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Order of Service
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Thanksgiving
Prelude
Hymn 585
Laura Lee Randall, words
Jonathan Roberts, music
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.
Thanksgiving Proclamation of the President of the United States, or the Governor of the state, or both
Scriptural Selection
Deut 7:6-9, 13, 15
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 374
John Randall Dunn, words
Henry S. Cutler, music
We thank Thee and we bless Thee,
O Father of us all,
That e’en before we ask Thee
Thou hear’st Thy children’s call.
We praise Thee for Thy goodness
And tender, constant care,
We thank Thee, Father-Mother,
That Thou hast heard our prayer.
We thank Thee and we bless Thee,
O Lord of all above,
That now Thy children know Thee
As everlasting Love.
And Love is not the author
Of discord, pain and fear;
O Love divine, we thank Thee
That good alone is here.
We thank Thee, Father-Mother,
For blessings, light and grace
Which bid mankind to waken
And see Thee face to face.
We thank Thee, when in anguish
We turn from sense to Soul,
That we may hear Thee calling:
Rejoice, for thou art whole.
Explanatory Note
Subject of the Lesson-Sermon
Thanksgiving
Golden Text
Psalms 30:4
Sing praise to the Lord, all you who belong to Him. Give thanks to His holy name.
Responsive Reading
Psalms 118:1, 14, 16, 21–24, 27 (to :), 28; I Chronicles 29:11–13
O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
The right hand of the Lord is exalted: the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.
I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
God is the Lord, which hath shewed us light:
Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
Lesson-Sermon
Solo
Thanks be to God
Thanks be to God for all his blessing.
Oh thanks be to God for his great love.
Peace be to them who walk in the spirit
oh peace be to them who live in Christ.
Thanks be to God for the blessed gift of his son.
Christ overcame death and the grave,
He overcame death and the grave.
Thanks be to God who gives the victory.
Thanks be to God for his beloved son.
Thanks be to God oh, thanks be to God.
Testimonies by Christian Scientists
Hymn 520
Katherine K. Davis, words
Welsh Melody
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.
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
II Thess 2: 16-17
Postlude
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