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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 28, 2024
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Don Wallingford, Guest First Reader
Lynn Jackson, Guest Second Reader
Subject: PROBATION AFTER DEATH
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Tranquillo, ma con moto (from Six Short Pieces for Organ) by Herbert Howells
Adagio (from Organ Symphony No. 3) by Louis Vierne
Hymn 453
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Désirée Goyette, music
Brood o’er us with Thy shelt’ring wing,
’Neath which our spirits blend
Like brother birds, that soar and sing,
And on the same branch bend.
The arrow that doth wound the dove
Darts not from those who watch and love.
If thou the bending reed wouldst break
By thought or word unkind,
Pray that his spirit you partake,
Who loved and healed mankind:
Seek holy thoughts and heavenly strain,
That make men one in love remain.
Learn, too, that wisdom’s rod is given
For faith to kiss, and know;
That greetings glorious from high heaven,
Whence joys supernal flow,
Come from that Love, divinely near,
Which chastens pride and earth-born fear,
Through God, who gave that word of might
Which swelled creation’s lay:
“Let there be light, and there was light.”
What chased the clouds away?
’Twas Love whose finger traced aloud
A bow of promise on the cloud.
Thou to whose power our hope we give,
Free us from human strife.
Fed by Thy love divine we live,
For Love alone is Life;
And life most sweet, as heart to heart
Speaks kindly when we meet and part.
Music © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Scriptural Selection
Ps. 95:1–3, 7 (to .)
Ps. 116:1–4, 6, 13
Rom. 5:17, 18
Rom. 6:8–10, 12–14, 23
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 292
Maria Louise Baum, words
Dutch Folk Song, music
Put on the whole armor of pure consecration,
The breastplate of righteousness valiantly gird,
With shield of true faith, and the helmet of salvation—
The sword of the Spirit is God’s mighty Word!
For His is the greatness, the power and the glory,
The victory His, when for succor we call;
His majesty shines in creation’s wondrous story,
And He is exalted as head over all!
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
From Sense to Soul
Lyrics: Violet Hay
Composer: Peter B. Allen
From sense to Soul my pathway lies before me,
From mist and shadow into Truth’s clear day;
The dawn of all things real is breaking o’er me,
My heart is singing: I have found the way.
I reach Mind’s open door, and at its portal
I know that where I stand is holy ground;
I feel the calm and joy of things immortal,
The loveliness of Love is all around.
The way leads upward and its goal draws nearer,
Thought soars enraptured, fetterless and free;
The vision infinite to me grows clearer,
I touch the fringes of eternity.
© Music 2021 Peter B. Allen
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Psalms 13:3 (to :), 5 I have
Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: . . . I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Responsive Reading:
Ephesians 6:10–17 my
Psalms 116:8 thou, 9, 16 thou; 98:1, 2 (to :), 3 all
Eph. 6:10 . . . my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Ps. 116:8 . . . thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
16 . . . thou hast loosed my bonds.
98:1 O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
2 The Lord hath made known his salvation:
3 . . . all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
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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Elevation by L. Vierne
Hymn 166
Henry Francis Lyte, adapted, words
Heinrich Albert, music
Know, O child, thy full salvation;
Rise o’er sin and fear and care;
Joy to find, in every station,
Something still to do, or bear.
Think what spirit dwells within thee;
Think what Father’s smiles are thine;
Think what Jesus did to win thee;
Child of heaven, can’st thou repine?
Haste thee on from grace to glory,
Armed with faith and winged with prayer;
Heaven’s eternal day before thee,
God’s own hand shall guide thee there.
So fulfill thy holy mission,
Swift shall pass thy pilgrim-days,
Hope shall change to glad fruition,
Faith to sight and prayer to praise.
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, 15
Postlude
Salvation Has Come to Us, BWV 638 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Postlude by William Mathias
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