Poems

Bethesda

LAURA BROWN CROWELL

Beside Bethesda's pool a cripple lay,As he had lain for many a weary year,Watching while others in a similar caseWere helped into the pool by willing hands.

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Consolation

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

Sweep away your sadness,Dry your tearful eyes.

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Demonstration

FLORENCE MAYER HOUGHTON

The night was dark and filled with dread,And no light came with day;Despair and pain had bound me fast,For I had lost my way.

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The Quiet Room

NAOMI V. M. TOPLEY

How quiet the room, how calm the atmosphere;Surely God's very presence has dwelling here.

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My Vineyard

LOIS ALLEN BECK

The gate I thought securely latched,Swung open wide one day;Small foxes lurking just outsideThen crept inside to play.

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Promise

EDITH COONLEY HOWES

Hagar! Hagar! Eyes so filled with tearsHave missed the living water at your hand.

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When we have touched the healing seamless hemOf Christ's humility and selfless love,And in these prayerful moments we have provedThat holiness and health are really one,The misty dreaminess of earth is gone.

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They Shall Be Comforted

MAURICE MC C. CHURCH

Forerunner of ascension, patient woe,Dear love, remaining love though none responds,Gethsemane points through the fire, and loA brighter dawn where still kind love abounds.

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Straightway

HESTER CHAMPNEY

Straightway forsook their nets and followed himSimon and Andrew, fishers of Galilee.

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Like Birds Ascending

BERTHA RIVERS-THOMPSON

Like birds ascending the clear heights of heaven,Our thoughts can rise, swiftly to findIn the pure atmosphere of MindDominion, strength, and might;And in this radiant lightOf Truth, peace unconfined.