Poems

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Trust

DOROTHY M. MURDOCH

Strive not to stretch your human hand to saveYour child from all earth's dangers and alarms.
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God's Will Is Good

LILLIAN TURNER FINDLAY

God's will is good, His love encircles all;Truth is the risen sun, dispelling night,Revealing mercy with its healing light,Thus guiding men to hear the Father's call.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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The Perfectness of Love

IRENE L. MUNK

The trees, etching their green loveliness against the skyWith outflung branches, typifyThe measureless and boundless meed of Love.

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"Thy son liveth"

HAZEL D. SMITH

"Weep not," the loving Master saidTo the sorrowing widow at Nain.
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Safe Dwelling

MAURICE MC C. CHURCH

Where is your faith in Spirit's powerTo guide, to guard, to saveFrom pestilence that walks at night;From weather, wind, and wave?
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Jesus in the Temple

KATHRINE H. WILLIAMS

We may not know his glorious words of truthThat scaled the temple walls, but we may surmise:These men were scholars, he was but a youth,Yet wisdom beyond theirs was in his eyes!We feel assured those hours were happy hours;He must have told of that joy forever given—Who later chose the smiling wayside flowersTo point a wondrous verity of heaven.

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Shared reflections

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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Anthology of classic articles

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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 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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Mist

LOIS R. GRISWOLD

I said unto myself: "What shall I do?
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Immortality

IVA B. LINEBARGER

There is no death, for Life is infinite—expressed in all the universe and man.
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Victory

ETHNIE C. MONEY

Sing loudly, brother, sing, and sing again.
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To One Who Is Adrift

MARY STONE WALLACE

Know that the power governing allMoves to answer before you call;
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The Preacher

HELEN H. JONES

How many years, how long ago, a wiseMan said, Remember thy creator inThe days of youth; remember lest the skiesBe darkened, lest the silver cord wear thin.
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Dreamer, Awaken

FLORA PHILLIPS MC KINLEY

We dream at night-time, and our dreamsAre hurried, harried travels, misconceivedFrom daytime's actualities.