Poems

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"AS IT BEGAN TO DAWN . . ."

Gerald Stanwell

"As it began to dawn.
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BAPTISM

Lillian Turner Marks

It is not stepping in a pool;It is not sprinkling the head;It is putting off the oldAnd putting on the new instead.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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A MERRY HEART

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

My heart was miserably hauntedby fear I was unloved, unwanted,till I commenced to tryto make myself a little morepleasant and lovable than before.

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SONNET OF LIGHT

Noëlle Madeleine Porrill

Paul walked with vengeful thought his darkened wayUntil from ignorance Christ set him free,And on Damascus road the clarityOf Truth shone down a penetrating raySo bright it lit his world, his thought, his day.
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PATIENCE

Genia McCormick Greider

When God is less than God,or so it seems;when mortal mind has shut outall the beamsof faith, of Truth, of Life,of Love,then grasp, O friend, each merest threadof hope.
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COMPASSION

Nora E. Taylor

There isthat yearns to wallow in the griefof othersand calls it sympathy,recounting woe, enlarginghardshiptill sorrowing and "comforter" alikeare mired in deepest bog of pity.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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LEARN TO FORGIVE

Madora Holt

Still rowing hard against riptideof injustice?
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CONFRONTATION

Jeannette Hulst Johansson

"Who are you, my brother?
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CLAIM PEACE

Joseph W. Paddock

When error claims the world is racked by war,Communities are torn by civil strife,Then act as porter; guard the mental door.