Poems

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Christ Jesus

MARY LLOYD MC CONNEL

Dear name—the Christ!Expression of that Love divineWhich is infinity made manifest to usThrough him we love to callOur Master, Saviour, Lord,Jesus, the Christ, th' anointed,And appointed to show forth Love's healing power.
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Grace

ABBY S. PERRY

How can we know the truth of grace divine,Unless we know a love so deep, so true,That, free from self and all demands, all signOf condemnation, we can look clear throughThe outward seeming to the image pure,Can let our love shine round it like the light,With tenderness, compassion, feeling sureThat God's reflection must be ever bright?

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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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Receptivity

HELEN NEWHALL WINCHESTER

The billows of all human hopeNow rise, now fall,—Symbols unsteady of a lifeApart from Truth,—E'en as a ship at sea doth ride,Its moorings loosed.

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God's Presence

JOHN GERARD LORD

I loved the night, for then it seemedThat I was nearer Thee, O Father.
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The "little book open"

MARGARET WEIR WHYTE

"And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: and he had in his hand a little book open.
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"What hast thou in the house?"

AMY CAROLINE THROSSELL

Long had I sought,Far-reaching was my quest;I longed to entertain but one,That one a hallowed guest.

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Shared reflections

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Shared reflections

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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 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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Joint-Heirs

ETHEL COLWELL SMITH

Humbly searching, this I find:Life and Truth and Love combined,Substance is for all mankind—Man's inheritance!
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There is No Death

C. ESTELLE WAYNE

Eternal Life forever is;Death but a mortal dream.
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God's Day

EMMA S. FULLER

This day doth omnipresent LoveUnfold all good;The glow of never changing TruthEnlightens thought;Discernment of unending LifeIllumes the tomb.
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Hymn

MARGARET PLUNKET RAPER

God is the only power;Hold fast this truth, my soul;Let neither fear, nor doubt, nor painDispute divine control.
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Kindness

ANNE CLEVELAND CHENEY

As a tender little idiom to the mother-tongue,So is kindness to the universal language of Love.
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Love

MYRTLE ELLA ROBERTSON

O Love , that paints the colors of the rainbow,O Love, that gives the rose its sweet perfume,O Love, that sends the cooling, fresh'ning raindrops,Which make the parched valley bud and bloom;