Poems

FACE TO FACE

Godfrey John

"Who are you?

CAPTIVE OUT OF ISRAEL

Estella Mayer MacBride

If we but knew more of that little maid!She said, "I would to God my lord could beIn Israel; I know the leprosyWould leave his flesh.

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THE RIGHT WAY

Alice Sergent

I will accept reality and will expect relief,Support the working of God's law, not yield to false belief.

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SIGNPOSTS

Mary Boyd Wagner

How could I know that I had found the roadTo life eternal when there was no signThat I could plainly read?

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A PARENT'S PRAYER

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Although my child gains when I kneel and pray:"Save her from false attraction, God, each hour!"we both gain more when I appeal this way:"Help me to know Thee, God, the only power!"

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THE INWARD MAN

Joanne Mazna Garinger

Shadow of a man,the outward man,but the place of his fearis a dark dark place,twisting tunnelswhere no men live,a dark, dark placewhere no sound issave the tattered,rattling songs of death.

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"ABIDING IN THE FIELD"

Pearl Strachan Hurd

Father, my Mother—thank You for the doorto Life.

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SPEAK WITH CENTURION AUTHORITY!

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Centurion knewmilitary command,subordinate response,one.

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GUIDANCE

Blessing Ainsworth Brown

Trusting God's purpose for His son.

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ON THE MOUNT

Florence Roe Wiggins

The loved disciples stood on mountain height,Watching with awe his face shine as the sun,His raiment turning white, white as the lightTransfiguring him—the God-anointed one.