Service for Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012

Subject: Soul

 Hymn 236 

 Irving C. Tomlinson

 O peace of the world, O hope in each breast,

 O Bethlehem star that ages have blest,

 A day of fresh promise breaks over the land,

 Gaunt warfare is doomed, and God's kingdom at hand!

 From cannon and sword shape tillers of soil,

 No more let dire hate man's spirit despoil,

 Let Truth be proclaimed, let God's love be retold,

 That men of good will may their brethren uphold.

 As stars in their courses never contend,

 As blossoms their hues in harmony blend,

 As bird voices mingle in joyful refrain,

 So God's loving children in concord remain.

 Our God is one Mind, the Mind we adore;

 Ineffable joy His love doth outpour;

 Let nations be one in a union of love,

 God's bountiful peace, all earth's treasures above.

The scriptural selection is from Psalms.

Psalms 84:1‑4 (to 1st .),5‑8 (to 1st .),9‑12

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!  My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.  Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.  Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.  Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.  They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.  O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.  For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.  O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

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.

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 Hymn 371 

 Margaret Morrison

 We lift our hearts in praise,

   O God of Life, to Thee,

 And would reflect in all our ways

   Thy purity.

 Thy thoughts our lives enfold,

   And free us from all fear;

 All strife is stilled, all grief consoled,

   For Thou art here.

 We lift our hearts in praise,

   O God of Truth, to Thee,

 And find within Thy perfect law

   Our liberty.

 We bless Thy mighty name

   In this exalted hour,

 And to the world in faith proclaim

   Thy healing power.

 We lift our hearts in praise,

   O God of Love, to Thee,

 With joy to find through darkened days

   Thy harmony.

 O Father‑Mother Love,

   We triumph 'neath Thy rod,

 We glory in Thy light, and prove

   That Thou art God.

Solo: “Brother James Air”                   

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 263 

 From the Swedish of  J. O. Wallin

 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.

"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

Romans 1:7 Grace

 Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.