Poems

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THE NIGHT IS GONE

Mary Somny

Joyous, now, I claim my freedom;It is mine as God's own son.
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LOOK UP

Dorothea Sturdivant Fagan

Because I walked with lowered gazeIntent upon the ground.

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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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REPENTANCE

Mary Boyd Wagner

There is a law of Truth and Love that breaksThe chains of sin and leaves man free to rise,Uncumbered by the weight of past mistakes.

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I KNOW

Helen K. Fries

It matters not what others think of me,It matters not what others seem to see;I only know that I am God's own son.
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THE LECTURE AUDIENCE

Mollie Ruth Bottoms

Again , as on the shore of Galilee,The multitude is waiting to be fed,Waiting by time's ever-ebbing seaThe breaking of imperishable bread.
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VICTORY

Ethel Wasgatt Dennis

Must we shut Love from out our livesFor evil shown,Terming it weakness?

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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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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TODAY

Elizabeth Sembler

Today , dear God,Help me to seeMy fellow manAs made by Thee,
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A LIBRARIAN'S TESTIMONY

Netta Emeline Neild

So long he stood before the window, gazingIntently, small face earnest as he read,That one inside the Reading Room who watchedWent out to him at last and gently said,"What are you reading?
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"HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN APART"

Rita Berman

What is this height from other heights apartThat he ascended whose pure way I seek?
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TIME NO LONGER

Stanley Oliphant Batt

The dreamy past, the future we would scan,hold nothing more than now can give to man.
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SECURITY

Maude De Verse Newton

Nought of joy has vanishedWith the fleeting days.
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TREASURY

Estelle Dale

Weary , my heart, and spent in the service of others?