Poems

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When Jesus Walked by Galilee

RUTH ADELE LEEDER

When Jesus walked by Galilee,'Twas then Truth made me free.

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Credo

HERBERT H. YEAMES

What is thy faith who sayest, "I believeIn God the Father," and yet livest notAs if God were, and were thy Father too?

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Tryst

AMY RUTH WENZEL

"Can you tell me the way to joy?

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My Shepherd

SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD

The Lord my shepherd is; I knowNo lack of guidance, good, or grace;He leadeth me where'er I go,And maketh clear the path I trace.

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Amid the crowded clamor of the way,The noisy mart within the temple gate,—The bickering who will or will not pay,Covetousness that stalketh soon and late,The lust for gain which quickly turns to hate,Or ruthless thrusts the weaker to the wall,While some of justice make a show, and prateThat he who fell no doubt deserved the fall,—O Thou most just, upon Thy name we call!Thou holdst the balance in Thine unseen hands;Be Thou with us when foemen would enthrall.

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Glad Assurance

MINNA MATHISON

I will be glad, I said; but in the roundOf daily trivial tasks and anxious thought—Of days with care and bitterness full fraught—Never my heart a cause for gladness found.

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The Way

MARTHA WEBSTER MERRIHEW

Thou needy, pining,Not yet diviningThy God's behest,Ne'er wilful strivingToward self-outlined arrivingCan truly gain thy rest.

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Benedicite

WARREN C. KLEIN

Boundless as the vast blue skyIs the thought when lifted high;Fragrant as the spring's sweet scentIs the mind that doth repent;Nurtured as the beauteous flowerIs the life that knows Love's power;Joyous as the lark in MayIs the sense that learns the way;Peaceful as the gentlest seaIs the heart at-one with Thee.

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Communion

AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS

A quiet hour at dawn of prayer and light;A day alone with Truth amid earth's throng;A silent song of triumph in the night,—Such sweet communion hours to heaven belong.

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"Songs of deliverance"

M. ROSAMOND WATSON

Glad hymns of praise from out a dungeon's depth Burst prison bars long centuries ago, And proved the might of Mind's omnipotence, The right of joy to cast out seeming woe.