Poems

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Things Substantial

GERTRUDE TILDEN-THOMPSON

The artist true paints not the world he seesWith eyes grown dim at scanning faultful things;But to the landscape, face, and form he bringsThe eyes of soul, to him real nature's keys.
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"Thou art ever-present"*

LAURA GERAHTY

Out o'er a blood-stained field I wander far,To succor one I love and bring him home,Repeating still, through pain and death and war,"Thy kingdom come.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

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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Contrast

ALAN ALEXANDER DICK

At Truth's command forth from the tomb again, Whom the last foe had held four long sad days, One came; yet limited in many ways, Through human aid his freedom to attain.

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Only

MINNA MATHISON

It was only a drop of dewThat watered the heart of a rose ;But the rose bloomed out her gracious span,A thing of beauty and praise for man,In her fragrant garden close.
Poem

The Holy City

GERTRUDE RING HOMANS

For the sake of the city that is to be,Keep patient when things go wrong;The very one who displeases theeShall join his breve to the songWhich is swelling into a jubileeFrom the throats of a countless throng.
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Sunset Light

ANNA DEWEY-MC NUTT

Glad of the day! My day!It is not always bright;Not always do my roses bloom,Nor all my songs ring right.

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These books healed me

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Anthology of classic articles III

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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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Understanding

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

O thou that seemest tossed by wind and waveOn error's threatening sea, nor succor nearTo lift thine anxious thought, o'erwhelmed with fear,And from the tempest in thine own heart save!Could thou but know thou art indeed no slave,Nor error real and potent; could appearUnto thy consciousness Truth's wondrous cheer,Unvanquished by aught evil, e'en the grave,—