Poems

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CONFIDENCE

Rosa M. Turner

The children take my hand to climb the stair.

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WAKE FROM SELF-PITY

Grace B. Ladd

Self-pity corrodesAnd eats at the heartUntil a man knows notThe spirit that's moving within him.

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THE LAW OF GOOD

Netta Emeline Neild

Our Master said,"My words shall never pass away.

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A MORNING PRAYER

Cora A. Wade

Thank Thee, Father, for this morning hourSpent in quiet study of Thy Word.

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THE OPEN DOOR, THE WAY OF SALVATION

Myrtle Ella Robertson

"Cease bruising your wings, little bird,The door is open wideFor you to pass outside—Ah, free at last, little bird!"How absurd it should have tried to passThrough the wall.

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BUILDING THE WALL OF RIGHT

Maude De Verse Newton

I shall not come from this high placeTo temporize with wrong,For here I build the wall of rightWith faithfulness and song.

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STAND UPRIGHT

Alan W. Thwaites

"O man greatly beloved,Stand upright—yea, be strong.

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ENTRANCE

Mildred Kendall

Take heed, wayfarer, searching the rubble of old nightFor a star.

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I ask not petaled path and glory's goldAs years wing by—mine is a wider prayer,A prayer though much repeated, never old:God, keep my world from growing small! Let careBe nurtured that my vision's lengthened scopeWill find illumination, and in givingOf my freshened faith to others I may hopeFor broad horizons and a grander living.