Poems

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CAUSE FOR COURAGE

GRACE ROBERTA WASSON.

To do, to dare, to brave convention's scorn;Achieving, where the coward dare not tread;Rising as fearless as the light each morn;Attempting that which recreant heart would dread.
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PROTECTION

ROSE HENNIKER HEATON.

Let one thought guide you through the livelong day,This thought be with you still at candle-time;A starry thought of hope and peace sublime,However dim the path or wild the way.

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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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DAWN

EDITH L. PERKINS.

As in the long, dark watches of the nightWe fix our gaze to catch a beam,However faint, of morning light,And, waiting, see at last the sun's bright gleam,

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JOY

CHARLES C. SANDELIN.

Joy ! What is joy?
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WITH THEE

LAURA GERAHTY.

One moment, Lord, with Thee—And I am whole!To cast out self and all my sin efface,To come so near Thee that I see Thy faceAnd feel the breath of Life and calm embraceOf Love's control.
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ASSURANCE

MINNA MATHISON

Pain, I know thee not;Get thee behind me.

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These books healed me

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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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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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TRUTH'S SEAMLESS GARMENT

C. W. HASKINS

Why divide the seamless garment,Worn by one who, long ago,When on earth with simple grandeurBanished sin and want and woe?
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UNFAILING LIGHT

LAURA GERAHTY.

Out in the west I'd watched the red sun setting,And fancied day was dying—light had fled.
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OMNIPOTENCE

CHARLES C. SANDELIN.

Thou mayest not, perchance, a mount remove,Or change the crystal water into wine,—The dead restore, or heal through power divineThe multitude that seek this power to prove:Yet think ye not such marvelous works behooveA favored mortal or predestined line;Nor, scoffing, give no credence till a signThy faith awaken and thy doubt reprove.
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THE ETERNAL NOW

MABEL GORDON-INGLIS.

Life knows no past.
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FAITH

FRANCES A. HALDANE.

Faith scatters abroad in the fall its grain,Covering it over with tender care;Nor fears, though with north winds and hurrying snowFierce winter stalks forth from its icy lair.
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NO MORE SEA

EVELYN GAGE KNIFFIN.

The sea ever speaks with its billows,Of restlessness, tumult, and strife;And mysteries vast and unfathomed,O'erclouding the sunshine of life.