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The Spirit of Christmas
What
is the spirit of Christmas? ... Wise,
Seeing world-widely with kindly eyes,
Hearing full truly with ears of love,
Speaking resoundingly from above
The darkling senses and ways of woe:
"Whence all these earth pangs? Wherefore go
Seeking, O man, through a wilderness
Balm for the human mind's distress?
Know'st not the secret, still adorning
That age-old message of Christmas morning,
Peace on earth?"
Echoing down from the Bethlehem hills,
Calmly it banishes, heals, and stills
Old trembling dreads and tomorrow-fears,
Old residue of forgotten years;
And, showing the Christ-idea, still new—
A Christmas measured the whole year through—
Gives reassurance from heaven sent:
The government—aye, the government
Rests on his shoulders!
O Counselor,
Could man, God-guarded, ask for more?
Peace on earth!
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December 25, 1937 issue
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"In time of harvest"
NELLIE B. MACE
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Meekness and Teachableness
BARRETT STUDLEY
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"Tidings of great joy"
JEAN M. SNYDER
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Tender Might of Spirit
IDA RANDALL SIMONEAU
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"Good tidings"
WYTHE H. WOOLFOLK
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Giving a Testimony
THOMAS LOVATT WILLIAMS
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Holding Fast to Good
ANTOINETTE HOLBROOK
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Frankincense and Myrrh
CORA CASSARD TOOGOOD
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In the Jersey Observer of July 17 there appeared an...
William K. Kitchen, former Committee on Publication for the State of New Jersey,
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In Opbouw of September 3, a psychiatrist states that he...
Dr. David A. Giel, Committee on Publication for Netherlands,
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Your correspondent quoted a sentence from one of Mrs. Eddy's...
Gordon William Flower, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,
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Awake, O Man!
CECIL C. BONHAM
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The Way-Shower and the Way
George Shaw Cook
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"Can you take care of yourself?"
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Benjamin Harrison Hedges, Leon G. Phifer, Annie P. Eagle, Litta M. Roberts, Marian J. Weinhold, Ione Revenaugh Thompson, Mary North Huegle, Walter R. Jones
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I am very grateful for the spiritual discernment of the...
Genevieve Graydon
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In 1911 I was led to attend the Christian Science services,...
Elizabeth R. Maver
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Profound happiness and gratitude prompt me to submit...
Rita Conrad with contributions from Dorothea Bruggeman
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Christian Science is not a new religion, but the pure...
Herman J. Knebel
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All through early girlhood I longed to find a religion that...
Ruth L. Connors
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The Spirit of Christmas
HENRY EDISON WILLIAMS
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from H. L. Orians, Henry Davis Nadig, Maude J. Smith, Leonard Sanders