Poems

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GUIDANCE

AGNES G. SMITH

How glad the dawn of each new day,Since I have learned to knowThat Love doth ever point the way'Tis right for me to go.
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SHOW ME THY FACE

AMY RUTH WENZEL.

No man shall look upon my face and live.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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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COMFORT

Elizabeth Allen Mallory

Love , little children,Meaneth comfort in the doing,Comfort from the Father-heartSent to those who do their part.

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STRENGTH

GERTRUDE RING

"If thou hast run with the footmen,"—Aye, Lord, and the way was so longThat only Thy presence among usCould hearten us into song.
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"THY WILL BE DONE"

MAUDE A. RICHARDSON.

My God, my Father, Love divine,Help me to blend my will with Thine.
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THE MASTER

AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS.

The victor over sin and fear and strife,The Nazarene who taught all men the way,The Master of the verities of Life,—So often went apart alone to pray.

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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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Anthology of classic articles II

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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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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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"THY WILL BE DONE"

ARCHIBALD LAWRENCE VAN ANTWERP.

The stubborn will and blind,The engine deemed a pow'r by mortal sense,That works within us—who can fathom whenceIt comes, or who can findThe reason of its spell and seeming thrall,That we should fail to hear or heed the call—Thy will be done?
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JUST WAIT

HAROLD SUSMAN.

Do all your days seem dark and dear,And do you shed the bitter tear?
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GOD WITH US EVER

HARVEY HAZLETT.

I wait no more, with anxious care,For stated place and times of prayer;All hours are mine to worship Thee,All places temples wide and free.
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THAT WAR MAY CEASE

HELEN S. EVANS

O God of nations, speed the dayWhen men to men shall brothers be,When right shall over all have sway,And in Truth's freedom all be free.
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BROTHERHOOD

Edwin Markham

The crest and crowning of all good,Life's final star is brotherhood:For it will bring again to earthHer long-lost poesy and mirth;Will send new light on every face,A kindly power upon the race,And till it come, we men are slaves,And travel downward to the dust of graves.
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"THE THREE-FOLD CORD."

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH

If God is Life, and there is none but HeIn the full-orbed temple of the skies,Then what is death?