Poems

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Where'er a noble deed is wrought,...

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Truth's Coming

MERCY NUTTER DAVIS

In Thy name! O Love transcendent,Cometh one proclaiming goodAs the Life of all—resplendentEverywhere when understood.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

From Overcoming grief

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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The Unseen Friend

F. A. Owen

My child went forth into my garden fair,Having no wish or will to stay by me;But that I ever followed him out there,He did not see.

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Questions

LAURA E. CARTER.

"WHAT do you think, little thoughtful one,When the firelight flickers low,And shadows o'er the hearth's gray stoneAre flitting to and fro?
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The Dedication to Divine Love

C. A. Buskirk

In the brave city smiling on the shoreWhich, with its tossing tides, th' Atlantic laves;Where fearless freemen, in the days of yore,—A band intrepid, scorning to be slaves,—Daring the utterance that made them free,Tossed in their splendid scorn to the wild wavesThe symbols of a haughty tyranny—In this brave city, after scores of years,The stately sign of a sublime event,The symbol and prophetic monumentOf men's completer liberty, appearsWith dominating dome against the sky,A witness to this morning century.
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"Father, I thank thee."

AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS.

"FATHER, I thank Thee.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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Shared reflections

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From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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The Call

BY KARL SUTTER.

Across the strands, across the lands, across the waste of      years,— A Voice called low, a Voice called sweet, a Voice spoke to      our fears.
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Enough

ALICE MORGAN HARRISON.

THE thirsting of long years, And now this draught! The darkness of thick tears, And now this shaft Of radiant, beckoning light, Missioned to banish All the old, long night!
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The Doubter

ERNEST S. JAROS

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Overcome Evil with Good

MARY A. NEWMAN

Pilgrim on the upward way, Wrestling with disease and sin, This thy watchword in the fray, Take the cross, the crown to win.
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Growth

GERTRUDE RING.

Do you suppose the tiny, struggling sprout In some bleak spot, some barren, stony waste, Knows inward joy that it gains, day by day, A greener color from the sun's warm ray, Feels gratitude that it makes better haste, Measuring increase by some mark about?
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The Scourge of Love

E. B. MABURY.

Before I was afflicted I went astray.