Poems

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DAWN

EDITH L. PERKINS.

As in the long, dark watches of the nightWe fix our gaze to catch a beam,However faint, of morning light,And, waiting, see at last the sun's bright gleam,
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JOY

CHARLES C. SANDELIN.

Joy ! What is joy?

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Changing your world

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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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WITH THEE

LAURA GERAHTY.

One moment, Lord, with Thee—And I am whole!To cast out self and all my sin efface,To come so near Thee that I see Thy faceAnd feel the breath of Life and calm embraceOf Love's control.

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ASSURANCE

MINNA MATHISON

Pain, I know thee not;Get thee behind me.
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TRUTH'S SEAMLESS GARMENT

C. W. HASKINS

Why divide the seamless garment,Worn by one who, long ago,When on earth with simple grandeurBanished sin and want and woe?
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UNFAILING LIGHT

LAURA GERAHTY.

Out in the west I'd watched the red sun setting,And fancied day was dying—light had fled.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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OMNIPOTENCE

CHARLES C. SANDELIN.

Thou mayest not, perchance, a mount remove,Or change the crystal water into wine,—The dead restore, or heal through power divineThe multitude that seek this power to prove:Yet think ye not such marvelous works behooveA favored mortal or predestined line;Nor, scoffing, give no credence till a signThy faith awaken and thy doubt reprove.
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THE ETERNAL NOW

MABEL GORDON-INGLIS.

Life knows no past.
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FAITH

FRANCES A. HALDANE.

Faith scatters abroad in the fall its grain,Covering it over with tender care;Nor fears, though with north winds and hurrying snowFierce winter stalks forth from its icy lair.
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NO MORE SEA

EVELYN GAGE KNIFFIN.

The sea ever speaks with its billows,Of restlessness, tumult, and strife;And mysteries vast and unfathomed,O'erclouding the sunshine of life.
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ENVISIONED

GERTRUDE RING HOMANS

Have you seen the vision?
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LOWLINESS

KATHERINE T. PORTER

The happy primrose breathed a thought of gratitude to God—Her prayer of grace, in sweet perfume, arose above the sod:In looking up to Him, she said, Because I lie so low,My sight includes all other flowers which high above me grow—How beautiful, that I can always see my dear friends so!The Master bade his followers take the lowest seat;He surely knew the rest, the calm—that consciousness so sweetWhich is itself the summons, Friend, up higher come! No prideDisturbs the thought that quiet serves, and seeks for naught beside;The bread, the wine, in tender love are up the table pressed;The loving heart, upturned to God, welcomes His every guest.