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MARY BEECHER LONGYEAR.

I close my eyes,—No objects can they spy;I lift my feet from earth,Its substance fades away.
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DAWN

LILLIAN CHASE.

O Thou whose splendors die not, Thou whose beamQuickens the pulse of worship, and whose graceoverflows when human sense descries the faceOf evening sunlit clouds, or the first gleamBreaks a new dawn which pales the sullied dreamOf night,—speak Thou to us, that we may trace,When emblematic senses interlaceOur thoughts, immortal meanings.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

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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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LIVING WATER

MINNA MATHISON.

I know a wood, dim, quiet, cool,Where many a pleasant hour was spent;Where happy children, free from school,On holiday excursions went.

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CAUSE FOR COURAGE

GRACE ROBERTA WASSON.

To do, to dare, to brave convention's scorn;Achieving, where the coward dare not tread;Rising as fearless as the light each morn;Attempting that which recreant heart would dread.
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PROTECTION

ROSE HENNIKER HEATON.

Let one thought guide you through the livelong day,This thought be with you still at candle-time;A starry thought of hope and peace sublime,However dim the path or wild the way.
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DAWN

EDITH L. PERKINS.

As in the long, dark watches of the nightWe fix our gaze to catch a beam,However faint, of morning light,And, waiting, see at last the sun's bright gleam,

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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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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JOY

CHARLES C. SANDELIN.

Joy ! What is joy?
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WITH THEE

LAURA GERAHTY.

One moment, Lord, with Thee—And I am whole!To cast out self and all my sin efface,To come so near Thee that I see Thy faceAnd feel the breath of Life and calm embraceOf Love's control.
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ASSURANCE

MINNA MATHISON

Pain, I know thee not;Get thee behind me.
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TRUTH'S SEAMLESS GARMENT

C. W. HASKINS

Why divide the seamless garment,Worn by one who, long ago,When on earth with simple grandeurBanished sin and want and woe?
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UNFAILING LIGHT

LAURA GERAHTY.

Out in the west I'd watched the red sun setting,And fancied day was dying—light had fled.
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OMNIPOTENCE

CHARLES C. SANDELIN.

Thou mayest not, perchance, a mount remove,Or change the crystal water into wine,—The dead restore, or heal through power divineThe multitude that seek this power to prove:Yet think ye not such marvelous works behooveA favored mortal or predestined line;Nor, scoffing, give no credence till a signThy faith awaken and thy doubt reprove.