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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, June 30, 2024
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Mimi Oka, First Reader
Don Wallingford, Second Reader
Subject: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Prelude
Stephen Loher, Assistant Organist of The Mother Church
Aria in F by George Frideric Handel
Hymn 101
Maude de Verse Newton, words
Nicolas Herman, music
He sent His Word, His holy Word,
And grieving hearts were healed;
Uplifted they beheld in light
Man’s heritage revealed;
For this we bless Thee, Lord.
He sent His Word, His shining Word
Of Truth, forever one,
And sons of men rejoice to know
The dream of sorrow done;
For this we bless Thee, Lord.
He sent His Word, His faithful Word,
And hosts who toil in vain
Reject the falsehood ages taught
And rise to Life again;
For this we bless Thee, Lord.
Scriptural Selection
Rev. 3:6, 8 behold (to 2nd :)
I John 1:3–5; 2:1–3, 7, 8; 3:18–24
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 32
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Johann Sebastian Bach, alt., 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.
Notices
Solo
Rebecca Minor, Soloist
Holy Bible, Book Divine
Words: John Burton, adapted
Music: “Orientis Partibus” and “Galliard,” arr. by Susan I. Lindquist
Holy Bible, book divine,
Precious treasure, thou art mine:
Mine to tell me whence I came;
Mine to tell me what I am;
Mine to chide me when I rove,
Mine to show a Saviour’s love;
Mine thou art to guide and guard;
Mine to give a rich reward;
Mine to comfort in distress,
With a Saviour’s tenderness;
Mine to show, by living faith,
Man can triumph over death.
Holy Bible, book divine,
Precious treasure, thou art mine:
Mine to tell me whence I came;
Mine to tell me what I am;
Holy Bible, book divine.
©2005 SL Vivace
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Habakkuk 2:2 Write
. . . Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
The Golden Text is from the New King James Version®.
Responsive Reading:
Isaiah 29:11–14 (to :), 17–19
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder:
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
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.
Offertory and collection
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Voluntary on I Love to Tell the Story (Hymn 414)
Hymn 414
Katherine Hankey, words
William G. Fischer, music
I love to tell the story
Of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and his glory,
Of Jesus and his love,
I love to tell the story
Because I know ’tis true,
It satisfies my longing
As nothing else can do.
REFRAIN
I love to tell the story,
It is my theme in glory
To tell the old, old story
Of Jesus and his love.
I love to tell the story,
’Tis pleasant to repeat
What seems, each time I tell it,
More wonderfully sweet.
I love to tell the story,
For some have never heard
The message of salvation
From God’s own holy word.
REFRAIN
I love to tell the story,
For those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting
To hear it like the rest,
I love to tell the story,
To sing the new, new song
That is the old, old story
That I have loved so long.
REFRAIN
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. 3:18 we
Postlude
Voluntary on Gottlob (Hymn 32)
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