Poems

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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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Anthology of classic articles II

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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Ab Initio

BELLE D. MAC GREGOR

Thou who hast watched the flame of hope burn lowUpon the altar hid within thine heartTill ashes cold and gray as moorland mistThe altar and thine heart alike enfold,And thou did'st rise with senses dulled by painUnspeakable to stumble down the pathInto the valley veiled in mists of doubt;Hear thou the voice of Truth immutable:Pause thou within the shadow of the rockWhile Truth doth break to thee the bread of Life.
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Guerdon

NINA SEYMOUR KEAY

Father of lights! Our Father!What shall the guerdon be,For many a grim encounterWith the waves of a surging sea?