Order of Service

Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Artificial Intelligence

The second half of this meeting is for your testimonies, experiences, or remarks on Christian Science.
You can submit a written testimony here at any time, and it will be read during the meeting.

Prelude

Hymn 269

Our God is Love, unchanging Love,
And can we ask for more?
Our prayer for Love’s increase is vain;
’Twas infinite before.
Ask not the Lord with breath of praise
For more than we accept;
The open fount is free to all,
God’s promises are kept.

Our God is Mind, the perfect Mind,
Intelligence divine;
Shall mortal man ask Him to change
His infinite design?
The heart that yearns for righteousness,
With longing unalloyed,
In such desire sends up a prayer
That ne’er returneth void.

O loving Father, well we know
That words alone are vain,
That those who seek Thy will to do,
The true communion gain.
Then may our deeds our pure desire
For growth in grace express,
That we may know how Love divine
Forever waits to bless.

Christian Science Hymnal, No. 269. Words: Frederic W. Root. Music: Franz Joseph Haydn (HAYDN).

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

Silent Prayer

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

Hymn 553

Our desire to heed God’s calling
Lifts us to a new design,
Outlined by pure inspiration,
Rendered in Love’s graceful line.

When our own plans seem to crumble
Incomplete or ill-defined,
Let us turn to God’s creation,
Always perfectly aligned.

With the model right before us,
Perfect God and perfect man,
Let God’s wholeness reign within us,
Let Mind’s will perfect our plan.

Far beyond the bounds of matter,
Unrestrained by fear or time,
All our plans unfold together
In Soul’s harmony and rhyme.

Christian Science Hymnal, No. 553, Words: Mara Purl, Alt. Music: American melody, 1799 (CHARLESTOWN).

Notices

Experiences, Testimonies, and Remarks on Christian Science
To share your testimony, please do one of the following:

  • Pause the live stream and call in to the meeting:
    Dial: (510) 338-9438 Enter Meeting Code 628 284 684#
    Once your call is connected, press *6 to unmute yourself, then begin speaking
    When you’re finished, be sure to press *6 again to put yourself back on mute or hang up and continue listening from here

  • Or - submit a testimony here. We will receive it shortly and the First Reader will read it aloud.

Hymn 51

Eternal Mind the Potter is,
And thought th’ eternal clay:
The hand that fashions is divine,
His works pass not away.
Man is the noblest work of God,
His beauty, power and grace,
Immortal; perfect as his Mind
Reflected face to face.

God could not make imperfect man
His model infinite;
Unhallowed thought He could not plan,
Love’s work and Love must fit.
Life, Truth and Love the pattern make,
Christ is the perfect heir;
The clouds of sense roll back, and show
The form divinely fair.

God’s will is done; His kingdom come;
The Potter’s work is plain.
The longing to be good and true
Has brought the light again.
And man does stand as God’s own child,
The image of His love.
Let gladness ring from every tongue,
And heaven and earth approve.

Christian Science Hymnal, No. 51. Words: Mary Alice Dayton. Music: Louis Spohr (SPOHR).

Postlude