Poems

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Truth Triumphant

EDITH F. MUNROE

No more do mortals grope in vainTo find God's guiding hand;For Truth has conquered sin and painAnd all their alien band.
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Alone, Yet Not Alone

CASSIUS M. LOOMIS

Have friends forsaken thee?

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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 Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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Belief versus Knowledge

HELEN R. WAITE

Battered and bruised and torn,Struggling with storm and strife,Heart-sick and weary and worn,—Such was my sense of life.

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Home

AIMEE LUNDGREN

Home is a word with the sweetest ring,But few can its spirit discern;It is not a place or a composite thing,Which we may inherit or earn.
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God's Dear Love

ANNIE ASHCROFT

I know —when changes come and go,And paths are difficult to see;When human hopes would ebb and flow—It is Thy love that quiets me.
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The Walk to Emmaus

NELLIE BATES JEWETT

It lies among the hills—that little roadWhere journeyed those two friends, that soft spring day;But not a sound of melody they heard,For sadness bitter filled them with dismay.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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Anthology of classic articles II

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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Fidelity

CHARLES WRIGHT

Howe'er the adversary tries, By varied guile,To urge me with persuasive lies,With frown or smile,The eternal Truth shall be my shield;Thus guarded I can never yield.
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A Just Peace

AGNES CHALMERS

The land our father Abraham hath sought,Each nation equally shall give and share.
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A Song of Praise

BEN HAWORTH-BOOTH

Glory to God in the heaven,And glory in the height,Glory from all the earth be givenIn anthems of delight:Glory, give glory; ye stars repeat the story,And ocean answer with thy waves of might,That Love is King and doth uphold the right.
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The Little Foxes

SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD

The Master of the vineyard spake:I charge you do not fail to takeThe little foxes, every one,That sometimes in my vineyard run—
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The Ever Active Mind

ROBIN WALLACE DAY

Wearied by fruitless strivingI sat in the sunset's glowBy a quietly running river,Watching its ceaseless flow.
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Freedom

MARY TROXELL

When the radiance of the morning wakens all the world to light,And the fetters forged in darkness through a long and cruel nightFall asunder, free forever, man shall rise in holy might.