Poems

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LOVE OMNIPOTENT

MARY BEECHER LONGYEAR

Love's eyelids never close,All good God sees;Love's ears can only hearLife's harmonies;Love's mouth uncloses onlyThe truth to speak,Whose perfume spreads abroadTo charm the meek.
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"IT SUFFICETH US"

LAURA GERAHTY

I seek for Thee, O Truth, I seek for Thee!As thirsting creatures to the fountain flyAnd earth-dimmed eyes strain for the cloudless sky,So my heart longs its need to satisfy.

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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RECOMPENSE

EMMA GOODMAN.

Dark the night with cloud of sorrow,With tear-dimmed vision of tomorrow,—So much of joy and hope had fled;When unto me the still voice said,Read thou the Word,—"She is not dead"!'Tis but a darkling dream.

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LOVE'S LIGHT

EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH, JR.

Love's light is here, though storms may seem to beatAnd clouds to hover o'er the rugged way;Yet Truth's pure beams reveal the perfect day,And we may rest forever at Christ's feet.
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THE FISHERS

PRISCILLA C. GOODWYN

Sea-beaten, weary, toiling through the nightThe "children" came, grief-burdened with their loss.
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ASCRIPTION

ROBERT DE BRUCE.

Praised be the God of love, of light divine!Be praised, thou Spirit of abundant lifeWhose noon is now, whose dawn was when the ChristOn earth the real in the ideal did blend!To Thee, whose light streams forth from realms of lightIn glorious joy, fulfilling hope, and withThe radiant force of Truth's all-healing powerDost flow into our lives, revealing eachLike Christ, Thy child, fair, upright, pure and free:To Thee be might, dominion, majesty!

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These books healed me

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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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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PRAYER

KATHARINE J. SMITH.

I crossed a road where wild pathetic roses fellAt feet of fleeting June, whose fingers magicalDrew resinous charm from flow'ring Gilead's balm;I mourned that I had missed the petals' full-blown grace,Yet on a tide of summer air,Faint attar, presence-like and rare,Breathed that the rose hath life beyond her rooted place.
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HOLD ON!

ROSE HENNIKER HEATON.

Hold on, O sailor, to the broken mast,Hold fast!Grip tight, though both your hands grow numb and coldStill hold!Though blinded by the spray—your strength nigh gone,Hold on!For lo! no farther than yon floating buoyI hear the bosun's cheery—Ship ahoy!
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LIFE ETERNAL

WILLIS E. BLOOMFIELD.

Mortality is but a transient seeming,Which some day shall be swallowed up in LifeWhen we awake from dreamingOf matter, pain, and strife,And grow into sure consciousnessThat being in its perfectnessIs knowledge of man's Principle, of Love,In which we live and move.
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THE DAUNTLESS HEART

ISABELLE W. PEMBROOK.

Deep in my consciousness I feel a pulseOf energy undying.
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SEARCHING AND FINDING

WILLIAM SYMONDS.

Long years I spent in searching after God!I found Him not in pleasure or in strife;Perceived Him not behind the chastening rod,For I believed that matter harbors life.
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CONSCIOUSNESS

ALICE HARRIMAN

Art conscious of the first faint flush of dawn,When sleepy night draws back the shades of morn?