Poems

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Be Thou My Strength Alway

OMA OLNA MARTIN

Dear Father, like a thoughtless childI stumble oft and cry,Forgetting in my waywardnessThy guiding hand is nigh.
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The Practitioner

MAY TERRY CARLSON

You gave me friendship,Deep, enduring, strong;With wondrous patience.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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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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"Ask, and it shall be given"

EDITH M. SHANK

Why hear ye not the Master's loving counselWhen burdened sense affirms great is the need?

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Witness

MILDRED NICKERSON HALL

Now through my daily round I goWith joyous steps, most willingly.
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Light

MABEL WHITE RODOCKER

When shadows deepen and my heart grows weary,Quite burdened with the weight of sin and woe,I find a refuge sweet in Love's abiding,And hear the gentle, "Peace, be still, and know.
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The Way

MARY DOROTHEA CHATE

To love as Jesus loved!O Truth, I look to Thee,And find Thine allness provedIn Love's sweet harmony.

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Shared reflections

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Shared reflections

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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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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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Christ Jesus

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

He walked the earth in holy peace,To sorrow-laden brought release;At his command the raging seaWas calmed in primal harmony.
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Patience

MARGARET HORN

Dost thou tread a weary road,Bearing yet a heavy load?
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Earth's Greatest Miracles

NEAL ADAMS STANFORD

Earth's greatest miracles are two:Perfection, and a friendship true.
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"If thou strayest ..."*

LEILA SMITH GRIFFITH

Dark are the clouds that hover o'er my head,Fiercely the angry, stormy winds rush by:The night draws on apace, night filled with dreadOf unknown ill from yon foreboding sky.
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Security

EDITH JOYCE ELDER

No earthly gold or gain can buy security,Or lend assurance to the passing years,Guard from the ills that haunt all mortal seeming,Or bulwark prove against its surging fears.
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Sanctuary

MARY C. REYNOLDS

I need but look awayFrom darkness, doubt, and fear,And, childlike, turn to God,To find that He is here.