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, March 18, 2026
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Hymns: Bryan Ashley, Organist
Prelude and Postlude: Stephen Loher, Assistant Organist
Prelude
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach
Hymn 40
Thomas Moore and Thomas Hastings, adapted, words
Samuel Webbe, music
Come, ye disconsolate, where’er ye languish,
Here health and peace are found, Life, Truth,
and Love;
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell
your anguish;
Earth has no sorrow but Love can remove.
Joy of the desolate, light of the straying,
Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure;
Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying,
Earth has no sorrow that Love cannot cure.
Here see the Bread of Life, see waters flowing
Forth from the throne of God, pure from above;
Come to the feast of love, come, ever knowing,
Earth has no sorrow but Love can remove.
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 138
Samuel Johnson, adapted, words
From a German Chorale, music
I praise Thee, Lord, for blessings sent
To break the dream of human power;
For now, my shallow cistern spent,
I find Thy font and thirst no more.
I take Thy hand and fears grow still;
Behold Thy face and doubts remove;
Who would not yield his wavering will
To perfect Truth and boundless Love?
That Truth gives promise of a dawn
Beneath whose light I am to see,
When all these blinding veils are drawn,
Thy love has always guided me.
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 424
John Bowring*, words
C. B. Rich, music
I cannot always trace the way
Where Thou, Almighty One, dost move;
But I can always, always say
That God is Love.
When mystery clouds my darkened path,
I conquer dread and doubts reprove,
In this my heart sweet comfort hath,
That God is Love.
Yes, God is Love: a thought like this
Can every gloomy thought remove,
And turn all tears, all woes, to bliss,
For God is Love.
Postlude
Voluntary on Comfort (Hymn 424)
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