Poems

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New Wine

ELIZABETH WOOLLEY

A night there was, When, doubting and severe, My weary thoughts contained in discontent Escaped In a thin cry; And, like the Psalmist, I trod softly midst the stars and questioned, Where is the place of inspiration, Where is its fountainhead?
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Children's Prayer

FLORENCE NELSON

Loving angels, guard my sleep.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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Testing Time

LEELAH C. HART

The mountaintop is all alight With morn's bright promise of the day; I stand alone in silent awe Above the clouds of misty gray.

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Serenity

ANTOINETTE HOLBROOK

Rest, troubled heart.
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In Thy Vineyard

DOROTHEA STURDIVANT FAGAN

WITH joy I lay my burden down;Its weary weight is gone.
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Awake!

AMY G. VIAU

Awake! the dream that mortal sense Would make for man is done! Now is the time to rise and know Dreams have no course to run.

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Shared reflections

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Shared reflections

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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 Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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The Gift of Love

ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG

Into this day that seemed so dark and denseLove's light has shone,Causing the shadows of old fearsTo vanish, one by one.
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"Shew me thy ways, O Lord"

MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE

Open my eyes that I may seeWhat is Thy loving will for me;That clear before my troubled gazeThy light shall show the ordered waysOf Thy requirements.
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Now

KATHRYN LANEY

There is no past to cause regret or tear, No future fears to which I needs must bow, For day by day the truth unfolds to me That in God's universe there's only now.
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"Why art thou cast down, O my soul?"

ESTELLA M. STETSON

I must resolve this doubt, this indecision,That seems to cloud my concept of true being.
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True Service

FLORA PHILLIPS MC KINLEY

Wake us to see the pillar of Thy fire!Let us not sit, O God, in dotish ease,Lest liberty and courage may expire.
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"Thy will be done"

MAURICE MC C. CHURCH

Give me the grace to pray, "Thy will be done,"That, trusting, I may find my love in Thine;That I may place each hope in Thee alone,Nor heed this will of mine.