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Marian English, Second Reader for The Mother Church

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For the service on Sunday, May 13, 2012

Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Guest Soloist: Mia Randall

Subject

Mortals and Immortals

Scriptural Selection 

Ephesians 3:14-16 I bow; 4:17,18,20-24

Golden Text and Responsive Reading

I Corinthians 13:10 when, 12 (to :) 

II Corinthians 3:18 we; 4:6 God, 15–18
(see text below)

The Golden Text and Responsive Reading are from the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson, a publication copyrighted by the Christian Science Publishing Society.

Bible Lesson-sermon

From the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson

Benediction

I John 5:11

Music

Prelude
Rêverie by Louis Vierne
Aspiration by John E. West

Hymns
136, 142, 207  
 
(see words below)

Solo
Brought Up With Him by Don Krishnaswami

Offertory
Offrande by Flor Peeters

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Postlude
Hymn to the Sun by Louis Vierne

Golden Text and Responsive Reading

Golden Text
I Corinthians 13:10 when, 12 (to :)
. . . when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

. . . For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:
 
Responsive Reading
II Corinthians 3:18 we; 4:6 God, 15–18
18 . . . we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
6 . . . God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Words to hymns

Hymn 136

 
Violet Hay

 
I love Thy way of freedom, Lord,
To serve Thee is my choice,
In Thy clear light of Truth I rise
And, listening for Thy voice,
I hear Thy promise old and new,
That bids all fear to cease:
My presence still shall go with thee
And I will give thee peace.

Though storm or discord cross my path
Thy power is still my stay,
Though human will and woe would check
My upward-soaring way;
All unafraid I wait, the while
Thy angels bring release,
For still Thy presence is with me,
And Thou dost give me peace.

I climb, with joy, the heights of Mind,
To soar o'er time and space;
I yet shall know as I am known
And see Thee face to face.
Till time and space and fear are naught
My quest shall never cease,
Thy presence ever goes with me
And Thou dost give me peace.

Hymn 142

John Greenleaf Whittier

Immortal Love, forever full,
Forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole,
A never ebbing sea, —

Our outward lips confess the name
All other names above;
But love alone knows whence it came,
And comprehendeth Love.

Blow, winds of God, awake and blow
The mists of earth away.
Shine out, O light divine, and show
How wide and far we stray.

The letter fails, the systems fall,
And every symbol wanes:
The Spirit overbrooding all,
Eternal Love, remains.

Hymn 207

Mother's Evening Prayer
Mary Baker Eddy

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.

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