Poems

LOVE'S FLOCK

Shepherd our thoughts, O loving One!That they may follow Thee—A white flock, treading in the stepsOf Christ's own purity.

LOVE'S SUNSHINE

The tender flower throughout the hours of dayUplifts its face before the sun's warm lightWith grateful joy; but with the fall of nightIts petals close till comes the dawn's glad ray.

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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 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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TRUE CHRISTIANS

The workers in His vineyard—blessed band!Their lamps are ever trimmed, and brightly glow,Shedding the light of Truth o'er every land;Illuming all the paths where mortals go.

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THE PUBLICAN

Is there some one who comes to you todayWhom you have thought unworthy and untrue—Some one the world has judged a castaway?

COMFORT

O FLEDGLING, on a cold world thrust,Fly thou to God, since fly thou must!For He shall cover thee with His wings,And 'neath His feathers thou shalt trust.

HEAVEN

'Tis not afar in distant skiesThe shining hills of heaven rise.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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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 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 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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TWO ROSES

A rosebud fair in a garden grew,Tiny and pale and shy.

LOVE KNOWS THE TRUTH

Love knows the truth! No sudden shaft of light,Cleaving the darkness of a sleeping world,Speeds with a swifter, surer, gladder flightTo wake the sweetness in soft petals furledThan wings Love's thought of truth.

UNITY

It is not just because our eyes are meetingIn daily converse, that we claim a friend;It is not e'en because our hearts are beatingSo near each other that our pulses blend.

BY LOVE ALONE

Crouched in the roadside dust, which powdered whiteThe sorry rags that witnessed to his want,The mendicant mouthed prayers for passing alms.

MAN'S DWELLING-PLACE

Why do we let our thoughts run to and froO'er the low levels of this restless earth?

JUDAS

For thirty bits of silver stamped as coinOur Master was betrayed by one who knewAnd walked with him along the way;But walked and talked as sleeper in a dream.