Poems

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NO TROUBLED HEART

Edna M. E. Smart

"Let not your heart be troubled:"Divine Love is the Life of man.

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LESSON CONTINUING

Pearl Strachan Hurd

What is our purpose?

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ONE GUIDING BEAM

Donalda von Poellnitz

As wild geese wedge aloft in arrowed flight,Thy mental compass charts their course aright—The same All-power that spins our rolling sphereAnd governs movement with precision here.

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"AS IT BEGAN TO DAWN . . ."

Gerald Stanwell

"As it began to dawn.

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BAPTISM

Lillian Turner Marks

It is not stepping in a pool;It is not sprinkling the head;It is putting off the oldAnd putting on the new instead.

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A MERRY HEART

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

My heart was miserably hauntedby fear I was unloved, unwanted,till I commenced to tryto make myself a little morepleasant and lovable than before.

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Paul walked with vengeful thought his darkened wayUntil from ignorance Christ set him free,And on Damascus road the clarityOf Truth shone down a penetrating raySo bright it lit his world, his thought, his day.

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PATIENCE

Genia McCormick Greider

When God is less than God,or so it seems;when mortal mind has shut outall the beamsof faith, of Truth, of Life,of Love,then grasp, O friend, each merest threadof hope.

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COMPASSION

Nora E. Taylor

There isthat yearns to wallow in the griefof othersand calls it sympathy,recounting woe, enlarginghardshiptill sorrowing and "comforter" alikeare mired in deepest bog of pity.