Poems

Earth's Greatest Miracles

NEAL ADAMS STANFORD

Earth's greatest miracles are two:Perfection, and a friendship true.

"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.

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"Freely ye have received, freely give"

MILDRED S. POWELL

O teach, me, Lord, I pray,To give to Thine, as Thou hast given to me!

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The Deathless Word

MAUDE DE VERSE NEWTON

Our Master drew apart from men,From urgent human touchThat voiced its sad, insistent taleWith witness overmuch.

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We pray Thee, give us love, dear Father-Mother God—Pure love and holy, compassionate, overflowing,So that the sick and sinning, the maimed, the halt, the blind,Receive at once the healing from this Christly knowing.

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Vision

MARION ALICE BOWERS

"See that ye be not troubled,"Though from the seething sea of mortal thought,The war god looms, terrific, horrid, grim,Spreading confusion that is seen and feltTo earth's remotest rim—Oh, hear the voice of Jesus, calm and strong,Bringing to man enlightenment and peace.