Poems

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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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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.

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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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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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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These books healed me

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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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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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.
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Expectancy

MARION ALICE BOWERS

I Know that neither sin nor fearCan dim this truth divine:That God is good, and good is here.
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Deeds, Not Words

F. MILDRED RICKMAN

I said.