Poems

The Perfectness of Love

The trees, etching their green loveliness against the skyWith outflung branches, typifyThe measureless and boundless meed of Love.

"Thy son liveth"

"Weep not," the loving Master saidTo the sorrowing widow at Nain.

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Shared reflections

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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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Safe Dwelling

Where is your faith in Spirit's powerTo guide, to guard, to saveFrom pestilence that walks at night;From weather, wind, and wave?

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Jesus in the Temple

We may not know his glorious words of truthThat scaled the temple walls, but we may surmise:These men were scholars, he was but a youth,Yet wisdom beyond theirs was in his eyes!We feel assured those hours were happy hours;He must have told of that joy forever given—Who later chose the smiling wayside flowersTo point a wondrous verity of heaven.

Mist

I said unto myself: "What shall I do?

Immortality

There is no death, for Life is infinite—expressed in all the universe and man.

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Anthology of classic articles III

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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 Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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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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Victory

Sing loudly, brother, sing, and sing again.

To One Who Is Adrift

Know that the power governing allMoves to answer before you call;

The Preacher

How many years, how long ago, a wiseMan said, Remember thy creator inThe days of youth; remember lest the skiesBe darkened, lest the silver cord wear thin.

Dreamer, Awaken

We dream at night-time, and our dreamsAre hurried, harried travels, misconceivedFrom daytime's actualities.

Radiant Day

He who rides the winds of timeMeasuring hoursDarkens day;As a lighted lamp gone out,So is that day.

After Treatment

The substance and the inspiration last:The work is of the present, not the past.