Poems

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Our Only Preachers

MILLICENT J. TAYLOR

No earthborn dogma mounts the platform here;No mortal theory, temporal and frail;The Bible and our textbook we revere—Preachers of sermons strong that never fail.
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The Fourth Watch

M. FLORENCE RAPSON

Think not the way's all gloomy toil, unending,With hope still unfulfilled, your heart too sore.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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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Gratitude

ORA M. MON

"It's heaven to be thankful,"Said a woman at the gate;"It's heaven when you're seeingThat you've really learned to wait;It's heaven—the forgiving,And the blessed standing still;It's heaven when you're listeningAnd you're trusting to God's will.

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THE SUNSET HOUR

ELLA A. STONE

The sky is flushing gold and rose,And twilight shadows fall;A tender peace that comes from GodGently enfoldeth all.
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The Wilderness

ANNE H. BROGAN

I went into the wilderness that day,With heart bowed down and eyes so filled with tearsI neither saw nor knew I had but passedThe portal to the narrow way that leadsTo Life—abundant Life.
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Love Never Faileth

ANNA STANTON LAY

Though there be prophecies, prophecies shall fail,Though there be knowledge, 'twill vanish away.

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Anthology of classic articles II

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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Daystar

LESLIE C. BELL

When to the earth our Saviour came,This guide to all the world was given—A splendid star of living flame,Burning in the height of heaven.
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Messiah

LAURA BROWN CROWELL

The Judean hills still stand immovable,As on the night that stranger star appeared,And a triumphal angel host declaredThe advent of a Prince to Israel.
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The Christ is King

HAZEL W. ALLEN

The wakeful shepherds hear the tidings toldAnew, as on Judean hills of old.
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Labor

Jane polson spearin

The man whose hours are filled with loving toilof hand or mind, some goodness to achieve,
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Lynn

ALICE JACQUELINE SHAW

Evening had come; all day the sun had pouredDown through the attic window, and all dayThe pen moved swiftly at the Word of God.
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Never Forget

MARION ALICE BOWERS

Never forget: behind the mist of seeming,The Sun of righteousness, in this, God's hour,In settled and irrevocable power,On all is streaming;Cleansing the heart, enlightening the eyes,Revealing man, compassionate and wise—Though carnal thought nor reason has, nor ruth,Yet God is Truth!