Poems

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THE CHOSEN

M. Elizabeth Kirwin

To be the choice of God,How great the honor hereAnd manifold the peaceHis chosen one may hear.
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THOUGHTS FOR THE CONGREGATION

Lillian Turner Marks

No dull-of-hearing attitude can stayThe purpose which has brought us here today.

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Anthology of classic articles

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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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THE EVER-PRESENT HARVEST

Amelia S. Wadsworth

Why speak this way: four months to growTill ripened heads of grain will show?

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THE CHRISTLY PATH OF LIVING

Ethel Munro Goss

Let me walk this Christly path today.
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CONTINUITY

Florence H. Lawson

You say he died.
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Now

Fanny deGroot Hastings

I Stand at length where phantom timeCan neither halt nor spur,Where being climaxes at prime,Future and past concur.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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Changing your world

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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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From Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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"DRINK YE ALL OF IT"

Roberta Joan Seiferth

The cup's depths looked so very deepAnd dark, he said that I must drain;I wanted freedom from my pain,But felt perhaps the cup could keep.
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ASSOCIATION DAY

Mary Baker Thompson

This is our Olivet, this beauteous day,Joyous, illumined, a rare, precious gem;Here is the mount where we may watch and pray,Here humbly touch the garment's healing hem.
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PRAYER IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD

Doris Maude Ferne

Dear Father, heal the sad, the sick, the blind,With the unfolding treasures of Thy Mind.
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GOD MADE MAN UPRIGHT

Amy G. Viau

Man's dignityIs the poise of graciousnessBestowed by God.
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PERENNIAL BIRTH

Edith Coonley Howes

New birth is a dawning,An impelling visionOf perfect being, beautiful, free.
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DIRECTION

Cecile Pepin Edwards

When all my proud and selfish schemesHave ended in futilityI come, dear Father-Mother God,To find my way again in Thee.