Service for Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012

Subject: Mind

 Hymn 46

 Josiah Conder* 

 Day by day the manna fell:

 O, to learn this lesson well.

 Still by constant mercy fed,

 Give me, Lord, my daily bread.

 Day by day the promise reads,

 Daily strength for daily needs:

 Cast foreboding fears away;

 Take the manna of today.

 Lord, my times are in Thy hand:

 All my sanguine hopes have planned,

 To Thy wisdom I resign,

 And would mold my will to Thine.

 Thou my daily task shalt give;

 Day by day to Thee I live;

 So shall added years fulfill

 Not my own, my Father's will.

The scriptural selections are from Psalms.

Psalms 51:6,7,10‑12

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.  Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.  Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Psalms 111:1‑10

Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.  The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.  His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.  He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.  He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.  He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.  The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.  They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.  He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s prayer, with its spiritual interpretation as given in the Christian Science textbook.

Our Father which art in heaven,

Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,

Hallowed be Thy name.

Adorable One.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Enable us to know – as in heaven, so on earth

God is omnipotent, supreme.

Give us this day our daily bread;

Give us grace for today; feed the famished affections;

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And Love is reflected in love;

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;

And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.

For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.

 Hymn 65 

 Frances R. Havergal – Adapted

 From glory unto glory,

   Be this our joyous song;

 From glory unto glory,

   'Tis Love that leads us on;

 As wider yet and wider,

   The rising splendors glow,

 What wisdom is revealed to us,

   What freedom we may know.

 The fullness of His blessing

   Encompasseth our way;

 The fullness of His promise

   Crowns every dawning day;

 The fullness of His glory

   Is shining from above,

 While more and more we learn to know

   The fullness of His love.

 From glory unto glory,

   What great things He hath done,

 What wonders He hath shown us,

   What triumphs Love hath won.

 From glory unto glory,

   From strength to strength we go,

 While grace for grace abundantly

   Doth from His fullness flow.

Solo:  "Christ My Refuge" with words by Mary Baker Eddy                   

The lesson-sermon from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, read by the First and Second Readers.

The content of the Lesson Sermon may be found in the Christian Science Quarterly. You may also read the Lesson-Sermon for this week online by clicking here.

 Hymn 148 

 Anna L. Waring*

 In heavenly Love abiding,

   No change my heart shall fear;

 And safe is such confiding,

   For nothing changes here.

 The storm may roar without me,

   My heart may low be laid;

 But God is round about me,

   And can I be dismayed?

 Wherever He may guide me,

   No want shall turn me back;

 My Shepherd is beside me,

   And nothing can I lack.

 His wisdom ever waketh,

   His sight is never dim;

 He knows the way He taketh,

   And I will walk with Him.

 Green pastures are before me,

   Which yet I have not seen;

 Bright skies will soon be o'er me,

   Where darkest clouds have been.

 My hope I cannot measure,

   My path in life is free;

 My Father has my treasure,

   And He will walk with me.

"The Scientific Statement of Being" (S&H p. 468} and the correlative scripture according to I John 3:1-3.

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.468

1John.3

[1] Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

[2] Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

[3] And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Benediction

Psalms 18:2

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.