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PROTECTION

JOSEPHINE VAN HOUTEN

REST , O heart, the Father leads us All the way! Love divine protects and feeds us Every day.
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THE CAUSE OF GRATITUDE

JOHN M. DEAN

In fervent penitential prayer,A conscience-stricken sinner bowed;Nor pomp, nor ceremonial riteWith hollow form his words endowed.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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THE CROWN OF DAVID'S LINE

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH

Know ye the noble crown of David's line,Bearing the thirteen stars and sacred sign,—(1, 2) The tribes of Jacob, and the vow divine;

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Him evermore I behold...

Longfellow

Him evermore I beholdWalking in Galilee,Through the cornfield's waving gold,In hamlet or grassy wold,By the shores of the Beautiful Sea.
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IN ÆTERNUM

MARY J. ELMENDORF

There is a deep grave in the heartOf time, unmarked, weed-grown, apart,Where seas of fog are creeping.
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MY KINGDOM

SEBA M. CHRISTIN.

With thought attuned unto the perfect Mind,My heaven within my consciousness I find;There hope and health and happiness abide,To Christlike guests the portal opens wide.

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Anthology of classic articles III

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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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Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

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WATCH!

KATHARINE T. PORTER.

With trailing wing I fluttered low,Along the ground in sorry plight;I heard the voice of Truth, and lo!It broke the darkness of my night:No poison dart had laid me low,But praise of friend,—an ambushed foe.
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"THE SINLESS JOY"*

Cassius M. Loomis

It gave the Master comfort to the end.
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If I knew you and you knew me,—...

ANON

If I knew you and you knew me,—If both of us could clearly seeAnd with an inner sight divineThe meaning of your heart and mine,—I'm sure that we would differ less,And clasp our hands in friendliness;Our thoughts would pleasantly agree,If I knew you and you knew me.
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TWO PRAYERS

MARY BRENT WHITESIDE.

One in the prison-house of erring thought,Where darkness reigned through the unlighted year,In stress and tears, for his own worship, wroughtA frowning God of vengeance and of fear.
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If we sit down at set of sun...

Anon

If we sit down at set of sunAnd count the things that we have done,And counting findOne self-denying act, one wordThat eased the heart of him who heard,One glance most kind,That fell like sunshine where it went,Then we may count the day well spent.
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EXALTATION

MARY J. ELMENDORF.

Ofttimes, when meditation steeps my heartIn harmony and hush and ambient light,I seem to stand apartFrom thoughts that to my duller moods respond;Like some lone watcher, leaning out of nightTo glean one shaft of glory far beyond.