Poems

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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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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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

From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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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

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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

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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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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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HOME

Lois Allen Beck

Within the all-encircling sphereOf peace and harmonyGod's children ever dwell secure,Unfettered, upright, free.
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BECAUSE OF THY GREAT MERCY

Evelyn Games

Because of Thy great mercy, God,I too must mercy showTo weak, sin-sick, downtrodden ones,With labored step and slow.
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HEART-WHOLE

Margery Todahl Blokhine

There never was a tired heart—Only a heart pursuing peace;Each impulse from Almighty God.
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REMEMBER NOW THY CREATOR

Ruth King

Though we remember God when stars are dark,When winds blow coldly on our stony ways,And we go forward, strong to demonstrate,What of His love in green and primrose days?
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ASSURANCE

Aimee E. Green

Serene my thought to greet each newborn day,Unquestioning my trust in Mind's directing.
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SIMPLICITY

Olive Scholes

Let us not wrap clear thoughtIn things obscure,But unadulterated keep God's WordUnaltered, pure.