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TEACH ME, O GOD

ROBERT E. RICHARDSON.

Teach me, O God, not with my lips to pray—The voice of prayer so many a time is drownedIn murky waves of oft-repeated soundThat choke the Spirit's call.

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When work is done,And sleep broods softly o'erThe closing lids of day,Breathe thou a little prayerOf loving gratitudeTo th' Eternal OneWhose law, forever sure,Doth keep thee on thy wayWith tenderest care:And make a placeFor peace to enter inThy waiting heart.

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TO THEE

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH.

Would I had faith as he who walked the wave,And strength as he who bade the tempter fly,Who conquered death and broke the guarded grave—For Love beheld and heard earth's bitter cry—Would I might hold Thy hand and know Thy help is nigh.

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FROM EVERLASTING

HELEN ELDRIDGE.

Dear child, dost feel too sad to pray?

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TRUST

MARY J. ELMENDORF

Since Thou art near, O Truth, mistrals may blowAnd blossoms droop, yet song-thought cannot die!My anchored heart no doubt, no fear can know,Since Thou art near.

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AT EPHESUS

AMY RUTH WENZEL.

Again the faces of the careless throngAt Ephesus I see;Again I feel the clutching sense of wrong,Again Love comforts me.

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ASLEEP, AND AWAKE

HAROLD SUSMAN.

All the world was dark and drear, Doubt and discord, fright and fear; What to do but weep?

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ONE LIFE, ONE LOVE

ELIZABETH EARL JONES.

Great vault of heaven, how blue and vast you are!And hoary mountains—steadfast stand ye yet!The trees, the flowers, the distant watchful star—On you I gaze enraptured and forgetThe sordid sense of separation.

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"A CALL"

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH.

O Judah , scattered on the hills of scorn,Uncared, un-shepherded, forsook, forlorn,Dar'st thou, in this thy day, bid sorrows cease?

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"THY LOVING-KINDNESS"

F. B. G.

Because Thy loving-kindnessIs better far than life;Because my helper Thou hast beenIn many a bitter strife;Because Thy love restrains from pathsWhere sin and fear are rife;In Thee, O True and Tried!"My soul is satisfied.