Poems

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: 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!

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Daily Bread

WILLIAM P. MC KENZIE

Tired worker, still unwearied in devotion,Rest and renewal are provided with your task;Be not self-pityful, lest privative emotionDeny to you God's wealth because you will not ask.

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The Light of Understanding

LAURA GERAHTY

Pray in the silence of the listening night,That God unclose dull eyes and give them light.

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Presence

FREDDA R. GRATKE

I Thank Thee, Father, that I've learned to pray,And praying, feel Thy presence in my heart.

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"Unto the clouds"

MARIAN J. COBB

Earth has donned her somber robes, weeping the hours away;Day is bedraggled, deluged, drear; storm—clouds and winds hold sway;Mountains befogged 'neath misty veil; in valleys the waving grainAnd beauty that walks in garden plots, lie trampled and drenched with rain.