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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, April 20, 2025
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Mimi Oka, First Reader
Don Wallingford, Second Reader
Subject: DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Pastorale by César Franck
Hymn 34
Marion Susan Campbell, words
Arr. from W. A. Mozart, music
Christ comes again with holy power,
To lift our blinded eyes to see;
The sick are healed, the sinner blest,
As on that eve in Galilee.
Once more the lonely heart is fed.
Who dwells with Love hath perfect ease,
Faith, hope, and joy are with us all;
Great are companions such as these.
The weak and thirsty are refreshed,
Again each empty cup is filled;
The tender Christ is here to bless,
And all the storms of earth are stilled.
In Truth there is no pain or death
Nor any shades of coming night;
The promise of our God still stands:
At eventide it shall be light.
Scriptural Selection
John 17:1, 4–6, 8–11, 20, 21, 26
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
Evan Bryant, Guest Soloist of The Mother Church
God So Loved The World
God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoso believeth, believeth in him
should not perish, should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
For God sent not His Son into the
world to condemn the world,
God sent not His Son into the
world, to condemn the world;
but that the world through him might be saved.
God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoso believeth, believeth in him
should not perish, should not perish,
but have everlasting life,
everlasting, everlasting life.
God so loved the world.
Words from John 3:16-17
Music by Sir John Stainer
Arranged by William Stickles
© MCMLX (1960), by G. Schirmer Inc.,
International Copyright Secured
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
I John 4:9
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Responsive Reading:
Isaiah 49:13; 52:3, 13; 53:1, 3, 4 (to :), 5
Acts 3:26 God
Isa. 49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
52:3 For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Acts 3:26 . . . God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
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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Andante by Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck
Hymn 234
Washington Gladden*, words
H. Percy Smith, music
O Master, let me walk with thee
In lowly paths of service free;
Tell me thy secret; help me bear
The strain of toil, the fret of care.
Help me the slow of heart to move
By some clear winning word of love;
Teach me the wayward feet to stay,
And guide them in the homeward way.
Teach me thy patience; still with thee
In closer, dearer company,
In work that keeps faith sweet and strong,
In trust that triumphs over wrong.
In hope that sends a shining ray
Far down the future’s broadening way;
In peace that God alone can give,
With thee, O Master, let me live.
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.
II Cor. 9:8 God
Postlude
Carillon-Sortie by Henri Mulet
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