Service for Sunday, July 22, 2012


Subject: Truth

 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.

The scriptural selections are from Psalms.

Psalms 25:4‑10,12‑14,20,21
Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.  Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.  Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.  Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.  Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.  The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.  All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 

What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.  His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.  The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. 

O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.  Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. 

Psalms 40:8‑11
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.  I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.  I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.  Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

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 218
 Samuel Longfellow 

 O Life that maketh all things new,
   The blooming earth, the thoughts of men;
 Our pilgrim feet, wet with Thy dew,
   In gladness hither turn again.

 From hand to hand the greeting flows,
   From eye to eye the signals run,
 From heart to heart the bright hope glows,
   The seekers of the Light are one:

 One in the freedom of the truth,
   One in the joy of paths untrod,
 One in the heart's perennial youth,
   One in the larger thought of God;‑‑

 The freer step, the fuller breath,
   The wide horizon's grander view;
 The sense of Life that knows no death,‑‑
   The Life that maketh all things new.

Solo: “How Beautiful Upon the Mountain”                

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.
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 Hymn 276
 Charles Wesley – Adapted

 Peace be to this congregation;
   Peace to every heart therein;
 Peace, the earnest of salvation;
   Peace, the fruit of conquered sin;
 Peace, that speaks the heavenly Giver;
   Peace, to worldly minds unknown;
 Peace, that floweth as a river
   From th' eternal source alone.

 O Thou God of peace, be near us,
   Fix within our hearts Thy home;
 With Thy bright appearing cheer us,
   In Thy blessed freedom come.
 Come with all Thy revelations,
   Truth which we so long have sought;
 Come with Thy deep consolations,
   Peace of God which passeth thought.

"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 86:11
Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

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