Poems

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PRELUDE

Jean Elsie Sanders

Had there not been GethsemaneAnd Calvary and full surrender on the cross,How could we then have had the proofOf folded graveclothes and deserted tomb?
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THE AGELESS ONES

Norma MacDow Kemon

Moving among the toilers,the roughened hands,the bent shoulders,the set lips,Dancing in and out among them—Behold, the children!

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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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HEAVENLY COMPANIONSHIP

Esther M. Scheck Peterson

Absorbed in self—apart from God—Men feel unwanted, lonely.

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"MY YOKE IS EASY"

Vera Sohr Kelly

I take thy yoke upon me, andI have thy freedom and thy wings,thy government, thy healing hand,and thy dominion over things.
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JOYOUS MEDITATION

Gibbs Hofmann

Let not my thoughts resolve into a cryFor human love denied in petty scorn.
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THE COCK STILL CROWING

Bernice King Brigham

Three times Simon PeterVehemently denied,"I know him not.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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HOMEWARD

Kathryn Laney Veazey

O,  do you listen when God speaks to you?
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IF I AM LIFTED UP

Edna E. Overby

If I am lifted up, our Saviour said,I'll draw to me all men from far and wide—The tired and the tortured and the sad;The doubters and the prisoners of pride.
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"TAKE WITH YOU WORDS"

Daisy Stieber Squadra

"Take with you words"to prayer's closet.
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"I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS"

Mildred E. Kendall

Thus spoke Jesus to his disciples,who had left all to follow him—tenderly spoke, knowing their yearning,their weary struggles, their honest hearts.
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SACRAMENT

Elsie Hill Ainsworth

Here a feast of Love is spread;Here is Christ's communion bread.
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THEN ANGELS

Pearl Strachan Hurd

He had resisted the devilin the wilderness, alone ;neither hunger nor argument could force himto make bread from stone,to confuse the purposeof his human life.