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MARY C. REYNOLDS

"Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God.
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Love Pays the Debt

EMILY PATTERSON SPEAR

ALL day, dear Father, I have watched Thy sheep,Striving with tireless love each one to keep.

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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 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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What We Most Need

F. INA BURGESS

WHAT we most need is humbleness,And willingness to wait—The patience of the man who layBeside the temple gate.

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"Love is our refuge"*

ARTHUR STANTON LAMROCK

THE day is done, in Thy dear arms we restSecure, O Father-God, from every fear;With grateful hearts for all thy love has blessed,We know Thee ever present, always near.
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Heaven Within

THOMAS D. M. LATTA

I HEARD an inward voice,It spoke so soft and clear;And when I asked where Love might be,It gently whispered, Here!
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The Impersonal Visit

KATHRYN LANEY

Love came todayAnd brought me inspiration,And lifted meFrom sorrow and from pain.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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 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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Promise

DUDLEY STOW

Since this great world, so wide in beauty spreading,Is but a semblance of the truth sublime,And the rich, kindly earth—on which we're treading—Sounds but false echoings of space and time;Since lights and shadows of the changing oceanAre borrowed splendors, and the far pale star—Fixed and remote from all our brief emotion—Whispers the finitude of what they are;Well may we strive, with unabating wonder,To glimpse the vision of eternity,Glories undreamed grow greater as we ponder,Spirit supreme, immortal harmony;False joy and sorrows—matter's lure and terrors—Scripture and Science unmask, as unreal errors!
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The Blessing

JANE POLSON SPEARIN

I went upon the highway yesteryear,And there met one whose very heart was soreWith weariness.
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God's Ever-Presence

FREDERIC E. MORGAN

What if the lightning flashes,Thunder roars, and all the terrors of the nightCry out aloud?
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Dedication

CHARLES A. GRIFFITH

To Thee, O God, I humbly pray,And seek Thy will to know;Lead me in pastures green today,And let me find the heavenly way,And in Thy likeness grow.
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No Night There

MABEL STUART CURRY

We saw dark error's mists descendAnd hide our friends from mortal sight.
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Response

Rosemary C. Cobham

It does not matter that you cannot seeWhere Love's hand leads; it is enough to beResponsive to its impulse.