Poems

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Returning

MARTHA BAILEY PROCTOR

My Father's house has plenty and to spare;I hunger in a country far away.
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"Pray without ceasing"

EDMUND R. CUMMINS

Unceasing prayer! Dear God, how may one prayEach moment of the busy working day?

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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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At Sunrise—Easter Day

IDA M. INMAN

A first faint beam of morn,A thread of gold,And dimming shadows clear awayTo let the light unfoldA winding trail,Where countless steps still climbTo praise the risen Lord,With love and faith sublime.

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The Way to Galilee

MAUD E. FERRIS

It was the dawn, silent, and cold, and still,Its stillness broken only by the soundOf little rustling movements in the trees,Where tiny birds awakening, stirred, and calledTheir sleepy mates, with softest twitterings.
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The Victor

MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL

Who cometh down the narrow street,With such a quiet tread,And walketh as a conquerorWith thorns around his head?
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Meditation

GRACE A. WARNER

Father, to Thee I used to pray:Let me take love with me to-day,Let me be patient, tender, kind,Ever express the perfect Mind;Let me with comfort needed muchReveal to all the Christlike touch.

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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 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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At Evening Time

ELLA M. KINSLEY

However dense the darkness seems,However long the dreary night,Dawn reappears, dispelling dreams,And morning wakes in radiant light.
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As Enoch Walked

DOROTHY SKELTON RYAN

Dear heavenly Father, I would walk with TheeIn deeper consciousness of Love divine;Know Thee as ever present Life and Truth;And pass from sense to Soul, my hand in Thine.
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There Is No Death

ELIZABETH HIGGS

You say the one you dearly love has died?
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Love, the Victor

KIMMIS HARTLEY HENDRICK

I never shall forget the loving wordsHe spoke so softly in the deepening nightAmong the shadowy trees.
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Prayer for Compassion

MARTHA MAY SMITH

Compassion wears soft robes of tenderness,And seeks to bless humanity with peace;Enfolds each struggling thought consolingly,And whispers promises of sweet release;Blinds up the broken ones and bids them lookFor comfort in the precious "little book.
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"As a little child"

EDITH DE CHAIR

The sweet, receptive thought of childhoodOpens like a blossom to the light;With eyes of innocence and wonder,It sees and takes all goodness as its right.