Poems

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Now

SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD

Now has in time's pretense no part.
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Light

GERTRUDE E. BALLARD

With vision of a seer, glad and free,The artist casts bright halos, as he paints,Around the heads of fair and holy saints,That humankind their holiness may see.

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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.

From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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God's Day

LIEUT. COL. ROBERT E. KEY

When trembling chords of human hopesAre silent on the harp of time,In such a moment Love evokesThe melody of Life divine.

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Enduring Work

AGNES F. CHALMERS

"Blessed is he," the world's wise Master taught,"Whoe'er shall not offended be in me.
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No Discord in Mind

CASSIUS M. LOOMIS

Look out upon the arch of heaven at morn;Behold the starry galaxy at night.
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Forgetting

FREDERICK S. CAMPBELL

O troubled heart, regretful of past yearsAnd stain of sin, so long to goodness blind,A message here for thee, to dry thy tears.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

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Anthology of classic articles

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From Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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Bethlehem

GEORGIA WILDE

Bethlehem, O Bethlehem,We've journeyed long and far!In our sad hearts new hopes arise,In deep of night, our weary eyesSearch now the purple of thy skiesTo find again thy Star!
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Thy Word Is a Light

KATHRINE SCOBEY PUTNAM

The day began all gray, with clouds aboutUs everywhere.
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"What of the night?"

LIEUT. COL. ROBERT E. KEY

The sleeper wakes—And though the night be long,It is awakening makesThe morning songSo delicate and dear,To human ear.
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Awaken!

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

Awaken from thy slumber! SeeThe feast of Truth prepared for thee!The healing feast of joy and peace:Partake, dear friend! Thy ills cease!
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Our National Thanksgiving Hymn

MARY BAKER EDDY

God of the rolling year! to Thee we raiseA nation's holiest hymn in grateful praise!Plenty and peace abound at Thy behest,Yet wherefore this Thy love?
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Walls

MARY J. ELMENDORF

Where'er we look with these our fleshly eyes,Great walls deny our view: we look below,And granite leagues forbid us farther go;We look above, and worlds on worlds ariseTo mock our wisdom from the quiet skies;Our backward glances still impervious showBlank walls of birth; and forward peerings growReflective of the mist that forward lies.