Poems

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CHARITY

Mary Lucretia Barker Franklin

The way was steep and night seemed long,But charity rejoiced,In darkness raised Love's triumph song.
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HOMESTEAD

Pearl Strachan Hurd

I moved into the light,And suddenly I sawThat house was mine.

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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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"MORE THAN TWELVE LEGIONS OF ANGELS"

Myrtle Daugherty

"Put up again thy sword into his place,"Jesus admonished the impetuous oneStriking in vain defense.

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CHRIST JESUS

Fanny de Groot Hastings

He went a little further—always he wentFurther—outdistancing in more than space—Further in meekness, further in consentTo do the Father's will, further in grace.
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THE HEALING WORD

Marjorie D. Manley

The healing word is gently saidBy those who are through Spirit ledTo understand and to rejoiceThat man reflects the Father's voice.
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WRITTEN IN HEAVEN

Alan W. Thwaites

To those accusing onlookers,The Master spoke no word,But stooped and wrote upon the ground,As though he had not heard.

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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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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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THE MEEK IN HEART

Myrtle A. Cash

The soft rebuke—how kind it was—and thenin pure reflection of God's gracethe outstretched hand to ease the hurt;and following fast the tender wordthat turned reproof to heaven's song.
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THE THOUGHT THAT LIFTS TO GOD

Margery Todahl Blokhine

The thought that lifts to God wings high,Touching infinitude of TruthFrom molecule to star, the whileEncompassing them both.
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CONFIDENCE

Florence M. Patterson

As the grass downtroddenSprings ever upward to the light,So shall my heart, when error's throesWould all but crush the hope within,Spring ever upward to my God.
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"YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN"

Sarah Margaret Glasspoole

With diamond point and angel's penIndelibly impressed,In Spirit's record you are foundInevitably blessed.
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THE SPIRITUAL SENSE OF LIFE

Godfrey D. C. John

No sky is a roofto immeasurable joy;no canopy confinesthe consciousness of Soul.
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THE ORIGINAL LAUNCHING

Pearl Strachan Hurd

Leap to new idea,Exploring Soul.