Poems

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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.

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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 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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A Prayer

ROSA M. TURNER

So may I love, that Love shall shine through me;And shining thus, with clear and undimmed ray,Shall reach another's human miseryAnd softly light its unillumined way.

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Confidence

BEATRICE BRADSHAW BROWN

Thank God for His merciful kindness,Thank God for His wisdom and might;He saveth from flood and from fire,He guardeth by night.
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Peace

JOHN F. WADDINGTON

Protect us, O our Father, from the swordOf whispering tongues, which poison and defame;Keep us obedient to Thy precious Word:As our loved Master was, make us the same.
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"The man Christ Jesus"

PAULINE PEARL STRACHAN

So tenderly he loved: he took a child

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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.

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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 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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Love's Allness

EDITH L. PERKINS

O thou oppressed by fear, know Love is here,Dispelling every cloud, each shadow drearThat would appall.
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Tears

HAZEL HARPER HARRIS

Tears when in deep self-pity shedWill dim the sunlight overhead,But songs of gratitude will bringA vision cleared of envying,Where clouds of discontent give wayThat there may shine a tearless day.
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"Peace, be still"

ROSE E. SHARLAND

Enfolded like a jewel in the hills,The deep blue lake of Galilee lay still,One beauty with the skies, reflecting them.
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Inspiration

GRACE CROSBY WHITNEY

When we cease to heed earth's clamor,Come the voices from above;And we walk among the liliesIn the garden of His love.
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Frankincense and Gold

MABEL FETT MILLER

I Have left my shepherdingFrankincense and gold to bring,Gold of faith refined by fire,Sweet perfume of high desire—This to be my offering,Frankincense and gold I bring.
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Christian Healing

ROBERT ELLIS KEY

Joy hath come to us to-nightThough the midnight hour is chiming,For the Bethlehem star is shining,And our harvest fields are white.