Service for Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012

Subject: Mind

 Hymn 423

 James J. Rome

 Give me, O Lord, an understanding heart,

   That I may learn to know myself in Thee,

 To spurn the wrong and choose the better part

   And thus from sinful bondage be set free.

 Give me, O Lord, a meek and contrite heart,

   That I may learn to quell all selfish pride,

 Bowing before Thee, see Thee as Thou art

   And 'neath Thy sheltering presence safely hide.

 Give me, O Lord, a gentle, loving heart,

   That I may learn to be more tender, kind,

 And with Thy healing touch, each wound and smart

   With Christly bands of Love and Truth to bind.

The scriptural selection is from Proverbs.

Proverbs 4:1‑13,18,20‑22

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.  For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.  For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.  He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.  Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.  Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.  Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.  Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.  She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.  Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.  I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.  When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.  Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life. 

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 

#My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.  Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.  For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

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 157 

 Violet Hay

 Jesus' prayer for all his brethren:

   Father, that they may be one,

 Echoes down through all the ages,

   Nor prayed he for these alone

   But for all, that through all time

         God's will be done.

 One the Mind and Life of all things,

   For we live in God alone;

 One the Love whose ever‑presence

   Blesses all and injures none.

   Safe within this Love we find all

         being one.

 Day by day the understanding

   Of our oneness shall increase,

 Till among all men and nations

   Warfare shall forever cease,

   So God's children all shall dwell

         in joy and peace.

Solo: "Satisfied" 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 332 

 Based on the Danish of Nikolaj F. S. Grundtvig

 The Lord is in His holy place,

 Let all the earth be still,

 Be still and know that He is God,

 And wait to do His will.

 We need a sacred watchfulness,

 An earnest deep desire for grace,

 Our lives with true content to fill.

 So hear and heed His faithful Word,

 And trust His promise long,

 For they who seek Him Life shall find,

 And shall in Him be strong;

 We need a perfect faith in Him,

 With understanding never dim,

 To fill our daily lives with song.

"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

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.