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, October 18, 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: DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT
Prelude:
Stephen Loher, Assistant Organist
Voluntary on Benjamin (Hymn 472)
Hymn 472
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Scriptural Selection
Gen. 35:1–4 (to ;),11 (to 1st ;)
Mark 10:46–52
John 14:12
John 10:30
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 298
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Lyman Brackett, music
Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound?
Felt ye the power of the Word?
’Twas the Truth that made us free,
And was found by you and me
In the life and the love of our Lord.
Mourner, it calls you,—“Come to my bosom,
Love wipes your tears all away,
And will lift the shade of gloom,
And for you make radiant room
Midst the glories of one endless day.”
Sinner, it calls you,—“Come to this fountain,
Cleanse the foul senses within;
’Tis the Spirit that makes pure,
That exalts thee, and will cure
All thy sorrow and sickness and sin.”
Strongest deliverer, friend of the friendless,
Life of all being divine:
Thou the Christ, and not the creed;
Thou the Truth in thought and deed;
Thou the water, the bread, and the wine.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
To Behold Thee
From weariness of sin I turn at last,
O Lord, to Thee,
My eyes and heart grow dim
from looking long on vanity.
I venture toward Thy radiance then,
Compelled to come by grace,
And in the pages of Thy Word
Behold Thy lovely face.
CHORUS
Face of glory, turned upon me,
I cannot but Thee adore.
To behold Thee, O my Savior,
Is to love Thee more and more.
Each grace in all its fullness
On Thy countenance I see.
Great tenderness of mercy,
Blazing light of purity.
Thine eyes are wells of love and wisdom,
Settled peace Thy brow,
Before the whole of perfect beauty,
I in worship bow.
CHORUS
And now as I before Thee stand,
A debtor to Thy grace,
And gaze with heaven’s eyes
Upon the brightness of Thy face,
Transformed into Thy likeness,
All my sin thrust far away,
With all of God’s creation
I will lift my voice and say
CHORUS
Words by Eileen Barry
Music by Dan Forrest
© 2003 by Beckenhorst Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
Explanatory Note
Subject: DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Isaiah 61:10 (to 2nd ;)
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my whole being shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
The Golden Text is from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition.
Responsive Reading:
II Corinthians 5:1, 2, 4–8, 16–18
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
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 on Alleluia (Hymn 171)
Hymn 171
Frances Thompson Hill, words
Samuel S. Wesley, music
Let us sing of Easter gladness
That rejoices every day,
Sing of hope and faith uplifted;
Love has rolled the stone away.
Lo, the promise and fulfillment,
Lo, the man whom God hath made,
Seen in glory of an Easter
Crowned with light that cannot fade.
When we touch Truth’s healing garment
And behold Life’s purity,
When we find in Love the refuge
That is man’s security,
When we turn from earth to Spirit,
And from self have won release,
Then we see the risen Saviour;
Then we know his promised peace.
Living meekly as the Master,
Who of God was glorified,
Looking ever to the radiance
Of his wondrous Eastertide;
Freed of fear, of pain, and sorrow,
Giving God the honor due,
Every day will be an Easter
Filled with benedictions new.
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:
II Cor. 13:14 (to 1st .)
Postlude
Voluntary on Communion (Hymn 298)
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