Article May 28, 1960 Issue

LOVE'S ENCIRCLING ARM

[Of Special Interest to Children]

BARBARA BLECH DUNBAR

Every night before Jimmy went to bed, his mother used to sing to him the first two verses of Mrs. Eddy's hymn "The Mother's Evening Prayer" (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.
"Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
His habitation high is here, and nigh,
His arm encircles me, and mine, and all."