Poems

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I Would Have Known Thee, Lord

HELEN W. DARNALL

"Art thou he that should come?
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In the Pharisee's House

KATHRINE H. WILLIAMS

Mary's heart was like a frightened birdSnared in the underbrush of shame and sinWhen Jesus' quick, illuminating wordUnloosed it from a dark indiscipline.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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It Need Not Be

PEGGY DICKINSON TODD

There is no law of LoveThat sanctions shadows of the night.

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Housework

ESTHER I. VANDERPOOL

With Love dissolveThe fingerprints of hateThat smear the windowpaneOf consciousness;For Truth's bright rays,Unhindered, penetrateTo purify, to heal,Enrich, and bless.
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God's Presence

JULIA DOROTHY JONES

Dear God, I feel Your presence every day,Directing me in what I do and say,Lifting my thought above all doubt and fearInto the holy, cleansing atmosphereOf Love, where wisdom, touching everything,Is making my whole world rejoice and sing.
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"Thy will be done"

THELMA BROOKS

Let each one pray, "Thy will be done,"Let spiritual sense abide in meTill victory over sin is won.

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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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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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In a Literature Distribution Room

MARY BAKER THOMPSON

Here in this upper room,Where willing hands prepareThe messengers of Truth,The silence is a prayer.
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Testimony

MAX DUNAWAY

It is so little, Lord, the widow's mite,This faltering word of thanks that I would speak.
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Beauty Is Unfading Good

ALICE JOSEPHINE WYATT

Whither?
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And When They Began

OLIVE SCHOLES

They rose up early in the morn;They heard their leader's voice;Obediently the singers praisedThe beauty of God's holiness,The mercy that endures.
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Love's Blessing

MARGARET C. RIDENOUR

"Speak , Master, that my brother may divideHis bountiful inheritance with me.
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Gabriel

KATHLEEN HALL THORPE

I rose up when I heard the trumpet callTo march with Michael and his host.