Poems

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The Spoken Word

HAZEL HARPER HARRIS

O Father , teach me how to stillThe clamorings of sense, and fillMy place as listener;That I may hear Thy voice and growTo understand Thy word, and soBecome Thy messenger.
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The Awakening

SVEND PONTOPPIDAN BROBY

I sat in silence deep,Before the wondrous thoughtThat God is Life.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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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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"Neither do I condemn thee"

M. ROSAMOND WATSON

They brought her to the Master—hurried her,Confused, and all unready with her plea,Into the presence of the gracious one.

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Love's Smile

MATTIE A. CROOKER

There 's the smile that 's above and around us, the smile of God's presence and power,Which reflected in beauty and goodness, bears token of Love's priceless dower.
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Tenderness

MARGARET MORRISON

As fragrance fills the air around some spotWhere lilies bloom in loveliness and peace,Their grace and beauty speaking of the strengthThat struggles through the darkness up to light,And bears its praise and gratitude to God,So tenderness doth permeate the strengthBestowed by Spirit, and bespeaks, sweetly,Love's blossoming within a life liftedFrom soil of sense and darkness into light,A life whose joy is grounded deep in TruthAnd bears its praise and gratitude to God.
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The Ageless Christ

ELIZABETH HAYWARD GARDNER

Eyes of the blind, look up and see!The glory of God has shined for thee!Out of the dark has a rainbow sprung;Banners of hope have the angels flung,O'er menacing clouds that scatter and fleeBefore the fire of a single starThat burns serene on horizons afar.

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Changing your world

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Anthology of classic articles III

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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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Security

ELLA A. STONE

As when a little child, Awaked from troubled sleep, Beset by haunting fear, Will to his mother creep,
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Reflection

MABEL M. THIBAU

The flowery wood, the azure sky, The song bird's liquid trill, The singing brook and grassy bower, The distant wooded hill, The humming bee, the blooming flower— All symbolizing Thee, Not in mere cloud, or leaf, or song, But in pure harmony.
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Activity

LAURA GERAHTY

Dear Father, let me on Thy word rely, That I may daily prove, In every act and word unfailingly, The healing of Thy love.
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Our God

CHARLOTTE GIRLING JENVEY

Does the way stretch sometimes lonely?
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Faith

ELENORA E. PIKE

Wherever pain may seem to be,Remember this: God is; and HeWill free thee from this mortal sense,And bid disturbing fears go hence.
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Christ Jesus

MARY LLOYD MC CONNEL

Dear name—the Christ!Expression of that Love divineWhich is infinity made manifest to usThrough him we love to callOur Master, Saviour, Lord,Jesus, the Christ, th' anointed,And appointed to show forth Love's healing power.