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"Song knows no border line"
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"Song knows no border line." Therefore, when we consider Mary Baker Eddy as an American poet, we should erase all sectarian lines that divide, and see only the pure expression of poetry that makes a real contribution to our literature. Poetry is the sharing of any of life's vivid and lonely experiences in patterns of musical words. A poem that coordinates with prayer becomes a hymn, and it is here where Mrs. Eddy has reached the heights of poetic expression. Five of her hymns might well enrich any hymnal, for they breathe a true spirit of devotion and consecration. In them we find no reference to a creed or dogma, nor do we find the stock phrase of the ordinary teacher of religion. But we do find a dignity and simplicity and also clarity of thought that mark the great hymn writers of the world. Mrs. Eddy has a flowing style that is never cramped for the use of the right word, and she knows how to affirm. . . . The following stanzas from "O gentle presence" [Mother's Evening Prayer] is a good example of her poetic art (Poems, p. 4):
"O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
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May 27, 1933 issue
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According to His Ability
GERTRUDE E. PHIPPS
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Here and Now
THOMAS H. MATTERS, JR.
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Giving versus Withholding
CAROLINE V. LANGWORTHY
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Continuing Church Building
ALBERT TOMLINSON
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Conquering Sin
VIVIAN COOTER
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The Song of Work
MARY L. ALLEN
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Success at School and College
HENRY E. ASHMUN
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Security
F. INA BURGESS
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The reply to my previous letter is not one that calls...
Charles H. Parker, Committee on Publication for the County of Cheshire, England,
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A contributer to your column of "Opinions" made this...
George Channing, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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My attention has been called to an interesting column...
Daniel A. Scott, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,
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In a recent issue a contributor to your newspaper, discussing...
Joseph G. Alden, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,
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Christian Science declares that erring human will-power...
Count Helmuth von Moltke, Committee on Publication for Germany,
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"Song knows no border line"
An appreciation of Mary Baker Eddy as poet and hymn-writer, by the Rev. T. M. Patterson,
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Humility and Gratitude
Duncan Sinclair
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The Better Way
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Aimee Lundgren, Ruth C. Marthaler, Florence E. Starr, C. A. Carr, Harry D. Heiby, Charles Cleland Phillips, Geraldine Hubbard Hooper, Annie Tennant McConnell, Clara M. Hudspeth
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I should like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science...
Willie E. Johnson
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I am indeed most grateful for Christian Science and for...
Lida R. Hoffman
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Christian Science was first brought to my notice in 1925,...
Jacobus G. N. Strauss
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For a number of years before becoming interested in...
Olive S. Elson
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I have received many blessings, both morally and physically,...
Isabel E. Bacon
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From an earnest heart full of love to God and my neighbor...
Mary Vail Stockton Walker
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Awakening
MURIEL E. WOODRUFF
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Wayne S. Snoddy, Jesse Isador Straus, James Reid, R. O. Lawton, T. J. S. Ferguson, H. R. H.