Poems

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What is more wonderful than answered prayer?

Frederick Oakes Sylvester

What is more wonderful than answered prayer?
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"The high and holy place"

LOUISA SWEET

Thy habitation, O most High,Invisible to mortal eye,To sense so far and yet so near,The secret place,—Thy presence here.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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Tonight

JULIA WARNER MICHAEL

No herald bells proclaim this nightA welcome to the King,Yet through the darkness of despairThe angels softly sing.

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Truth's Vestal Dawn

CASSIUS M. LOOMIS

The very hills 'round Bethlehem teemed with song.
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Gratitude

MARGARET MORRISON

I THANK thee, Father! O that I might knowThe meaning of those gracious words, that flowFrom humble hearts up to the eternal fountOf Love; and thence, returning, do anointThe brows of pain with peace, and to the gloomOf earth-bound prisons bring light's balm and bloom!
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A Reading from Nature

WARWICK JAMES PRICE

Drifting in from the moaning sea,Over the beach and the tide-pooled lea,The gray fog shuts down drearilyOn all my world;Till the outer bar is a distant sound,And the children's tent but a misty mound,And the trees dim sentries set around,Their standards furled.

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Shared reflections

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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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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Sympathy

OLGA CYPRIAN BRIDGE

We watch beside some weary sufferer's bed,And bitter, blinding tears of pity shed.
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Waiting

GWENDOLEN EDWARDS

There sat alone at eventide,Outside a great church door,A ragged outcast of the street,Sin-stained and sick and poor.
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Love's Presence

EDITH L. PERKINS

Seems dark and lone the way?
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Unmoved

LUCY HAYS EASTMAN

A GIFT of love and joy so bright, so pure,—Roses and heliotrope, gay and demure.
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"Except ye repent"

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH

How oft upon the fretful voice of oceanHave I not heard the carping, canting quest,How would ye heal by your divine devotionIf ye should fall — as fall perchance the best —And break some bone?
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Healing

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

A sacred hush, a warmth of peace,A vision seen that eyes ne'er knew!Perplexing claims of error cease,Earth fades, — heaven opens to the view!