Poems

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God's Man

DOROTHEA STURDIVANT FAGAN

O man of God's creating, How beautiful, how strong!To thee, in boundless measure,The gifts of Love belong.
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God Reigneth

CONRAD EIERMANN

God reigneth—yes, the darkest hourMust yield its false and gloomy power,When thought is turned from sense to Soul.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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Sanctuary

DORIS ENID GORE

I was afraid, weary and weak and ill,And turned in my great needTo Thee,O Father-Mother God,And found my peace.

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Angels

EMILY M. STEPHENS

We thank Thee for Thine angels, God;Pure messengers of peace,Who from all dreams of sufferingBring sure and swift release.
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Self-Surrender

VIRGINIA M. CASSEL

Dear Father , when the way is dark,And just one step I see,Help me with joy to take that stepAnd trust the next to Thee.
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Word of Life

EDITH GADDIS BREWER

I search in ways of yet uncharted thought,Seeking the word that might express my ownSense of emergence, with such struggle fraught.

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These books healed me

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Shared reflections

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From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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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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Ships at Eventide

JEANNE ROE PRICE

A ship that sails across the sea.
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In Truth's Clear Light

KATHRYN LANEY

When through the mist of sense to light divineThought, waking, upward wings,The unimportant things of earth recede—An angel sings.
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Shelter

LUELLA A. BREWER

When error's storm assails.
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Love's Omnipotence

AVERINA M. BRERETON

We do not know the ways our loved should take,But gratefully we leave them in God's hands;He knows the paths they all must tread alone,Their needs, for happiness, He understands.
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The Vanguard

MARION ALICE BOWERS

"Evening , and morning, and at noon" do they pray,Their casements open to Jerusalem,As deep desire and earnest expectationAre winged to reach the great heart of God.
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Written in a Christian Science Rest Room

B. PHYLLIS SIMPSON

O Tender quiet, whither all may comeBringing their burdens, leave them at this door.