Poems

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Exhortation

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

Trust in the living God,The living good.
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Rock

DOROTHEA STURDIVANT FAGAN

Who builds on earthly hopes, builds all in vain,For every wrong desire brings troubled care,And fleeting joys reward again in pain;These are the dreams that lead to dark despair.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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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The United States to Great Britain

by MARY BAKER EDDY

Hail , brother! fling thy banner     To the billows and the breeze;We proffer thee warm welcome     With our hand, though not our knees.

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Healing Prayer

EUNICE M. BRONSON

As simply as the child that seeks his mother's knee,For comfort, do I, trusting, turn to TheeFor solace in my time of stress.
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The Deep Sea Fishers

MADGE ELDER

They were hungry and cold and tiredAs they turned their boats to the shore,And all that their hearts desiredWas the haven of home once more.
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A Prayer

THOMAS LOVATT WILLIAMS

Lift up my thought this day, That I may see With eyes undimmed By any doubt or fear, Man's unity with Truth And Life and Love, His confidence complete Both now and here, In ever-present, Ever-active good That holds creation In most tender care.

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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.

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Anthology of classic articles

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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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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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Free

EMILY PATTERSON SPEAR

The image of the Father is not fettered; His pure reflection is forever free.
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No Separation

ANTOINETTE HOLBROOK

I am persuaded That never can we drift beyond the loving sight Of God our Father, watching very near.
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"Open thou mine eyes"

CATHERINE B. ROBERTS

"Open thou mine eyes," O Lord,That I may wake and seeThat Life and Truth and Thy great loveAre not far off from me,But here, within my very grasp,If I but look to Thee.
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Revelation

EDGAR J. MOORE

For long I had been troubled—living inA world bewildered; not without a reason,Nor really with one, for things trivial hadUnnerved me.
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Assurance

SYDNEY KING RUSSELL

Be not afraid to testifyThat He, the Lord of hosts, is nigh,The Saviour and DelivererOf every faithful worshiper—Who will not let the sparrow fall,Whose sheltering hand is over all.
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How Clear the Light!

MARY F. KINGSTON

How clear the lightWhen darksome mists have fled,And all about meLove's bright beam is shed!'Tis then I glimpseThe Father's face,And trustingly relyUpon His grace.