Poems

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O Love Divine

H. M. CALDWELL

O Love divine, with humble heart,I pray for grace to know Thy will,So I may learn to do my partAnd love the place I am to fill.
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I Shall Not Want

EARL MC CLOUD

I shall not want—No matter what the seeming lack;With God my source of all supply,Naught is held back.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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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The Comforter

ANNIE ADAMS

O TROUBLED heart,Be still and know,The Comforter is nearTo heal thy woe.

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Paul

A. JACQUELINE SHAW

We may not ask to plumb the agonyOf those three days of absence from the light;Nor what thoughts thronged, thick, on your misery,Remorse, and fear.
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Aspiration

MINNA MATHISON

Love, free us from the taint of earth,And from its mortal spell;Help us Thy will to understand,To find Thy blessings near at hand,And seek true wisdom well.
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Sun of Righteousness

AIMEE LUNDGREN

Oh the pity of our plight,When we trespass 'gainst the right,Blindly follow error's leading,Truth's divine appeal unheeding.

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Shared reflections

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

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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

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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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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At Evening Time

EDITH L. PERKINS

When burdens seem too great to bear,And endless drag the hours of blight,Then come these words with solace rare:At evening time it shall be light.
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Love

E. K. ILLINGWORTH

I Sang my song to the sunshine,I whispered it in the air,The breezes bore it on loving armsAnd wafted it everywhere!
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Unafraid

MINNIE C. BALDWIN

Unafraid, undismayed,—Great the peace that comes to me;Undismayed, unafraid,As I walk with Thee.
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The Reader

C. C. BUTTERWORTH, 2d

I Heard a gentle woman speaking forthStern words of Truth, awed in the utterance,That Truth should be of so great prevalenceTo heal, and she herself so little worth.
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"Let there be light"

ROBERT E. KEY

LET not the argument of human reasonWhisper within thyself: It must be so;This false belief, though only for a season,Is the effect which mortal thoughts bestow.
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The Awakening

ESTHER L. SAMPSON

I prayed to God in tears and sorrow,I feared to-day—I feared to-morrow.