Poems

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"My Father worketh hitherto"

EARL MC CLOUD

What can I do without my Father's aid?

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Dominion

MARY KERN TIPS

How quickly Truth dispels the mistOf error's false pretense,When thoughts imbued with love persist,In true benevolence,

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Ambition

WILLIAM H. WRIGHT

No palm of worldly glory, Lord,No crown of earthly gainAllures, if I may speak the wordThat stills the cry of pain.

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How little thou knewest, O Daniel,Thou man "greatly beloved,"In that time so far removed from ours,How thy undaunted faithfulnessTo the God whom thou alone wouldst glorify,Should shine adown the years,Bringing courage high to heartsTorn with terrifying doubts and fearsAt error's rampant claim to law and power.

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Our Prayer

FLORENCE A. HOUDELETTE

TEACH us to pray the Master's way— Thou who art Life and Love alway.

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All Will Come Right

ESTHER MURRAY

All will come right—if we have faith to seeThat we should trust and leave it all to Thee;If we but know that God is All-in-all,Good must prevail, and sin and error fall.

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Out of Nazareth

AMY CAROLINE THROSSELL

With eyes quite blurred by tears of mortal sense,We questioned, as Nathanael did:Can any good come out of Nazareth?

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"Be still, and know"

MARIE L. DAAB

From out the night of error's subtle thralldomSeek thou the way, though sad thy steps and slow.

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"What we most need"*

MARIE C. E. RABUS

DEAR Father-Mother God, I pray to Thee, And know that Thou wilt grant me my desire, If that desire be all unfeigned and pure.

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Peter

MARION STUART HOWE

AWAKE! The message rang in prison cell; And lo, the darkness fled and "there was light"! From off his limbs the binding fetters fell, He saw a perfect freedom, man's own right, As he responded to the call, "Arise.