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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, June 29, 2025
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: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Meditation (from Organ Symphony No. 1) by Charles-Marie Widor
Invocation by Alexandre Guilmant
Hymn 29
Florence L. Heywood, words
Henry Smart, music
Breaking through the clouds of darkness,
Black with error, doubt, and fear;
Lighting up each somber shadow,
With a radiance soft and clear;
Filling every heart with gladness,
That its holy power feels,
Comes the Christian Science gospel,
Sin it kills and grief it heals.
Christlike in its benedictions,
Godlike in its strength sublime;
Conquering every subtle error,
With a meekness all divine,
It has gone across the ocean,
It is known in every land,
And our sisters and our brothers
Are united in one band.
Scriptural Selection
II Kings 6:8–23 the
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 527
Elizabeth Glass Barlow, alt., words
Désirée Goyette, music
"Lord, ... open his eyes, that he may see,"
The mighty prophet prayed.
Send not armies great and strong,
Neither strength to battle wrong,
But lift his vision to behold
Your truth already here,
The legions of omnipotence,
The hosts of Your deliverance.
Awake, O man, and know
Love’s all-embracing sphere.
Lord, open my eyes that I may see
Your presence everywhere,
My dwelling circled by Your might,
My mountaintop aflame with light,
The shining sentinels of Your love
Triumphant in this hour.
For You with me are greater far
Than all the seeming evils are.
Be still, O heart, and trust
God’s omnipresent power.
Words © 1960, renewed 1988 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Solo
Christa Seid-Graham, Guest Soloist of The Mother Church
New Jerusalem
I John saw the holy city of God,
Coming down from God out of heaven.
Prepared as a beautiful bride to be wed,
Wed to her new husband.
Chorus:
Behold, I make all things new,
Behold, for it is ever true.
This city of God that is built in your hearts,
New Jerusalem as Mind imparts.
This consciousness had the glory of God,
Radiant as a precious jasper stone,
Clear as crystal and reflecting God’s power
Upon Mind’s omnipotent throne.
Chorus
It lieth foursquare and hath no need of moon or sun,
For the glory of God and the Lamb doth it enlighten.
And the nations shall walk, yes they all shall walk
In the light of this glorious truth,
And the kings of the earth and all the people it taught
Hath it honor and glory brought.
Chorus
Behold, I make all things new
Behold, for it is ever true
This city of God is built in your hearts
New Jerusalem that Mind imparts
Words and music by Susan Mack
Arranged by Robert Rockabrand
© 2007 The Solo Committee
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Ezekiel 12:23 The days, 28 the word
. . . The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision. . . . the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord God.
Responsive Reading:
John 13:31 Jesus; 14:12 He, 13, 16, 17, 26 the, 29; 4:35 Lift
13:31 . . . Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
14:12 . . . He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
26 . . . the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
4:35 . . . Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
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.
Offertory and collection
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Choral by Flor Peeters
Hymn 478
Violet Hay, alt., words
Andrew Sentinella, music
From these Your children gathered in Your name,
From hearts made whole, from lips redeemed from woe,
Your praise, Almighty, shall forever flow.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
O perfect Life, in Your completeness held,
None can beyond Your omnipresence stray;
Safe in Your Love, we live and sing alway
Alleluia! Alleluia!
O perfect Mind, reveal Your likeness true,
That higher selfhood which we all must prove,
Joy and dominion, love reflecting Love.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
O Soul, inspiring—give us vision clear,
Break earth-bound fetters, sweep away the veil,
Show the new heaven and earth that shall prevail.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Words © 1931, renewed 1959 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music © 2016 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.
Luke 2:29 (to 2nd ,), 30, 31
Postlude
Prelude in E-flat Major, BWV 552/1 by Johann Sebastian Bach
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