ORDER OF SERVICES

THANKSGIVING DAY

  1. Hymn.

  2. Reading the Thanksgiving Proclamation of the President of the United States, or the Governor of the state, or both.

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  3.  Reading a Scriptural Selection.

  4. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation.

  5. Hymn.

 

  6. Reading the Explanation Note on the first leaf of the Quarterly.

 

   7. Announcing the subject of the Lesson-Sermon, and reading the Golden Text.

 

  8. Responsive Reading by the First Reader and the congregation.

 

  9. Reading the Lesson-Sermon prepared by the Bible Lesson Committee.

 

 10. Solo.

 

 11. Testimonies by Christian Scientists, appropriate for the occasion.

 

 12. Hymn.

 

 13. Reading the Scientific Statement of Being, and the correlative Scripture according to I John 3:1-3.

 

 14. Pronouncing Benediction.

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Hymn 585

This is the day the Lord has made;
Be glad, give thanks, rejoice;
Stand in God’s presence, unafraid,
In praise lift up your voice.
All perfect gifts are from above,
And all our blessings show
The amplitude of God’s dear love
Which every heart may know.

The Lord will hear before we call,
And every need supply;
Good things are freely given to all
Who on God’s word rely.
We come today to bring Love praise
Not for such gifts alone,
But for the higher, deeper ways
In which God’s love is shown.

For sin destroyed, for sorrow healed,
For health and peace restored;
For Life and Love by Truth revealed,
We thank and bless the Lord.
This is the day the Lord has made,
In praise lift up your voice.
In shining robes of joy arrayed,
Be glad, give thanks, rejoice.
 

Hymn 150

In mercy, in goodness, how great is our King;
Our tribute, thanksgiving, with glad hearts we bring.
Thou art the Renewer, the Ancient of Days,
Who givest, for mourning, the garment of praise.

We thank Thee for work in the wide harvest field,
For gladness that ripens when sorrow is healed;
Made strong with Thy goodness that meets every need,
We gather the fruit of the Sower’s good seed.

Dear Father and Saviour, we thank Thee for life,
And courage that rises undaunted by strife,
For confident giving and giving’s reward,
For beauty and love in the life of our Lord.​​

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Hymn 520

Let all things now living
A song of thanksgiving
To God our creator triumphantly raise;
Who fashioned and made us,
Protected and stayed us,
By guiding us forward throughout all our days.
God’s angels are o’er us,
Pure light goes before us,
A pillar of fire shining forth in the night:
Till shadows have vanished,
All fearfulness banished,
As forward we travel from light into Light.

By law God enforces,
The stars in their courses
And sun in its orbit obediently shine;
The hills and the mountains,
The rivers and fountains,
The depths of the ocean proclaim God divine.
We, too, should be voicing
Our love and rejoicing
With glad adoration, a song let us raise:
Let all things now living
Unite in thanksgiving,
To God in the highest, hosanna and praise.

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