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This Is Peace

F. INA BURGESS

Lone, lofty peaks, remote and far;The solitude of sea-washed sands;The calm retreat of trees and streams;The call of far-flung foreign lands—

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A Prayer

MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE

Father, give me an understanding heartThat I may hear Thy tender voice today,And lovingly may walk the narrow way,Praising and giving thanks—this be my part.

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Love Does Not Cease

IDA LOUISE WADE

Love does not cease!The river's steady flow is not more sureThan is the fact that love lives evermore,Becoming ever dearer to our thought,As we accept this boundless gift of God.

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The Quiet Hour

MIRIAM D. BLACKBURN

Blessed is the quiet hour,The hour in which my every thoughtIs turned to contemplate God's power—The works He wrought.

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God's Way

MILDRED NICKERSON HALL

Hardest of all it was for meto learn the way to grow in gracewith willing heart; to wake and seeGod's way, and to His will give place.

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Supply

W. ALLYN BUTTERFIELD

Our human needs by Love are met,When we on Love rely.

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In Praise of Virtue

ISOBEL M. MC LELLAN

Happy are theyWhose lips breathe charity,And in whose eyesLie pools of kindliness;With faces calm and pureThey tread the realms of Soul.

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Life

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

Life springs foreverFrom the eternal God,Whose Word is power,Whose light, eternal noon.

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God's Will

FLORENCE L. MAGERS

THY will, not mine—most humbly do I prayAs did our Master in Gethsemane.

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Protected

MABEL STUART CURRY

WHEN walking in the furnace of distress,I need not fear the heat or taint of fire,For one whose form is like the Son of GodWalks close beside me, and the flames expire.