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 19, 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: DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
"...the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." (from St. John's Suite) by Dan Locklair
Welsh Hymn Tune Prelude: "Rhosymedre" by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Hymn 524
Mindy Jostyn, alt., words
Mindy Jostyn; arr. CSPS, music
REFRAIN
Like a river that runs to the ocean,
Like a ray reaching out from the sun,
Like a branch and the tree, a drop and the sea,
I and my Father are one.
And may each of us claim it as truly
As Jesus, who came as God’s Son,
And may each of us know in the depths of our soul,
I and my Father are one.
One in beauty, one in truth,
One in the asking, one in the proof,
One in time and one in space,
One in the goodness that flows from God’s grace.
REFRAIN
Though our fears may estrange and divide us,
May we seek to dissolve them through love.
We are sister and brother, each bound to the other,
One with our Father above.
One in purpose, one in power,
One in the Spirit, blessing each hour,
One in kindness, one in peace,
One in the Mind that makes all trouble cease.
REFRAIN
Words and Music © 2005 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Words alteration and Music arrangement © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Scriptural Selection
John 14:1–3, 10–21, 23 If, 25–27
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 298
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Lyman Brackett, 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.
Notices
Solo
Evan Bryant, Soloist of The Mother Church
God and Man
These words spake Jesus,
Holy Father, keep in Thine own name
Those whom Thou hast given me,
That they may be one,
That they may be one,
Even as we are one,
Even as we are one.
Holy Father, we Thy children
Seek today to know Thy will.
Earthly hopes are all forgotten,
Hearts are humble, pride is still.
Now in prayer, our thoughts ascending,
Heav’nward rise, in radiance blending.
In Thy light at last we see
We are one, are one in Thee.
Let us keep our Lord’s commandments,
Let us tread the path He trod,
Till we find the true atonement,
Till our lives are one in God.
Now in prayer, our thoughts ascending,
Heav’nward rise, in radiance blending.
In Thy light at last we see
We are one, are one in Thee.
Words from the Bible
Music by J.S. Bach Arr: by Katherine K. Davis
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Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
I John 4:14 we
. . . we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Responsive Reading:
John 9:39 Jesus (to ;)
John 10:7 Verily, 9, 11, 14, 16–18, 27–30
9:39 . . . Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see;
10:7 . . . Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
30 I and my Father are one.
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
Elevation by Louis Vierne
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Hymn 263
from the swedish of J. O. Wallin, words
Gustaf Düben, music
Only God can bring us gladness,
Only God can give us peace;
Joys are vain that end in sadness,
Joy divine shall never cease.
Mid the shade of want and sorrow
Undisturbed, our hearts rejoice;
Patient, wait the brighter morrow;
Faithful, heed the Father’s voice.
As the stars in order going,
All-harmonious, He doth move;
Heavenly calm and comfort showing,
Comes the healing word of Love.
Who the word of wisdom heareth
Feels the Father Love within,
Where as dawn the shadow cleareth,
Love outshines the night of sin.
So we find the true atonement,
Know in God the perfect Friend;
For in Love is our at-one-ment,
Where all hearts in Him may blend.
Here from prisoning pain and sorrow
Have we all a sure release,
Only God can bring us gladness,
Only God can give us peace.
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
Ps. 103:2, 4
Postlude
Praeludium in D, BuxWV 139 by Dietrich Buxtehude
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