Poems

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Eternal Day

MARY IRVING KEITH.

Eternal day! Eternal day!One prayer the multitude shall pray.
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Singing Birds

O singing birds, O singing birds, ye sing in field and skyThe simple songs of love and joy ye sang in days gone by;I hear you in the meadows now and up the mountain stream,And as I listen to your voice I dream an old-world dream.

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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 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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Praise

Edna Wadsworth Hudson with contributions from Marcus Aurelius

There's a song—how well we know it!Softly sung in all our days,"God is Love—to Him all glory!"Angel thoughts and voices raise—"God is Love—to Him all glory,God is All—to Him sing praise!"

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The Housatonias

SARAH J. DAY

Half a dozen Quaker ladies,Straight and slim and small,In a sunny Berkshire meadowBy a low stone wall.
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An Interesting Possibility

W. P. W.

In the book "Pulpit and Press," Mrs.
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Trifles

ANNIE MARIE BLISS.

IT was only a cheery "Good morning," That she said as I started away; But it echoed and rang in my busy thought As I worked through a long, long day.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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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 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 Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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Blow, Winds of God

DWIGHT M. HODGE

Blow, winds of God, and bring us on our way! We spread the sails to catch thee if we may.
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The Bright Side

Anon

IF one looks upon the bright side It is sure to be the right side—
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Had I but Wealth

R. G. CARNEY

How oft we think—had I but wealth Then would I make the poor rejoice,
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What Have we Done To-day

NIXON WATERMAN with contributions from ERNEST RENAN

We shall do so much in the years to come, But what have we done to-day?
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Admonition

MARY IRVING KEITH with contributions from DEAN STANLEY

Waste not the time men call "to-day," Spurn not the things at hand; The future holds no recompense For those who idly stand And wait The chances of a better fate.
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Error

EDNA WADSWORTH HUDSON with contributions from HENRY WILDER FOOTE

A shadow, that is all, A dream or an illusion; A sense of mistiness, Of mistake or confusion; It's just a thought which doth appear to be, When something seems between thy God and thee!