Poems

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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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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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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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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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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 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 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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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.
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Forgetting Self

GEO. SAMUEL PORTER

Forgetting self, I learn to know my Father's love;Forgetting self, the guiding light shines from above,And, unobscured, makes every moment brightWith understanding of the way that's right.
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Remember the Good

LILLIAN BARKER DURKEE

Remember the good of yester-years;Whatever your life has been,Forget the fears and forget the tears,The pains and the sense of sin;For only the good to-day is true,And only the good was then;To-morrow, too, has but good for you,For good is Love's gift to men.
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The Pioneer

ELIZABETH EARL JONES

Night Wrapped the woods in silence drear,   Till, softly, morn began to break;A waking thrush sang sweet and clear   His morning revelry: "Awake!—The time has come for all to wake!"
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Easter

ALICE B. YEAGER

OH, beloved! He is risen!Listen to this day's acclaim;Love has never been in prison;Love is Life—is God's own name.