Poems

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Expression

GERTRUDE DEANE HOUK

There travailed long within my consciousnessA song of gracious promise; unfulfilledFor poverty of words wherewith to clotheIn fitly chosen words its harmony.
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Christmas Bells

SOPHIE WEINERT

Once more the bells ring out their pealsAs heralds of the dawn;The Word goes forth with joy and hope:To us the Christ is born!Thus Love, awakened in each heart,Steals forth to bless and cheer,And wipe away with mighty powerEarth's unavailing tear;Thus to the listening ear there comesA wondrous sweet refrain:Lo, peace on earth, good will to men!The Christ's eternal strain.

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Shared reflections

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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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Christmas

GILBERT C. CARPENTER, JR.

The power of sin destroyed; the fetters sore,Of pain, unloosed; the falsity of fearExposed; the hurt that biteth to the coreAll healed; the sorrow deep, the bitter tear,All wiped away! Jesus, our hearts to theeAre turned to praise thy glorious ministry.

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Flowers

ANNE CLEVELAND CHENEY

O LOVELY ministers of Love,From the uncurling of your smallest leaf,The palest flush along your petal tips,To spreading triumph of the full-blown disc,And depth of radiance in a rose's heart,You symbol Love's own beauty, joy, and power;You serve Love's purpose, ever ministering,Out of your very presence shedding grace,That all may share, and sharing may be blest.
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Freedom

FLORRIE A. ASHCROFT

A nation held in bondage yearned for rest.
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Faithfulness

EDITH L. PERKINS

O birds , so constant in the songs you raise,O stars, so steadfast, filling night with praise,I, too, would honor God in all my ways!

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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.

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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God's Holy Name

MARY I. MESECHRE

"For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
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The Christian Science Sentinel

HAZEL HARPER HARRIS

You come to me like some dear comrade-friend,With love's assurance in each message penned,To feed my hungry heart with words of cheerThat comfort me and heal of doubt and fear.
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No Night

JOHN G. SUMNER

Fear not, thou weary one, fear not!There is no night with God.
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Serenity

HELEN L. SEELMAN

Serenity —that perfect peace of heartThat dwells wherever faith's loved face is known;That absence of all darkness; that bright partThat lingers where the light of God has shone!
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Galilee

ELLA A. STONE

Dear Sea of Galilee, beloved,Your waves are blue with heaven's light,And o'er you, now, as in the past,Keep guard the shining stars at night.
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Love Divine

JOSEPHINE M. FABRICANT

Thou Love that wilt not let us goHowever far we stray,Thou Love that shed'st Thy friendly lightAlong our darkest way,In vain we would from Thee depart,In vain alone would go,But Love that knows nor time nor spaceDoes all His children know.