Poems

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Standing on the Promises

BESSIE EVANGELINE MURCH

It is not love unto our God,Nor to a brother, friend,To see as real, and having power,As growing stronger every hour,The evils that portend.
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Sacrifice

LULU A. REID

To lay my earthly all upon the altar—This sacrifice seemed more than I could bear,Until I thought of Abraham and IsaacAnd of our heavenly Father's tender care.

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Shared reflections

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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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"Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters"

FAYE L. COMSTOCK

Sometimes we hesitateTo say the word or give the smileThat flows from our heart's overflowOf good, and as we handleCarelessly the while the gift of giving.

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Leaving Idols

GWENDOLYN I. MEALY

Jesus said, "Follow me,"And straightway then they left their nets and followed him.
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Bethesda

LAURA BROWN CROWELL

Beside Bethesda's pool a cripple lay,As he had lain for many a weary year,Watching while others in a similar caseWere helped into the pool by willing hands.
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Consolation

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

Sweep away your sadness,Dry your tearful eyes.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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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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Demonstration

FLORENCE MAYER HOUGHTON

The night was dark and filled with dread,And no light came with day;Despair and pain had bound me fast,For I had lost my way.
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The Quiet Room

NAOMI V. M. TOPLEY

How quiet the room, how calm the atmosphere;Surely God's very presence has dwelling here.
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My Vineyard

LOIS ALLEN BECK

The gate I thought securely latched,Swung open wide one day;Small foxes lurking just outsideThen crept inside to play.
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Promise

EDITH COONLEY HOWES

Hagar! Hagar! Eyes so filled with tearsHave missed the living water at your hand.
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The Christ Triumphant

LETA MARTHA OWEN

When we have touched the healing seamless hemOf Christ's humility and selfless love,And in these prayerful moments we have provedThat holiness and health are really one,The misty dreaminess of earth is gone.
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They Shall Be Comforted

MAURICE MC C. CHURCH

Forerunner of ascension, patient woe,Dear love, remaining love though none responds,Gethsemane points through the fire, and loA brighter dawn where still kind love abounds.