Poems

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Reflection

IDA MARIA HANSON

Reflected in the waters still,Behold the encircling landscape's face;The woodland trees, the verdant hill,In perfect order, beauty, grace!
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The Humble Tasks

IRIS V. ZEA

Help me, O Lord, the humble tasks to do;Give me to serve Thee with my thought each day,So joyously that as I bake or sweep,My light may shine to those along the way.

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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 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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"O gentle presence, peace and joy and power"

UNA ROSAMOND LIAS

Gentle presence, Thou art with me! Let me feel Thy peace,From the clamor of earth's turmoil Bringing sweet release.

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Pentecost

LUCY M. GOODENOUGH

Thou living light of pentecostal glory,Lo! wide we fling our hampering doors of clay; Thy cleansing fires pour through us we implore Thee,To purge and sanctify our hearts to-day.
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LAZARUS

W. CYPRIAN BRIDGE

And I knew that thou hearest me always!Thus spake the blessed Master as he stoodBefore the silent tomb of him he loved,Amid the weeping women and the menAssembled there in mourning for the dead.
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Fulfillment

ELENORA E. PIKE

Beneath a weary burden bending low—A burden seeming more than men can bear,Of sin and grief and earth's unending woe—Bowed by its heavy weight of ceaseless care,Upon the shore of earth's deep, troubled sea,A mortal sinks in silent misery.

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Shared reflections

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Anthology of classic articles II

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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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Omnipresence

LEAH BOHN

Dear God, I know he walks in vainWho seeks to walk apart from Thee.
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The Quest

LUCY M. GOODENOUGH

City of God! Lo, here, on high white summit?
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Watch

MABEL CONE BUSHNELL

Watch every thought that it may leadAway from mortal strife,Away from earthly cares and greedTo Love and Truth and Life.
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The Little Prayer

ANNE CLEVELAND CHENEY

As I lingered for a moment by the door,And overheard the baby's prayerWhispered to imploreOur Father's blessing, all the airSeemed filled with fragrance—just as thoughA bud had soft unfolded thereOn some rare stem which only angels know.
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The Reading Room

ELIZABETH G. MC KINSTRY

Within thy quiet walls a soothing calm is found,A refuge from the turmoil of the day.
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"I will be as the dew unto Israel"

ELLA A. STONE

When the rose and gold of sunsetSoftly fade from out the sky,Gently falls the dew from heavenOn the earth so parched and dry.