Poems

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Reply to "If We Knew."

BY IDA HODNETT.

If we felt the bitter anguishThat our thoughts and words have sentTo the brother we are judging,The cruel bow might be unbent.
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Watch Your Thoughts

You never can tell what a thought can doIn bringing you hate or love,For thoughts are things, and their airy wingsAre swifter than carrier doves.

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Shared reflections

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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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Sunshine

BY MRS. BELLE B. COLEMAN.

Brightly beams the morning sunshine, Rolling o'er the eastern hills, Tingeing ferns and brakes with brightness, Clustered round the mountain rills.

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Thy Best

WHATE'ER thou dost, do well—it may not stand An hour, it may for centuries endure; But thou shalt have performed thy Lord's command, And thy reward shall be forever sure.
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Transitions

BY AMY ALLEN.

Out of the noisy tumult,Out of the fevered heat,Out of grewsome fancies,Out of self-hood's cheat.
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The First Evil Step

BY IRWIN J. MUSGROVE.

I muse and think and ponderOn what the sages said,And as my thoughts now wanderBack through the ages dead,I realize their words sublimeAre fitted for the present time.

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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 Place

"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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The Child Heart

The heart of a child,Like the heart of a flower,Has a smile for the sunAnd a tear for the shower.
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The Secret of Happiness

Edward E. Norwood

'Tis foolish to look in the past,Except to gain profit thereby;Its failures good lessons should teach,Its triumphs make courage rise high.
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A Song of Praise

BY LOUISE REVELLE.

When the early dawn of morningTints the sky with jewels bright,Painting all the face of NatureWith a calm and holy light;Then let us render,In accents tender,Our praise to God;For He is Life.
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The Unveiled Face

Annie E. Rider

Not as of old, when Moses cameDown from the mount, that burnt with flameAnd shook with thunder loud;Because the great and mighty GodUpon its rocky summit trod,While all the people bowed;
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The Gift of Love

M. M. Painter

It is in loving, not being loved, the heart is blest;It is in giving, not in seeking gifts, we find our guest.
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A Golden Rule for Avoiding Sin

C. Overton

When you think, when you speak, when you read, when you write,When you sing, when you walk, when you seek for delight;To be kept from all evil, at home and abroad,Live always as under "the eye of the Lord.