Poems

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God's Messenger

AGNES V. SINZ

Watching beside a bed of painThrough weary hours of night,The words of truth seemed all in vain,And hopeless, drear, the fight.
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Endeavor

LAURA GERAHTY

Help me, O Love, to find my full salvation;Lead me, O Truth, to walk in purity;Teach me to know Thine is each demonstration,And every perfect thought a glimpse of Thee.

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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Dreams and Visions

HARRY J. DUNHAM

How poor the dreams of mortal senseCompared to visions from on high,Which God's unfailing love presentsTo gladden faith's uplifted eye!

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Assurance

EDITH F. MUNROE

God is Love.
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Faithful Over Few Things

MARIE L. SEIBEL

Is the common daily dutyOfttimes dull, and irksome, too?
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The True Life

ALICE LIVINGSTONE EAGAN

The only joy that we can feel,Is that of loving, knowing good;The only heaven we can find,Is God, our Father, understood.

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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 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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A Song of Thanks

MINNY M. H. AYERS

For life, for love, for days of peace,We thank Thee, Father, here.
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Stars

EDITH MAE BRISAC

And He that giveth to the stars their placeWill surely give it unto us to traceHis will within our lives.
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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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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.