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Belief versus Knowledge

HELEN R. WAITE

Battered and bruised and torn,Struggling with storm and strife,Heart-sick and weary and worn,—Such was my sense of life.

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Home

AIMEE LUNDGREN

Home is a word with the sweetest ring,But few can its spirit discern;It is not a place or a composite thing,Which we may inherit or earn.

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God's Dear Love

ANNIE ASHCROFT

I know —when changes come and go,And paths are difficult to see;When human hopes would ebb and flow—It is Thy love that quiets me.

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The Walk to Emmaus

NELLIE BATES JEWETT

It lies among the hills—that little roadWhere journeyed those two friends, that soft spring day;But not a sound of melody they heard,For sadness bitter filled them with dismay.

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Fidelity

CHARLES WRIGHT

Howe'er the adversary tries, By varied guile,To urge me with persuasive lies,With frown or smile,The eternal Truth shall be my shield;Thus guarded I can never yield.

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A Just Peace

AGNES CHALMERS

The land our father Abraham hath sought,Each nation equally shall give and share.

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Glory to God in the heaven,And glory in the height,Glory from all the earth be givenIn anthems of delight:Glory, give glory; ye stars repeat the story,And ocean answer with thy waves of might,That Love is King and doth uphold the right.

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The Little Foxes

SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD

The Master of the vineyard spake:I charge you do not fail to takeThe little foxes, every one,That sometimes in my vineyard run—

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The Ever Active Mind

ROBIN WALLACE DAY

Wearied by fruitless strivingI sat in the sunset's glowBy a quietly running river,Watching its ceaseless flow.

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Freedom

MARY TROXELL

When the radiance of the morning wakens all the world to light,And the fetters forged in darkness through a long and cruel nightFall asunder, free forever, man shall rise in holy might.