First Church
of Christ, Scientist,
Chattanooga​

ORDER OF SERVICE

  1. Hymn 109

Here, O God, Thy healing presence
Lifts our thoughts from self and sin,
Fills with light their hidden places,
When Thy love is welcomed in.
Here Thy tender sweet persuasions
Turn us home to heavenly ways,
While our hearts, unsealed, adoring,
Pour the fragrance of Thy praise.

Reverent lives unveil Thy beauty,
Faithful witness bear of Thee;
Binding up the broken-hearted,
We reflect Thy radiancy.
So may deeper consecration
Show Thee forth in healing’s sign,
Till through joyful self-surrender
We in Love’s pure likeness shine.
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(Christian Science Hymnal, Hymn 109. Words: Maria Louise Baum. Music: Attrib. to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; arr. H. P. Main. Words © 1932, ren. 1960 The Christian Science Board of Directors.)

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  2. Reading from the Bible, and correlative passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

  3. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer.

  4. Hymn 260

One thought I have, my ample creed,
So deep it is and broad,
And equal to my every need,—
It is the thought of God.

Each morn unfolds His blessings new,
I take in trust my road;
And rising freshly to my view,
Shines forth the thought of God.

To this their secret strength they owed,
The martyr’s path who trod;
The fountains of their patience flowed
From out their thought of God.

Be still the light upon my way,
My pilgrim staff and rod,
My rest by night, my strength by day,
O blessed thought of God.
 

(Christian Science Hymnal, Hymn 260. Words: Frederick L. Hosmer, adapt. Music: James S. Anderson. Words adapt. © 1932, ren. 1960 The Christian Science Board of Directors.)

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  5. Announcing necessary notices.

  6. Experiences, testimonies, and remarks on Christian Science.

  7. Hymn 218

O Life that maketh all things new,
The blooming earth, the thoughts of men;
Our pilgrim feet, wet with Thy dew,
In gladness hither turn again.

From hand to hand the greeting flows,
From eye to eye the signals run,
From heart to heart the bright hope glows,
The seekers of the Light are one:

One in the freedom of the truth,
One in the joy of paths untrod,
One in the heart’s perennial youth,
One in the larger thought of God;—

The freer step, the fuller breath,
The wide horizon’s grander view;
The sense of Life that knows no death,—
The Life that maketh all things new.
 

(Christian Science Hymnal, Hymn 218. Words: Samuel Longfellow. Music: Heinrich C. Zeuner.)

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