Poems

Love's Guidance

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

Naught that the erring senses say Can e'er our trusting hearts dismay; Nor should a doubt or fear obscure This thought: In Love we dwell secure.

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Guidance

EDITH L. PERKINS

O guide unfailing, always art Thou here!Though earth's obscuring mists would intervene,Through consciousness uplifted Thou art seen,By Truth revealed in Spirit's atmosphere.

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For Truth that has dawned upon error's long night,O'erspanning the cloud with its rainbow of light;For Love ever present, dispelling the gloom,Transforming earth's drought into fresheness and bloom;The balm of the healing Christ ever at hand,Supply all-sufficient for daily demand;For hope growing brighter, calm trust that sustains;For strength in the conflict, sweet peace which remains;For loved ones now walking this same narrow way,Whose fellowship cheers in the heat of the day;—For all the sweet joys which my footsteps attend,I thank Thee, dear Father, redeemer and friend.

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Angel Reapers

ROBERT E. KEY

O Lord of harvest, when the seedIs swaying into ripened grain,Take from its side the stubborn weed,—The sin, disease, and pain;And on the happy harvest morn,When reapers greet the quiet day,Let glory gild the golden cornWith Love's celestial ray.

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The Statue

SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD

As servants plowed his fields one day, Yussuf Ben Orem came that way, And stood and watched their sturdy toil As they upturned the fertile soil.

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Realities

ABBIE FOSDICK RANSOM

The way I cannot see,But this I know,My hand in Love's must be,Where'er I go.

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"But Love alway!"

AMY SMITH

I wandered in a garden sweet, Whose quaint old-fashioned flowersLet fall their petals at my feet In soft and scented showers!

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Divine Causation

MINNA MATHISON

Not from the soil doth spring the glowing rose, But from th' eternal source of beauty.

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The First Commandment

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

One God there is, a God of peace,Whose watchful care doth never fail.

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A million torches, lighted by Thy hand,...

Derzhavin

A million torches, lighted by Thy hand,Wander unwearied through the blue abyss;They own Thy power, accomplish Thy command—All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss.