Oh, was it spoken,
"Go ye forth, heal the sick, lift the low, bind the broken!"
Of the body alone? Is our mission, then, done,
When we leave the bruised heart, if we bind the bruised bone?
Nay! Is not the mission of Mercy twofold?
Whence twofold, perchance, are the powers that we hold
To fulfil it, of Heaven!
Poems
Oh, was it spoken,...
From the December 1884 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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