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LO! IT IS CHRISTMAS

Fannie Merry Law

Do we today,As long ago,Fill up the inn,Our consciousness,With fretted careAnd worldly din,So when Christ knocksThe keeper calls,,"No room within"?

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BETHLEHEM AND BOW

Edith May Matthews

Across the centuries they meet,though half a world apart,their sacred stories cradled deepin each receptive heart.

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CHRISTLIKE VISION

Mary Welman Miller

I was spending my days in confusion,In hurry, in worry, in fright,A slave with my tasks never ending,A slave with no respite in sight,

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THE ANSWER

Myrtle A. Cash

Though the answer tarries, coming,Though the way seems rugged, long,Love will lead to Truth's clear dawning;Love will make the heart a song.

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MY PRAYER

Augusta E. Envoldsen

Grant, Father-Mother God, that I may smileWhen to some fearful thoughtThat smile brings courage,Hope.

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YOU HAVE A HOME

Grace B. Millings

Did you but know yourself as God's own child,There would have been no reasonFor you to say, "I have no home.

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PRAY FOR THE WORLD

Mary Stone Wallace

Pray for the world again, and yet again;Pray for the world of menWith gratitude for good already gained,For health and peace attained.

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AT A LECTURE

Gladys W. Flint

Gazing intently, the people listenedWhile a man talked to them about GodAnd His law of healing and love.

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STRAIGHT FROM GOD

Annie M. Bartholomew

Each noble, loving thought comes straight from God,Imbued with all the majesty and might.

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If I were gifted with such eloquenceI should be classed with the chief orators,yes, if my voice for sweetness were comparedTo the sweet tongues of angels, and could holdCrowds spellbound with its magic, what of thatIf I should not have love, the crowning grace?