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APPENDIX

ORDER OF SERVICES


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.”)

12. The First Reader briefly invites the congregation to kneel in silent Communion. This is concluded by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer (spiritual interpretation omitted).

13. Singing the Doxology:

Be Thou, O God, exalted high;
And as Thy glory fills the sky,
So let it be on earth displayed,
Till Thou art here and now obeyed.”

14. Reading “The scientific statement of being” and the correlative Scripture according to 1 John, 3: 1-3.

15. Pronouncing Benediction.

The Church Tenets shall be read at this service.

The services should be preceded and followed by organ or piano music of an appropriate character in all cases where this is possible.