Note: During Passover celebration of Jesus and disciples they would have sung Psalm 113-118, the Jewish Hallel, as all Jews did then, and still do at Passover.
Matthew (26:30) mentions that after the Last Supper (Passover) “when they had sung a hymn,” they went out to the mount of Olives and Gethsemane where Jesus prayed to God. Those Psalms would have been clearly in Jesus’ thoughts during that prayer, preparing him for the trial to come.
It may not be possible to attach the hymns to this post, but the hymns are available to read in the post “Sacred Song” on this same site.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Asheville 1-6-2016
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Asheville 1-6-2016
- KJV Ps 96:1, 2 (to 1st name;), 9 (to 1st holiness:)
- 1 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth. 2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; 9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness:
- KJV Ps 147:1
- 1 Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
- KJV Ps 33:1, 3-6
- 1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright. 3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise. 4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth. 5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD. 6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
- KJV Ps 46:1-3, 8 (to 1st LORD,)
- 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; 3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. 8 Come, behold the works of the LORD,
- KJV Ps 92:1, 2
- 1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
- KJV Ps 104:33, 34
- 33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
- KJV Ps 98:1-4
- 1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. 2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. 3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
- KJV Ps 30:1-4
- 1 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. 2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. 3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. 4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
- KJV Matt 4:23 (to 1st kingdom,)
- 23 …Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom,
- KJV Matt 5:2
- 2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
- KJV Matt 6:6, 9, 10
- 6 …when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
- KJV Matt 26:19, 30, 36-39
- 19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover. 30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. 36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. 39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
- KJV Ps 116:1-4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17
- 1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. 12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. 16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
- KJV Ps 118:14, 17, 19, 21-28
- 14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. 17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: 21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. 22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. 23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. 24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. 26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. 27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar. 28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
- KJV I Cor 14:15
- 15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
- KJV Acts 16:16, 19 1st they, 23-26
- 16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, 19 …they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, 23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: 24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. 25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
- KJV James 5:13
- 13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
- KJV Eph 5:18 2nd be, 19, 20
- 18 …be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- S&H 2:8-11
- God is not moved by the breath of praise to do more
than He has already done, nor can the infinite do less
than bestow all good, since He is unchang-
ing wisdom and Love.
- S&H 26:14-25
- Divine Truth,
Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness,
and death. His mission was to reveal the Science of
celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does
for man.
A musician demonstrates the beauty of the music he
teaches in order to show the learner the way by prac-
tice as well as precept. Jesus’ teaching and
practice of Truth involved such a sacrifice
as makes us admit its Principle to be Love. This was
the precious import of our Master’s sinless career and
of his demonstration of power over death.
- S&H 38:30
- He
taught that the material senses shut out Truth and its
healing power.
- S&H 2:15-16
- Prayer cannot change the Science of being, but it
tends to bring us into harmony with it.
- S&H 14:31-18
- “When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and,
when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father
which is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in
secret, shall reward thee openly.”
So spake Jesus. The closet typifies the sanctuary of
Spirit, the door of which shuts out sinful sense but
lets in Truth, Life, and Love. Closed to
error, it is open to Truth, and vice versa.
The Father in secret is unseen to the physical senses,
but He knows all things and rewards according to
motives, not according to speech. To enter into the
heart of prayer, the door of the erring senses must be
closed. Lips must be mute and materialism silent,
that man may have audience with Spirit, the divine
Principle, Love, which destroys all error.
In order to pray aright, we must enter into the
closet and shut the door. We must close the lips and
silence the material senses. In the quiet
sanctuary of earnest longings, we must
deny sin and plead God’s allness.
- S&H 255:1-6
- ETERNAL Truth is changing the universe. As mor-
tals drop off their mental swaddling-clothes, thought
expands into expression. “Let there be light,”
is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love,
changing chaos into order and discord into the
music of the spheres.
- S&H 234:4
- Whatever inspires with wisdom, Truth, or Love – be
it song, sermon, or Science – blesses the human family
with crumbs of comfort from Christ’s table
feeding the hungry and giving living waters to
the thirsty.
- S&H 195:15
- Whatever furnishes the semblance of an idea governed
by its Principle, furnishes food for thought. Through as-
tronomy, natural history, chemistry, music, mathematics,
thought passes naturally from effect back to cause.
- S&H 213:24-29
- Men-
tal melodies and strains of sweetest music supersede con-
scious sound. Music is the rhythm of head and heart.
Mortal mind is the harp of many strings, discoursing
either discord or harmony according as the hand, which
sweeps over it, is human or divine.
- S&H 89:18-20, 25-27
- Mind is not necessarily dependent upon educational
processes. It possesses of itself all beauty and poetry,
and the power of expressing them.
Matter is neither intelligent nor creative. The tree is
not the author of itself. Sound is not the originator of
music, and man is not the father of man.
- S&H 247:21-24, 31
- Beauty is a thing of life, which
dwells forever in the eternal Mind and re-
flects the charms of His goodness in expression, form,
outline, and color.
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and
more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure
in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious free-
dom of spiritual harmony.
- S&H 591:16 MIND only, 18 not
- MIND.
not that which is in man, but the divine Principle, or God,
of whom man is the full and perfect expression; Deity,
which outlines but is not outlined.
- S&H 162:9
- The effect of this Science is
to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it
may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind.
- S&H vii:4
- To develop the full
might of this Science, the discords of corporeal sense
must yield to the harmony of spiritual sense, even as the
science of music corrects false tones and gives sweet con-
cord to sound.
- S&H 81:17
- Man in the likeness of God as revealed in Science can-
not help being immortal. Though the grass seemeth to
wither and the flower to fade, they reappear.
Erase the figures which express number, silence
the tones of music, give to the worms the body
called man, and yet the producing, governing, divine
Principle lives on, – in the case of man as truly as in
the case of numbers and of music, – despite the so-called
laws of matter, which define man as mortal. Though
the inharmony resulting from material sense hides the
harmony of Science, inharmony cannot destroy the divine
Principle of Science. In Science, man’s immortality de-
pends upon that of God, good, and follows as a necessary
consequence of the immortality of good.
- S&H 276:12
- The realization that all inharmony is unreal brings
objects and thoughts into human view in their true light,
and presents them as beautiful and immortal. Harmony
in man is as real and immortal as in music. Discord is
unreal and mortal.
- S&H 563:1-8
- Human sense may well marvel at discord, while, to a
diviner sense., harmony is the real and discord the unreal.
We may well be astonished at sin, sickness, and
death. We may well be perplexed at human
fear; and still more astounded at hatred, which lifts
its hydra head, showing its horns in the many inventions
of evil. But why should we stand aghast at nothingness?
- S&H 568:24-30
- For victory over a single sin, we give thanks and mag-
nify the Lord of Hosts. What shall we say of the mighty
conquest over all sin? A louder song, sweeter
than has ever before reached high heaven,
now rises clearer and nearer to the great heart of Christ;
for the accuser is not there, and Love sends forth her
primal and everlasting strain.
- Hymn
342 This is the day the Lord hath made
253 O’er waiting harp strings of the mind
449 My life flows on in endless songANGELS’ SONG
This is the day the Lord hath made;
Be glad, give thanks, rejoice;
Stand in His presence, unafraid,
In praise lift up your voice.
All perfect gifts are from above,
And all our blessings show
The amplitude of God’s dear love
Which every heart may know.The Lord will hear before we call,
And every need supply;
Good things are freely given to all
Who on His word rely.
We come today to bring Him praise
Not for such gifts alone,
But for the higher, deeper ways
In which His love is shown.
For sin destroyed, for sorrow healed,
For health and peace restored;
For Life and Love by Truth revealed,
We thank and bless the Lord.
This is the day the Lord hath made,
In praise lift up your voice.
In shining robes of joy arrayed,
Be glad, give thanks, rejoice.CHRIST MY REFUGE
O’er waiting harpstrings of the mind
There sweeps a strain,
Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind
The power of pain,And wake a white-winged angel throng
Of thoughts, illumed
By faith, and breathed in raptured song,
With love perfumed.Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show
Life’s burdens light.
I kiss the cross, and wake to know
A world more bright.And o’er earth’s troubled, angry sea
I see Christ walk,
And come to me, and tenderly,
Divinely talk.Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock,
Upon Life’s shore,
’Gainst which the winds and waves can shock,
Oh, nevermore!From tired joy and grief afar,
And nearer Thee,—
Father, where Thine own children are,
I love to be.My prayer, some daily good to do
To Thine, for Thee;
An offering pure of Love, whereto
God leadeth me.ENDLESS SONG
My life flows on in endless song;
Above earth’s lamentation;
I hear the sweet though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation:
Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing,
It finds an echo in my soul,
How can I keep from singing?What though my human comforts die?
The Lord my Savior liveth;
What though the darkness gather round!
Songs in the night He giveth:
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that Rock I’m clinging,
Since Love is Lord of heav’n and earth,
How can I keep from singing?I lift mine eyes, the cloud grows thin,
I see the blue above it;
And day by day this pathway smooths
Since first I learned to love it:
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
A fountain ever springing,
All things are mine since I am His,
How can I keep from singing?
Ps 96:1, 2 (to name;), 9 (to holiness:)
Ps 147:1
Ps 33:1, 3-6
Ps 46:1-3, 8 (to LORD,)
Ps 92:1, 2
Ps 104:33, 34
Ps 98:1-4
Ps 30:1-4
Matt 4:23 (to kingdom,)
Matt 5:2
Matt 6:6, 9, 10
Matt 26:19, 30, 36-39
Ps 116:1-4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17
Ps 118:14, 17, 19, 21-28
I Cor 14:15
Acts 16:16, 19 they, 23-26
James 5:13
Eph 5:18 2nd be, 19, 202:8-11
26:14-25
38:30
2:15-16
14:31-18
255:1-6
234:4
195:15
213:24-29
89:18-20, 25-27
247:21-24, 31
591:16 MIND only, 18 not
162:9
viii:4
81:17
276:12
563:1-8
568:24-30Hymn
342 This is the day the Lord hath made
253 O’er waiting harp strings of the mind
449 My life flows on in endless song
Ps 147:1
Ps 33:1, 3-6
Ps 46:1-3, 8 (to LORD,)
Ps 92:1, 2
Ps 104:33, 34
Ps 98:1-4
Ps 30:1-4
Matt 4:23 (to kingdom,)
Matt 5:2
Matt 6:6, 9, 10
Matt 26:19, 30, 36-39
Ps 116:1-4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17
Ps 118:14, 17, 19, 21-28
I Cor 14:15
Acts 16:16, 19 they, 23-26
James 5:13
Eph 5:18 2nd be, 19, 202:8-11
26:14-25
38:30
2:15-16
14:31-18
255:1-6
234:4
195:15
213:24-29
89:18-20, 25-27
247:21-24, 31
591:16 MIND only, 18 not
162:9
viii:4
81:17
276:12
563:1-8
568:24-30Hymn
342 This is the day the Lord hath made
253 O’er waiting harp strings of the mind
449 My life flows on in endless song
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