Poems

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Truth's Dawn

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

A wondrous calm! A lifted sense!The darkness flees and cometh day,And error's storm-clouds pass away:Behold Love's holy immanence!
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A Tribute

CATHARINE SEVERENS

That thou hadst keptThe tablet of thy mind so clean and fairThat God could write thereon His precious wordOf love and healing to a sin-sick world,Were miracle enough! Yet great this also:That thou couldst stand upon that Horeb heightAnd hold this message high for men to see.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

From Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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A Song of Cheer

IGERNA B. J. SOLLAS

They said 'twas the old sweet story;To me it was very new:It dawned on an outer darkness,It said only good is true.

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Peace

REMINGTON SCHUYLER

A GRASS-CLAD hill,The open sky;I surely knowThat God is nigh.
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"Thy Maker is thine husband"

AGNES F. CHALMERS

"Thy Maker is thine husband.
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The Heart's Needs

MINNA MATHISON

More light we need to flood life's dreary spacesWith a bright, quickening ray;More light to lead us on to higher places,To guide us day by day.

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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.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

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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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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Rend Thou the Veil

REUBEN POGSON

When burn the temple's tapers dim,And slumber priests within their stalls;When choirs forget their God to hymn,And silence hangs like funeral palls;While grope we for Thy altar rail,And miss the cup, and lose the bread,—From out the darkness and the dreadWe cry, Rend Thou the veil!
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Love's Bounty

RUTH TINKLER

So many smiles that come and playAcross the threshold of the day,So many flowers that softly bringThe tender messages of spring,So many songs so sweetly sung,So many deeds of kindness done,So many loving hearts and handsTo loosen sin's unlawful bands,So many stars that banish quiteThe seeming darkness of the night:—So much of good, so much of love,Who seeks a paradise above?
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Coming Morn

FRANCES A. HALDANE

Across the earth the fogs hang low and drear,And tardy-footed morn delays to come,While death stalks boldly where the bullets hum,Save when it meeteth one that knows no fear:
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Night Voices

PEARL M. HADLEY

Down purpled mountains evening sweeps,And through my window softly creepsThe light of stars which write on high,Across the zenith of the sky,God is Love.
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An Ideal

MARY I. MESECHRE

If I could live to God one single day,—One single day, from early dawn of lightTill the soft twilight deepens into night,—Could curb to gentle speech my hasty tongueAnd check the words impatiently outflung;Could think no thoughts but those of loving kindAnd hold my peace unmarred by hostile mind;Could do each daily deed in gracious wise,Secure against intrusion or surprise;—Methinks could one whole day by me be spentIn speech and thought and act as God hath meant,Henceforth I then could live to God alway.
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Lay of Truth

ADELA V. SCRIMGEOUR

"Come unto me," O tired and weary one.