Poems

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Life is the tuning-time, complete...

George Klingle

Life is the tuning-time, completeAlone when every chord is sweetThrough sacrifice.
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"The mighty God"

MABEL GORDON-INGLIS

Can we essay to circumscribe the Mind,Creative source of all that is, and was,And is to be?

Audio Collection

Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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Morning

EDITH L. PERKINS

As when across the waking east there showsThe first faint flush of dawn, whose latent beamsPortend the coming of the light that teemsTriumphant till the earth no shadow knows;So in the heart where now but faintly glowsThe presence of the Christ, these quickening gleamsGive promise of release from earthly dreamsWhen Spirit's light the consciousness o'erflows.

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Consecration

EVELYN SYLVESTER KNOWLES

Oh may I keep my thought so clear, so fair,That angels, with their fingers pure as light,May trace the will of God unhindered there.
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"It doth not yet appear"

FRANCES A. HALDANCE

It doth not yet appear how much of gloryMay grace the dawning of another day;How fair the earth may glisten in the sunbeamsWhen once the storms of error roll away.
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"The secret place"

LILLIAN BARKER BEEDE

Within Thy secret place, O Love, I kneel:The door is shut; no sinful sense can stealAcross the threshold of this holy placeWhere I have come in search of truth and grace;My lips are mute; here thought alone doth prayFor revelation of the Christly way.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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Anthology of classic articles II

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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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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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As a Man Thinketh

JAMES NOBLE HATCH

Oh, I heard the ceaseless sighing of the winds of discontent,Heard it when the day was dying, heard it ere the morn was spent;      From the broad plain and the mountain,      From the lowland and the sea,The one sound was the same sound that was wafted back to me;A sound beset with sadness from the realms of blighted dreams,A plaintive song of a world all wrong, where hope no radiance gleams.
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Wise Wishing

NELLIE B. MACE

If I could have one wish for thee,And only one,And I in faithless vanityShould summon wealth, and thou wert wonTo gilden bravery,—False to my trust I'd be.
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Truth the Victor

REV. EDMUND B. GEARHART, PH.D.

Not in this warShall ye with fierce, embattled foes contend,Nor spear nor breastplate use to pierce or fend.
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His Will Be Done

LAURA GERAHTY

We have no fear,Since God is here,Who knows no distance, heeds no war's alarms,And I and mineWith thee and thineDwell safely in Love's everlasting arms.
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Truth's Dawn

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

A wondrous calm! A lifted sense!The darkness flees and cometh day,And error's storm-clouds pass away:Behold Love's holy immanence!
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A Tribute

CATHARINE SEVERENS

That thou hadst keptThe tablet of thy mind so clean and fairThat God could write thereon His precious wordOf love and healing to a sin-sick world,Were miracle enough! Yet great this also:That thou couldst stand upon that Horeb heightAnd hold this message high for men to see.