Poems

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Love

LORENE H. TROUSDALE

Majestic word!Though oft profanely spoken,It sounds the heights and depthsOf God's most sovereign power.
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God Meets Our Needs

HAZEL HARPER HARRIS

I need Thee every hour—This humble prayerInvokes the saving powerOf Father-care.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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Rest

DOROTHY M. GIBBS

Why is this anxious wondering in your heart,This wondering what the morrow is to bring?

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Peniel

DOUGLAS HURN

By Jabbok's ford the patriarch, all alone,Strove with an angel till the break of day;Yet yielded not, nor was he overthrown.
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Steadfast

CAROLYN W. GREENE

As some great rock upon a rugged coastBy breakers clutched and lashed from eve to morn,Submerged ofttimes beneath the angry waves,Stands firmly through the violence of the storm,And in the dawn, unshaken and unmoved,Lifts its high peak toward the morning skyInto the rosy flush of newborn dayTo shimmer, golden, in the rising sun;
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His Word

MAUDE DE VERSE NEWTON

"He sent his word,"And hearts that grieved were healed—His holy Word, whose blessed lightMan's heritage revealed.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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Anthology of classic articles II

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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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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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"The desert shall ... blossom as the rose"

MARY C. CAMPBELL

The desert plain seemed arid, void of life;No flower or fruit was seen, no beast or bird;Within its scorching waste, nor man, nor maid,No sound of rippling waters to be heard.
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Love Expressed

RITA BERMAN

Divine Love always has and always willMeet human need—<em class="footnote d-none" title="*">&lt;em class="footnote d-none" title="*"&gt; See Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 494.
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Morning Prayer

RUTH POWELL WENBAN

O Love, deliver me this day I pray,From every evil; let me set a watchUpon my thoughts, that no false prophecyOr unwise judgment, condemnation wrong,Erroneous counsel, adverse influenceBe found in consciousness—neither withinNor yet without the citadel of self.
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Truth's Watchman

MARIAN J. COBB

A watchman, standing on the tower of Truth—Thus do I like to think of you, dear friend;Watching for the angelic messagesWhich Love unto your waiting thought doth send.
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Soul

MARGARET LOUISE SUTCLIFFE

In Thee, O Soul, so glorious and free,Infinite, perfect, ageless, deathless, vast,I see all being, all that is to be,Or has been, or is now—the present, past,And future in one perfect changeless whole,O glorious Soul!
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The Practitioner

HERSCHEL P. NUNN

Oh , helping hand, for thee I reachAs floweret seeks the light;A glow of truth, a warmth of love,Thou bringest to my night.