Poems

Confidence

In peace apart—to ponder this—My God is All-in-all;My friend, my counselor, my guide,Who hears me when I call.

No Death Horizon

I stood on the sands one summer day,And watched a white ship that sailed awayFrom sheltering shores within the bay,Out to the great gray sea,Proudly her flag to the breeze unfurling,Cleaving the billows around her curling,Speeding away from me.

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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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Praying

Does not prayer mean the mental glad ascentTo higher visions of the heavenly grace?

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A Prayer

Oh, lift mine eyes above the sons of men,That they may fasten on the things of Thee;For I am weary of the strife of kingsWhich wars against Thy law unceasingly—Kings, but whose crowns are made of worldly dust,That crumble at Thy word and sink to naught:Pride and the lust of power and place, which reachAnd fret for what can ne'er be sold or bought.

Impartial Love

God, the Father, loveth all,Watcheth over, careth for,Leadeth, guideth all alike,—No one less and no one more;Each His son and heir beloved.

Faithfulness

Just to know that Love is all,To turn from error's thrall,To hear Truth's trumpet call,—Is faithfulness.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

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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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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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The Garden of Thought

The Father hath given each child of His careA garden implanted with seedlings so fair;The buds and the blossoms are molded above,Their petals all perfumed with meekness and love;Oh, blest is our God-given garden!

Consecration

Once when the daily round seemed dull and drear,This message came to me, divinely clear:Know, child of Mine, that all I askIs that thy daily taskShall with such loving care and tendernessBe wrought, that all who seeMay feel and recognize 't was done for Me.

A Morning Prayer

Dear Father, as I face the mornAnd watch the rising sun,I pray for light to do Thy will;I pray my thoughts may injure none,But bless them, every one.

Redemption

"Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,"My heart's desire Thou wilt not scorn;For Thou, who doest all things well,Dost know my longing, newly born.

The Standard

When , like a flood, wrong thoughts would o'er me roll,Threat'ning to overwhelm, shall I, resigned,Bow 'neath their sway as to a master mind,Admit their right to cruelly oppress,Of health and happiness exacting toll,As ancient Hebrew bent to Egypt's yoke?

Appeal

God, my creator, Life divine,Thou art all good, forever mine.