Poems

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I SAW

Margery Macdonald Cantlon

I saw as mortals see,and there was only loss and anguish there,which filled my heart with long and dark despair.
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INSEPARABILITY

Mary Bell Rhodes

Because we live in Life we cannot part,Though mortal sense insists: "I'm here.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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THE SERVANTS KNEW

Hilda M. Dolman

None but the ChristThe wine of inspiration can impart.

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RETIREMENT

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Tilling the soil?
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WHAT PRICE VICTORY?

Mary Carter Hodges

Who is to say the victory is not here?
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ETERNAL IMAGE

Jeanne Guerin Bengston

The grandeur of the snowcapped peakgleams, mirrored in the lake:each pinnacle and ridge and massrepeated, for its sake.

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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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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.

From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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"FATHER, FORGIVE THEM"

Margaret Hovenden Ogden

They jeered at him:"Save thyself," and "Come down from the cross.
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WHO KNOWS?

Helen Oscar Winfield

On that sad dayThree widows reached the parting of their ways.
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THIS QUIET READING ROOM

Ethel Cory Cohen

O quiet room of rest and meditation,Of hope and silent prayer!How very close you are to God,How much you have to share!Your sheltering walls hold treasuresThat lead to happiness,To beauty, and to Love's perfectionAnd protectiveness.
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A DISCIPLE'S PRAYER

William Luce

Dear Father, on the altar of Thy loveI lay my simple offering tonight.
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FULFILLMENT

Hazel S. Hire

There is no time to waste or borrow,Looking back or toward tomorrow;Each day, each hour is the seasonIn which to think, repent, and reason.
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THE ATTIC ROOM

Donalda von Poellnitz

(At Lynn where Mary Baker Eddy wrote Science and Health)