Poems

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I DO NOT FEAR

BENJAMIN KEECH

What is this message from the spheres of silence—This Spirit-music which I, waiting, hear?
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Let me but live my life from year to year,...

Henry Van Dyke

Let me but live my life from year to year,With forward face and unreluctant soul, Not hastening to, nor turning from, the goal;Not mourning for the things that disappearIn the dim past, nor holding back in fear From what the future veils, but with a whole And happy heart that pays its tollTo youth and age, and travels on with cheer.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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ON SENTRY

C. R.

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THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

ALICE MC GUIGAN.

Count not the years, eternityIs ours, age hath no pow'r to mar:Our God is Life and Love and Truth;There is no age, there is no youth;No limitation on man placed,God's attributes in him are traced.
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THE MOTHER'S EVENING PRAYER*

MARY BAKER EDDY.

O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;     O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight!     Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
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A little thought and a little care...

Josephine Pollard

A little thought and a little care,A little tenderness now and then,A gracious speech and a courtly airMay give one rank among gentlemen;But he who merits the highest place,Though clad in homespun he be, 'tis true,Is one who carries a heart of grace,And is really a nobleman through and through.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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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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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TRUTH'S DAWN

FLORENCE HARDIMAN MILLER.

Had truth not dawned—There had been in my heart no little shrineOn which the flame of joy burns ceaselessly.
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So he died for his faith...

Ernest Crosby

So he died for his faith.
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THE MASTER'S CALL

MARY LLOYD MC CONNELL.

The storm had passed me, and I layUpon the bosom of Life's ocean, derelict;Far off the thunder echoed, and beyondI heard the sullen roar of angry surfBeating a rock-bound shore; nor hope had IThat ever ray of dawn could penetrate the gloom.
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PATIENCE

EVELYN SYLVESTER KNOWLES.

Child , maintain thy full assuranceOf the pulsing power within;Look not on forbidden objects,Since to look thus is to sin.
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THE DWELLING-PLACE OF THOUGHT

HON. CLARENCE A. BUSKIRK.

Large and round the golden moonMoves a lake of clouds aboon,And the clouds like waves of laceDrift against the planet's face,While a lone star shining nighGems a rift of azure sky.
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A THOUGHT OF LIFE

ADA JANE MILLER.

Amid the scenes of that which we call death,The stronger thought of Life and Truth and Love,If held through all the clamor and the rushOf speechless anguish, loss, and sense of pain,Will keep the heart untroubled, undismayed.