Poems

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THE ROD

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Impossible task!—and—a serpent!Oh, do not flee; for it may well beGod is giving you a sign—a rod—divine experienceto purge your courage to endureat lifting thoughts from matter barsto the freedom of His stars,above mortalityto Love!
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COMMUNION SUNDAY

Rena Pratt Day

We come with adoration,Seeking inspiration,Vowing consecration.

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Anthology of classic articles III

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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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SAUL ENTERS DAMASCUS

Paul Osborne Williams

Struck blind by all those falling doubts, I singWords without sound set in a songOf inward harmony—Damascus comes,Into the narrow streets of which I grope,Feeling the stones; a chosen vessel nowAwaiting that renewal of the light

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THE STILL SMALL VOICE

Alice E. Chatfield

A silent angel messageComes to the waiting heart;A tender ever-presenceThat bids all doubt depart.
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THOUGHTS ON LOVE

Arliss B. Harmon

Love is from within,Gentle and peaceful.
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TESTIMONY

Margaret E. Singleton

No one would call it a very big secretexcept who kept it for a while,now and then surreptitiously peeking,sure it was still in proper file.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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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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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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LET ME BE MINDFUL

Virginia Thesiger

Let me be mindful of God's splendor,not only in those quiet half hoursplucked from the day between waking and rising,from the silent room on peaceful evenings,with books outspread.
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LOVE CALLS

Jeane Burris

Above the call of human power,mortal pleasures, and famecame the call to walk with Love;over and over it came,higher, clearer, until it drownedall other cries for me.
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CONTINUING DRAMA

Neil Millar

Death spares us not a challenge, gains releaseFrom no reluctant duty, stern indenture;There's neither flight nor conquest in decease;To die is not "an awfully big adventure.
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PRAYER FOR TODAY

Elsie Hill Ainsworth

Father, help me to love Truth most,placing it above all else,a staff on which to lean,a lighted torch held high,not egocentric;praying alwaysto share this Truth with others.
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TELL IT NOW!

Dorothea T. Leamy

Ah, Malchus, servant of the high priest,long have I wondered what you thoughtthe night you led him to the cross.
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THE FOLLOWERS

Margaret Hovenden Ogden

There have been others who have gone before,Led on by Love, by Life, by Mind, by Truth,Who beheld the star that stood above the manger,The church built on the rock, the servant's ear,The palms, pierced by the nails, held out to bless;The benediction of the resurrection;Bethlehem, Gethsemane, and Olivet.