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, December 24, 2025
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Bryan Ashley, Organist
Prelude
Noël: When the Saviour, Jesus Christ by Jean-François Dandrieu
What Child Is This by Christopher Uehlein
Greensleeves by Richard Purvis
Hymn 9
Violet Hay, words
Arranged from David G. Corner by H. Walford Davies, music
All glory be to God most high,
And on the earth be peace,
The angels sang, in days of yore,
The song that ne’er shall cease,
Till all the world knows peace.
God’s angels ever come and go,
All winged with light and love;
They bring us blessings from on high,
They lift our thoughts above,
They whisper God is Love.
O longing hearts that wait on God
Through all the world so wide;
He knows the angels that you need,
And sends them to your side,
To comfort, guard and guide.
O wake and hear the angel-song
That bids all discord cease,
From pain and sorrow, doubt and fear,
It brings us sweet release;
And so our hearts find peace.
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 11
Marion Susan Campbell, words
Jakob Hintze Harmonized by J. S. Bach, music
Angels at the Saviour’s birth
Woke with music all the earth,
Shepherds in the eastern sky
Saw a pale star passing by,
Guiding them at break of day
Where the babe in meekness lay,
Born the gracious news to tell,
God with us, Immanuel.
Star of being, still thy light
Shines before us in the night,
By those radiant beams we find
Christ, the Truth, for all mankind,
Still the tidings angels bring
With their joyful caroling,
Telling that the dawn has come,
God and man fore’er at one.
Notices
Experiences, testimonies and remarks on Christian Science
To submit a testimony, scroll down to the bottom of this webpage to the section that says “Testimonies."
Hymn 511
Edmund H. Sears, adapt., words
Richard Storrs Willis, music
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
The angels, bending near the earth,
Their wondrous story told
Of peace on earth, good will to men,
From heaven’s all-gracious King;
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.
O ye beneath life’s crushing load
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow;
Look now, for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing;
O rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing.
For lo, the days are hastening on,
By prophets seen of old,
When with the ever-circling years
Shall come the time foretold;
When the new heaven and earth shall own
The Prince of Peace their King,
And all the world send back the song
Which now the angels sing.
Postlude
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing by C. Uehlein
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