Sunday services are conducted by a First and Second Reader and include music, hymns, prayer, and readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural selections are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Robert Witney, Second Reader
Subject: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Now Come, Saviour of the Nations, BWV 659 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Contemplation on Tallis' Canon (Hymn 272) by Richard Purvis
Hymn 458
James Montgomery, adapt., words
German melody; harm. George Ratcliffe Woodward, alt., music
Christ comes, with succor speedy,
To those who suffer wrong;
To help the poor and needy,
And bid the weak be strong;
Christ comes to break oppression,
To set the captive free,
To take away transgression,
And rule in equity.
God’s blessings come as showers
Upon the thirsty earth;
And joy and hope, like flowers,
Spring in His path to birth.
Before Him on the mountains
Shall Peace, the herald, go;
From hill to vale the fountains
Of righteousness shall flow.
To God shall prayer unceasing,
And daily vows, ascend;
Love’s kingdom still increasing,
A kingdom without end.
The tide of time shall never
God’s covenant remove;
Her name shall stand forever:
Her changeless name of Love.
Words adaptation © 1932, renewed 1960 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Scriptural Selection
Acts 20:7–12
Acts 28:3–5 when, 7–9
I John 3:2, 3
Prayer
Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy
(Read in context)
Hymn 569
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Désirée Goyette, music
Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound?
Felt ye the power of the Word?
’Twas the Truth that made us free,
And was found by you and me
In the life and the love of our Lord.
Mourner, it calls you,—“Come to my bosom,
Love wipes your tears all away,
And will lift the shade of gloom,
And for you make radiant room
Midst the glories of one endless day.”
Sinner, it calls you,—“Come to this fountain,
Cleanse the foul senses within;
’Tis the Spirit that makes pure,
That exalts thee, and will cure
All thy sorrow and sickness and sin.”
Strongest deliverer, friend of the friendless,
Life of all being divine:
Thou the Christ, and not the creed;
Thou the Truth in thought and deed;
Thou the water, the bread, and the wine.
Music © 2008 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Solo
Robin Reinert, Guest Soloist of The Mother Church
Immanuel
Dear Father-Mother God that changeth never,
Unfolding good reveals Thy perfect plan.
We thank Thee for Thy Christ that coming ever
Doth take of Thine and show it unto man.
We praise the glorious light to us revealing
The power and Science of the Christ again.
In that true light we find our peace and healing
And wake from earthly dreams of fear and pain.
And so, with joy, wherever Thou art guiding,
Our feet shall tread the fair or rugged ways.
The healing Comforter with us abiding,
Our works shall show, our hearts shall sing, Thy praise.
Thou art the Life in whom we all are living,
Thou art the Love in whom we safely dwell,
Thou art the Truth, to us our freedom giving;
We prove Thy presence--O Immanuel !
Words by Violet Hay
Music by Stanley Jackson.
© Music1958 Carl Fischer, LLC
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Psalms 31:2 deliver (to :), 14 Thou
. . . deliver me speedily: . . . Thou art my God.
Responsive Reading:
Luke 2:52 Jesus; 6:19; 4:38 And Simon's, 39; 5:12, 13; 8:43, 44; 13:11, 13
Revelation 12:10 Now (to :)
Luke 2:52 . . . Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
6:19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
4:38 . . . And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.
39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
5:12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
8:43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
13:11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
Rev. 12:10 . . . Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ:
The Bible Lesson-Sermon, the Explanatory Note, Golden Text and Responsive Reading are from the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson, a publication copyrighted by the Christian Science Publishing Society.
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The Lord's Prayer by Maurice Duruflé
Hymn 96
John Greenleaf Whittier*, words
From “Drei schöne neue geistliche Lieder,” 1637, music
He stood of old, the holy Christ,
Amid the suffering throng,
With whom his lightest touch sufficed
To make the weakest strong.
That healing gift God gives to them
Who use it in His name;
The power that filled the garment’s hem
Is evermore the same.
So shalt thou be with power endued
Like him who went about
The Syrian hillsides doing good
And casting demons out.
The Great Physician liveth yet
Thy friend and guide to be;
The Healer by Gennesaret
Shall walk the rounds with thee.
Scientific Statement of Being
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.468, line 8
Correlative Scripture
I John 3:1-3
Benediction
Isa. 40:1, 4, 5 for
Postlude
Fugue in E-flat Major BWV 552/2 ("St. Anne") by J.S. Bach
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