Poems

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Now

Fanny deGroot Hastings

I Stand at length where phantom timeCan neither halt nor spur,Where being climaxes at prime,Future and past concur.
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"DRINK YE ALL OF IT"

Roberta Joan Seiferth

The cup's depths looked so very deepAnd dark, he said that I must drain;I wanted freedom from my pain,But felt perhaps the cup could keep.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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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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ASSOCIATION DAY

Mary Baker Thompson

This is our Olivet, this beauteous day,Joyous, illumined, a rare, precious gem;Here is the mount where we may watch and pray,Here humbly touch the garment's healing hem.

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PRAYER IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD

Doris Maude Ferne

Dear Father, heal the sad, the sick, the blind,With the unfolding treasures of Thy Mind.
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GOD MADE MAN UPRIGHT

Amy G. Viau

Man's dignityIs the poise of graciousnessBestowed by God.
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PERENNIAL BIRTH

Edith Coonley Howes

New birth is a dawning,An impelling visionOf perfect being, beautiful, free.

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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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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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DIRECTION

Cecile Pepin Edwards

When all my proud and selfish schemesHave ended in futilityI come, dear Father-Mother God,To find my way again in Thee.
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CEASE AND BEGIN

Lillian M. Carter

"Cease ye," Isaiah said, "from man, whose breathIs in his nostrils.
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ASSURANCE

Pearl Strachan Hurd

You can trust God to be good.
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MY PRAYER

Helen Dye Sharback

Give me the shepherd heart,Vigilant, tender,Wakeful to all human need,Quick to discern the mental callOf the wayward, the weary, the willful,Famishing for word of Truth.
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BEFORE THE LESSON

Gerald Stanwell

This is indeed the holy Comforterimparting Truth, which in its turn will sownew seedlings, new convictions that will growand speak themselves of Love's infinitude.
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THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE

Mildred Kendall

Cries of the multitude in the valleyof decision