Poems

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YOUR PART

Bianca S. Simon

Perchance your longing eyes perceiveWhat other workers in the Field achieve;You seek a part in honor and in fameTo bless the world, enrich it in Christ's name.
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RESURRECTION

Florence Patterson

I stood and weptAnd sorrowing viewed the scene:Man fallen,Caught in the maelstrom of earth's woe,Sick, sinful, tired.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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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CERTITUDE OF VISION

Mollie Ruth Bottoms

Who finds the inner brightness of the SoulPuts off the hindering whither and the why,Puts on the ancient yea—the certain, whole,Unalterable, and eternal aye, and aye.

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GOD'S GRACE

Edith H. Carnes

God's grace as sunshine is upon the earth todayThat bringeth forth the bud unto the perfect flower.
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DUTY

Maxine Le Pelley

Do I see someone struggling?
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THE OPEN DOOR

Myrtle Ella Robertson

What is that open door which God has set,And which no man can shut?

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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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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

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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From Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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THE FATHER'S BARN

Fanny de Groot Hastings

We need to build no greater barns to storeThe increase of our wordly stocks and waresIf we remember that the threshing floorRelieves the husbandman of worldly tares.
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OMNIPRESENCE

Ruby C. Padfield

Each day God's love for man unfolds—It meets my every need;Can I have less than yesterday?
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MY BROTHER

Eleanor L. Shepherd

Is it enough for me to seeMyself as perfect, whole, and free,And look with sympathetic glanceUpon my brother's circumstance?
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TRANSFORMATION

P. John A. Moore

Once a candle in the midnightOf my heart was briefly lit:Ere the tallow had burned lowDaylight had supplanted it.
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LIGHT

Hazel A. Blackwell

As when through sullen storm clouds sunshine fallsRevealing realms beyond the tempest's night,Where shines the radiant splendor of the lightThat floods the heaven's illimitable halls,Or, in the early morn, a bird's voice callsTo herald by his song, serene and bright,The coming glory of the dawn, not quiteApparent yet above the garden walls,
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WINDOWS OF HEAVEN

Pearl Strachan Hurd

If it is infinite, how then controlBy human methods the supply of Soul?