At Wednesday testimony meetings, you’ll hear hymns and readings specially selected for the day from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Scriptural selections are from the King James Version of the Bible. You’ll also hear testimonies of healing and remarks on Christian Science submitted by listeners.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Bryan Ashley, Organist
Prelude
Offertory in E (from "L'Organiste") by César Franck
Adagio con espressione (from Chorale Fantasia Op. 52/2) by Max Reger
Hymn 69
James J. Rome, words
Orlando Gibbons, music
Give me, O Lord, an understanding heart,
That I may learn to know myself in Thee,
To spurn the wrong and choose the better part
And thus from sinful bondage be set free.
Give me, O Lord, a meek and contrite heart,
That I may learn to quell all selfish pride,
Bowing before Thee, see Thee as Thou art
And ’neath Thy sheltering presence safely hide.
Give me, O Lord, a gentle, loving heart,
That I may learn to be more tender, kind,
And with Thy healing touch, each wound and smart
With Christly bands of Love and Truth to bind.
Readings
Readings from the Bible, and correlative passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Prayer
Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer, its spiritual interpretation being omitted.
Hymn 540
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Susan Booth Mack Snipes; harm. Peter Stevens and Rebecca Stevens; arr. Margaret Dorn, alt., 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.
Music © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Experiences, testimonies and remarks on Christian Science
Hymn 545
Ella A. Stone, alt., words
Marshall Wright, music
O sweet and tender as the dawn,
With mighty power to heal and bless,
Is God’s dear gift to all His own:
The happy grace of gentleness.
How quickly burdens fall away,
How hearts grow light, rejoice, are glad,
When Love with touch of gentleness
Uplifts the sinning and the sad.
This gentle grace of Love divine
Is sweet as breath of opening flower.
Self-love and harshness disappear
Beneath its tender, healing power.
Words alteration © 1932, renewed 1960 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Postlude
Finale: Andante (from Sonata VI) by Felix Mendelssohn
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