Poems

IMMEDIACY

Fanny de Groot Hastings

Put off your shoes, your dusty shoes.

Unmoved by drouth or storm cloud,Resting in quietness,Waiting calm and receptiveFor the hand of God to dress,Be as a watered gardenIn a drear and desert place,Quickened by showers of SpiritAnd the sunlight of His grace.

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AFTER ITS KIND

Doris A. Lewis

Could God express Himself in workHalfway or badly done?

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SERVING

Kathryn Laney Veazey

Waken , my heart,To see thy brother's need.

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ASSOCIATION DAY

Edith May Matthews

Across the miles they come to keep the feast;each to his own, yet all as one they come,each with the first fruits of his harvest yield,joyous, expectant, eager to be fedwith that "true bread which cometh down from heaven.

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REBIRTH

Constance Davis Gundelfinger

Within the quiet searching hoursWe learn to know ourselves as we are known;The heart finds deeper peace and confidence,And fretting cares diminish asWe see them as unreal.

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LIGHT OF LOVE

Jean Hazel Allen

It is the hour of prayer.

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GOD'S SUPREMACY

J. Simmons Davis

As I accept the rock-based truthThat health is God's decree,Disease fades out as cloud mists fade,And health alone I see;For health is Spirit's evidenceOf God's supremacy.