Poems

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Be Still

AVIS CLARKE ARMSTRONG

Be calm, and hold your peace,Though winds of error throng;Uplift your heart to love,Your lips to song.
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The Comforter

JULIA D. KENDALL

O Love divine, that in each hour of sadness,Comes with deep solace, bringing rest and peace,And to each heart gives promise sweet of gladness—Of joys untold, and love that will not cease.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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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Demonstration

FRANCES HILDA SHERLOCK

I will not fear, nor cease my upward climb,Because some pilgrim toiling on aheadHas slipped and fallen by the way again,And weeps, despondent of the road we tread.

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The Day Breaketh

CAROLINE L. DIER

Be not impatientThat the way seems dark,The path you tread so steep!Your God has set His markUpon each blade of grass,Each singing bird, each stone.
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The Wine Press

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

Whither, we ask,Shall progress plant our feet?
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The Anointed

EDNA J. PHILLIPS

In gentle firmness she unflinching stoodWhen God's voice called her to a godly work—Then moved in poised meekness, did not shirkThe task that Love had given, but stilled the broodOf evils in the encircling gloom with prayerAnd labor in an upper room.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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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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Thy Will

LOLA ALICE DUNNAVANT

I do not choose this way, I said,In which my race to run.
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Inseparability

LUCY BALIAN

Dear Father, wheresoe'er Thou artThere I must be,As sunbeam to the glowing sunAm I to Thee.
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The Realm of Love

WILLIAM COLWELL BARTLETT

Man does not live unto himself alone,In consciousness divine he acts and moves,Nor hates, nor fears, but hears God's Word—and loves.
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My Supply

LEILA SMITH GRIFFITH

To understand, each day, a little moreOf God's dear love,To feel His sacred presence ever near,All fear remove,To know I am His well-beloved child,And that in peace and safety I abideBeneath the shelter of His gracious wing,The while my footsteps He doth gently guideTo heights above;
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My Prayer

MARY F. KINGSTON

Help me, dear Lord, to speak the kindly word,And leave the harsh retort unsaid;Help me, when error argues loveless deeds,To do the loving thing instead.
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Such as I Have

MINNY M. H. AYERS

My pennies may not take thee far,O passing friend with piteous plea,But like to Peter long ago,Such as I have give I to thee.