Poems

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Watch and Pray

MARJORIE NELL DENHAM

I dreamed I walked the shore of GalileeBeside the gentle one and heard him speak,And marveled at the power he had to freeThose listening hosts, to heal the sad and weak.
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Divine Guidance

MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE

Ask for God's guidance, then wait patiently,Knowing the loving Father never fails,And knowing, too, that you will surely seeHis will revealed, for Love alone prevails.

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Anthology of classic articles III

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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Kindness

MAURICE MC C. CHURCH

THOUGH we should fail at once to breakThe bands that seem to bind;Though sin may thrust, though heart may ache,We know that God is kind.

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Gethsemane

EDITH GADDIS BREWER

THE hour is come.
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Open Doors

PEGGY YOUNG CLARK

THE doors of receptivityMust open from within.
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Truth Conquers All

BUENA V. FREEMANN

Should fear and doubt assail my thoughtTo hold me in their power,I'll turn me to the God of hosts,For He is my strong tower.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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These books healed me

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on how the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy heal.

From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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Christ, the Comforter

MARGARET TROILI CAMPBELL

Once the mourning Mary wentEarly, in the dawn,To the tomb of Jesus—rent,And the rock withdrawn.
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Substance Eternal

EDGAR ISAAC NEWGASS

As dawn so surely brings to lightThe dear, familiar thingsThat perish not although the nightEnfold them 'neath her wings,So nought of substance or of life,In God's majestic scheme,Is lost in self-destroying strife,Or touched by error's dream.
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Resurrection

ANNA STANTON LAY

To mortal sense, fierce was the storm,Black was the night, and cold the tombWherein was laid the earthly formOf him whose presence made each roomA court of heaven.
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The Open Door

MILDRED NICKERSON HALL

Now to those earnest ones who seek to findThe road that Jesus walked, that they may goWith humble steps that selfsame way, and knowThe joys of true discipleship, shall MindReveal this sought-for way.
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Kindness

MILDRED MOELLER

If every little word I'd sayI'd measure carefully today,I wouldn't say a thing unkindTo anyone, nor would I mindA hasty word that someone mayExpress to me, because I'd findThat I'd forgive and knowIt could not hurt; and so,Let us then weigh each little word,And be just like the joyous bird,Who sings his song, in spite of weather.
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Testimony

MILES BUCKSTON WATTS

Father , I wait amid the silent throng,My heart replete with gratitude and praiseThat my true selfhood doth to Thee belong,And by the power of Spirit Thou didst raise