Poems

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Progression

NELLE READ

This is the time of unfoldment;All earth heeds the summons of spring.
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Upon the Wave

MARY TRAMMELL SCOTT

Softly the new lightFalls upon sweet Galilee;Gently the true lightBrightens all the sea.

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Anthology of classic articles

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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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Gratitude

LILLIAN BARKER DURKEE

Like birds that seek in grateful, loving trustSome belfry tower to rest their weary flight,My thoughts on memory's wings fly to the past,Upon its tower of love and truth alight;

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To a Friend

MINNY M. H. AYERS

How beautiful God's glories are!The blue, blue sky, the silv'ry star,Each budding flow'r, each spreading tree,Breathes of His love for you and me.
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The Shadow of the Almighty

Mary R. Becket

Within God's shadow there is peace eternal,Though, dreamlike, noises of the world go on:For where He is, there must be joy supernal,Which never passes to oblivion.
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God's Day

LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY

"There is no night but in God's frown;There is no day but in His smile.

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These books healed me

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Shared reflections

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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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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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Duty

FANNIE LATIMER BAKER

Duty , little word thou art with letters four,So grim, forbidding, yet full of life's best lore.
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"Be still, and know"

ADELAIDE B. H. MATHEY

Beautiful bird, so care-free and joyous,Up in the topmost bough—full-throated, glad,God's humble messenger, type of true freedomThat lifts the weary, the sick, and the sad,
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Because of Thy Loving-Kindness

MAUDE MARY CLARKE

Because of Thy loving-kindness,Asking, we find the wayThat leads from outer darknessInto the perfect day.
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The Father's Business

DOROTHY M. BISHOP

This is my work;Mid all the lies to knowJust that Truth is,And all things else but seem;To live the truth, until TruthBlots out the dream!
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"A little child shall lead them"

SUSETTE KUHN

Fearless stood the young Elihu,Bowing not to time-worn doctrinesProudly stated by his elders;Inspiration pure his weapon,God his every need supplying.
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Awake

EVELINE A. ELLIS

Clad in the seeming,Life is but dreaming,Sad and obscure;Full of discouragement,Sickness, and punishment,Hard to endure.