Poems

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Hope

WARWICK JAMES PRICE

Hope is not building castles in the air,Nor wishing that a something may come true,Nor turning from the blackness of despairWith empty heart to gaze at heaven's blue.
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Immunity

MYRTLE STRODE JACKSON

Heed not the stones of sense by ignorance flungAgainst your work and you.

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From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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Mary Baker Eddy

MORRIS ABEL BEER

Who was this woman of the granite hills,Breaking the iron spell of gloom and tears,Dwelling in joyous harmony that fillsAll earth with blossom through the eternal years?

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Obeying and Giving

SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD

When first he saw made manifestThat by obedience man is blest,Yussuf Ben Orem also sawOne more requirement in God's law:Obedience lights the altar fires,Yet sacrifice the law requires.
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Light

EDITH L. PERKINS

The morning breaks, athrill with life and light,The whole creation sings in rhythm right,While joy exultant cries, in upward flight,Love is supreme.
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Uplifted Desire

AIMEE LUNDGREN

Infinite and only One, existingIn eternal harmony,Grant us grace and strength in liftingFainting hearts and hands to Thee;Catching truer, clearer glimpsesOf Thy pure reality.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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 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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"Be still, and know"

MARY B. ROSS

"Be still, and know" that angels guardWhile clouds of sense obstruct the way,And ever and anon rejoiceAnd work and watch till dawns the day.
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Awakening

MARY VICTORIA CLARK

Sunrise and glowing sky,My heart at rest;Beauty and Love divine,—These are the best!
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Hymn to Columbia

HON. CLARENCE A. BUSKIRK

O Loved Columbia! If perchanceThy love for peace and right,Through the fell stress of circumstanceShall yield to war and night;Though on thy gracious face the smileShall for the moment cease,Yet may thy greatness in brief whileCompel enduring peace!
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"He is risen!"

LILLIAN BARKER BEEDE

Who shall roll us away the stone?
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Love's Bounty

MINNA MATHISON

Love maketh all things new,—Oh, let my heart rejoice;Let me give thanks in word and songWith glad, uplifted voice.
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"That they go forward"

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

Upon thy journey to the promised landOf everlasting harmony and joy,Do the pursuing mortal thoughts annoy,And dost thou falter at the Red Sea's strand?