Poems

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June

BY C. LOTHROP HIGGINS.

June , thou month of roses and fragrance sweet,When nature's offerings on every side we greet,O'er hill and dale, the wild flowers scattered free.
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The Real Man

By Caroline Washburn Rockwood.

Out of all mists,Into all Light;Out of all wrong,Into the Right;Out of things false,Into the true;Out of death's clutch,Into Life new.

Audio Collection

Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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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My Offering

By L. H.

Dear God, how can I serve Thee best?

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Three Penitents

By H. A. L.

One tarried by the gatewayTo listen for the call;One stood within the portalTo chide a faith so small;
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True Giving is in Sharing

Lowell

Not what we give, but what we share—For the gift without the giver is bare;Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,—Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
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Reflections

BY HARRIET GERTRUDE RING.

In discontented mood I sought the hillsAt sunset, and looked down on busy millsBelching vile smoke, which in the valley laidAn inky blot on a fair scene displayed.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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 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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Praise

MARY TRAMMELL SCOTT

BY MARY TRAMMELL SCOTT.
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Gladness

Ripley D. Saunders

If living is a joy to you,Because your soul is sound,And life seems good and sweet and trueThat you have haply found,Then sing no false and hopeless strainOf doubting and despair,But lift your voice all clear and plainAnd sing that life is fair!
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Step by Step

BY NELLY RUTH CRAMER.

Step by step God's love will lead me,In the way I am to go;Step by step, His Truth beside me,Change and chance I cannot know.
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If I Could

BY AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS.

If I could call my thoughts to me,And read them over with the prayer,That I might justly judge and seeIf all these thoughts were true and fair;If I could call my thoughts, and then,Could read each slowly, one by one,I wonder if I once againWould send them out as I have done.
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No Little Things

BY MARY BARLING STREET.

There are no little things; the slightest word,Unkind and thoughtless, whispered, scarcely heard,Has in its way a mighty current stirred,And as it passes loud and louder rings.
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Why do I dare love all mankind?...

Henry Septimus Sutton

Why do I dare love all mankind?