Poems

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WHAT IS "I"?

GERTRUDE ASPLEN.

"I" — "I" — what can "I" be ?
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BETHESDA

EVELYN GAGE KNIFFIN.

Dost thou wait beside Bethesda's pool.

Audio Collection

Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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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AT DAYBREAK

CASSIUS M. LOOMIS.

When the lark pours forth his birdling speech,As the sunrise gilds the sky;When the diamond dew, with its sparkling hue,On the meadow grass doth lie—What seest thou most in the flaming east?

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COMMUNION

AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS.

To-day my famished heart looks up to thee, Master and Lord, on Galilean coast, And, looking on past waves of sin, I see Revealed the living Christ earth's fears had lost.
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OMNIPRESENCE

JOHN M. DEAN

O Brooding Spirit, hovering ever near, In every clime and time still, still the same, Thy loving benediction calms all fear And checks intruding error's subtle claim.
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THE RIVER OF TEARS

EVELYN GAGE KNIFFIN

THE river of tears is a phantom stream, That is fed by the springs of woe: It flows through the valley of broken hearts, Where the weeds of sorrow grow.

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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.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

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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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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THE REAL WORLD

MAXWELL ARMFIELD

When all the ways were gold with sheaves,Or green within a patterned tent.
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THE "HIGH AND HOLY PLACE"

LYDIA B. MC KINLEY-HAY

Pilgrim, dost seek the high and holy place,Summit of glory, temple of God's grace?
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THE BUILDERS

STELLA E. SAXTON

Just a little game of life, dear—The children building houses out of toys—Block towers rise,'Most to the skies,And then they fall—oh, sorry little girls and boys!
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HUSBANDRY

KATHARINE J. SMITH

For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
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ON A FLY-LEAF OF SHAKESPEARE

HON. CLARENCE A. BUSKIRK.

Were there no other proofs for us to see,O mighty Bard, thou and they like to thee,Like th' rainbow proves the sunlight, prove to meThe stature of man's immortality.
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MY SHIP

MARY EMILY MUIR.

Midnight, and the angry, storm-rocked sea;The mad, wild pageantry of dashing waves.