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ESTELLA S. THOMPSON

O trusting heart, look up and seeThe glorious home prepared for thee;A home so free from mortal strife,Where Love is all and God is Life;

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The Pioneer

NELLIE BATES JEWETT

Because for me she wrought with marvelous care,Can I the debt toss carelessly aside—Content to feast in idleness and pride,Unmindful of her fast, her ceaseless prayer?

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Immanuel

MARY SPARKS

I was blind, but now I seeGod is with us every hour;Now His mighty love makes free,And there is no other power.

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The Way, the Truth, the Life

MAUDE M. CLARKE

When for love of God we yearn,And naught but error can discern,When in wandering doubt we stray,We have His word: I am the way.

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City of God

MARY E. COBB

THERE came to me once as I pondered,A vision of beauty and light;I saw, with the eyes of the spirit,The city that has no night.

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Trusting

SARAH A. WILLIAMS

WHAT though I sleep not nor slumber,who shall be able to numberThe blessings that come in the hush of the night?

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Life, Truth, Love

ANNIE ADAMS

O WONDROUS LifeThat knows no death or sin,Thy gates are open wide,That all may enter in.

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Lead Thy Captivity Captive

E. B. SARGANT

Not in the paths of human peaceDoth Love proclaim the captive free;Nor where exultant crowds increaseHath Christ his hidden embassy.

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Awakened

LENA M. HALL

I came upon a violet—A little thing;Ah, but I thought, and thought again,That day in spring.

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Truth's Revelation

LAURA GERAHTY

Truth stood beside me, white and strong and clearIn the dim twilight, but I could not see;Bound by the chains of discontent and fear,I dared not move to claim such ecstasy.