Poems

Three Times Daily

OLIVE C. BROWN

Father, when each new sunriseFloods earth with golden light;Help me to lift my thought to TheeWith purpose true and motive rightAnd say, "Thy will be done.

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Prayer

CLARA TEWKSBURY WATSON

Why plead for human sense of thingsOf Him who cares for all His own,To whom man's every want is known?

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Patience

AMOS W. BALLINGER

I will wait patiently for Him,Who doeth all things well.

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Fruition

ANNE CLEVELAND CHENEY

I put my vision into words,One praiseful day,And many listened wonderingly,Then—went their way.

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"As a little child"

ELLA A. STONE

How we love in thought to pictureThat fair scene in Galilee,Jesus with the little childrenGladly clustered at his knee,

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Service

CLARA TEWKSBURY WATSON

God has planned some work for thee—A glorious opportunityTo serve mankind.

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I sailed my bark upon the sea of time,Where cold materiality seemed real;I came upon the shoals of sands where oftI stayed, the shoals of pleasure, sin, and greed;I looked around and dreamed of sudden wealth;I sought again and found but shifting sandWithout a helping, guarding hand to guideMe on to stable land, where safety is.