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LIFE'S UNSEEN HARMONY

SUSIE C. MAXFIELD.

Beyond the seeing of the mortal eyeAre pastures green and waters still,Where all, in glad obedience to their Father's will,Now calmly walk, and safely down do lie.
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UNITY

AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS.

I thank Thee that Love's kingdom is at hand;Yea, that all good is here, O Truth divine;That health and peace are now at my command;And that the Father's riches, too, are mine.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

MINNA MATHISON

He loved much.

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I SAW IN THE EAST A STAR

MARY J. ELMENDORF.

I saw in the east a star,Faint, golden-fair, and far,—Like a tremulant torch on an upland trail,—And my heart to its Maytide sprang,While the mist of its whitening branches rangWith the voice of the nightingale.
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Every day is a golden day,...

Laura B. Doorly

Every day is a golden day,With golden blossoms along the way,—Sunshine kisses everything,—Music pours from bird on wing,The air with liquid gold doth ring(Blessings on his caroling!)—And it's oh, to the winds all care I'll fling,And it's blithe and gay that my heart doth sing,For all the world is created new,And all is good, and the good is true—There is gold for me and gold for you;Friend, Love is gold and fills all space—Surely, the Lord is in this place!
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LOVE'S ANSWER

LAURA GERAHTY

A woman trod the outskirts of the city,Hungry and lone, weary of want and stress;And some who passed her cast a glance of pity,Or checked their laughter at her loneliness.

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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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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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THE CHORD AND THE FLOWER

MARY J. ELMENDORF.

The gray mists rose from the river,The white mists rose from the sea,And, inland swirling in silence,They swallowed the shore and the leaTill they isled in their hungry billowsThe lonely heart of me.
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THE WELCOME GUEST

VIOLETTE KIMBALL DUNN.

To one in prison-house of hate,T'was whispered from above,"Thyself thy chains hast forged, O child,The world is filled with Love!"
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"THE VINE"

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH

Burden of beauty, joy of luscious leaves,And purple fruits of rich caparison,And honey scent and hum of honey thieves,And sweet enchantment of the golden sun—These are my dowry, and in every raceMen give me deference due, and pride of place.
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"WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR"

ELLA CLEMENT DAVIES

Does this same star todayIllume for thee life's wayWith ever brightening ray?
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SCIENCE AND SOLITUDE

ALVA B. AMMERMAN.

In the cool and quiet places,In the wood's deep sylvan shade,We may always find clear tracesOf the things that Mind has made.
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Courage! for thus and only thus—...

George Cabot Lodge

Courage! for thus and only thus—As we are prompt and hazardous,As we are rapt, religious, and austere—We are victorious,And find the strange, steep way, and hearThe airs rush into song before our flight,And pass out of the night,Persuaded by a single star,And learn that where the soul's adventures areThe truth's discovery is near,And the delightOf liberty, and peans, and pageantries of light.