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, August 12, 2026
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Bryan Ashley, Organist
Prelude
Fantasie (Andante from Sonate No. 4) by Samuel de Lange, Sr.
Prayer by H.M. Higgs
Hymn 83
James Montgomery, adapted, words
Old French Melody, music
God made all His creatures free;
Life itself is liberty;
God ordained no other bands
Than united hearts and hands.
One in fellowship of Mind,
We our bliss and glory find
In that endless happy whole,
Where our God is Life and Soul.
So shall all our slavery cease,
All God’s children dwell in peace,
And the newborn earth record
Love, and Love alone, is Lord.
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 528
para. Psalm 36:5–9 Carol Reed-Jones, words
Carol Reed-Jones, music
Lord, Your mercy reaches higher than the heavens;
Lord, Your faithfulness is wider than the sky.
Lord, Your gracious judgments, deeper than the earth,
Show Your tender care for every creature’s worth.
Lord, Your righteousness is steadfast as the mountains;
Lord, Your goodness is a river without end.
Lord, Your lovingkindness is a wondrous thing;
We will shelter safely underneath Your wing.
Lord, Your children shall be satisfied with gladness;
Joy and peace abundant is their heritage.
Life flows from Your presence, radiant and new;
Your pure light reveals how we are seen by You.
Words and Music © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Experiences, testimonies and remarks on Christian Science
Hymn 271
Isaac Watts, adapted, words
Percy C. Buck, music
Our God shall reign where’er the sun
Does his successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
All people shall with joyful tongue
Dwell on His love with sweetest song,
And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on His name.
For blessings flow where’er He reigns;
The prisoner leaps to loose his chains,
The weary find eternal rest,
And all the sons of want are blest.
Let every creature rise, and bring
Peculiar honors to our King;
Let angel songs be heard again
And earth repeat the long Amen.
Music by permission of Percy C. Buck.
Postlude
Prelude & Fantasia in E-flat Major by Johann Pachelbel
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