Poems

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Reality

LULU A. REID

How thoroughly the Master understoodThat God made everything and made it good!Always he saw the universe and manThe true expression of God's perfect plan.
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A Soldier of Christ

ANTOINETTE HOLBROOK

Stern duty bids me walk an unknown trail,A path where darksome shadows seem to be;Yet well I know I shall not faint nor fail,For Love divine goes all the way with me.

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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 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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Waiting

GERTRUDE S. MC CALMONT

Multitudes —Multitudes in the valleyWait for the healing Christ.

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Achievement

MARY H. OLIVER

The budding thought that seeks a higher senseOf Life and Love, that yearns to understandThe universe of Mind, must soon expand—When God is sought, He surely shall be found.
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In the Court of the Areopagites

J. ARTHUR R. STEVENSON

Ye men of Athens, what intention broughtYour footsteps eager to the hill of Mars?
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Shepherd Song

GRACE NIXON STECHER

As the shepherd guides his chargesTo the mountain meadows green,So does God provide the uplandsWhere His flock may rest serene.

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Shared reflections

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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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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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A Soldier's Prayer

ROBERT LOUIS LINZ

At break of day, when morning sun draws nigh,I close my eyes in prayer, and pray that IMay know the truth, that it may make me freeAnd bring me nearer still, my Lord, to Thee;
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"In a certain place"

JANIE FLEMING LAWRIE

There only is one certain place:It is not far,Nor found by weary, toilsome ways—There, now, we are.
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Convoy

MARION ALICE BOWERS

How sure is he who travels in the way!He holds his course in confidence and peace.
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Wings

LILLIAN D. MINES

God gives him wings—strong-pinioned, buoyant, kind,Held true by compass of all-knowing Mind—A legion angel thoughts to bear him up and on.
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Repentance

OPAL WINSTEAD

The peaceful silence of the contrite heartIs eloquent beyond all clamorous praise;For in this stillness pride and fear depart,And meekness learns of God His wondrous ways.
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Obedience

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

Do you move freely on the mountain height,With feet unfettered and with heart unbound?