Poems

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Art

Edwin Markham

At her light touch.
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If Men were Wise

Charles Mackay with contributions from Hamilton W. Mabie

WHAT might be done if men were wise—What glorious deeds, my suffering brother,Would they uniteIn love and right,And cease their scorn of one another?

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Anthology of classic articles III

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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 Comradeship of Right

G. R. L.

BRIGHTEST star in darkest night,Christ's our Comrade in the fight.

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"O Ye of Little Faith"

CHRISTIAN BURKE

A sower sowed his seed, with doubts and fears;"I dare not hope," he said, "for fruitful ears; Poor hath the harvest been in other years.
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A Prayer

ELIZABETH EARL JONES.

Oh lead and light me, all the rugged way, As a fond mother leads her little child;
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A Little More Love

SAMUEL GREENWOOD.

The content of the worldling is not in his gold,Nor in wanton pleasures nor grasp of power,Though he striveth to gain these hour by hour,And yieldeth them homage till time is old;For stronger than passions or greed of gainIs his yearning for love, like a secret painThat no earthly treasures have yet consoled.

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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 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 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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The hour is coming when men's holy church...

The hour is coming when men's holy churchShall melt away in ever-widening walls,And be for all mankind, and in its placeA mightier church shall come, whose covenant wordShall be the deeds of love.
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Enough to Know

FRANCIS S. CLARK.

I Rest content, whate'er betide,For love and peace with me abide;I care not how my footsteps go;God guides! This is enough to know.
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The Builders

Edwin Markham with contributions from Edward Everett

I dwell near a murmur of leaves,And my labor is sweeter than rest;For over my head in the shade of the eavesA throstle is building his nest.
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Lots of time for lots of things...

with contributions from Arthur Helps

Lots of time for lots of things,Though it's said that time has wings.
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The Singing Shepherd

Annie Fields

The shepherd climbed the hill through dark and light;And on and on he went,Higher and higher still,Seeking a pasture hidden in the height.
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The Isles of Quiet

John Vance Cheney

The Isles of Quiet lie beyond the years,Hoar prophets say it; yet, for all the tears,I doubt the saying of the seers.