Poems

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Patience

MARIE STUART TOWNSEND TAYLOR

If thou but learn to wait,How great will beThe harvest gathered through thy work!Thine eyes shall seeLife's joys anewAs Mind thy fear abates;Then shalt thou learn to live!
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The Treasury

FLORENCE A. ALLEY

The rich men threw in their coins that dayWith scarce a thought, and went their way;But the widow paused, methinks, to prayAs she cast in all her living.

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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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"Here and now"*

FREDERICK STARR CAMPBELL

These words, grown dear, oft read with thanks profound,Gleam bright with hope for weary men, earth-bound.

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Love's Store

EMILY PATTERSON SPEAR

We may not always know how life shall beMade best for us, but He unfailinglyWill meet our need.
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Thou Leadest Me

FLORA B. BENNETT

Thou leadest me!What matters then the loadOf seeming burdens?
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Confidence

SARAH H. COLLINSON

Father , I lift my heart to TheeWhen clouds are dark and shadows fall;I touch Thy hand, and know Thee near,For Thou art All.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

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Anthology of classic articles

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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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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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Reflection

MABEL CONE BUSHNELL

I climbed my weary way,The jagged rocks were rough along the road,The fog hung low:I climbed my weary way with lagging steps,Halting and slow.
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Daily Bread

KATHARINE NORTON PINKHAM

Who hath not found Thy tender graceTo glorify the commonplace,Or in his everyday routineSome glimpse of beauty hath not seen?
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My High Desires

MYRTLE ELLA ROBERTSON

"Like to the mountains are my high desires,"I lift mine eyes unto the hills and pray,And strength baptizes me and hope inspires;God owns both heaven and earth, I cannot stray.
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Prayer

VERNE TAYLOR BENEDICT

Oh, may no heart be turned from TheeBy any deed of mine;And may I ever steadfast beTo point Thy love divine.
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Demonstration

JAMES DOUGLAS GOSNEY

Our lives are sweetened with Thy love; our eyesOnce blind, are open—gone our tears and sighs;No longer by the adversary bound,Our doubts dispelled—we walk on holy ground.
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Benevolent Association

JAMES N. HATCH

Within thy walls God's light, now clearer grown,Fills every place with radiance and cheer;Though day without may lowering be and drear,Within no reflex of this gloom is shown,For where all space is filled with love aloneNo place is left for boding fear or gloom,And darkness finds no biding place or roomWhere trenchant light its glorious rays have thrown.