Poems

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"ETERNITY"

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH.

There is one Life—eternal, all-inclusive,Upholding all things: and this Life is thine.
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IDEALITY

GERTRUDE RING HOMANS

When harmony rules with unchallenged might, Then merges perfect day in peaceful night Wherein there is no bitterness, no fear Or sorrow that shall start the stinging tear.

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Anthology of classic articles

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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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TRUTH'S EVER-PRESENCE

HELEN M. EMERY

O Love divine! reveal Thy presence now,That in Thy glorious fulness all may seeThat sin, disease, and even death must bowBefore Thy more than might, and majesty.

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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.
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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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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 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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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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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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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!