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 7, 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: GOD THE ONLY CAUSE AND CREATOR
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Psalm Prelude Set 1, Op. 32: No. 3 (Psalm 23:4) by Herbert Howells
Hymn 499
Désirée Goyette, alt., words
Désirée Goyette, music
I am the Lord, there is none else;
There is no God beside Me.
I girded thee, I girded thee,
Though thou hast not even known Me.
But know that from the rising sun
To the west there is none beside Me,
For I am the Lord, there is none else;
There is no God beside Me.
I am the Truth, there is none else;
There is no Truth beside Me.
Infinite light, bountiful, bright,
Is ever present to guide thee.
Beloved and free, eternally,
Perfect peace and joy I provide thee,
For I am the Lord, there is none else;
There is no God beside Me.
Innocent one, sinless and pure,
Nothing can ever divide thee.
Governed by Love, you are secure;
I am forever beside thee.
So rest and know where’er you go,
Home and heaven cannot be denied thee,
For I am the Lord, there is none else;
There is no God beside Me.
Words and Music © 2008 Lightchild Publishing.
Scriptural Selection
Ps 23:1-6
Eph 3:14-19
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 539
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Lisa Redfern; arr. CSPS, music
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
His habitation high is here, and nigh,
His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.
O make me glad for every scalding tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain.
Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;
In that sweet secret of the narrow way,
Seeking and finding, with the angels sing:
“Lo, I am with you alway,”—watch and pray.
No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;
No night drops down upon the troubled breast,
When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain,
And mother finds her home and heav’nly rest.
Music © 2010 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music arrangement © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Solo
Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church
How Great Thou Art
O, Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder,
consider all the works Thy hands have made.
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder.
Thy pow’r thru’ out the universe displayed.
(Chorus) 2x
Then sings my soul,
in praise, my God, to Thee.
How great Thou art.
How great Thou art.
I lift my voice in grateful acclamation.
that Thou maintain the universe and man,
that each idea throughout Thy vast creation
reflects the light of Thy unfolding plan.
(Chorus)
I touch the Christ. Suddenly I see clearly
that all is held in perfect harmony.
Thy changeless Truth I’ve learned to trust so dearly
reveals Thy Love and pure reality.
(Chorus)
Words by Stuart K. Hine & Carolyn Kardinal
Music arranged by Carolyn Kardinal
© 2005 Carolyn Kardinal
Courtesy of Watchfire Music, all rights reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
I Chronicles 29:11
Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Responsive Reading:
Isaiah 45:5 (to 1st :), 12, 18
Luke 4:14 Jesus; 11:1–4, 28 blessed
Isa. 45:5 I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me:
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
Luke 4:14 . . . Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
11:1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
28 . . . blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
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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God's Time Is the Best (Sinfonia to Cantata No.106) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Hymn 275
William P. McKenzie, words
Silesian Melody, music
Praise now creative Mind,
Maker of earth and heaven;
Glory and power to Him belong,
Joy of the sun and skies,
Strength where the hills arise,
So let us praise with joy and song.
Ages have seen His might,
Father we call His name;
Nights of our mourning and sorrow end,
Light blesses opened eyes,
Joys like the dawns arise
As we see Him our God and Friend.
Saviour from death is He;
Life is our heritage;
Mercy and goodness forever guide;
Ours is the risen Christ,
Daily we keep our tryst,
And evermore in Love confide.
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
Eph 3:20, 21
Postlude
Carillon-Sortie by Henri Mulet
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