Poems

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"Thy will be done"

ROWENA A. MILLS

WHEN clouds of sense obscure the viewAnd seem to hide the narrow way,What joy it is to humbly pray,Father, what wouldst Thou have me do?
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This Is the Hour

NORA L. BROWN

When Jacob faced the angel visitant,He prayed and knew that good alone had power;And to this presence said in covenant,"I will not let thee go.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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Patience

EVELYN MAY SCOTT THAIN

If we would calm the eager restlessness,The fretful striving of the human mind,We need a self-surrender more complete,A wisdom more unerring: we must learnThat high resolve persistently maintainedAlone can bring the perfect poise we seek.

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He Healed Them All

HELEN M. HEALY

Of all the pictures on the sacred page,Painted in words whose colors never pall,Replete with love to youth and hoary age,To me the sweetest is, he healed them all.
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Security

LEAH BOHN

Lo! through the midst of them he passed,Unseen and free!Naught was there that a carnal mindCould touch or see.
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A Needed Thought

LUCY GWENDOLINE LAMB

Cease now your anguished crying,The thought came clear to me;It stands not for God's goodness,It is disloyalty.

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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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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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"Stretch forth thine hand"

FREDERICK WILLIAM PRITCHARD LE SUEUR

Joyfully within the temple's portalsThe maimed man answered to the Lord's command,Never doubting him whose love had bid him,"Stretch forth thine hand.
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If God Is All

BABETTE H. DEAN

If God is All, whence comes this veil of darkness;Whence come this terror and this starless night?
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Security

MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE

Although the path seems dark, the way obscure,And great clouds stoop above me, threatening,I need not fear these phantoms; safe and sureI can walk onward, never wavering.
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God Walks with Me

LUELLA A. BREWER

How good it is to knowGod walks with me.
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Love

GRACE M. FRANCK

O Love divine, all human love transcending,Unveil our eyes, that we may clearly seeHow omnipresent Love—like streams unending—Forever flows to bless humanity.
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A Daily Prayer

LUCY M. GOODENOUGH

O light divine, thou'rt ever nearTo guide our way,Out from the gloom of doubt and fearTo perfect day.