Poems

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My Need

PEARLE M. WARREN

I need to see the good that's all around me;I need to feel God's tender love and care;I need to know His angels still surround me;That Life and Love and Truth are ev'rywhere.
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A Prayer

SARAH WILSON MIDDLETON

Dear God of life, raise Thou the dead,—In sin and false beliefs asleep.

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Changing your world

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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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I Learned to Sing

DOROTHY C. PAISLEY

I learned to sing when shadows fellAnd days grew dark and drear;For though I made my bed in hell,God's tender love was near.

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Thy Word

IDA RANDALL SIMONEAU

No other legacy I askThan that Thy Word reveals;It searches every hope of men,And human longing heals.
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Victory

EDITH L. PERKINS

Temptation came to speak an angry word,—Instead, a prayer, that hatred's claim might yield.
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Look Up!

MABEL CONE BUSHNELL

How many times the human heart,Burdened with all its woe,Turns wearily to present Love,And meekly prays to know.

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These books healed me

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Changing your world

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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 Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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"Now is the day of salvation"

ETHEL MARGARET SODEN

Now is the day of our salvation — now! No more in hopeless bondage need we bow Beneath the yoke of pain, the curse of fear; The truth that makes men free, — lo, it is here!
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The Rich Young Man

MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL

O RICH young man, if thou hadst known What vast possessions were thine own, What undimmed pearls, how wide and grand The mansions in thy Father's land; If thou couldst but have glimpsed what store Of wealth was thine forevermore, What robes of beauty, and the bliss Of losing all and gaining this; How eagerly thou wouldst have sold Jewels and pomp and pride and gold.
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"Press toward the mark"

EMILY PATTERSON SPEAR

"Press toward the mark!" The calling high Invites to-day, not by and by, To deeper knowledge of the Soul,—A steady nearing of the goal;Upheld by Love, to think and feelThe gift of God; to cleanse and heal;To bind the broken heart, and fareWith him until his weight of careIs lost in Love.
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Easter Gladness

ELLA A. STONE

ON that fair Easter morning, In th' holy long ago, When Jesus rose triumphant O'er every seeming foe,
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"Behold, now is the day of salvation"

MAUD ALICE BATCHELOR

TURN thee more gladly to the light, The glory spreads so wide and free.
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"The pinnacle of praise"*

AMY M. SMITH

True praise must be expressed in daily life,Down in the byways and the stirring mart,—The quick denial that will still the strife,The love that satisfies the hungry heart!