Poems

Our Brother

CONSTANCE DAVIS GUNDELFINGER

As we take our daily steps through sunlit pathsOr shadowed ways, intent upon our goal, perchanceUnheeding, thinking only of the tasksWhich seem to crowd upon our days,And planning, weighing all the thingsWhich still somehow must needs be done,Oh, may we learn to pause and liftOur thought above all selfish care,Lest in our haste we might pass byOur brother, standing there!

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Thou Nameless One to Jacob Friend

JEAN BROATCH

Thou nameless one to Jacob friendThat wrestled through the night's dark hourAnd smote the sinew of a thoughtThat long had held him in its power,Come thou with light to my dark hour,So it may vanish with thy touch,And I behold in Truth's clear dayThe knowledge of a better way.

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Love's Beam

EDNA HENDERSON STRAYER

I cannot lose the beam of Love.

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"Ask, and it shall be given you"

ANNA STANTON LAY

There is an overtone of judgmentin that tender invitation,"Ask, and it shall be given you.

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Salvation

HELEN GRAY PHILIPS

Far off seemed victory, though bravely sought;And here, the tempter in the shade of thought,Nodding in soft intent its evil head:"Don't suffer any more—try me instead.

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Man Lives

MAYME DAHLEM

Man does not live by bread alone.

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Trust His Might

AMY G. VIAU

Be not lonely—filled with sorrow—You who have some loved one gone.

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Assurance

JESSE BURKE CLARKE

How can I be of little faith,Or doubt Thy holy Word,When sweeter promises than ThineMankind has never heard?

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Deep Desire

PEARL E. WEST

Dear Lord, of all the gifts Thy treasury holds,I seek that rarest boon, above all price,The one I long for most of all,The understanding heart:To know the need, unvoiced, untold;To give to hungry hearts the foodOf hope, love, and compassion;To reach beyond and free those bound by pride,Yet bruised and broken;With tender love, tact, and devotionTo break the bread of Truth,And show to them the tender careOf Father-Mother God,Which satisfies all longingsAnd brings to them true consolation.