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going to the city

Stephen Thomas Gray

Little feet, big feetall walking different.
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FRIENDLY UNIVERSE

Rosemary Cobham

Since the one MindCreated the universe,None can ever findAny part hostile or perverse.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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RATIONALE

Darren Stone Nelson

("Even ifI knowwho I am

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Where is God?

SYLVIA N. POLING

Here is God, where I am.
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THE TENTH LEPER

Ella Mae King

He alone turned back;He alone was grateful:He did not lackThe thankful heart.
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What is Perfect?

SYLVIA N. POLING

Jesus said our Father is perfect, sowe should be perfect, too.

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These books healed me

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on how the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy heal.

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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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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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FROM A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT:

KATHY ELIZABETH GYGAX

Open your door to God,And you open your thought to Love;Be generous with your love for all,And the freedom of Life will be yours;Take heed of the truth in Spirit,And Truth will answer your needs;Be as a tree—
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GOD'S ALLNESS

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Sometimes, when it seems mocking tears,frightening dreams, and false fearswould accent my smallness,I think of God's allness,and it melts them away—I soar in the wideness of mercy, the tallnessof justice, in boundless purity.
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TAKEOFF

Robert Howard Zeller

O perfect One to whom our prayers ascend,We ask Thee not for any earthly thing.
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SOUND SHELTER

Neil Millar

Typewriters fling noise-pellets at the air;Telephones spurt their little jets of belling;Throughout the city, rumbling, roaring, yelling,Din burns and beats at every thoroughfare.
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SMALL RAIN AND TENDER HERB

Margery Macdonald Cantlon

Now upon the tender herbemerged from dark terraininto a sunlit world superb,fall gently, soft small rain!
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ON HEARING BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY WITH CHORALE

Mary Dunham

With intricate balance of thrust and counterthrustThe beams support, uphold the houseWhere the white-robed choir is singing of joy;And listening with joy, I hear again,Not the words of Schiller's odeThat Beethoven loved and celebrated,But "In Thy house securely dwelling,Where Thy children live to bless"Christian Science Hymnal, No.