Subject: Christian Science
Hymn 179
Margaret Morrison
Love one another,‑‑word of revelation;
Love frees from error's thrall,‑‑Love is
liberation.
Love's way the Master trod;
He that loves shall walk with God.
Love is the royal way.
Love knows no evil, neither shade of sadness;
Love casts out every fear, lifts the heart to
gladness.
Love heals our every ill,
All the law does love fulfill.
Love is our answered prayer.
Love now is dawning over every nation;
Showing true brotherhood, publishing
salvation,
Love bids all discord cease.
Conquering hate, enthroning peace,
Love, Love alone is power.
The scriptural selection is from Psalms.
Psalms 119:1‑8,27‑48,65‑72
Blessed are the undefiled in
the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the
whole heart. They also do no iniquity:
they walk in his ways. Thou hast
commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have
respect unto all thy commandments. I
will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy
righteous judgments. I will keep thy statutes:
O forsake me not utterly.
Make me to understand the way
of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen
thou me according unto thy word. Remove
from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments
have I laid before me. I have stuck unto
thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame.
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my
heart.
Teach me, O Lord, the way of
thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it
with my whole heart. Make me to go in
the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and
not to covetousness. Turn away mine eyes
from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way. Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is
devoted to thy fear. Turn away my
reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. Behold, I have longed after thy precepts:
quicken me in thy righteousness.
Let thy mercies come also
unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation, according to thy word. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that
reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped
in thy judgments. So shall I keep thy
law continually for ever and ever. And I
will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be
ashamed. And I will delight myself in
thy commandments, which I have loved. My
hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will
meditate in thy statutes.
Thou hast dealt well with thy
servant, O Lord, according unto thy word.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy
commandments. Before I was afflicted I
went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes. The proud have forged a lie against me: but I
will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. It is good for me that I have been afflicted;
that I might learn thy statutes. The law
of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s prayer, with its spiritual interpretation as given in the Christian Science textbook,
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy.
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 29
Florence L. Heywood
Breaking through the clouds of darkness,
Black with error, doubt, and fear;
Lighting up each somber shadow,
With a radiance soft and clear;
Filling every heart with gladness,
That its holy power feels,
Comes the Christian Science gospel,
Sin it kills and grief it heals.
Christlike in its benedictions,
Godlike in its strength sublime;
Conquering every subtle error,
With a meekness all divine,
It has gone across the ocean,
It is known in every land,
And our sisters and our brothers
Are united in one band.
Solo: “Great Peace Have They Which Love Thy Law”
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.
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 12
Violet Hay
Arise ye people, take your stand,
Cast out your idols from the land,
Above all doctrine, form or creed
Is found the Truth that meets your need.
Christ's promise stands: they that believe
His works shall do, his power receive.
Go forward then, and as ye preach
So let your works confirm your speech,
And prove to all with following sign
The Word of God is power divine.
In love and healing ministry
Show forth the Truth that makes men free.
O Father‑Mother God, whose plan
Hath given dominion unto man,
In Thine own image we may see
Man pure and upright, whole and free.
And ever through our work shall shine
That light whose glory, Lord, is Thine.
"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
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
John 1:1
In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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