Poems

December 17, 1921

Awake

EVELINE A. ELLIS
Clad in the seeming,Life is but dreaming,Sad and obscure;Full of discouragement,Sickness, and punishment,Hard to endure.
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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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December 3, 1921

Ab Initio

BELLE D. MAC GREGOR
Thou who hast watched the flame of hope burn lowUpon the altar hid within thine heartTill ashes cold and gray as moorland mistThe altar and thine heart alike enfold,And thou did'st rise with senses dulled by painUnspeakable to stumble down the pathInto the valley veiled in mists of doubt;Hear thou the voice of Truth immutable:Pause thou within the shadow of the rockWhile Truth doth break to thee the bread of Life.
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November 26, 1921

Guerdon

NINA SEYMOUR KEAY
Father of lights! Our Father!What shall the guerdon be,For many a grim encounterWith the waves of a surging sea?
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November 12, 1921

Dawn

NEVA W. GEER
Out of darkness and of dreamlandWhere the weary seek repose,Breaks the dawn with tints of azure,O'er earth's tangled web of woes.
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November 5, 1921

Assurance

ANITA GRAY LITTLE
Who would doubt the coming dawn,Though the night be without a star!Or the certainty of approaching Spring,While yet o'er earth afarLies Winter's mantle white?
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Changing your world

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Shared reflections

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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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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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October 22, 1921

Vision

CHARLOTTE BRUNER
At first a faint perception of the Christ,A gleam that tells us, Doubt not, but hope on;Then step by step with firmer tread we gainThe light that shows us God,—the dark is gone!
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October 15, 1921

A Prince Now Prays

LOUIS JOSEPH LEWIS
"King of the universe,All-knowing Mind,Father in heaven,So strong, tender, kind,Highest and holiest,This endless day,"So spake a child of God,"Teach me to pray.
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October 8, 1921

Harvest

LENA M. HALL
It is not hard to frame a harvest songWhen trees are sweet with blossoms in the spring,When the soft showers vie with the constant sun,And lush grass gives abundant pasturing.
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September 24, 1921

The Liberator

CARRA L. THORESON
O wondrous Love, thy holy powerReleases meFrom all the stinging, clinging painsThat seem to be.
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