Poems

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"MARY!"

Annie Lorena House

Mary, who followed even to seeming doomOn darkened Golgotha, came not to shareTriumphal glory: thinking but to bearSweet spices to anoint him in the gloomOf early morn, she saw the empty tombAnd, weeping, pleading in her bleak despair,Knew not that resurrection morning's fairImmortal bud had sprung to wondrous bloom.
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RESURRECTION

Louise S. Darcy

Eternal Christ, may we awakeTo resurrect the buried thought,Arousing it to comprehendMore deeply truths the Master taught,Inspired, ennobled, and rebornUpon this blessed Easter morn.

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Shared reflections

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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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IMMANUEL

Violet Hay

Dear Father-Mother God that changeth never,Unfolding good reveals Thy perfect plan.

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THE NIGHT WATCHES

Claude L. Snow

Now we knowWhat it wasThe Psalmist communed withIn the night watches.
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SIMON OF CYRENE

Hazel Harper Brandner

Cyrenian Simon, did you guess that hateHad added to his cross its crushing weightWhen Jesus groaned and sank beneath the loadUpon the stony way of Calvary's road?
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THE PERFECT WHOLE

Ruth King

God sees the volume; we, the single sheet.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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 Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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ALL I NEED

Dorothy R. Sexton

With Truth I dwell in Love divine.
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LOVE

Anne Bonner Marley

I heard the voice of love today;I traced the sound across the hill!It sang to me along the way,With blended notes of chirp and trill.
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A WORD FITLY SPOKEN

Alice E. Tonking

I seek the word with healing fraught,To lift the heart and light the eye;Still it eludes my troubled thought.
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DIVINE AWARENESS

Elsie Hill Ainsworth

Laying material consciousness aside,You will hear Soul speak to youOf your own Christliness.
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THERE IS A PATH

Hazel A. Blackwell

There is a path that no bird knows,And that the vulture as it soars     In swift-winged flight has never seen;     Where lions' whelps have never been;Where the fierce lion never goes.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL

Peggy Young Clark

It is not by chance that we are here.