Poems

When Jesus came from Galilee To John to be baptized, The Baptist was inspired to see His holy thought and realized His innate grace and purity. The Jordan River gently flowed As Jesus claimed the cleansing rite, The deep humility he showed Forthwith engendered spiritual light To shine upon his earthly road.

(The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 195) We know our church through building it within, Where all deep meaning starts.

Symbols have been needed from Moses' time to this. Metaphors have given helpful emphasis to teachings, through the eras, of truth and revelation.

Bundles of tares for the burning—passion and sorrow and death; Bundles of wheat for the garner—mercy and patience and faith; Till at length Truth compels an exchanging, For Soul's joys, of sense-pleasures and strife, And man is found one with the Father, "Bound in the bundle of life. " Hilda M.

"Rabboni .

How lacking in humility and reverence I sometimes seem when tragic trend of mortal dream would subtly send me out to rush about in startled fright checking, adjusting, setting aright— and with the rod! At such times I must pause and think on God, know His the kingdom and its laws, acknowledge Him all-power—all glory— see Him the only cause. Althea Brooks Hollenbeck.

Encapsuled by deceptive minds that dreamed of earthbound life of hatred and despair, we could not free our shoulders, though they seemed to sag beneath the burden they must bear. Old hatreds' adamantine heaviness, the width and height and depth of loneliness, the empty desert of our homelessness heavy and heavier made the galling yoke— until we listened to a voice that spoke, in accents God has blessed, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

The spiritual is a kind and tranquil eye whose seeing is alert and clear, and keen enough to look through mists and see the sky, to see the real, that is not humanly seen. The spiritual is an ever-attentive ear which listens to God's children when they call.

Like a child, Father, trusting, obedient, I have come tonight; Eager, I sing the hymns praising Your omnipotence, listen to the reading: "Love, the way of Life. " Refreshed, I pray to know Your kingdom come, let Your will be done, break Your daily bread, give the glory, power to You; Rejoicing, hear these, Your witnesses, You have strengthened, lifted up, thank You, Father.

They say it is a miracle when I am healed. Dear Father, it is natural to see Thy love revealed! The very fountain of Thy light is here, with Thee.