In a poem written in 1901, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, offers spiritual insight equally needed today:
"Tis writ on earth, on leaf and flower: Love hath one race, one realm, one power. Dear God! how great, how good Thou art To heal humanity's sore heart; To probe the wound, then pour the balm— A life perfected, strong and calm. The dark domain of pain and sin Surrenders—Love doth enter in, And peace is won, and lost is vice: Right reigns, and blood was not its price.4
Poems, p. 22