Poems

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UNITY

LAURA GERAHTY

It is not just because our eyes are meetingIn daily converse, that we claim a friend;It is not e'en because our hearts are beatingSo near each other that our pulses blend.
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BY LOVE ALONE

WARWICK JAMES PRICE

Crouched in the roadside dust, which powdered whiteThe sorry rags that witnessed to his want,The mendicant mouthed prayers for passing alms.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

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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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MAN'S DWELLING-PLACE

HELEN WARD BANKS.

Why do we let our thoughts run to and froO'er the low levels of this restless earth?

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JUDAS

ADA J. MILLER.

For thirty bits of silver stamped as coinOur Master was betrayed by one who knewAnd walked with him along the way;But walked and talked as sleeper in a dream.
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UNITY IMMORTAL

ELIZABETH EARL JONES.

Unfold more fully to our sight,O Love that holdeth all in one;As separate rays converge in light,Meet we in God, our central sun.
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THE MIST DISPELLED

JEANIE F. GIBB

As creeps the mist o'er hill and glenAll silently, and shuts from sightThe sun that cheers the hearts of menAnd makes all nature glad and bright,

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Changing your world

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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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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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RESIGNATION

WARWICK JAMES PRICE

One doth misuse the word who fails to tryTo rise,—stretched prone upon the muddy ground,Tripped by the load which mortal sense has boundUpon his back,—"I am resigned!" his cry.
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A LESSON FROM A FLOWER

MABEL DOBYNS WEIL

Weary and worn, with care and worry spent,Into the deep and quiet wood I wentAnd lay me down to rest upon a mossy bankWhere purple violets in rich profusion grew,And happy birdsong echoed all the woodland through.
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"SILOAM."

KATHARINE T. PORTER.

"Go wash!" That loving gentle presence leave, which wokeThe only hope he e'er had known—whose actions spokeOf power and peace, whose every tone made his heart yearnTo worship God in purity, from earth to turnTo heaven! His life had known no law—he turned away,In unfamiliar stillness, to wash and to obey!The strange new sense of partial sight perplexed him sore;Lost was his certainty of touch, he knew no moreHow gropingly his way to find—the past to himWas dead, the present vague and filled with shadows dim.
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LOVE'S RECOMPENSE

ISABELLE W. PEMBROOK.

Think not, faint heart, that thou canst lackThy heritage of love,Since God Himself thy portion is,Who giveth every child of HisFull measure from above.
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MY BROKEN IDOL

CASSIUS M. LOOMIS.

My days and nights to evil thoughts were closed;I prayed to God aright, as I supposed;As porter at my humble door I stoodThat naught should find an entrance there but good.
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THE MASTER'S CALL

MARY A. NEWMAN.

Into a desert place come ye apart,The loving Master said, and rest awhile;For earthly hopes and joys have claimed thy heartAnd human ways and means thy thoughts beguile.