Poems

A SOFT ANSWER

I have learnedTo keep a quiet tongueWhen I just simply longTo shout with indignation.

MARK AS WRITER

After a hundred years of scrutinyAnd polemic, best and worst,Scholars peaceably agreeThat Mark,To invent a normOf outline for the Gospel form,Was first.

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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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EASTER TRIUMPH

Was he a king then?

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A PRAYER

Dear Father, oh, forgive them.

LET SILENCE SPEAK

He answered Pilate not a word.

DISTRIBUTION

Our bread of Truth we now send forth to heal;Our wine, Love's inspiration, we now shareWith all receptive strangers everywhere,Through distribution of the Word.

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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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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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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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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OUR READING ROOM

We welcome all; within this quiet roomFor us the table of the feast is spread,And placed thereon abundantly is bread,Sustenance from heaven; he to whomThis bread is given shall be satisfied.

AT TESTING TIMES

Acceptable to God, sole source of wisdom,Let my conclusions and responses be,Relying not on chance or human judgment,But based on Principle unerringly.

SPACE-AGE QUESTION

What will men do, out in the starry deepsOf far-flung universe, if they meet lifeIn form unlike their own?

ASPIRATION

I am not a Mary;yet I aspire to be—to change my Martha naturefor loving grace to freefrom earthly tasks that cumber,from worldly cares, and findsweet peace in understandingmy God, eternal Mind.

THE HEIR

The Father has given to the sonnot sober suit, not uniform,but a many-colored coatall fresh, all gay.

BIRTHDAYS

Why mark a date that never was?