Poems

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Beauty

MARGARET MORRISON

My heart ascends in singing praise to Thee,Oh, Mind divine, because that through the clashOf warring wills, aims dwarfed to selfishness,And pleasures vain as bubbles children blow,The light of Thy great Science stands revealed.
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Father-Mother God

KEVA CLINICK ALBURY

I KNEW the tender love of GodWhen He forgave my bigotry,And smoothed the roughened path I trodBy guiding and uplifting me.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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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I Shall Arise

MAUDE DE VERSE NEWTON

BEHOLD how evil smites my step, And every hour is dark with woe: I shall arise—I shall arise, And humbly to my Father go.

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Our Reading Room

MARY MARGARET SHIPHERD

YEA, this is God's anointed place, Prepared and furnished by His grace; A jewel hung in holy light, It draws the needy by true might.
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Our Father

ROSEMARY C. COBHAM

What kind, strong fingers of a father's hand, Touched with compassion, now could smooth away The sorry traces of this storm-racked day?
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A Paean of Praise

WILLIAM JAMES PRICE

Give love To the God of all goodness, Who is healing the heart of its sorrow, Giving strength to the weak, and a voice to the dumb To speak wisdom.

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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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A spiritual approach to mental health

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

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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Come Sing in Joyful Praise

CHARLOTTE M. ROBERTS

Come sing in joyful praise, O happy throng! Sing forth in honor of God's holy name; Lift up your heads, ye halt, ye blind, ye lame; And doubtful ones who say, "I would be strong," Awake! awake! and sing a grateful song.
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My Part

ANTOINETTE HOLBROOK

Show me my part, O Father dear; help me to climb the hill, And step by step to reach the heights with Thee! Let me look upward, visioning Thy will; Help me to walk in true humility.
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Hope

RUBIE FORSYTH

You say the singing earth is still—frozen the rill?
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Giving Testimony

OMA OLNA MARTIN

If I have bread and break it not,Someone may hungry goFrom this rich feast which Love has spread.
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Fetters Fall

LAURA BOWLBY MASSEY

Long years ago, when Christliness was provedBy Jesus, who all sin and ill removed,And set the captive free, we read that heOne day was walking in his ministryBeside Bethesda's pool.
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Peter

EDITH A. WESTERBERG

Peter loved the Master.