Poems

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Wise Wishing

NELLIE B. MACE

If I could have one wish for thee,And only one,And I in faithless vanityShould summon wealth, and thou wert wonTo gilden bravery,—False to my trust I'd be.
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Truth the Victor

REV. EDMUND B. GEARHART, PH.D.

Not in this warShall ye with fierce, embattled foes contend,Nor spear nor breastplate use to pierce or fend.

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Shared reflections

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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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His Will Be Done

LAURA GERAHTY

We have no fear,Since God is here,Who knows no distance, heeds no war's alarms,And I and mineWith thee and thineDwell safely in Love's everlasting arms.

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Truth's Dawn

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

A wondrous calm! A lifted sense!The darkness flees and cometh day,And error's storm-clouds pass away:Behold Love's holy immanence!
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A Tribute

CATHARINE SEVERENS

That thou hadst keptThe tablet of thy mind so clean and fairThat God could write thereon His precious wordOf love and healing to a sin-sick world,Were miracle enough! Yet great this also:That thou couldst stand upon that Horeb heightAnd hold this message high for men to see.
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A Song of Cheer

IGERNA B. J. SOLLAS

They said 'twas the old sweet story;To me it was very new:It dawned on an outer darkness,It said only good is true.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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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 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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Peace

REMINGTON SCHUYLER

A GRASS-CLAD hill,The open sky;I surely knowThat God is nigh.
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"Thy Maker is thine husband"

AGNES F. CHALMERS

"Thy Maker is thine husband.
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The Heart's Needs

MINNA MATHISON

More light we need to flood life's dreary spacesWith a bright, quickening ray;More light to lead us on to higher places,To guide us day by day.
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Rend Thou the Veil

REUBEN POGSON

When burn the temple's tapers dim,And slumber priests within their stalls;When choirs forget their God to hymn,And silence hangs like funeral palls;While grope we for Thy altar rail,And miss the cup, and lose the bread,—From out the darkness and the dreadWe cry, Rend Thou the veil!
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Love's Bounty

RUTH TINKLER

So many smiles that come and playAcross the threshold of the day,So many flowers that softly bringThe tender messages of spring,So many songs so sweetly sung,So many deeds of kindness done,So many loving hearts and handsTo loosen sin's unlawful bands,So many stars that banish quiteThe seeming darkness of the night:—So much of good, so much of love,Who seeks a paradise above?
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Coming Morn

FRANCES A. HALDANE

Across the earth the fogs hang low and drear,And tardy-footed morn delays to come,While death stalks boldly where the bullets hum,Save when it meeteth one that knows no fear: