Poems

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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.
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PRAYER AND ANSWER

Dulcie Geddes

Pray consistentlyfor what you most desire;thus faith will grow.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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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 STONE THE BUILDERS REJECTED

Patricia Barber

Humility, waking to the presenceof infinitywith a willing heart,looks away from the proud disparityof mortal senseand finds the clarityof Soul,revealing man's true science and artnow Genesis-simple, Christ pure hereand whole!

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THE BLESSED OF THE LORD

Leslie Marcoux

Oh, firmly close the door upon the past!It has no part in Love's eternal now;Nor has the future, nebulous and vast.
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UP FROM JORDAN

Hazel Harper Brandner

False pride entangled me, my steps were caughtIn web or snare; then, breaking through the dream,Words like Elisha's stirred my inmost thought:"Immerse thyself in Jordan's healing streamFull seven times and cleanse thyself of pride,Self-righteousness, self-will, and arrogance.
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THEY KNEW NOT

Francis Ward Grubb

They lovedthe pride of place,the pomp and ceremony,and the clink of penniessqueezed from the widows' meager store.

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Shared reflections

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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 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 WALL

Elizabeth Rogers

We were not tallenough to see beyond the somber wallof ignorance and fear.
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PRACTITIONER

Margaret Bowen Lane

No need of sculptured marbleTo immortalize your consecrationNor poet's lyric versesTo describe your dedication;Uncounted lives uplifted, brightened,Distresses healed and burdens lightenedBear witness to your selfless love.
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PROVED, UNPROVED

Daisy Stieber Squadra

Walls:cement, fieldstone, brick,mud, mosaic—allcrumble under history'srelentless millstone.
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BREAD

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Scriptural passages have saidthat God's children shall be fedbread.
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HARVEST

Maxine Le Pelley

Some seed will germinateFar sooner than the rest;And early is the growthOf young plant manifest.
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"WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP"

William Aubert Luce

"We shall not all sleep,"We shall not all sigh.