Poems

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Then and Now

AIMEE LUNDGREN

Memory no more need lingerIn the wretched bygones, whenTreacherous hope's seductive fingerPointed to a distant "then.
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Lilies and Deeds

ELOISE INGALLS COOPER

Deep in the earthA lily heard the call:Go forth—proclaim your faithIn Life's unfailing power.

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Anthology of classic articles

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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 Deliverance

E. B. SARGANT

How can the heart be filled with fearThat knows the love of Love?

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Love Knows the Way

ROBERT E. CROSSLAND

God clothes the birds and flowers fair;Love knows the way.
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Petition

ETTA LAMBERT-KNIGHT

Lord, teach me how to pray, for IHave just begun to findThe joy of loving Thee, and tryTo utilize Thy law and power;In sweet communion hour by hourI feel the unity of Mind,—Lord, teach me how to pray.
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A Well of Water

MARY LLOYD MC CONNEL

Some poet long ago has likened lifeUnto a saddened soul forever"Dipping buckets into empty wellsAnd growing old with drawing nothing up.

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Shared reflections

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Anthology of classic articles II

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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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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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"What hast thou in the house?"

MABEL GORDON-INGLIS

"What hast thou in the house?
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The Constancy of Christ

MARTIN BRETHERTON

Lo, life goes on.
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The Fields of Bow

MARY BEECHER LONGYEAR

Broad, rock-terraced fields of Bow,Spread with rugs of springlike hue,Held close in heaven's arch of blue,No fairer place dear God doth showTo all earth's wondering pilgrim eyesThat, weeping, search for hidden goodOn breezy crag, in forest's wood;Heaven's own path within you lies.
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Usefulness

GERTRUDE GOODING MC CLOUD

Can I help my neighbor any,While I'm thinking thoughts of fear?
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Words

KATHERINE R. FRANCKE

Words, words, words; multiplicity of words and nothing said: In vain we strive to voice the woes o'er which our hearts have bled,
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Christian Science

CORA ARMSTRONG KELLAM

'Tis the trail of the open vision,The road of our hearts' behest,It stretches away before us,Into an active rest.