Poems

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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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Anthology of classic articles II

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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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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.

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Straightway

HESTER CHAMPNEY

Straightway forsook their nets and followed himSimon and Andrew, fishers of Galilee.
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Like Birds Ascending

BERTHA RIVERS-THOMPSON

Like birds ascending the clear heights of heaven,Our thoughts can rise, swiftly to findIn the pure atmosphere of MindDominion, strength, and might;And in this radiant lightOf Truth, peace unconfined.
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Love Fills All Space

EVELYN MAY SCOTT DUCKETT

Love fills all space.

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Anthology of classic articles

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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From Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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Dawn

COSETTE E. COLBY

This is the hour when man is close to God.
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My Gentle Lord

ADRIENNE HAIGH

"Thy gentleness hath made me great.
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"Such as I have"

EDNA WISE WEST

Daily they laid him at the temple gate—Helpless, despairing, desolate—To beg a pittance of the hurrying throng,And so sustain his miserable state;And some passed by, and others tossed an alms,Each one according to his inclination.
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Inseparability

MARIAN J. COBB

Man is forever God's perfect reflection,Never an instant without Love's protection.
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The Practitioner

MAYME DAHLEM

I will not tell you what to do,But knowThat God is always telling you;And soI'll leave you to His loving care,And thusProve Him the only Mind of eachOf us.
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When All the Angels Came

MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL

Joy has slipped down into my heart;Easily it came, as tightened budsReceive a drop of rain.