Poems

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Healing

Lavinia P. Walker

Oh , this is joy—to sing thy praiseTo God, Safe in His care,When, unto sense, thy human heartIs lying torn and bare.
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Love's Allness

MARIE STUART TOWNSEND TAYLOR

How can we doubt Love's tender care,When all about us,Ev'rywhere,We see the beauties of His hand?

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These books healed me

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on how the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy heal.

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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A Tribute to Mary Baker Eddy

EMILY PATTERSON SPEAR

Thou great affirmer, sent of God,With healing balm for pain,Fit vessel thou, to bear His Word,That cleanseth every stain.

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Victory

CLITHEROE C. HENDY

Risen with Christ, in holy thought abiding;Freed from the law, we no more fear its chiding;Risen with him, a blissful elevation:In thought renewed we find a full salvation.
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Rewards

MYRTLE TIMMONS SUTHERLAND

If I overcome,I am to have the morning star!Christ Jesus knew that;On Patmos he told it to John.
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"The humble servant of the restful Mind"*

LOLA E. SWANSON

"The humble servant of the restful Mind" —What higher service could one ever find?

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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 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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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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A Hymn

FLORENCE GILMAN HART

Sweet violets springing into birth,With timely showers that bathe the earth;The birds all caroling in songTheir early praises, loud and long,In purest melody—Should they not our devotion wake,And from each heart its burden take;Bring joy and comfort to abideWhere selfishness is prone to hide,Breaking Life's harmony?
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If God is Really God to Me

LAURA SHELLEY ALLEN

If God is really God to me,There is no binding pain;For His great presence, realized,Brings sweetest peace again.
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The Master's Prayer

MARGARET HOUSTON PROBERT

A score of centuries agoRose that all-loving plea,In little walled Jerusalem,My Master's prayer for me.
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What is My Home?

RITA BERMAN

What is my home?
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The Hilltops

JENNIE BAIRD SCHOOLEY

Through the valleys of depression,O'er the verdant plains of peace,Love is leading us so gentlyOn to joys that never cease.
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As a Little Child

ZILLAH EVELYN GRIMES

A child did sing of birds and flowers,Crooned to himself a melody,All to himself, in quiet joy,Smiling, as though he did not see