Poems

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Atonement

ANNA S. KING

When morning light breaks o'er my bedAnd eyelids open,—the darkness fled,—A clear, sweet message comes to me:Lift thou thy thought, think thou on Me.
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Desire Is Prayer

RUTH MARIE DILLON

Give me an understanding heart,Dear Love divine, Thy way to see,That I may know no life apartFrom consciousness at-one with Thee!

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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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Emerging

LAURA DUNBAR HAGARTY

If I could think divinely,I'd lift my thoughts aboveThe clutch of clay, the thrust of hate,

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Out of the Mist

STELLA L. MYATT

Out of the mist in the day's early dawning,Spread like a garment o'er hillside and glen,Sparkling and fresh with the dews of the morning,Comes the green earth in its beauty again;Where the bright sun casts its rays, warm and tender,Melt like a shadow the vapors away,From snowy peaks where, in radiant splendor,Shines the fair promise of blessings to-day.
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The Real Selfhood

PEARLE M. WARREN

Oh , come to the truth,Your real selfhood in God;Awake from your dreams, and be free!Why dwell with your sinsThat never were real?
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Hope

E. JEWEL ROBINSON

Still in my heart a faint glow burned,An ember that refused to die;With faltering hope to God I turned,And prayed that He might heed my cry.

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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 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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Sufficiency

CHARLOTTE PHILIPPA WOOD WATSON

Across the million miles of nightThe beam that shines from younder star,Bringing its message from afar,Bears witness to the source of light.
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The Poor Wise Man

MARIAN GREGG

He sat within his walls, and thoughtThe high, clean thoughts of one who walks with God;About him swirled the city's toil and strife:Enchained by sin and pain his brother trod.
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A Prayer

GERTRUDE DEANE HOUK

Teach me obedience, O Father-Mother God,That I may humbly pass 'neath Thy correcting rod.
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The Christ-awakening

MARIAN J. COBB

How sweet the story of that long ago, When the disciples sailed at close of day, And as the ship launched forth, the Master lay Asleep upon a pillow, resting so.
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The Crowds

MINNY M. H. AYERS

"For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
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Love

ELLEN BEACH YAW CANNON

Our Father-Mother God is Love,Truth infinite, divine,Supplying every perfect gift;And all these gifts are mine,To give my brother, who reflectsThe truth he loves in me:And conscious only of all good,We dwell in unity.