Poem January 24, 1925 Issue

“What is truth?”

Harry V. Forehand

What then is truth? That question old,
Amidst the lies of mortal sense,
Again is voiced from out the fold
Of human woe and ignorance.
Just as two thousand years ago,
The answer comes that all may know.

For nineteen centuries and more
Mankind has sought in vain to know
The answer, which, those years before,
The Master lived the way to show.
Through all these years the answer stood:
That Truth is God, and all is good.

Again the mist of mortal thought
Admits a gleam of purer light,
Piercing the gloom which error brought,
And teaching men to think aright;
The question's answered ere we call:
That God is Mind, and Mind is All.

Then what is truth? That God is Life,
Is Spirit, Soul, eternal Mind,
Which knows all things, yet knows nor strife
Nor error,—dreams of humankind,—
One Principle, below, above;
Since All is God, and God is Love.

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