Poems

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Christ Jesus

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

He walked the earth in holy peace,To sorrow-laden brought release;At his command the raging seaWas calmed in primal harmony.
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Patience

MARGARET HORN

Dost thou tread a weary road,Bearing yet a heavy load?

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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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Earth's Greatest Miracles

NEAL ADAMS STANFORD

Earth's greatest miracles are two:Perfection, and a friendship true.

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"If thou strayest ..."*

LEILA SMITH GRIFFITH

Dark are the clouds that hover o'er my head,Fiercely the angry, stormy winds rush by:The night draws on apace, night filled with dreadOf unknown ill from yon foreboding sky.
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Security

EDITH JOYCE ELDER

No earthly gold or gain can buy security,Or lend assurance to the passing years,Guard from the ills that haunt all mortal seeming,Or bulwark prove against its surging fears.
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Sanctuary

MARY C. REYNOLDS

I need but look awayFrom darkness, doubt, and fear,And, childlike, turn to God,To find that He is here.

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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.

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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 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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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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"Freely ye have received, freely give"

MILDRED S. POWELL

O teach, me, Lord, I pray,To give to Thine, as Thou hast given to me!
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The Deathless Word

MAUDE DE VERSE NEWTON

Our Master drew apart from men,From urgent human touchThat voiced its sad, insistent taleWith witness overmuch.
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Healing

BUENA V. FREEMANN

We pray Thee, give us love, dear Father-Mother God—Pure love and holy, compassionate, overflowing,So that the sick and sinning, the maimed, the halt, the blind,Receive at once the healing from this Christly knowing.
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Vision

MARION ALICE BOWERS

"See that ye be not troubled,"Though from the seething sea of mortal thought,The war god looms, terrific, horrid, grim,Spreading confusion that is seen and feltTo earth's remotest rim—Oh, hear the voice of Jesus, calm and strong,Bringing to man enlightenment and peace.
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Selfhood

GLADYS MARION ADAMS

What is this self to which we fondly clingAs though it, of itself, accomplished aught?
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Humility

JEAN S. FREEDLANDER

To know that God is All to thee,That He does all and cares for thee,That naught without Him canst thou be—This is humility.