Poems

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Benefactors

KATHLEEN ANNETTE SCAMMELL

Truth supplies the completeVision that is to be sought;Life, with its vigor, will meetThe duties that are to be wrought;While Love gives speed to the feet.
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The Power of Gratitude

MAYME DAHLEM

Like Jacob, I too was aloneAnd wrestling with the lieThat claims man lives in matter,And out of it can die.

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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 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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Communion

DORTHA KILLIAN

Many who on loaves and fishesCame to dine,Remained to feast upon immortalBread and wine.

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The All-Knowing Mind

SALLY FORTH

I need not cry so very loud,For He is ever near,Nor be afraid to trust in Him;There is no room for fear.
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For Them Too

PEARL STRACHAN HURD

He said not one sparrow should fall to the ground"Without your Father.
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Prayer

A. MARTHA DAVIS

This is my prayer.

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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.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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Samaritan, Priest, or Levite?

THELMA BROOKS

Would you pass by on the other sidewith curious glance or hasty pridewhen your brother needs a helping hand,or a light by which he may understand?
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Pillars of Wisdom

ALAN W. THWAITES

Towering aloft in her temple,Supporting her structure of light,Wisdom hath builded her pillars,Seven of immeasurable height.
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The Reading Room

HULDAH M. JOHNSON

This quiet spot, this sheltered place,With welcome restFrom weary mortal strain,Gives refuge where the seeker canHis peace and strength regain.
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One Hour

LULU A. REID

Material things were crying for attention;They threatened to monopolize the day.
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I Have Today

AMY G. VIAU

I have today, my Father, all of nowIn which to know Thy presence and Thy power,To cease lament for lost and fruitless hour.
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Tomorrow's Need

LILY GRAY

I thought that I had lost a piece of gold.