Poems

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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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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 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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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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"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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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.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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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!
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"There is lifting up"

CLARA ELISABETH KUCK

Oh, weary heart! Art thou cast down?
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An Awakening

SUSAN F. CAMPBELL

OF straightest sect, Saul lived a Pharisee; Arrogant with pride and power, he stood, Consenting to the crime which hate and fear Sent blindly forth to silence that great truth Which shone through Stephen's noble life of love; Scattered abroad, made havoc of the church, Entered the homes of saints in willful zeal, To bind, imprison those whose lives were pure.