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View from Patmos
Not preterit, not future tense, but now
the revealing, the unveiling
from that rock in the Aegean.
Such solitude
has its obvious compensation.
The lonely hours encourage contemplation.
For John not mere survival but a view
of a Jerusalem entirely new,
not walled or garrisoned by ethnic tribe
or stale theology.
Consider John
flung out of all
familiar pattern and environment,
misunderstood, condemned, deported,
yet—
in this remoteness
in blaze of illumination
able to see
Truth eternally established—
a message to all nations
through constantly unfolding
revelation.
PEARL STRACHAN HURD
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July 27, 1981 issue
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What do you choose?
BEVERLY JEAN McCREARY
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Teaching our children spiritual values
LESLEY CLYNE
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Ours—from God
ROBERT GEORGE CLARK
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Don't identify with flesh
JOANN AMPARAN
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View from Patmos
PEARL STRACHAN HURD
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Treatment in a psalm
ALETA DOANE ARGABRITE
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Is there a panacea?
SARA SANFORD DALY
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Humility
KATHRYN LANEY VEAZEY
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The man who lives for God
DIANE BENEDICT-GILL
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Man's indestructible senses
DeWITT JOHN
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Permanency of good
BEULAH M. ROEGGE
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Let fear take flight
DOROTHY F. ZOLLICOFFER
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Do you know these important places in the Bible?
Kardyne Flad Buchanan
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Our daughter had a significant healing
FREDERICK EDWARDS PERCIVAL with contributions from PEGGY PERCIVAL, TIFFANY PERCIVAL
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As a young woman I saw Christian Science heal my mother of...
LUCILE B. ANDERSON