Poems

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Turn your Face to the Light

BY CLARENCE A. BUSKIRK.

Truth brings only joy, turn your face to the Light,O sister, O brother;You work for yourselves when you work for the right,And work for each other.
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Joy

E. F. V.

There is no joy too great for theeWhen Love is on the throne,For God would have to cease to beTo leave thee all alone.

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Anthology of classic articles

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From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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The Word

John G. Whittier

Voice of the Holy Spirit, making knownMan to himself, a witness swift and sure,Warning, approving, true, and wise, and pure,Counsel and guidance that misleadeth none!By Thee the mystery of life is read;The picture-writing of the world's gray seers,The myths and parables of the primal years,Whose letter kills, by Thee interpreted,Take healthful meanings fitten to our needs,And in the soul's vernacular expressThe common law of simple righteousness.

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A Song of Light

BY WILLIAM BRADFORD DICKSON.

"Let there be light," and lo, across the darkened consciousness there gleams the softening dawn of Truth's eternal day.
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To Mother

BY W. F. C.

Dear Sentinel:— Enclosed is a little poem which was handed to me last week by the mother of one of our Sunday School children, and considering that the little fellow who wrote it is only eleven years old, it seemed to me very good.
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My Prayer

John G. Whittier

If there be some weaker one,Give me strength to help him on;If a blinder soul there be,Let me guide him nearer Thee.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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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 Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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To Myself

The following poem was written by Paul Fleming in 1600.
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The Unfailing One

BY FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL.

He who hath led, will leadAll through the wilderness;He who hath fed, will feed;He who hath blessed, will bless;He who hath heard thy cry,Will never close His ear;He who hath marked thy faintest sighWill not forget thy tear.
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How far to Heaven?

Angelus Silesius

How far from here to Heaven?
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April

BY JULIA MICHAEL.

A little crocus bud lifted its headUp from a bed of brown,And the sun smiled through from a bit of blueAnd shone on its yellow gown.
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A Flower Legend

BY M. A. G

When he whose sinless spirit hasFor centuries been our guide and way,Compassed by stern and cruel foes,Was being forced up the dread hillOf suffering and shameful death,Weary and fainting 'neath the burdenOf the heavy cross on which he was to yieldIn agony, his stainless life,—'Tis said, that in his stepsThere bloomed a sudden wonder:—A snowy flower, that mortal eyeTill then, had never seen.
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Glad Easter Day!

BY E. F. V.

O Easter day! Glad Easter day!I come to thee my vows to pay.