Poems

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Dawn

NEVA W. GEER

Out of darkness and of dreamlandWhere the weary seek repose,Breaks the dawn with tints of azure,O'er earth's tangled web of woes.
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Assurance

ANITA GRAY LITTLE

Who would doubt the coming dawn,Though the night be without a star!Or the certainty of approaching Spring,While yet o'er earth afarLies Winter's mantle white?

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Shared reflections

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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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Vision

CHARLOTTE BRUNER

At first a faint perception of the Christ,A gleam that tells us, Doubt not, but hope on;Then step by step with firmer tread we gainThe light that shows us God,—the dark is gone!

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A Prince Now Prays

LOUIS JOSEPH LEWIS

"King of the universe,All-knowing Mind,Father in heaven,So strong, tender, kind,Highest and holiest,This endless day,"So spake a child of God,"Teach me to pray.
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Free

DAISY D. STEPHENSON

Bound by sickness, sin, tradition?
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Harvest

LENA M. HALL

It is not hard to frame a harvest songWhen trees are sweet with blossoms in the spring,When the soft showers vie with the constant sun,And lush grass gives abundant pasturing.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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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 Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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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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Thy All-in-all

LORENE H. MC KINLEY

Has darkness closed about thy empty heart?
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The Liberator

CARRA L. THORESON

O wondrous Love, thy holy powerReleases meFrom all the stinging, clinging painsThat seem to be.
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A Prayer of Petition

R. C. J. WERE

O Father-Mother God , teach me Thy will
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A Prayer

NETTIE F. WOODBURY

O Spirit of all love and good,Whose realm is conscious peace,Because we know Thou art, we wouldOur gratitude increase.
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"None of these things move me"

FLORA C. WALKER

Tell us, thou warrior of the cross,Who gloried still in pain and loss,And counting over all could say,While treading on the upward way,"None of these things move me;"
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Living Joy

ELIZABETH C. ASHBAUGH

Our lives are not the dark, despairing dreamsThat poor deluded mortals sadly say;The blackest night, the heaviest storm-cloud seemsEver to usher in the brighest day.