Poems

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"Depart from evil, and do good"

GERTRUDE HOLMGREN

Why hold to foolish fears and doubts,Why walk in darkness more?
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Treasure

MAE TUCKER

Before each heart with its fret and care,The Christ is waiting admission there.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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 Dedicatory Poem

By Mary Baker Eddy

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

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Then and Now

PEGGY YOUNG CLARK

Had I lived in the town of Martha, Little, far off Bethany,In the days when the Master journeyedFrom his native Galilee,Would my house have been one to lodge himWhile he talked and supped with me?
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Prayer for the New Year

STACY M. SNOW

Dear Father, blessed are the yearsWhich still unfold, in which to prove The nothingness of sins and fears,Thy allness as unchanging Love.
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Sing of Peace

MIRIAM DEAN BLACKBURN

MARY held the babe, and gentlySang of peace.

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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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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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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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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Joyous Singing

LOTTIE M. BROWN

When the Christmas bells are ringing All my being answers, singing! Singing softly through the twilight, Singing gladly of the Christ-light! Singing for the wrongs forgotten; Singing for the good begotten; Singing with a cadence holy, Singing with a spirit lowly!
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We Are the Lambs

PAULINE PEARL STRACHAN

We are the lambs.
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Unfoldment

MARY HOYT LOVELAND

The precious road to freedom is the way;Now dipping into shadow, thence to soarInto the light, it reaches for the day.
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Restoration

EMMA HODGES

I Found the glorious truthThat ever makes men free,When bowed by grief and lossOn sorrow's Calvary.
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Prayer

ETHEL WASGATT DENNIS

How often mortals plead through barren yearsThat Love may enter and dispel their fears,Yet cling the while to selfish, stubborn pride,Which holds the door fast closed, with Love outside!
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Michael and Gabriel

MARIAN J. COBB

As in the wilderness, when Jesus said,"Get thee behind me, Satan," evil fled,And in that place, erstwhile so dark and sinister,The angels came unto our Lord to minister—