Poems

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A Wider View

MARY VICTORIA CLARK

No longer seek I for some peak in DarienWhereon to stand and view a wide expanse,For my heart knows an ocean deeply blue,Far broader, deeper than the western seaBalboa gazed upon, and seeing itSo still and calm,Called it the Pacific.
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Rest

EDITH L. PERKINS

No sweeter words than these were e'er addressedTo thee and all by mortal sense oppressed,—"Come unto me, and I will give thee rest.

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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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Largess

MARION CRAMPTON JONES

To loose the bands of wickedness, that bowThe pilgrim, heavy eyed, nigh to the ground,Until he clings to shackles as his heritage,And knows not where Truth's shining towers are found—What greater gift!

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Promotion

SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD

The burghers of the town todayChoose one their civic mace to sway;And more than one believes that heHimself the favored one shall be.
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The New Year's Advice

WARWICK JAMES PRICE

Clear-eyed prophet, what do you seeIn the weeks of the opening year for me?
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His Friend

SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD

My friend is not in height or weight,In figure, texture, color, gait,Or beauty which may charm the eyeYet swiftly as a shadow fly;But in the grace his words imbue,Compassion gentle as the dew,Fidelity which cannot fail,As needle true through every gale.

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Anthology of classic articles III

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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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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"Life's burdens light"

AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS

"Each man shall bear his burden.
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All Mine

EMMA VIOLA WHEELER

All mine the joys of Spirit—all mine to send abroadSome thought to help my neighbor, some truth about our God;Mine too the tender loving, the omnipresent care,The perfect understanding that Love is everywhere.
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The Pleasant Land

W. EDSON SMITH

"Love never faileth": Up—around—Our joyous thoughts are winging,With Love pervading every song,Love smiling at their singing.
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Seekers of the Light

ETHEL M. GOSS

THROUGH light and shadow, Tears and pain, Helping each other the heights to gain, Onward forever, Working together, Are those who are striving to follow the gleam.
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"Be of good cheer"

ANNE VIRGINIA CULBERTSON

Because he knew the sick man's need to copeWith dark despair when all the way seems drear,The great Physician spoke these words of hope:"Be of good cheer.
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Stilling of the Tempest

WARREN CHARLES KLEIN

Bright blue sky and clear-blown day,All our fear has gone away;Sing on in thy cheering voice,Bid thou all the world rejoice!