Poems

"FINALLY, MY BRETHREN..."

Mary E. Bouvé McCain

Can't you just see him"reaching forth unto those things which are before,"arms outstretched, sinewed with expectation(feet checked only momentarily on the path)while explaining and exhorting?

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DEADLINE

Stanley John York

There was so much to do,So much depended on the timing,That I became afraid and tense.

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HIS ANGELS DELIVER

B. Lois McKay

Abraham,willing to sacrifice his beloved,took him three days' journeyto the land of Moriah.

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REPHIDIM

Hazel Harper Brandner

We sometimes pitch our tents in RephidimAnd find no water for our daily need.

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OLIVET

Maxine Le Pelley

Sometimes we go up weepingLike David to Olivet.

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If we, like Peter, have denied the ChristAnd in some garden failed in keeping calmWhen self-assertion was not sacrificed,Let us remember as a soothing balmThat Jesus healed the servant's ear and sent,When he had newly risen from the tomb,A special message which no doubt was meantTo comfort sorrowing Peter in his gloom.

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UNDEPLETED POWER

Gerald Stanwell

Grounded from lack of energy and power?

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TESTIMONY

Rushworth M. Kidder

They were good friends, the men who laidme daily at the temple gatecalled Beautiful to garner almsfrom such as spared, among their psalms,a passing nod and a coin.