Poems

Kindness

MAURICE MC C. CHURCH

THOUGH we should fail at once to breakThe bands that seem to bind;Though sin may thrust, though heart may ache,We know that God is kind.

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Gethsemane

EDITH GADDIS BREWER

THE hour is come.

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Open Doors

PEGGY YOUNG CLARK

THE doors of receptivityMust open from within.

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Truth Conquers All

BUENA V. FREEMANN

Should fear and doubt assail my thoughtTo hold me in their power,I'll turn me to the God of hosts,For He is my strong tower.

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Christ, the Comforter

MARGARET TROILI CAMPBELL

Once the mourning Mary wentEarly, in the dawn,To the tomb of Jesus—rent,And the rock withdrawn.

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As dawn so surely brings to lightThe dear, familiar thingsThat perish not although the nightEnfold them 'neath her wings,So nought of substance or of life,In God's majestic scheme,Is lost in self-destroying strife,Or touched by error's dream.

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Resurrection

ANNA STANTON LAY

To mortal sense, fierce was the storm,Black was the night, and cold the tombWherein was laid the earthly formOf him whose presence made each roomA court of heaven.

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The Open Door

MILDRED NICKERSON HALL

Now to those earnest ones who seek to findThe road that Jesus walked, that they may goWith humble steps that selfsame way, and knowThe joys of true discipleship, shall MindReveal this sought-for way.

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Kindness

MILDRED MOELLER

If every little word I'd sayI'd measure carefully today,I wouldn't say a thing unkindTo anyone, nor would I mindA hasty word that someone mayExpress to me, because I'd findThat I'd forgive and knowIt could not hurt; and so,Let us then weigh each little word,And be just like the joyous bird,Who sings his song, in spite of weather.

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Testimony

MILES BUCKSTON WATTS

Father , I wait amid the silent throng,My heart replete with gratitude and praiseThat my true selfhood doth to Thee belong,And by the power of Spirit Thou didst raise