HYMNS FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV 20, 2024
 

Hymn 181
Loving Father, we Thy children
Look to Thee in fear’s dark night
While the angels of Thy presence
Guide us upward to the light.

Then we feel the power that lifts us
To Thy holy secret place,
Where our gloom is lost in glory
As we see Thee face to face.

We would learn, O gracious Father,
To reflect Thy healing love.
May we all awake to praise Thee
For Thy good gifts from above.

Make us strong to bear the message
To Thy children far and near:
Fear shall have no more dominion.
God is All, and heaven is here.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 181:1–4)

Hymn 593
We gather together to ask
the Lord’s blessing,
To sing of God’s goodness
as year turns to year.
We gather professing
Your grace and Your blessing,
With thanks for the
gospel that gathers us here.

Your Spirit consoles us.
We’re safe in Your keeping.
When roads are uncharted,
Your love shows the way.
Where new hope is springing
You fill us with singing;
Your presence delights us
with each dawning day.

What, then, can we give
You in praise for our journey,
When all the earth’s treasures
were Yours from the start?
We offer our labor, our love
for our neighbors,
Our gifts and the worship
of each hand and heart.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 593:1–3)

Hymn 456
The words of this hymn
were written by:

Mary Baker Eddy,

the Discoverer and
Foundation of
Christian Science,
from her poem,

“LOVE"
I will read all of the verses:

Brood o’er us with Thy shelt’ring wing,
’Neath which our spirits blend
Like brother birds, that soar and sing,
And on the same branch bend.
The arrow that doth wound the dove
Darts not from those who watch and love.

If thou the bending reed wouldst break
By thought or word unkind,
Pray that his spirit you partake,
Who loved and healed mankind:
Seek holy thoughts and heavenly strain,
That make men one in love remain.

Learn, too, that wisdom’s rod is given
For faith to kiss, and know;
That greetings glorious from high heaven,
Whence joys supernal flow,
Come from that Love, divinely near,
Which chastens pride and earth-born fear,

Through God, who gave that word of might
Which swelled creation’s lay:
“Let there be light, and there was light.”
What chased the clouds away?
’Twas Love whose finger traced aloud
A bow of promise on the cloud.

Thou to whose power our hope we give,
Free us from human strife.
Fed by Thy love divine we live,
For Love alone is Life;
And life most sweet, as heart to heart
Speaks kindly when we meet and part.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 456:1–5)

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