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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, May 19, 2024
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Mimi Oka, First Reader
Don Wallingford, Second Reader
Subject: MORTALS AND IMMORTALS
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Nimrod (from "Enigma" Variations for orchestra, Op. 36) by Edward Elgar
Elegy by G.T. Thalben-Ball
Hymn 35
Charles Wesley, words
Arranged from “Treuer Heiland” Conrad Kocher, music
Christ, whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the perfect Light,
Sun of righteousness, arise,
Triumph o’er the shades of night;
Dayspring from on high, be near,
Daystar, in my heart appear.
Dark and cheerless is the morn
Uncompanioned, Lord, by thee;
Joyless is the day’s return,
Till thy mercy’s beams I see;
Till they inward light impart,
Glad my eyes, and warm my heart.
Visit then this soul of mine,
Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
Fill me, radiancy divine,
Scatter all my unbelief;
More and more thyself display,
Shining to the perfect day.
Scriptural Selection
Acts 26:1 Agrippa, 6–10 I, 12–19
II Cor. 5:17 if
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 172
Celia Thaxter, adapted, words
Robert P. Stewart, music
Lift up thy light, O man, arise and shine,
Steadfast while loud the storms of life assail;
Immortal ray of that great Light divine,
’Gainst whose all-power no tempest shall prevail.
Hold high thy lamp above earth’s restless tides,
Beacon of hope to those who watch afar.
Falsehood and fear shall pass, but Truth abides;
Thine be the splendor of her deathless star.
Should the world’s sin and sorrow round thee rave,
Pierce thou the dark with Truth’s undaunted ray,
Send out its light of joy to help and save,
That more and more shines to the perfect day.
Notices
Solo
Josh Henn, Soloist of The Mother Church
Father of Lights
Words and Music by Tessa E.B. Frost and Jay A.H. Frost
Father of lights, light up the world!
You made us sons and daughters.
Oh, this must be Love holding us close,
Drawing our lives to open them wider.
Your Truth has kept us, taught and blessed us;
Life not of dust;
Soul shines through us;
One perfect God!
Let us sing!
Lift them up, let praises ring.
Yes, this, this is our King!
Lift them up, let praises ring!
Mother of all: all beautiful good.
You give us the Key to the Kingdom.
Unwavering Love, guiding us home,
Marking the way with every healing.
Oh, Mind has fed us, healed and led us;
Principle kind;
Spirit’s design;
One perfect God!
Let us sing!
Lift them up, let praises ring.
Yes, this, this is our King!
Lift them up, let praises ring!
Yes! This is our King!
Lift them up, let your praises ring!
Oh this, this is our King!
Lift them up, let your praises ring!
© 2012 Frost Music Productions. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright 2012 Tessa E.B. Frost
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Isaiah 2:5 come
. . . come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord
Responsive Reading:
Ephesians 4:7 unto, 13, 17, 18, 20–24; 5:1, 8
4:7 . . . unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
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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Liturgical Improvisation II by George Oldroyd
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:
I Pet. 2:9 ye
Postlude
Praeambulum in E Major by Vincent Lübeck
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