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Sunday services are conducted by a First and Second Reader and include music, hymns, prayer, and readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural selections are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Don Wallingford, Guest First Reader
Lisa Sytsma, Guest Second Reader
Subject: EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Largo (from Sonata No. 2 in C minor) BWV 526/2 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude by Théodore Dubois
Hymn 40
Thomas Moore and Thomas Hastings, adapted, words
Samuel Webbe, music
Come, ye disconsolate, where’er ye languish,
Here health and peace are found, Life, Truth,
and Love;
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell
your anguish;
Earth has no sorrow but Love can remove.
Joy of the desolate, light of the straying,
Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure;
Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying,
Earth has no sorrow that Love cannot cure.
Here see the Bread of Life, see waters flowing
Forth from the throne of God, pure from above;
Come to the feast of love, come, ever knowing,
Earth has no sorrow but Love can remove.
Scriptural Selection
Isa. 40:1, 2 (to :), 5 (to :), 10, 11, 27–31
Ps. 85:1 (to :), 2 (to 1st .), 7, 8
Ps. 86:3–5, 8, 10, 13
Prayer
Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy
(Read in context)
Hymn 550
Mary Baker Eddy, words
16th c. French melody; harm. Robert Rockabrand, music
O’er waiting harpstrings of the mind
There sweeps a strain,
Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind
The power of pain,
And wake a white-winged angel throng
Of thoughts, illumed
By faith, and breathed in raptured song,
With love perfumed.
Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show
Life’s burdens light.
I kiss the cross, and wake to know
A world more bright.
And o’er earth’s troubled, angry sea
I see Christ walk,
And come to me, and tenderly,
Divinely talk.
Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock,
Upon Life’s shore,
’Gainst which the winds and waves can shock,
Oh, nevermore!
From tired joy and grief afar,
And nearer Thee,—
Father, where Thine own children are,
I love to be.
My prayer, some daily good to do
To Thine, for Thee;
An offering pure of Love, whereto
God leadeth me.
Music harmonization © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Solo
Josh Henn Soloist of The Mother Church
A New Heaven and a New Earth
Words from The Bible (Isaiah and Revelation)
Music by Alfred Robert Gaul
Thus saith the Lord, Behold,
I create new heavens and a new earth,
and the former shall not be remembered,
nor come in to mind.
But be ye glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create: for, behold, I create,
Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth,
for the first heaven and earth were passed away,
and I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying,
Behold the tabernacle of God is with men,
and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people,
and God shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes,
and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain,
for the former things have passed away.
I saw also the Lord, sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Above it stood the seraphims,
and one cried unto another and said:
Holy, holy, holy, Lord of hosts:
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Romans 8:38 I am, 39
. . . I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Responsive Reading:
Isaiah 61:1
Revelation 21:4 (to :); 22:1–3 (to 1st :), 5 (to :), 6 These, 13, 17 let
Isa. 61:1 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Rev. 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain:
22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse:
5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light:
6 . . . These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
17 . . . let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
The Bible Lesson-Sermon, the Explanatory Note, Golden Text and Responsive Reading are from the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson, a publication copyrighted by the Christian Science Publishing Society.
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Adagio K.356 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Hymn 510
Susan F. Campbell, words
Benjamin Russell Vaughan, music
In Love divine all earth-born fear and sorrow
Fade as the dark when dawn pours forth her light;
And understanding prayer is fully answered,
When trustingly we turn to God aright.
And as on wings of faith we soar and worship,
Held by God’s love above the shadows dim,
Hushed in the grandeur of a heart’s awakening,
Unfolds a joy unknown till found in Him.
Then in this radiant light of adoration,
We know that man beloved is in God’s care,
Not wrapped in fear nor bowed with tired labor,
But satisfied, complete, divinely fair.
Words © 1932, renewed 1960 The Christian Science Board of Directors. Music © 2016 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Scientific Statement of Being
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.468, line 8
Correlative Scripture
I John 3: 1-3
Benediction:
Ps. 100:5
Postlude
Prelude in C Major, BWV 547/1 by J.S. Bach
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