Poems

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SO SHALL THY STRENGTH BE

Dudley Stow

"As yet I am as strong this day"—brave wordsAt fourscore years and five, but Caleb's trustWas not the argument of spear or swords,Which finds its final recompense in dust.
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OBEDIENCE

William Aubert Luce

"Launch out into the deep,"The Master prayed,"And let down your nets for a draught.

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Anthology of classic articles III

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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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FORGIVENESS

Benjamin Sturgis Pray

Clear-shafted let forgiveness shineAnd with restoring rays defineThe self, untouched, robust, and tender,Of both offended and offender.

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THE GIFT

Roberta Joan Brink

What do I have to feedthe world's great need?
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THY WAY

Marguerite J. Lorber

Teach me to love Thy way, O Lord,The way of Life so freeThat every habit, every urge,And every tendencyMay lead away from mortal senseTo immortality.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING MEETING

Lillian Turner Marks

"There am I in the midst of themWhere two or three are gatheredIn my name.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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THANK GOD

Edgar Isaac Newgass

They will not lift, whatever you do,Those clouds that overshadow you?
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CONFIDENCE

Dorothy M. Backhouse

Learn not to smotherWith the human love,Little mother,Those you wish to help.
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"LORD, I BELIEVE"

Mary Lucretia Barker

"Lord , I believe;Help thou mine unbelief.
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AWAKENING

Grace O. Holton

I cried : "Dear God, why dost Thou pass me by?
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GRATITUDE

Maud Hubbard Brown

When I remember how my trust in TheeHas led me through the wilderness of years,Healing all pain and wiping dry my tears,And clearing, through the dark, a space to seeThe heavenly light of Love delivering meFrom all that flesh inherits, all arrearsOf error entertained, till there appearsGod's man in me and all men, blessedly,
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FAITHFULNESS

Alan W. Thwaites

The one who in compassion gaveThe troubled world a healing signDid not disdain the marriage feast,But changed the water into wine.