Poems

WAIT WITH PATIENCE

Sue Ann McDowell Brannan

The great I AM,All true, all wise,Unfolds with loveTo patient eyesA sense of joy,Of freedom won,Dispels the cloudsThat hide the sun.

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THE GARDEN

Donalda von Poellnitz

Where Jesus met the zenith-tideOf hate ere he was crucified,There was a garden.

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KINDNESS AT THE CROSS

Myrtle Daugherty

Who was he—this eager onerunning to hold the saturated spongeto Jesus' thirsting lips?

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THE WORLD

Martha H. Scherf

"Love not the world.

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When we look from a starat where we now are,and accept the factthat nothing can actunsparked by Mind;when we leave behindlimiting elevation,of dense plantation,of wall and spire;when we let the fireor Truth consumeour night, and illumenew day, out log will showthere was nowhere to go,for we, undeceived,shall have perceivedno need to roamto or from home.

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THE SUPREME GOAL

Gibbs Hofmann

They who have learned that God is All,And in that light with joy let fallTheir doubts and fears, and kindred chains,Till only purity remains,Will rise to heights where each can say:All earthly things have passed away.