Poems

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"IN QUIETNESS AND IN CONFIDENCE"

Kathryn Laney Veazey

Faith grows in stillness, silencing all doubt.
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ADVENTURE

Ethel Walker

Go, traveler, go.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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THE CHRISTLY TOUCH

Leslie Marcoux

This was no weak-kneed faith.

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TODAY

Ethel Margaret Soden

O Love divine, help me todayWith wisdom's way to guide,To silence jarring human will,Make baseless fear subside.
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LOVE

Ethel Walker

The healer said, "God loves you.
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"PUT ON THE NEW MAN"

C. S. Tuckerman Chapin

Seek not the cataclysmic flash,Transition absolute, today.

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Anthology of classic articles III

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Anthology of classic articles

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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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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THE CLOSED DOORS

Ruth Burrows

Closed doors! They speak to us of human fear,As when King Herod, keen to please the JewsHad Peter chained to guards and thrown in jailBehind closed doors and hoped by doing soTo silence, once for all, the truths he taught—Upsetting truths to smug complacency.
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OUT OF THE ARK

Margery Todahl Blokhine

The earnest of the Word requitesWith love the weary and the sad;And to the body's plaint of illAppends a period.
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THE OPEN HAND

Pearl Strachan Hurd

Budgeting of worldly-wiseto save oneself, not freely give;stretch a pennyworth of life,strain it through dogmatic sieve,self-protect, economize—bankrupt soul!
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THE NEW NAME—PAUL

June Rice Scheetz

One human heartImpregnatedWith the light of Truth;A life corrected,A mission redirectedIn ways of love.
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LEADERSHIP

Maxine Le Pelley

Do we follow, with stumbling, His chosen scribe,Meeting demands with diatribe—Seeing no more than gifted penOr talent like that of other men?
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TESTIMONY OF HEALING

Mollie Ruth Bottoms

The light of Spirit's shining in that hourTransfigured all my illumined eyes could see,Shone out of heaven as sunlight on a flower,Transmuting time into eternity.