Poems

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Awakening

MARGUERITE SCOTT TILL

How fervently to God I daily prayedThat I might wake from out my doubting night,And lo, at dawn I saw the shadows fade,And pain and ill receded from my sight.
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Walk to Emmaus

THELMA BROOKS

While walking the Emmaus road,afraid of what their hearts forebode,speaking in terms of doubt and shameat mention of the Master's name.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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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A Prayer for Those in Active Service

NAOMI V. M. TOPLEY

For those who from our firesides, Lord, have goneTo fight for freedom's cause on land or sea,We ask that they may know the peace of MindThat comes to those who put their trust in Thee.

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"I know thee by name"

VERA CONSTANCE HOWARD

I know thee by thy name! Could any wordsMore dear and close relationship convey?
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"There shall be showers of blessing"

HAZEL HARPER BRANDNER

"There shall be showers of blessing,"Reviving the hearts of all men,When brotherly love, effervescing,Returns sweet refreshment again.
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Comfort of Love

HESTER CHAMPNEY

When anxious hearts beat fast and yearn to knowHow loved ones fare and in what lands they dwell,In deep humility we learn to bowBefore that reassuring, "It is well.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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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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On Hallowed Ground

SADIE M. GERVAIS

When human hopes delude and joys deceive,When storms of mortal sense confound and bliss beguiles,When sunny gardens seem but barren isles,Awake! The senses ever falsely thus aggrieveAnd strive to make mendacities astound.
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Protection

JANET BUDD

Clad in good thoughts, we know we are secure.
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Victory

ARAMINTA TAULMAN

Father , we cry aloud to TheeFor victory and peace,When to obey Thy Golden RuleWould bring a sure release.
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First Waking

CORA CATHERINE MASON

As a flower turning to the sun, So in Thy day begun I turn to Thee.
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Resurrection

DOROTHY M. THORNTON

From sadness turn, and thou shalt findLove, ever present, constant, kind:Love that is man's eternal LifeAbove the pain of human strife;Changeless, we are at one with HimWho knows no death, or vision dimOf those we thought had died: who givesThe understanding that man lives—Lives in eternal Truth, whose holdEmbraces all.
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Earthly Loss Is Heavenly Gain

MABEL WHITE RODOCKER

To the mount of revelationI ascend, and feel Thy power,In the calmness and the stillnessOf the early morning hour.