Service for Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009

Subject: Soul

Hymn 180

Based on the Danish of – Jens N. L. Schjorring

Love the Lord thy God:

Love is staff and rod

For heart and soul and mind.

In this command forever strong,

To silence thoughts of wrong

All laws fulfillment find.

Here we rest content:

Good from God is sent

Where seeds of Love are sown.

Who as himself his neighbor loves,

By constant purpose proves

His neighbor's good his own.

They whose every thought

Still from Love is sought

In Soul, not flesh, abide.

Love's presence gives a joy untold:

Now may we all behold

The Spirit and the bride.

The scriptural selection is from Philippians.

Philippians 2:1‑15

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of

things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Silent Prayer, followed by 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 221

Margaret Glenn Matters

O Jesus, our dear Master,

Thy works, now understood,

Reveal their full effulgence

Through love and brotherhood.

Today Christ's precious Science

Thy healing power makes plain:

With joy may all obey thee

And cast out sin and pain.

The Christ, eternal manhood,

As God's own Son beloved,

A tender ever‑presence

Within each heart is proved.

O God, our Father‑Mother,

Thy name we see expressed

By man, who in Thy Science

Is perfect, holy, blessed.

O Science, God‑sent message

To tired humanity,

Thou art Love's revelation

Of Truth that makes us free.

Thy kingdom, God, within us

Shows forth Love's sweet control.

God's idea, man, rejoices;

He knows the reign of Soul.

Solo - "Be of Good Courage.

The Lesson-Sermon as outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly and read by the First and Second Readers.

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

Hymn 374

John Randall Dunn

We thank Thee and we bless Thee,

O Father of us all,

That e'en before we ask Thee

Thou hear'st Thy children's call.

We praise Thee for Thy goodness

And tender, constant care,

We thank Thee, Father‑Mother,

That Thou hast heard our prayer.

We thank Thee and we bless Thee,

O Lord of all above,

That now Thy children know Thee

As everlasting Love.

And Love is not the author

Of discord, pain and fear;

O Love divine, we thank Thee

That good alone is here.

We thank Thee, Father‑Mother,

For blessings, light and grace

Which bid mankind to waken

And see Thee face to face.

We thank Thee, when in anguish

We turn from sense to Soul,

That we may hear Thee calling:

Rejoice, for thou art whole.

"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 145:18,19

The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil

the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.