Order of Service
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Unreality
Hymn 66
Scriptural Selection
2nd Corinthians: 3 --various verses (THE NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH BY J.B. PHILLIPS)
Silent Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation
Our Father which art in heaven,
Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Adorable One.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Enable us to know, — as in heaven, so on earth, — God is omnipotent, supreme.
Give us this day our daily bread;
Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And Love is reflected in love;
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;
And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 16-17
Hymn 240
Notices
Solo
Explanatory Note
Subject of the Lesson-Sermon
Unreality
Golden Text
Isaiah 50:9 (to 1st ;); 25:7
Behold, the Lord God will help me;
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
Responsive Reading
Isaiah 5:16 the, 20; 55:2 (to 2nd ?), 3 (to ;), 6–8; 62:10, 12
. . . the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not?
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live;
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Lesson-Sermon
Collection
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Hymn 161
The scientific statement of being and its correlative scripture
There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468:9-15)
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
(I John 3:1–3)
Benediction
Matthew 5: 16 (THE NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH BY J.B. PHILLIPS)
Postlude
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