Poems

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Little Words

H. B. Keech

"Yes, you did, too!""I did not!"Thus the little quarrel started,Thus, by unkind little words,Two fond friends were parted.
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Life Quatrains

Alice Jennings

Seeing.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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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Windows

WILLIAM B. TURNER.

Windows each, if our hearts be true,Are we to the hearts about us;Lighting the shades of their cold, gray worldWhich were dreary and dark without us.

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The Dewdrop

JOHN W. FLAGG with contributions from PHILIP SIDNEY

What is that chaste, that sparkling thing,Which to the rose at dawn doth cling,And nestled near its throbbing breastPlays ardent lover while a guest?
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To a Waterfowl

W. C. BRYANT

Whither, midst falling dew,While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursueThy solitary way?
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The Standard of Love

EDNA WADSWORTH HUDSON

Let us lift up our hearts with a joy untoldFor this truth that has come to the lives of men,A standard that Love has for us unrolledAnd raised at the break of the day, again.

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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.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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From Overcoming grief

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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"A Kiss for a Blow"

A. A. W.

What makes little children quite happy and good,And banishes tempers both naughty and rude?
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The Mother-Love

BARNET TOLDRIDGE

As to the downy nest the spent bird fliesAt sunset time; as to the waters grayMoves glad the trusting ship whose purpose diesWithout its strong upholding; as the dayGoes joyfully to night's embrace at last,And as the star, aweary far aboveWith its night-watching, hails the dawning vast—So rests, so hides the world in mother-love!
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If I can Live

HELEN HUNT JACKSON

If I can liveTo make some pale face brighter, and to giveA second lustre to some fear-dimmed eye,Or e'en impartOne throb of comfort to an aching heart,Or cheer some wayworn soul in passing by;
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Understanding

EDNA WADSWORTH HUDSON

To know the whence and wherefore of the things one sees,To comprehend a reason in the hills and trees,And recognize completeness in divine decrees,Is understanding.
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This Day

Mary C. Billings

This day, and this only,Is ours to command.
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The Rest of God

ADA BLERS FOSTER.

O'er the bright waves of distant GalileeSoft falls the sunset light, with tender afterglow;And o'er the sacred haunts of himWho once oft lingered there,A golden splendor softly falls;And o'er this sea of gold there comes once moreThe heavenly echo of that voice divine:"Come unto me, all ye that laborAnd are heavy laden,And I will give you rest.