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 5, 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: GOD
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
From God I Will Not Part, BWV 658 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantilene (from Sonata No. 11 in D minor, Op. 148) by Josef Rheinberger
Hymn 473
Honla Honla Joseph; eng. tr. CSPS, words
Honla Honla Joseph; transc. and arr. CSPS, music
Father-Mother God, All-in-all,
Reassuring me every day,
You encourage me on my way.
Father-Mother God, All-in-all.
REFRAIN
Father-Mother God, All-in-all,
You protect me each step of the way.
I am safe in Love every day,
Father-Mother God, All-in-all.
You will guide me by day and night.
I go forth with no doubt or fear,
For I feel Your love with me here,
Father-Mother God, All-in-all.
REFRAIN
Now I find, as never before,
I’m devoted to serving You,
Your pure goodness fills me anew,
Father-Mother God, All-in-all.
REFRAIN
French Words, English translation, Music © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Scriptural Selection
Mal. 2:10 (to 2nd ?)
Gen. 32:24–30 Jacob; 33:1 (to 1st .), 4, 8–10
Ps. 46:1–3 (to 1st .), 4–7 (to 1st .)
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 212
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Orlando Gibbons, 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.
By permission of Mrs. Bridges and the Oxford University Press.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
Eternal God Our Father
Eternal God, the All-in-all, our Father,
We lift our hearts in joyous song to Thee:
From age to age Thy name doth stand exalted,
Thy glory fills earth, sky, and sea.
Almighty One, creative Mind immortal
Which was and is and ever shall be.
Dear God of Love, eternal good, our Savior,
Supply our needs, our every need each day:
Teach us to love, As Thou dost Love, our neighbor,
Purge us from sin and self, we pray.
Thy kingdom come, in all the earth as heaven,
Be Thou our guide, our hope, our stay.
In pastures green, by waters still, lead onward,
Till we shall know that good alone is here.
Help us to prove, As Jesus proved before us,
Truth casts out sin, disease, and fear.
And may Thy Word abide with us forever,
O Lord of Life, O Love most dear.
Music by Jean Sibelius, arr. Beth Miller
Words by Oak E. Davis Eternal God Our Father
© MCMXLVII by Carl Fischer Inc., New York
Courtesy of Watchfire Music, all rights reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Golden Text: Deuteronomy 33:27 (to :)
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms:
Responsive Reading:
Psalms 42:8 the, 11 I shall; 63:1 (to :), 2–5, 7, 8; 94:14, 18, 19
42:8 . . . the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
11 . . . I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee:
2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
94:14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
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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Voluntary in D by Samuel Jackson
Hymn 81
Theodore C. Williams, adapted, words
Hugh P. Allen, music
God is with me, gently o’er me
Are His wings of mercy spread;
All His way made plain before me,
And His glory round me shed.
Safely onward
Shall my pilgrim feet be led.
God is with me, and His presence
Shall my perfect guidance be,
Till my heart that peace inherit
God alone can give to me.
His all-power
Helps and heals, and sets me 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
Ruth 2:12
Postlude
Final (from Organ Symphony No. 1) by Louis Vierne
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