Poems

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THE SAMARITAN

C. Elizabeth Hunsworth

My neighbor fell among thievesWho robbed him of his good name,Stripped him and left him helplessAnd stricken with shame.
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TRUE SATISFACTION

Helen E. Wells

Be satisfied!The words came suddenly—As if in answer to my fervent prayerThat I might wake to seeMore clearly Love's reality.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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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PROGRESSION

P. Rhodes Bowen

Dear Father-Mother Love,How wonderful to knowThat I don't need to waitTill I have overcomeAll false, suggested fearsOf mortal mind's contention,Before I feed Your sheepWith Your sustaining truth,And pour the healing oilOf prayer on friend or foe—Increasing inspiration!

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OMNIPRESENCE

Vera Sohr Kelly

God , I thank Thee for this living spring.
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ALL THINGS NEW

Fanny de Groot Hastings

There are no duplicates in Mind,Which promised to make all things new—No seconds found of any kind—But one of me and one of you.
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THE DEARLY SOUGHT

Godfrey John

You are the dearly soughtOf God.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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TURN HOMEWARD, PILGRIM!

Elizabeth Rogers

Have you sought passage through some weary, landof human hopes, entanglements and dreams,and found, for fast, no crumb of bread at hand,
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THAT NIGHT ON GALILEE

Gibbs Hofmann

See how the fantasy of frightEngulfed the doubting twelve that nightAs wind and waves the vessel swept,And peacefully the Master slept,He, waked when they in fear were tense,Rose in divine magnificence,Whom nothing mortal ever moved.
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THE STILL SMALL VOICE

Edna B. Brown

Not long ago a tempest raged.
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THE GATE OF HEAVEN

Donalda von Poellnitz

The time of reckoning was close at handAs Jacob came to answer Love's demandFor equity.
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RESURRECTION

Margaret Hovenden Ogden

The field I reap,The harvest of attainment,The ripened yield that bends with the wind and reaches to the light,Is not the fruitage of a single season.
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WAIT ON MIND

Peter John Sutton

Restrain false fervorbefore words flickerfrom unmeditating lips,before considered paintbrush slipsfrom guidance into unconsidered splash.