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, May 10, 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: ADAM AND FALLEN MAN
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Clair de Lune by Louis Vierne
Hymn 189
Psalm 121 from swedish version, words
Bohemian Brethren, music
Mine eyes look toward the mountains,
Help cometh from on high;
From God who never slumbers,
Whose care is ever nigh.
My foot shall not be moved,
My keeper is the Lord,
He never shall forsake me;
I trust me to His Word.
God keepeth me from falling,
Fulfilleth all my need;
His love doth e’er uphold me
In faithful word and deed.
He keepeth me from evil,
My onward way doth trace,
My going and my coming
He crowneth with His grace.
Scriptural Selection
Revelation 12:1-9, 13-16, 10-11
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 208
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Edward J. Hopkins, music
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
His habitation high is here, and nigh,
His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.
O make me glad for every scalding tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain.
Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;
In that sweet secret of the narrow way,
Seeking and finding, with the angels sing:
“Lo, I am with you alway,”—watch and pray.
No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;
No night drops down upon the troubled breast,
When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain,
And mother finds her home and heav’nly rest.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
Even As The Father
Not of the earth, not of the dust,
God’s man innocent and pure.
Man is not fallen, man cannot fail,
For his heritage is holy secure.
Shining reflections, children of light
Singing through the darkest night.
Strengthened by Spirit, conquering ev’ry lie
With the “loveliness of Love” which never dies.
“Be ye therefore perfect even as the Father”
Ev’ry step a moment of glorious birth
For man is upright, he is upright,
He has not fallen, not of the earth.
And so the Shepherd has washed them clean,
Robed in radiance, crowned in light.
Claim all His blessings, make them your own,
For each blessing is your noble right.
“Be ye therefore perfect even as the Father”
Ev’ry step a moment of dignity.
For man is upright, he is upright.
Arise, God’s man is free!
Music by Désirée Goyette
Lyrics: Désirée Goyette
© 1994 Lightchild Music BMI, All Rights Reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Romans 9:26
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Responsive Reading:
Matthew 13:24–30 The;
II Corinthians 6:14 what, 17, 18
Matt. 13:24 . . . The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
II Cor. 6:14 . . . what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
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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Prelude by Flor Peeters
Hymn 200
Author Unknown*, words
E. Norman Greenwood, music
O daughter of Zion, awake from thy sadness;
Awake, for thy foes shall oppress thee no more;
And bright o’er thy hills dawns the daystar of gladness;
Arise, for the night of thy sorrow is o’er.
O many thy foes, but the arm that subdued them
And scattered their legions was mightier far;
They fled like the chaff from the scourge that
pursued them,
For vain were their steeds and their chariots
of war.
O daughter of Zion, the power that hath saved thee,
Extolled with the harp and the timbrel should be;
Then shout, for the foe is destroyed that enslaved thee;
Th’ oppressor is vanquished, and Zion is free.
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
Gen. 22:17 in (to 1st ;), 18 (to ;)
Postlude
Hymn to the Sun by L. Vierne
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