Poems

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Birth in Truth

ROBERT WATSON

The sun dips down behind the hills, far in the west;A drowsy calm creeps o'er the land,—all is at rest.
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Dawn of Truth

G. BRUCE STAUFFER

Wearied am I of chasingThe fleeting phantoms of sin,That lured me onWith wine and songLife's pleasures gay to win;Yet in my roundNo peace I found,But misery and sorrow's kin.

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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 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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Revelation

GWENDOLEN EDWARDS

We put our trust in men and things,And men and things do fail us;Our hopes sink down with broken wings,And bitter doubts assail us.

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Right Reckoning*

MARY I. MESECHRE

Grouped quietly near the window,Some little ones, tired of play,Were conning again the lessonsThey had learned in school that day;While indoors I, with my problemUnsolved at the set of sun,Heard, "Three times nothing is nothing,And one to carry is one.
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True Success

EDITH C. CARTER

Man cannot fail!
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"As the waters cover the sea"

FRANCIS E. FALKENBURY

The other night, while swimming in the seaAmid a flame of phosphorescent light,I turned face upward, through the lovely night,To that great symbol of infinity,—

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Changing your world

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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 Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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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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Love "thinketh no evil"

ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON

Love knows no fear, no anxious dread.
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Healing

BENJAMIN KEECH

Thou dost not need to spend thy life in woe,—No will but mortals' ever willed it so.
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The Rule of Mind

MINNA MATHISON

Ruler of every world and star,Thou holdest man and beast and flowerIn the safe shelter of Thy power,And leadest lovingly and far.
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A Dream

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

The night with dreams was filled, with terrors dread,And real unto my slumbering sense did seem:Oh, what a world that did with specters teem,As in the chamber of the living dead!I sought to flee, but could not turn my head,Fast bound within the fetters of the dream,When, lo! amid the darkness there did gleamA ray of light: behold, the dream had fled!
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Thine is the Kingdom

F. WINIFRED S. BLOXHAM

Thine is the kingdom; so where'er we lookAll things bespeak a Father's loving care;Decay and discord, sin, disease, and death—No dark dream shadows find a refuge there.
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To Solitude

MARY TROXELL

"The world is too much with us; late and soon.