All the churches of our denomination are respectfully requested to have the First Reader, read the following, at the opening of the Bible Lesson on Sunday. This note should not be read in church.
Friends:—The Bible, and the Christian Science text-book are our only preachers. We now will read scriptural texts, and their correlative passages from our denominational textbook,—these comprise our sermon.
The canonical writings, together with the word of our text-book, 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 authorized by Christ.
The number of our Sunday lessons and the Scripture they contain in the lesson-text follow the International Series.
