Poems

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A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FOR ALL

Grace K. Sticht

Alert and watchful in the quietOf the star-filled winter night,Shepherds kept a tender vigil.
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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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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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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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A spiritual approach to mental health

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Anthology of classic articles III

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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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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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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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LOVE

Myrtle Ella Robertson

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?
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STOP AND LISTEN!

Alice Josephine Wyatt

Before you take earth's footsteps,Stop and listenTo the voice of Mind that whispersTruth to you.