Poems

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BROTHERHOOD

MARGARET C. LOWNDS

There was a time when, in my selfish pride,I watched the world go by.
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Sometimes, I ween, the Master smiled—...

Amy Ruth Wenzel

Sometimes, I ween, the Master smiled—There budded in his eyes a glowWhich on his lips bloomed sweet and slowTo win a little child.

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Changing your world

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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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"THE TRUE LIGHT NOW SHINETH."

ADIN E. BALLOU

The wisdom of this world, so Paul once said,Is foolishness with God! And still men poreO'er lettered Dead Sea fruit and sigh the moreFor something lacking in the volumes read;There's a heart-hunger that demandeth bread!There is a thirsting for the perfect law;Yet vainly searching man tries many a door,Only to turn away uncomforted.

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ILLUMINATION

MIRIAM ORMONDE SMALLWOOD

Night covered me.
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REASSURANCE

MARION COOK STOW

God's thought is not our thought, His infinite careDeviseth ways and means beyond our ken,And all unseen by our blind selves, as when—In spite of seeming darkness here or there—A waiting glory showeth us how fairHis slightest promise is; how groping menMay know His tender love, or now or then,And in this love find rest beyond compare.
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ATTAINMENT

ELLEN ALMIRA DOW.

No longer strive thyself to run in moldPreparéd for another man; nor makeA model for thyself; but gladly takeThe matchless form that man has borne of oldWhen morning stars with song did dawn enfold,And sons of God with shouts of joy did breakThe silence of the spheres and echoes wakeThat through the æons ring in dale and wold.

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From Faculties indestructible

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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From Faculties indestructible

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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THE VOICE OF TRUTH

KATHARINE T. PORTER

As, looking overhead, sometimes we seeTwo galaxies of clouds, not keeping companyBut going diverse ways;As listening to music, played in many partsClear to the listening ear and gentle hearts,Beneath and quite apart, no other sound can drownA low, sweet, tender monotone:So, when Love friends together brings,To outward ear discussing many things,But still their hearts unite in universal love,Finding its tranquil in God above,Be silent thou, and bend a listening ear!Apart from mortal sense, a song of peace thou'lt hear,God's undercurrent in the mental air.
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THE EMPTY TOMB

EVELYN GAGE KNIFFIN

Why weepest thou?
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THE CHOICE

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH

I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life.
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SERVICE

MARY I. MESECHRE.

How may I best attain the high idealOf Christly service, of true helpfulness,That daily, hourly, as the way I follow,I may each needy brother cheer and bless?
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"A NEW SONG."

FRANCIS E. FALKENBURY.

The weary snow and slush lay on the road,The winter sun smiled wanly all in vain,It could not lift the bitter dragging loadThat lay upon my heart with numbing pain.
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COMFORT ME

LAURA GERAHTY

Comfort me, Lord, that I may beSome comfort to another;That on his darkness I may shedLight for a stumbling brother.