Poems

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My Creed

Frank Swee

My creed is Love, and Love is God;In all the universe abroadThere is no other lightTo guide the soul aright.
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How Can You Find a Realm?

Eugene F. Voorhies

How can you find a realm where sickness is?

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Anthology of classic articles II

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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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"Let Not your Heart be Troubled"

BY JESSIE M. DRULLARD.

Let not your heart be troubled,Have faith, believe in me.

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The Difference

BY EDWARD A. JENKS

It may have been a dream—but beautiful at first:I found myself upon a breezy eminenceAt sunrise; and the hill was one great flashing opalIn the bright morning sun, blushing resplendentlyBeneath his passionate June kisses; and the oaksThat crowned the hill stretched out their glist'ning, pleadingarmsFor more—and more—and more.
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Sonnet

William Lyman Johnson

Because as Christ willed I have tried to wing'Bove earth to seek Life's steady-burning light,Men sneer, and curse me as a leper-blightOn holy rights, call me apostate King,And stone me with their thoughts of hate, and flingMe from their hearts, and in despiteMy proofs of truth still with a pagan mightThey crucify my heaven-endeavoring.
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The Eternal Now

BY BERT POOLE

I sat me down to write a lineMy thoughts went back one year,When Nature's sun had ceased to shineAnd life had lost its cheer.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

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"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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Mary Magdalene

W. K. James

In her last ministry of love, the MagdaleneStands hopeless, weeping at the Saviour's empty grave,Yet by her side the Master stands unseen,Not lost, not gone, not dead, but mighty still to save.
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Sonnet

William Lyman Johnson

Why ape the ways of blindly-followed precedentThat barriers all roads to eternityWhen veils of fatuous hypocrisyBy one great mind have long in shreds been rent?
Poem

When Pa Gets Sick

When pa gets sick he always knowsHe's gonter die and Tommy goesFor Dr.
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The Way

Keyes Becker

Bare was the cross, and gray,But in the dreary province of the tombThe body of our Saviour lay,Awaiting resurrection from its gloom.
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Prayer

BY R. L. Z.

Dear God my heart inclines to Thee,Help me to know Thy living Way;For Thou art Light dispelling gloomRevealing an eternal day.
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Stanzas on Freedom

James Russell Lowell

Men! whose boast it is that yeCome of fathers brave and free,If there breathe on earth a slaveAre ye truly free and brave?