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First Church
of Christ, Scientist
Chattanooga
You’re warmly welcome to join us this Sunday at 10:30 AM ET for an inspiring service in person or online.
This is a healing service—a quiet hour of prayer, music, and reading the Lesson-Sermon from our pastor:
the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
ORDER OF SERVICE*
1. Hymn 99
He that hath God his guardian made,
Shall underneath th’ Almighty’s shade
Fearless and undisturbed abide;
Thus to myself of Him I’ll say,
He is my fortress, shield and stay,
My God; in Him I will confide.
His tender love and watchful care
Shall free thee from the fowler’s snare,
From every harm and pestilence.
He over thee His wings shall spread
To cover thy unguarded head.
His truth shall be thy strong defense.
He gives His angels charge o’er thee,
No evil therefore shalt thou see;
Thy refuge shall be God most high;
Dwelling within His secret place,
Thou shalt behold His power and grace,
See His salvation ever nigh.
(Christian Science Hymnal, Hymn 99. Words: Para. 91st Psalm, Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, adapt. Music: John E. Gould; harm. Walter E. Young. Words adapt. and Music harm. © 1932, ren. 1960 The Christian Science Board of Directors.)
2. Reading a Scriptural Selection.
3. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation.
4. Hymn 10
All power is given unto our Lord,
On Him we place reliance;
With truth from out His sacred word
We bid our foes defiance.
With Him we shall prevail,
Whatever may assail;
He is our shield and tower,
Almighty is His power;
His kingdom is forever.
Rejoice, ye people, praise His name,
His care doth e’er surround us.
His love to error’s thralldom came,
And from its chains unbound us.
Our Lord is God alone,
No other power we own;
No other voice we heed,
No other help we need;
His kingdom is forever.
O then give thanks to God on high,
Who life to all is giving;
The hosts of death before Him fly,
In Him we all are living.
Then let us know no fear,
Our King is ever near;
Our stay and fortress strong,
Our strength, our hope, our song;
His kingdom is forever.
(Christian Science Hymnal, Hymn 10. Words: Frederic W. Root, based on a hymn by Martin Luther. Music: Martin Luther.)
5. Announcing necessary notices.
6. Solo -
Abide With Me
Sung by Leon Williams
In The Garden album
Music by William H. Monk
Words by Henry Francis Lyte
Abide with me, fast falls the eventide
The darkness deepens, Lord with me abide
When other helpers fail, and comforts flee
Help of the helpless, O abide with me
Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day
Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away
Change and decay in all around I see
O Thou who changest not, abide with me
I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless
Ills have no weight and tears no bitterness
Where is death’s sting, where grave Thy victory?
I triumph still if Thou abide with me
Hold thou Thy cross before my closing eyes
Shine through the gloom and point me toward the skies
Heaven’s morning breaks and earth’s vain shadows flee
In life and death, O Lord, abide with me.
7. Reading the Explanatory Note on page 2 of Quarterly.
8. Announcing the subject of the Lesson-Sermon, and reading the Golden Text.**
9. Reading the Scriptural Selection,
entitled "Responsive Reading," alternately by the First Reader and the congregation.**
10. Reading the Lesson-Sermon.
(After the Second Reader reads the Bible references of the first Section of the Lesson, the First Reader makes the following announcement: "As announced in the explanatory note, I shall now read correlative passages from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy.")
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12. Hymn 207
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
His habitation high is here, and nigh,
His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.
O make me glad for every scalding tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain.
Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;
In that sweet secret of the narrow way,
Seeking and finding, with the angels sing:
“Lo, I am with you alway,”—watch and pray.
No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;
No night drops down upon the troubled breast,
When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain,
And mother finds her home and heav’nly rest.
(Christian Science Hymnal, Hymn 207. Words: Mary Baker Eddy. Music: Frederick C. Atkinson; arr. Albert F. Conant.)
13. Reading the Scientific Statement of Being, and the correlative Scripture according to I John 3:1-3.
14. Pronouncing Benediction.
*Click here for Communion Sunday Order of Service
(Second Sunday in January and July)
**Click here for Subject, Golden Text & Responsive Reading