Poems

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The Light Leads On

PEARL STRACHAN HURD

What is this Christmas?
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Our Gift

GRACE K. STICHT

As swiftly through the silent nightThey rode from lands afar,Three Wisemen searching for the ChristWere guided by a star.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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Bethlehem Night

CATHERINE ANNETTE HUBBELL

The beauty that prevailed one nightIn starlit BethlehemWas wrought no man's mortal will,By artifice or gem.

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Wise Men, Awake!

LAURA BROWN CROWELL

Pierce through the darkness, star of Bethlehem!Scatter this cloud of apathy and gloom,For there are many hearts would give Christ room,Except the darkness is too great for them.
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Holy Peace

RUTH CATHERINE JONES

Within the quiet of today,In one uplifted hour,Enfolded in the consciousnessOf Love's omniscient power,A peace is mine, a holy peace,Wherein I am awareOf being in the "secret place,"Sanctified by prayer.
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Feed My Sheep

ESTHER CHURCH

Do you love your Master, Simon?

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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Anthology of classic articles

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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"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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Perfection

EVELYN G. WILKINSON

Perfection or suggestion—Which shall be real to me?
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And This Is True

AMY G. VIAU

And this is true:God loves both you and me.
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The Light of Love

ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG

If you would heal the sorrowing and ill.
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Treatment

LULU A. REID

Sometimes I need to use the Michael way,And fight to know the truth that makes us free,Wrestling with the error, while I pray,Until I see its unreality.
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His Holy Purpose

OCTAVIA BEATRICE WYNBUSH

Like to the lovely, fragrant flowerThat furls its splendor till the sunHas brought to pass the appointed hourWhen its fair petals, one by one,
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"Stretch forth thine hand"

MARGARET C. RIDENOUR

Stretch forth thine hand, dear fearful one, be whole!Piercing the uselessness of all the yearsWithered from lack of trust, demands of SoulCall for activity in Love which bearsWitness to man's full reflection of Mind.