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OMA OLNA MARTIN

When faith is at its ebb tide,When hope falls faint and sore,When sorrow walks beside me,Then I can pray the more;And I can let more goodnessMy every act express,Till faith and hope, reviving,Bring back my happiness.
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Pray

AVIS CLARKE ARMSTRONG

Pray , frightened one, be calm, and know your fearFor that frail thing it is, and see it flee,As clouds before the sunshine disappear,To leave your heart at rest, from bondage free.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

From Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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"No night there"

ALICE TROXELL MC COUN

How can one fasten shadows here and there,Or think some idle fancy glimpsed at nightMay be a part of substance, real and fair,When not a trace is found in morning light?

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The Gift of Song

LOTTIE M. BROWN

From God, my Father, comes the gift of songThat uplifts faith and triumphs over wrong;From God, my fortress strong—from Love divine—In every place this gift of song is mine!Encompassed round about on every sideWith songs of sure deliverance I'll bide;With everlasting joy upon my headMy heart shall sing, with daily wisdom fed.
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Then, and Now

DAISIE L. GOTT

I used to dread the early morning hour,When all the cares and duties of the dayAppeared ahead, like some relentless power,Filling my heart with sorrow and dismay.
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Love Is Near

CHARLOTTE M. ROBERTS

I shall not hesitate, for Love is near,And Love is greater than all else beside;He promises to cast out every fear,Restoring joy to me, if I confideMy all to Him, wherein I shall abideWith eyes that will behold, and ears that hear.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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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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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In the Christian Science Sunday School

GERTRUDE I. STEEL

What do we give to them, these little onesWho come to us so trusting and so gay,Their eyes alight with that sweet childlikenessThe Master loved?
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Guidance

LESLIE TAYLOR STOW

No thought of mine shall fetter thee,Nor human will preventThy going forth where God will leadTo give thee sweet content.
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A Cup of Cold Water

MARION ALICE BOWERS

I thank my God that I can giveWith open hands and overflowing heart;That in my consciousness a living springOf Spirit rises constantlyTo meet my need, and so outpouringTo fill the cup of him who, sick and weary,To me shall come for aid.
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The Great Exemplar

MADELYN G. COBHAM

Did you but know the deep sublimityOf deathless hope amid the multitudeOf frenzied fears; the cloistered quietudeOf confidence like his who calmed the sea,Who shared the loaves and fish at Galilee,And bore with sanguine heart and fortitudeThe jeers of men, and then in solitudeThe bitter cup of drear Gethsemane—How fruitful life! How full each halcyon day,Did you but know the comfort and the cheerOf walking with the gentle Nazarene—Of breasting grief and woe along the wayAs free from hopelessness and dreadful fearAs he who walked to Golgotha serene!
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Revelation

EDITH L. PERKINS

Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee,And Thou, in Thy compassion, Lord, hast heard;Through darkest clouds of earth's inharmonyThere shines the presence of Thy saving word.
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Omnipotence of God

NORMAN LAMONT PRICE

Midst dimming mist and seeming wrong,From out the tumult and the throng,The still, small voice comes clear:Be still, and know I AM is here.