Poems

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TRANSIT TO HEAVEN

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Love your right motive;it is the ship that bravestemptations, trials,and other troubled waves.
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VISION

Elizabeth Glass Barlow

"Lord,.

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Anthology of classic articles

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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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"HARMLESS AS DOVES"

Jeannette Hulst Johansson

Grieve not for eagle's flight that sweeps the wideDim vastnesses beyond the cloud-hung peaks;That spurns the gentle lands and, restless, seeksThe spume-stung headlands where the cold rains rideThe hollow winds above the churning tide.

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HOSPITALITY OF THE CHRIST

Doris Maude Ferne

Drawn to the radiance of the Christ they comeUnto the open door, so trustingly.
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MOTIVE

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Would I have, while unwilling to earnor know, without intent to learn?
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POSSIBILITY

Nancy L. Holder

Fear-darkened sense toldOnly of danger,Of wind and night, menace of raging sea,A frail craft's inadequacy.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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Shared reflections

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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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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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CHURCH BUILDING

Richard Carver

If our last nail were driven,Construction work all done,Our task would not be finished,Nor would our goal be won,
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BEYOND THE SYMBOLS

Elizabeth Rogers

Love etched a trillium in fragile whiteagainst the deepness of old winter's gray.
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PENETRATION OF TRUTH

Rita Berman

Truth penetrates all error;Yet not as agitated drillBoring through rock,But by its presence only.
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ANSWER

Fenella V. Farrar

You search the vague and distant hillsWith weary hope in anxious quest:"Horizons all are far away.
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AGE OF SCIENCE

Pearl Strachan Hurd

The compound at the Master's elevationincluded home and work and transportation,even talking with an earlier generation.
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WHY DO I PRAY?

Naville Hoogs

Is it for healing that I pray?