Poems

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CHRISTLY TENDERNESS

Myrtle Daugherty

Jesus reminded the listening multitudeThat God makes the sun rise on the evilAs well as on the good,And sends rain on the unjustAs well as on the just.
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TRUTH'S FRAGRANCE

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

While yet the flower is hidden from the sight,its fragrance thrills the heart with new delight!So feels the world the healing Jesus brought,although it does not see the truth he taught!

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Anthology of classic articles III

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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BROTHERHOOD

William Aubert Luce

Upon a field of yesterday.

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FEAR NOT THE WILDERNESS

Alice Troxell McCoun

Fear not a wilderness experience.
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THE MORNING MEAL

Katharine B. Moore

The fishers toiled in vain that troubled night,with empty net, and dark, foreboding dread,yearning for their Lord, their hearts contrite.
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CONFIDENCE

Lona Koch-Meisen

You are my Life, dear Father,I rest in Your embrace;You named me Your belovedAmong Your gifts of grace.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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 Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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INDIVIDUALITY

Mary Lucretia Barker Franklin

The snowflakes with their intricate designsIn splendor fall upon my lifted cheek,And, contemplating varied crystal lines,I marvel that each flake is still unique.
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FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT

Jennie Baird Schooley

In the darkness of the night,To Love we turn.
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THE TIDE OF LOVE

Robert Ellis Key

There is a tideOf heavenly, holy knowingForever flowingFrom a boundless source.
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AFTER PENIEL

Hazel Harper Brandner

When we, like Jacob, struggle through the nightTo reach a sense of God's protecting care,Let us persist until the dawning lightOf Truth reveals the answer to our prayer.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL HOUR

Mildred Booth Lord

Here in this hourWe meet in Love's embrace:Give us, dear God, the graceTo know ourselves all taught of Thee.
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"AS BIRDS FLYING"

Glanville le Sueur

Praise God for the joyof a fleeting glimpseof Truth, like the flashof sunlight on white wingssoaring, solitaryin cloudless air!