Poems

May 6, 1911

UNITY

LAURA GERAHTY
It is not just because our eyes are meetingIn daily converse, that we claim a friend;It is not e'en because our hearts are beatingSo near each other that our pulses blend.
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May 6, 1911

BY LOVE ALONE

WARWICK JAMES PRICE
Crouched in the roadside dust, which powdered whiteThe sorry rags that witnessed to his want,The mendicant mouthed prayers for passing alms.
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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 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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April 22, 1911

JUDAS

ADA J. MILLER.
For thirty bits of silver stamped as coinOur Master was betrayed by one who knewAnd walked with him along the way;But walked and talked as sleeper in a dream.
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April 22, 1911

UNITY IMMORTAL

ELIZABETH EARL JONES.
Unfold more fully to our sight,O Love that holdeth all in one;As separate rays converge in light,Meet we in God, our central sun.
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April 15, 1911

THE MIST DISPELLED

JEANIE F. GIBB
As creeps the mist o'er hill and glenAll silently, and shuts from sightThe sun that cheers the hearts of menAnd makes all nature glad and bright,
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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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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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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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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April 15, 1911

RESIGNATION

WARWICK JAMES PRICE
One doth misuse the word who fails to tryTo rise,—stretched prone upon the muddy ground,Tripped by the load which mortal sense has boundUpon his back,—"I am resigned!" his cry.
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April 8, 1911

A LESSON FROM A FLOWER

MABEL DOBYNS WEIL
Weary and worn, with care and worry spent,Into the deep and quiet wood I wentAnd lay me down to rest upon a mossy bankWhere purple violets in rich profusion grew,And happy birdsong echoed all the woodland through.
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April 8, 1911

"SILOAM."

KATHARINE T. PORTER.
"Go wash!" That loving gentle presence leave, which wokeThe only hope he e'er had known—whose actions spokeOf power and peace, whose every tone made his heart yearnTo worship God in purity, from earth to turnTo heaven! His life had known no law—he turned away,In unfamiliar stillness, to wash and to obey!The strange new sense of partial sight perplexed him sore;Lost was his certainty of touch, he knew no moreHow gropingly his way to find—the past to himWas dead, the present vague and filled with shadows dim.
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April 1, 1911

LOVE'S RECOMPENSE

ISABELLE W. PEMBROOK.
Think not, faint heart, that thou canst lackThy heritage of love,Since God Himself thy portion is,Who giveth every child of HisFull measure from above.
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April 1, 1911

MY BROKEN IDOL

CASSIUS M. LOOMIS.
My days and nights to evil thoughts were closed;I prayed to God aright, as I supposed;As porter at my humble door I stoodThat naught should find an entrance there but good.
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March 25, 1911

THE MASTER'S CALL

MARY A. NEWMAN.
Into a desert place come ye apart,The loving Master said, and rest awhile;For earthly hopes and joys have claimed thy heartAnd human ways and means thy thoughts beguile.
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