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 19, 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: LIFE
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Elegy by G.T. Thalben-Ball
Communion by Charles Callahan
Hymn 55
Love M. Willis, words
J. Ludwig Steiner, music
Father, hear the prayer we offer;
Not for ease that prayer shall be,
But for strength, that we may ever
Live our lives courageously.
Not forever in green pastures
Do we ask our way to be,
But the steep and rugged pathway
May we tread rejoicingly.
Not forever by still waters
Would we idly quiet stay,
But would smite the living fountains
From the rocks along our way.
Scriptural Selection
John 4:7–15
Proverbs 8:22–30
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 260
Frederick L. Hosmer, adapted, words
James S. Anderson, music
One thought I have, my ample creed,
So deep it is and broad,
And equal to my every need,—
It is the thought of God.
Each morn unfolds His blessings new,
I take in trust my road;
And rising freshly to my view,
Shines forth the thought of God.
To this their secret strength they owed,
The martyr’s path who trod;
The fountains of their patience flowed
From out their thought of God.
Be still the light upon my way,
My pilgrim staff and rod,
My rest by night, my strength by day,
O blessed thought of God.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
God Is Our Refuge and Strength
God is our refuge and strength
A present help in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear
Tho the earth shall be removed,
And tho the waters be carried into the midst of the sea;
Tho the waters thereof
May roar and be troubled
Tho the mountains shake
With the swelling thereof.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
Reflect on this a while..
Selah
He breaketh the stalwart bow
And cuts the spear in sunder
He maketh wars to cease
Unto all the ends of earth;
He burns the terrible chariot
There in the midst of the fire.
God is our refuge and strength
A present help in trouble.
Be still, and know that I am God:
Here exalted in the earth.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
Reflect on this a while.
Selah
God is our refuge and strength
A present help in trouble
Selah selah selah
Music by Rebecca Minor
Words from Psalm 46, adapted by Rebecca Minor
© 2010 Rebecca Minor
Courtesy of Watchfire Music, all rights reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Isaiah 41:10 I am thy
. . . I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Responsive Reading:
Psalms 27:1, 13, 14
Isaiah 33:6 (to :), 10, 13, 21 the (to ;), 22; 32:17, 18
Ps. 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Isa. 33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation:
10 Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
21 . . . the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams;
22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
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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Andante in E-flat major by Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck
Hymn 120
Benjamin Gough*, words
J. Michael Haydn, music
How beauteous on the mountains
The feet of him that brings,
Like streams from living fountains,
Good tidings of good things;
That publishes salvation;
From error gives release
To every tribe and nation:
God’s reign of joy and peace.
Break forth in hymns of gladness,
O waste Jerusalem;
Let songs instead of sadness,
Thy jubilee proclaim;
The Lord, in strength victorious,
Upon thy foes has trod;
Behold, O earth, the glorious
Salvation of our God.
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 91:15 (to :),16
Postlude
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 by Johann Sebastian Bach
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