Listen live on Sundays at 10 am Eastern time or hear a replay until midnight Saturday night (ET). The service lasts one hour and an organ prelude and postlude extend 7–10 minutes before and after the service. An audio replay is available within 30–60 minutes after the service ends.
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, May 12, 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: ADAM AND FALLEN MAN
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 537/1 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Adagio (from Organ Symphony No. 5) by Charles-Marie Widor
Hymn 491
Stephen G. Bulfinch, adapt., alt., words
Henry Kemble Oliver, music
Has not your heart within you burned
At evening’s calm and holy hour,
As if its inmost depths discerned
The presence of a loftier power?
It was the voice of God that spake
In silence to your silent heart,
And bade each higher thought awake,
And every dream of earth depart.
O voice of God, forever near,
In low, sweet accents whispering peace,
Make us Your harmonies to hear
Whose heavenly echoes never cease.
Words adaptation © 1932, renewed 1960 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Scriptural Selection
I Thess. 5:1–24
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 317
Harriet Beecher Stowe, adapted, words
John B. Dykes, music
Still, still with Thee when purple morning breaketh,
When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee,
Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,
Dawns the sweet consciousness, I am with Thee.
Alone with Thee, amid the changing shadows,
Solemn the hush of nature, newly born;
Alone with Thee, in breathless adoration,
In the calm dew and freshness of the morn.
So shall it ever be in the bright morning,
When hearts awaking see the shadows flee,
O, in that hour, and fairer than the dawning,
Rises the glorious thought, I am with Thee.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
The Image of God
Words by Susan Bentall Boersma
Music by Craig Courtney
In the beginning God shaped and formed me.
I am skillfully and wonderfully made.
I am the image of my Creator.
In every part of me His likeness is displayed.
Life flows from life and love from loving;
gifts of the Father by nature and by grace.
A heart made glad, a soul unshaken;
unbounded joy, in every breath a song of praise,
For His own purpose, God shaped and formed me.
I have a place within His plan.
I am the image of my Creator.
My past and future are secure within His hand.
Life flows from life and love from loving;
gifts of the Father by nature and by grace.
A heart made glad, a soul unshaken;
unbounded joy, in every breath a song of praise.
Life flows from life and love from loving;
gifts of the Father by nature and by grace.
A heart made glad, a soul unshaken;
unbounded joy, in every breath a song of praise.
© 2015 Beckenhorst Press, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Psalms 17:6 (to :), 15
I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: . . . As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Responsive Reading:
Proverbs 6:4, 9, 20–23
Psalms 139:1, 14, 17, 18, 23, 24; 4:6 Lord
Prov. 6:4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Ps. 139:1 O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
4:6 . . . Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
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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Improvisation-Pastorale by Joseph Jongen
Hymn 437
Joachim Neander; tr. Robert Bridges; adapt. Fenella Bennetts, alt., words
Herbert Howells, music
All my hope on God is founded;
Day by day my trust is new.
Through the trials of life He guides me,
Only good and only true.
God alone, dearly known,
Calls my heart to be His own.
Earthly treasures, pride and glory,
Human power and worldly trust,
Though with care and toil are builded,
In the end will fall to dust.
But God’s power, hour by hour,
Is my temple and my tower.
Daily does th’almighty Giver
Bounteous gifts on us bestow.
Love’s desire our soul delighteth,
Joy attends us where we go.
Blessings stand at God’s hand,
Healing flows at Love’s command.
Now from man to God eternal
Endless thanks and praise be sung.
Hearts made new are anthems raising
Through the love of Christ, His Son.
Hear God’s call, one and all,
We who follow shall not fall.
Words adaptation © 2008 Fenella Bennetts. Music © 1938 Novello & Company, Limited. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
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
Isaiah 60:1
Postlude
Fugue in C minor, BWV 537/2 by J.S. Bach
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