Poems

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PRAYER IN CHURCH

Hazel Harper Brandner

Dear Father, let this congregation hearThy sacred Word in sweet humility;Let understanding grow more deep and clearAs unselfed, reverent thought communes with Thee.
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CONVICTION

Pearl Strachan Hurd

All those he had cherishedLeft him at that hour;Whose thoughts had openedLike a flowerIn Christ-loveNow fled.

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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 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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LOVE IN YOUR HEART

Elsie Schoen

Love in your heartFor God and manWill open the doorWhen nothing else can.

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WHERE DO WE STAND?

Ruth A. Chapin

Where do we stand along the road?
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RESURRECTION

Winifred M. Earl

The vigil in the darkest hourHas proved God's might and love and power.
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FIRST LOVE

Kathleen Hall Thorpe

Be faithful to first love—To that great moment when the ChristFirst speaks to human consciousnessAnd we respond with joyful recognition.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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Anthology of classic articles II

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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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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TO WATCH ONE HOUR

Katharine B. Moore

That night in still GethsemaneThe Master, yearning, looked in vainTo Peter, James, and John;And they, unmindful of his painFor sorrow slept.
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GOD DOES ALL THINGS

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

God does all things;and he whose heart singswith this truth as he goesto his task truly knowsto his Father belongboth his work and his song.
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CONTENT

Alan W. Thwaites

Paul faced the hardships of the road,The perils of the sea,As alien lands and distant shoresReceived his ministry.
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THE BROKEN SPELL

Florence Irene Gubbins

Once I stoodIn a bare place,My heart under a stone,And God's face veiled,And I alone.
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INDIVIDUALITY

Dorothy M. Kiddoo

As one small drop of water in the lakeContains all elements which make the whole,Just so man's very nature does partakeOf all the lovely attributes of Soul.
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LOVE'S OWN NOW

Iris V. Zea

There is no dim, frayed edge of yesterdayNor fear-filled morrow to becloud your brow.