Poems

"He that keepeth Israel"

I asked God just to let me watch one nightWith love o'er all the world in peaceful prayer.

Giving

So live that when the call doth comeTo help some one in need,Thou'lt answer with a joyous heart,With open hand and eager feet.

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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 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 Cross to Crown

Waymark of victory, triumph white,Pillared with beauty and domed with light.

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We Praise Thee, O Lord

For love that makes all alien people kin;For joy that glows, illuming all within;For peace, full flowing river of the soul;Long suffering charity, beholding aye the goal;For gentleness, compassionate to the poor;For goodness, native, changeless, and secure;For meekness, of reviling unaware,And temperance, to use Thy gifts with care;For faith, assurance Thou art still the samePure Spirit whom Thy plenteous gifts proclaim,—We laud and magnify Thy glorious name!

Love's Wondrous Power

A cry of deep and dire dismayWas borne on pinions naught could stay,So great the need that somber day.

The Refining

I am just a bit of shining gold,Born of the mountains, rugged and old,That gird the western sea.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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Apocalypse

We long have dwelt in twilight dim,Like children half afraid;In lights and shadows of a dreamTogether we have played,Or, holding each the other's hand,Forward a little strayed.
America! dear brother land!     While yet the shotted guns are mute,     Accept a brotherly salute,A hearty grip of England's hand.

The United States to Great Britain

Hail, brother! fling thy banner     To the billows and the breeze;We proffer thee warm welcome     With our hand, though not our knees.

Truth's Gloria

The powers of darkness hold no further sway,For Truth has brought to light the eternal day,And o'er the wreckage of false human willLove builds new mansions fair by waters still.

A Wider View

No longer seek I for some peak in DarienWhereon to stand and view a wide expanse,For my heart knows an ocean deeply blue,Far broader, deeper than the western seaBalboa gazed upon, and seeing itSo still and calm,Called it the Pacific.

Rest

No sweeter words than these were e'er addressedTo thee and all by mortal sense oppressed,—"Come unto me, and I will give thee rest.