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THE LORD'S PRAYER

From the May 1888 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Our Saviour's prayer has often been versified and set to music, notably to the tune Home Sweet Home. Why not Mrs. Eddy's beautiful paraphrase, which is a gem of poetry in itself?

Principle eternal and harmonious,
Nameless and adorable Intelligence,
Thou art ever-present and supreme;
And when this supremacy of Spirit shall appear, the dream of matter will
disappear.
Give us the understanding of Truth and Love,
And loving we shall learn God, and Truth will destroy all error.
And lead us unto the Life that is Soul, and deliver us from the errors of
sense, sin, sickness, and death,
For God is Life, Truth, and Love forever.

Harmonious Principle, ours evermore,
Intelligence infinite, Thee we adore.
Thou ever art present, and ever supreme,
The Heaven of Spirit that foils matter's dream.

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