Poems

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In Thy House Today

ETHEL WASGATT DENNIS

Let there be silence in Thy house today,Stilled here the seven thunders of earth's strifeAnd even the softest whisperings of senseThat would disrupt the harmony of life.
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Lighthouse Keeper

ESTHER CHURCH

The lighthouse keeper ever tends his light,So that its rays may find the rocks unseen.

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Anthology of classic articles II

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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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Christmas Poem

VERE BAILLIEU

"Because there was no room for them.

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Benediction

ROSE T. KELSALL

Be comforted, ye weary ones,Hear Spirit's gentle voice:Oh, lift your heads, the message runs,Imbibe Life's fount, rejoice.
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Sign of Immanuel

LUELLA KNAPP BRISTOL

How often, through the mists of mortal sense,Men yearn to see some sign or evidenceThat God is near!
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Love's Omnipresence

BLESSING AINSWORTH BROWN

No less is God upon the fieldOf battle far awayThan in this quiet, hallowed room,Where He seems near today.

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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 approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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 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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God's Perfect Protection

FLORENCE E. GLASS

In olden time the prophet Abrahamwas called upon to sacrifice his son,or so he thought, but truly God's commandmeant not what he interpreted, but ratherthat he must give up his false sense of son.
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The Fourth Beatitude

JAMES MONTEITH ERSKINE

Whoever hungers for the bread of TruthOr longs for water Love alone supplies,Sinner or saint, aged or but a youth,He shall receive the food that satisfies.
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Be of Good Cheer

JAMES TOWNSEND MAC VICAR

Be of good cheer! The Master calleth you!And Bartimaeus cast his robe away.
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Petition

CHRISTIANA WILLINK

Teach me how to yield, dear Father,To Thy great and holy power;Humbly do I ask it of TheeAs I listen hour by hourFor the holy inspirationWhich to man Thou dost impart,That which purifies and cleansesThe repentant human heart.
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"While it is called To day"

LAURA LEE RANDALL

Lord, Thou hast given us this dayIn whose clear light,Showing Thy might,We can most gratefully believeThat all the good for which we prayWe shall receive.
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"Glory to God in the highest"

EDITH COONLEY HOWES

Except my lips first learn to sing,"To God the highest glory be,"I cannot hear the "Peace on earth"His messengers would bring to me.