Poems

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Love's Guidance

EMELIE J. BEERS

AT night the listening shepherdsHeard the tidings, glad and clear;And at night the watching wise menSaw the guiding star appear.
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Is This the Truth

THOMAS LAWRY

Is this the truth?

Audio Collection

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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Recompense

MARTHA WEBSTER MERRIEHEW

We may not pray for easiness,But for that vigor prayThat manifests trustworthinessAnd moral bravery.

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Home

ESTELLA S. THOMPSON

O trusting heart, look up and seeThe glorious home prepared for thee;A home so free from mortal strife,Where Love is all and God is Life;
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The Pioneer

NELLIE BATES JEWETT

Because for me she wrought with marvelous care,Can I the debt toss carelessly aside—Content to feast in idleness and pride,Unmindful of her fast, her ceaseless prayer?
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Immanuel

MARY SPARKS

I was blind, but now I seeGod is with us every hour;Now His mighty love makes free,And there is no other power.

Audio Collection

A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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 Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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The Way, the Truth, the Life

MAUDE M. CLARKE

When for love of God we yearn,And naught but error can discern,When in wandering doubt we stray,We have His word: I am the way.
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City of God

MARY E. COBB

THERE came to me once as I pondered,A vision of beauty and light;I saw, with the eyes of the spirit,The city that has no night.
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Trusting

SARAH A. WILLIAMS

WHAT though I sleep not nor slumber,who shall be able to numberThe blessings that come in the hush of the night?
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Life, Truth, Love

ANNIE ADAMS

O WONDROUS  LifeThat knows no death or sin,Thy gates are open wide,That all may enter in.
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Lead Thy Captivity Captive

E. B. SARGANT

Not in the paths of human peaceDoth Love proclaim the captive free;Nor where exultant crowds increaseHath Christ his hidden embassy.
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Awakened

LENA M. HALL

I came upon a violet—A little thing;Ah, but I thought, and thought again,That day in spring.