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Poems

HYMN FOR SPRING

Maxine Le Pelley

How do I know that God is good?

GRACE

Helen Oscar Winfield

As yesterday is but a shadowUpon which the door of eternity has alreadySilently closedAnd tomorrow but a mythIn which men hope to bargainFor a bonus or a boon

SOUL'S DELIGHT

Jane R. Harwood

Joyful , let us take our stand for God,Knowing His the power with which we act;Then, unshaken at the point of strength,Prove this truth eternally is fact.

TODAY

Bernice King Brigham

"To day shalt thou be with meIn paradise,"Jesus' promise to the thiefBeside him on the cross;

NEW LOOK

Mildred S. Ainsworth

Today I close my dooras though I had never closeda door beforeto fretting and all anguishof mind and heart and soul—because I must renewedly be whole.

HUMILITY

Margery Todahl Blokhine

Meekly it ranges the green valley,Daylong unto night;Then, like the lamb, humilityIs drawn toward the height.

LIBERATION

Nyla May Foreman

My Father put me in a great city.

DEPTH

Maxine Le Pelley

Heat and drought will dry upTo empty river bedStreams that once have sparkledBy smallish trickles fed.

KNOWING VERSUS FEELING

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

It is the truth of God we know,not what false sense may say we feel,that gives us nutriment to grow,and grants us Christliness to heal!

"GOD SETTETH THE SOLITARY IN FAMILIES"

Sarah Rebecca Hardie

It is God who "setteth the solitaryIn families";His mighty hand that guards and governsTheir long wanderings.

HEALING

Edgar Isaac Newgass

Our God is very Love and wholly kind,With no opposing element—the MindThat has conceived the universe and manAccording to His own exalted plan.

THE GREATEST NONCONFORMIST

Vera Elizabeth Hughes

He stood out in a crowd;he stood loyal to God.