Poems

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To Health

Sarah Louise Morris

Life's most essential friend, I drink to theeAnd thy advancement in this o'er-frail world,Thy laws thou dost not veil in mystery;'Tis we, ourselves.
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Easter Day

LETITIA VERTREES PULLMAN.

"Awake ! put on thy strength, O Zion!" for Easter Day has come;The new-born earth from bondage loosed, no longer blind and dumb,Has seen the brightness of the glory of the risen Star,And on this happy morn, across the eastern sky, the barOf coming light illumines man, and lifts desireTo holier thoughts and deeds, and song caught from celestialchoir.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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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Constancy

MARY BAKER G. EDDY.

[Written many years ago.

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A Fragment of Prayer

MARY J. ELMENDORF.

Guide , Father-Mother God, into the light,Out of the shadows into harmony.
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There is no morrow. Though before our face...

There is no morrow.
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"The Lord is my Shepherd"

BY EDWARD C. BUTLER.

Music: "Portuguese Hymn," page 198 of Christian Science Hymnal.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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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 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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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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Sweet Rebuke

BY ELLA S. SARGENT.

His faithful ones, the Master said,The sick would surely heal;Would "cleanse the leper," "raise the dead,"And God, in flesh, reveal.
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The Root and the Flower

A Wild Rose grew by the pasture wall,A beautiful shrub with branches tall,With wonderful color and rich perfume.
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True Selfhood

BY JESSAMINE GLESSNER CHILDS

We grow in God as self is left behind;And rise to know true selfhood Mind.
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Rejoice

BY EVA J. COX

If darkness seems to encompass thee,And mortal fearBedims thy sight and hides the light,Be of good cheer.
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"Little Children, Love One Another."

BY BEATRICE ISABEL BEST.

"Little children, love one another," said three times, in a voice of unutterable tenderness and meaning, is, by some, supposed to have been the last public speech of John as Bishop of Ephesus.
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Washington's Birthday

Arthur J. Burdick

All honor to that day which long agoGave birth to him who Freedom's cause espoused;Who, by his ardor in the sacred fight,The fire and strength of patriots aroused;Who knew no master, save that One divineWhose strength was his, who knew no fear, save one—The fear of doing wrong! All hail the dayThat gave to Freedom's cause George Washington!