Service for Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011

Subject: Adam and Fallen Man

 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 scriptural selection is from Psalms.

Psalms 18:2,16‑26,28‑30,46,49

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.  He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.  They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.  He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.  The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.  For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.  For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.  I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.  Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.  With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. 

For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.  For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.  As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. 

The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. 

Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.

Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s prayer, with its spiritual interpretation as given in the Christian Science textbook.

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 416

 Kate L. Colby – Adapted

 Be true and list the voice within,

   Be true unto thy high ideal,

 Thy perfect self, that knows no sin,

   That self that is the only real.

 God is the only perfect One:

   My perfect self is one with Him;

 So man is seen as God's own son,

   When Truth dispels the shadows dim.

 True to our God whose name is Love,

   We shall fulfill our Father's plan;

 For true means true to God above,

   To self, and to our fellow man.

 A Rule for Motives and Acts

This is from Article VIII, Section 1, of the Manual of the Mother Church, and is read as part of the service of the first Sunday in each month.

“Neither animosity nor mere personal attachment should impel the motives or acts of the members of The Mother Church. In Science, divine Love alone governs man; and a Christian Scientist reflects the sweet amenities of Love, in rebuking sin, in true brotherliness, charitableness, and forgiveness. The members of this Church should daily watch and pray to be delivered from all evil, from prophesying, judging, condemning, counseling, influencing or being influenced erroneously.” 

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 291 

 John Newton*

 Quiet, Lord, my froward heart,

   Make me gentle, pure, and mild,

 Upright, simple, free from art;

   Make me as a little child,

 From distrust and envy free,

 Pleased with all that pleaseth Thee.

 What Thou shalt today provide

   Let me as a child receive,

 What tomorrow may betide

   Calmly to Thy wisdom leave;

 'Tis enough that Thou wilt care,

 Why should I the burden bear?

 As a little child relies

   On a care beyond its own,

 Being neither strong nor wise,

   Will not take a step alone,

 Let me thus with Thee abide,

 As my Father, Friend, and Guide.

"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

Ps    32:11

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.