Poems

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"Yesterday, and to day, and for ever"

MINNY M. H. AYERS

Why doubt to-day?
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Ministry

MINNA MATHISON

Whether he walked the silent shore,Or quelled at will the threatening wave,Or, all unanswering, meekly boreThe taunts and jeers the mad mob gave;

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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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Light

ROBERT E. KEY

In the dark glade,Every gray shadeFalls like a bar;But, if you gazeUp to a star,All the wide sky,With its still majesty,Lives to the eye!

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The Leper Cleansed

EARL MC CLOUD

He stands, a lonely figure, on the plainAcross which winds the Galilean road;His eager gaze upon the throng which comes,With eyes for none save him who leads.
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God Fills All Space

CLARA ADELE NEIDIG

God fills all space.
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Assurance

ELIZABETH HAYWARD GARDNER

'Tis good to know that Thou art close beside me,However dark the way to sight appear;'Tis good to know that Thy right hand doth guide meThrough days of seeming pain and nights of fear.

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Anthology of classic articles

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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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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Unawares

CAROLINE MOORE SULLIVAN

Into my heart an angel came one day,And found me strangely startled, unawares.
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To-day

JOSEPHINE M. FABRICANT

To-day, I talked with God when morning brokeAnd birds their matins sang, the leaves among;And, in that sweet communion, my heart caughtA clear reflection of the radiant morn,And worshiped, with all nature at His feet.
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Purity

CHARLES W. WRIGHT

Because, O God, Thy glory I would see,I raise my daily prayer for purity;That all the crude, unsightly sketches tracedWithout Thy wise direction, be erased;And on the ready tablet of my thought,Only Thy faultless pattern may be wrought.
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Love's Touch

MARY KERN TIPS

How oft the saddening stress of earthHas crushed a heart, and hushed its mirthMid shadows grim and cold;And then, as oft, has Love's warm touchCome gently, with glad carols, suchAs angels sang of old,
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Mary Magdalene

A. JACQUELINE SHAW

Semi-distraught, perchance thou paced the night:Vain to seek counsel from the earth or sky—The town beneath thee dark, or dimly lit,Seeming as if earth's stars below did lie,And up above, the unseeing void of heaven.
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Loving

BUNYAN J. HUNTER

No ill from senses' dreaming,False lights in morass gleaming,If faithful thought is teemingWith love for God and man.