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WILDERNESS BLESSINGS

GERTRUDE RING HOMANS.

With me 'twas evening in a desert place,And hungry thoughts in a great multitudeQuestioned earnestly each his neighbor's face,—If they should not depart by slow foot-paceInto some village to buy needful food.
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A SONG OF PEACE

LUMAN A. FIELD

If in hushed stillness of the starlit nightThou givest rest,Or in the well-filled hours of joyous lightWork'st Thy behest,It matters not, since Thou, O Love, art ev'rywhere,Enfolding me in Thine unfailing care.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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PROTECTION

JOSEPHINE VAN HOUTEN

REST , O heart, the Father leads us All the way! Love divine protects and feeds us Every day.

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THE CAUSE OF GRATITUDE

JOHN M. DEAN

In fervent penitential prayer,A conscience-stricken sinner bowed;Nor pomp, nor ceremonial riteWith hollow form his words endowed.
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THE CROWN OF DAVID'S LINE

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH

Know ye the noble crown of David's line,Bearing the thirteen stars and sacred sign,—(1, 2) The tribes of Jacob, and the vow divine;
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Him evermore I behold...

Longfellow

Him evermore I beholdWalking in Galilee,Through the cornfield's waving gold,In hamlet or grassy wold,By the shores of the Beautiful Sea.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

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From Pregnancy and childbirth

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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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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IN ÆTERNUM

MARY J. ELMENDORF

There is a deep grave in the heartOf time, unmarked, weed-grown, apart,Where seas of fog are creeping.
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MY KINGDOM

SEBA M. CHRISTIN.

With thought attuned unto the perfect Mind,My heaven within my consciousness I find;There hope and health and happiness abide,To Christlike guests the portal opens wide.
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WATCH!

KATHARINE T. PORTER.

With trailing wing I fluttered low,Along the ground in sorry plight;I heard the voice of Truth, and lo!It broke the darkness of my night:No poison dart had laid me low,But praise of friend,—an ambushed foe.
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"THE SINLESS JOY"*

Cassius M. Loomis

It gave the Master comfort to the end.
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If I knew you and you knew me,—...

ANON

If I knew you and you knew me,—If both of us could clearly seeAnd with an inner sight divineThe meaning of your heart and mine,—I'm sure that we would differ less,And clasp our hands in friendliness;Our thoughts would pleasantly agree,If I knew you and you knew me.
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TWO PRAYERS

MARY BRENT WHITESIDE.

One in the prison-house of erring thought,Where darkness reigned through the unlighted year,In stress and tears, for his own worship, wroughtA frowning God of vengeance and of fear.