Poems

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Night Voices

PEARL M. HADLEY

Down purpled mountains evening sweeps,And through my window softly creepsThe light of stars which write on high,Across the zenith of the sky,God is Love.
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An Ideal

MARY I. MESECHRE

If I could live to God one single day,—One single day, from early dawn of lightTill the soft twilight deepens into night,—Could curb to gentle speech my hasty tongueAnd check the words impatiently outflung;Could think no thoughts but those of loving kindAnd hold my peace unmarred by hostile mind;Could do each daily deed in gracious wise,Secure against intrusion or surprise;—Methinks could one whole day by me be spentIn speech and thought and act as God hath meant,Henceforth I then could live to God alway.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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Lay of Truth

ADELA V. SCRIMGEOUR

"Come unto me," O tired and weary one.

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Dawning Faith

ELLA CLEMENT DAVIES

The teacher said:
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Day by Day

MYRA FAY GRANT

The days that pass us, one by one,Are as a string of gems to me,—Days that are shining with a deed well done,Days all aglow with the love we've won,Each day enshrined in loving thought,Linked with the joy the truth has brought;And as we con them, round and round,An endless chain of gems is found.
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Christmas Bells

FRANCES A. HALDANE

The merry bells at Christmas—tideFling out their golden chimes of cheer,While all the earth a moment staysIts toil, in happiness to hear.

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Changing your world

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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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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Love's Prophecy Fulfilled

CASSIUS M. LOOMIS

Ring out, ye silvery chimes, this Christmas morn!Once more on earth a Bethlehem babe is born.
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Mary Magdalene

FRANCIS C. GEORGE

'Tw as not a hurt, reproachful friend who spokeTo that brave woman standing by the tomb,Seeking to pierce the early morning gloomBefore the less indebted ones awoke;For she had dared to be herself, to goAs her untutored richness led, to loveThe best she knew, though he seemed far aboveHer, lying shamed by those who made her so.
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It Is Well with the Child

MYRTLE B. S. JACKSON

I know not where my loved one may be lying,In field or forest, or by town or sea,Whether on earth or in the gray clouds flying—I only know he cannot come to me.
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You will not compass your poor ends...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You will not compass your poor endsOf barley-feeding and material ease,Without the poet's individualismTo work your universal.
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Christmas Giving

FRANCIS C. GEORGE

Should we but once in all the long full yearBestow some token of the love we bear,—Love with each day new born, more sweet, more fair;Born with youth's eagerness to speak, to hear,To give, to take its proper meed of cheer?
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Trinity

VICTOR BUCHANAN

Beyond the sun that floods the earth with lightAnd brings the day to dawn on mortal sight,Beyond the moon that glorifies the nightAnd myriad stars that make the heavens bright,Is Life eternal, known to us as God.