Poems

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"Be still, and know"

HATTIE M. KREBS

"Be still, and know"That God is God.
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The Way

NELSON DREXEL FRISBY

Except your pen should gild a thought with beauty;Except your soul should sing within your song;Excepting that your inmost sense of dutyShould strive the tone of goodness to prolong;Excepting, in a word, your heart's desireWere honestly to give the world its due,Far better, heart, to quench the hidden fire,Than, speaking, thus bring more of ill to view.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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From Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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A Weaver

LILLIAN BARKER DURKEE

From day's early dawning till night's dusky fingersLet down o'er a weary world curtains of gloom,A weaver, designing his life's varied pattern,Was toiling and weaving at time's heavy loom;His shuttle was filled with the gay, brilliant colorsOf youth's luring passions, ambitions, and love;And into a rainbow-hued fabric he wove them,With never a shade from the gray clouds above.

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Overcoming

Mary I. Mesechre

Whoso proceeds in ordered wayAnd holds unshaken confidenceIn God's directing, day by day,Shall fear no dizzy eminence;Nor shall the hordes of mortal senseCause him to falter in the fray,Since midst the clouds of darkness denseGod is his changeless strength and stay.
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Assurance

NELLE A. SMITH

How shall we overcome the fearThat all's not well, when days seem drear;When tempests rage and wild winds blow?
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"Because he first loved us"

MINNY M. H. AYERS

We love him, because he first loved us.

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Shared reflections

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Anthology of classic articles III

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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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"Stretch forth thine hand"

VIOLA I. WELLS

"Stretch forth thine hand"!Man is not bidden to receiveOr sin or sorrow, pain or fear;Our God is not a God afar;His ever-presence dwelleth near,And blesses all.
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Coworkers

MABELLE C. PERKINS

Herein the grace of God must be,That all may work with Him, and seeHis law unfold as harmony.
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Transparency

ELENORA E. PIKE

Here I would hold my light on high,With steady hand, and true,That down some darkening way its gleam May guideA faltering step that gropes to find,Mid shadows closing in,A refuge, where in peace it mayAbide.
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Aspiration

FANNY KINDER GRIBBON

"By faith he [Moses] forsook Egypt.
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A Prayer

EDITH L. PERKINS

To be as trusting as a little child,In calm assurance of the promise sweet,—By thought of limitation unbeguiled,To prove that Love our every need doth meet.
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Great Possessions

SARAH MILDRED SPARKS

My great possessions lie before me spread,With all the dear associations:Treasures of by-gone days;Things I learned in childhood; took to my heartand lived with; fought for;Some whom I loved and shared my treasures with.