Poems

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WHEN ANGELS CAME

Jean Hazel Allen

With noiseless step the angels cameInto my heart at midnight hour;Though they had neither form nor name,With noiseless step the angels came.
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CHILD

Norma MacDow Kemon

The thought of "child" is innocency.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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GOD GLORIFIED

Glynard A. Burnside

When we have setSelf-love aside,Conquered rancorAnd human pride,Then our portion—Thought purified—Will crown endeavorWith God glorified.

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REFLECTION

Luella A. Brewer

Windowpanes will not shineThrough a long and darkened night,But moon and stars and glow of sunMake them reflect the light.
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GOODNESS LEADS ONWARD

Gertrude E. Velguth

I used to call the little things I did—Like unseen favors, simple courtesies,The drying of an eye,Exchange of jolly wit for plaintive sigh—Trivialities,A sort of marking time, till grand realitiesMight start my upward, heavenward, climb.
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SOLACE

Edith Jane Caslake

Weep not.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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

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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 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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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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BEHOLDING LOVE'S CREATION

Ruby Lee Corder

Creative Love, whose radiant power has keptThe spiritual universe and man intact,Would never leave His child in dark bereft,For God holds man in Love's divine compact.
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TESTIMONY MEETING

Mollie Ruth Bottoms

"Let your light so shine," the Master said,That men "may see your good works, and glorifyYour Father.
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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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"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.