Poems

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A Prayer

WILLIAM KOCH

O FATHER , give me words to voice The song that lingers in my heart.
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Transfiguration

LEAH BOHN

As a bride adorned! Ah! Truth, I too would be Adorned, transformed, With radiant purity.

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Anthology of classic articles

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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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Altars

MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL

Almighty God,Thine altars are so near!This very mornHow quietlyMercy defeated scorn.

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"In my Father's house"

BEATRICK BRADSHAW BROWN

In my Father's house is a place for me where I may go and rest,A place of hallowed beauty midst the mansions of the blest.
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Wayfaring

EDITH GADDIS BREWER

Naught can disturb my walk with Thee,Thou ever present God.
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A Hymn

EDMUND R. CUMMINS

LOVING Father, Thou hast told usIn Thy sacred Book divine,That Thine arm doth e'er enfold us,That our lives are one with Thine;Yet, regardless of the tokenThat we all Thine image bear,Some believe that they are broken,Fallen, sinful, sick with fear.

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Anthology of classic articles III

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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 Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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My Song

EUGENIA M. FOSBERY

I READ a book of poems to-day,And then I said, I too will write a song,For I am likewise thrilled by lilting bird,And summer sky, and racing cloud, and feathery tree.
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"Herein is love"

JAMES DOUGLAS GOSNEY

God sent not His dear Son to us in vain!From out His heaven, He bids us love alwayOur neighbor as ourselves, and Him obey.
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Flow on

GRACE A. PETERSEN

Flow on, my life; flow singing like a stream,Braving the rapids and the waterfallsTo seek the beauty that forever callsBeyond the bend.
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Freedom

MARGARET MORRISON

No shackles can be placed on graces of the mind,Nor fetters ever bind an action that is kind.
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Mental Tillage

ROSAMOND CHRISTABEL RASHLEIGH

Too long the furrows of my thought have lainFallow; and I must rise and till, and sow,Asking Thy guidance and Thy loving help,That seeds of right desire and love may grow.
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Our Reading Room

ELISABETH G. ROBINSON

A quiet resting place, a haven sure,Where wanderers may come and rest secureBeneath the shadow of His mighty wing,*And listen for the song the angels sing.