Poems

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A Parable of the Sacrament

PRULA I. GUFFY

One day I swept the doorstone of my heartAnd fanned the fire on its hearth to flame;With patient steps the oaken table spread,And laid thereon the bread my hands had made.
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The Summons

SYDNEY KING RUSSELL

I HEARD a voice that spoke and said:"Awake, and turn ye from the dead;O thou that sleepest long, awake,And see the joyous morning break.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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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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If I but Love

IVA B. LINEBARGER

IF I but love,No shadow will I castAcross the pathway of another's day;Whatever I may think or do or say,I will but help another on his way,Nor burden more his task—If I but love.

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An Understanding Heart

MARION L. HORSTMAN

Give me, dear Lord, a heart so triedBy flames of purifying fire,That sin and self may be consumed,And in their stead a pure desireTo learn to love Thy chastening rodThat brings me ever nearer Thee;To grow more Christlike day by day,Thy tender love and goodness see.
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The People Murmured

VERNE TAYLOR BENEDICT

Would God that we had died while yet in Egypt,The people murmured when they weary grew.
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Inspiration

KATHRINE SCOBEY PUTNAM

I Cannot always find the spring,The spring of inspiration;But when I climb a sunlit hill,The hill of revelation,I find it, bright and glistening.

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Shared reflections

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Shared reflections

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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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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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Be Thou My Strength Alway

OMA OLNA MARTIN

Dear Father, like a thoughtless childI stumble oft and cry,Forgetting in my waywardnessThy guiding hand is nigh.
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The Practitioner

MAY TERRY CARLSON

You gave me friendship,Deep, enduring, strong;With wondrous patience.
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"Ask, and it shall be given"

EDITH M. SHANK

Why hear ye not the Master's loving counselWhen burdened sense affirms great is the need?
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Witness

MILDRED NICKERSON HALL

Now through my daily round I goWith joyous steps, most willingly.
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Light

MABEL WHITE RODOCKER

When shadows deepen and my heart grows weary,Quite burdened with the weight of sin and woe,I find a refuge sweet in Love's abiding,And hear the gentle, "Peace, be still, and know.
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The Way

MARY DOROTHEA CHATE

To love as Jesus loved!O Truth, I look to Thee,And find Thine allness provedIn Love's sweet harmony.