Poems

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DORCAS OF JOPPA

Estella Mayer MacBride

What were her thoughts when opening her eyesShe found herself, not where she had lain ill,Circled by loyal friends, but in that stillSmall upper room of hers?
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THE PATIENT

Evelyn S. Abernethy

Oh, how she wanted to give!The dollar bill,The eggs,I hold them in my hand.

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Anthology of classic articles III

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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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SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS

Daisy Stieber Squadra

Swathed in time'swinding-sheet, howcan Lazarus comealive again nowfor us in this room,this one hourdissolved, also, soon?

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RIGHT PRAYER

Anna M. Moore

I prayed for oneimportunately,in humble, deep sincerity,but no light shone.
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ONLY THE "NOW"

Jane Morse

There is no time "ago," an hour,A day, a year.
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NO TROUBLED HEART

Edna M. E. Smart

"Let not your heart be troubled:"Divine Love is the Life of man.

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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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From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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LESSON CONTINUING

Pearl Strachan Hurd

What is our purpose?
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ONE GUIDING BEAM

Donalda von Poellnitz

As wild geese wedge aloft in arrowed flight,Thy mental compass charts their course aright—The same All-power that spins our rolling sphereAnd governs movement with precision here.
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"AS IT BEGAN TO DAWN . . ."

Gerald Stanwell

"As it began to dawn.
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BAPTISM

Lillian Turner Marks

It is not stepping in a pool;It is not sprinkling the head;It is putting off the oldAnd putting on the new instead.
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A MERRY HEART

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

My heart was miserably hauntedby fear I was unloved, unwanted,till I commenced to tryto make myself a little morepleasant and lovable than before.
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SONNET OF LIGHT

Noëlle Madeleine Porrill

Paul walked with vengeful thought his darkened wayUntil from ignorance Christ set him free,And on Damascus road the clarityOf Truth shone down a penetrating raySo bright it lit his world, his thought, his day.