungry, heal the heart,
Till the morning’s beam;
White as wool, ere they depart,
Shepherd, wash them clean.
Words by Mary Baker Eddy
Music By Tessa and Jay Frost
© Music 2025 Frost Music Productions. All Rights Reserved.
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Galatians 5:25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Responsive Reading:
I Corinthians 2:9–13 as
Proverbs 1:20, 23 behold
I Cor. 2:9. . . as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Prov. 1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
23. . . behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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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Sonatina from Cantata No. 106 (arr. E. Power Biggs) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Hymn 457
para. I Kings 19:11, 12, Psalms 23:2, 4 Psalms, 143:8, 10 Susan Thierman, words
Susan Thierman, music
REFRAIN
Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning;
Teach me to do Your will, O God.
Cause me to know the way where I should place my feet
To walk in the pathway of Your love.
Verse 1
Not in the storm, nor the earthquake, nor the wave;
You’re not in the wind, nor the flame.
In the still of the evening, in the hush of the morning,
Call my name.
REFRAIN
Verse 2
Truth is my Rock; there is nothing I shall fear.
You still all my worry and woe.
And my heart’s overflowing now; I rest where
Your quiet waters flow.
REFRAIN
Words and Music © 2017 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
Isa. 55:12 ye
Postlude
Chorale variations on "Veni Creator Spiritus" by Maurice Duruflé
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