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The Sunday service is based on weekly Bible Lessons from the Christian Science Quarterly. These include readings from The Bible (King James Version) and from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures which were ordained by Mary Baker Eddy as pastor of the Church of Christ, Scientist. The Bible Lessons are studied throughout the week by Christian Scientists and seekers worldwide, and are read as the lesson sermon at Sunday services by two church members.
Each Sunday an Explanatory Note for Church Services, written by Mary Baker Eddy, is read in church services before beginning the Lesson-Sermon, and is as follows:
Friends:
"The Bible and the Christian Science textbook are our only preachers. We shall now read Scriptural texts, and their correlative passages from our denominational textbook; these comprise our sermon."
"The canonical writings, together with the word of our textbook, corroborating and explaining the Bible texts in their spiritual import and application to all ages, past, present, and future, constitute a sermon undivorced from truth, uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses, and divinely authorized."
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