Manual of the Mother Church / The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts

by Mary Baker Eddy

5. Announcing necessary notices.

6. Solo.

7. Reading the explanatory note on first leaf of Quarterly.

8. Announcing the subject of the Lesson Sermon, and reading the Golden Text.

9. Reading the Scriptural selection, entitled "Responsive Reading," alternately by the First Reader and the congregation.

10. Reading the Lesson-Sermon. (After the Second Reader reads the BIBLE references of the first Section of the Lesson, the First Reader 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.")

11. Collection.

12. Hymn.

13. Reading the scientific statement of being, and the correlative SCRIPTURE according to I John 3:1-3.

14. Pronouncing Benediction.