Poems

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O Troubled over Many Things

Frederick Lawrence Knowles

O troubled over many things,Choose thou the better part,—Service unconscious of itselfAnd childlikeness of heart.
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Pleasant View in Summer

GRACE WHITE.

The drowsy hum of insects wingingTheir hovering flight from flower to flower,The joyous sound of gay birds singingFrom field and fence and hidden bower,The garden's bright-hued treasures clinging,To parent stem in close embrace,The roses all a-bloom are swingingGay captives in the warm wind's chase.

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Shared reflections

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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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Harvest

LISETTE S. NAEGELE.

Oh, seeker after happiness, Ploughing life's fallow field,

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Song at Sunrise

MARY J. ELMENDORF.

The bonny sun in the east,And hills and fields are fanes of greenO'erlaid with gold, like solemn chordsWith lilting melodies between.
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The Call

M. E. T.

Arise, strike off thy fetters!Be error's thrall no more.
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The New Day

FLORENCE V. EDDS.

Lord , when the wistful gray of new day—breakingDeepens to joyous gold,—maturer morn,—Gladly my heart, its fears of night forsaking,Turneth to Thee, in whom all hope is born.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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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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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Fear Nothing

W. D. MC CRACKAN.

Fear nothing, freedom least of all.
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At Rest

MARY C. SEWARD.

On twig and bough,In tiny nest,Each little birdIs safe at rest,Love's watchful eye beholding.
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Inward Life

REV. WILLIAM P. MC KENZIE.

O'er broad white fields the gusty North Wind blewAgainst the beeches iron-limbed and gray,And hurled its darts, and snowy mounds upthrew;Nor yet one fluttering banner took away.
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Pleasant View in Spring

GRACE WHITE.

Broad meadows clothed with tenderest green,And patient trees their leaves just showing.
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Her Birthday

CLINTON B. BURGESS.

Every day is your birthday, dear;Every day in all the yearThe loving Father gives to youBirthday gifts all fresh and new:Joyous life that cannot cease,Blessed truth that bringeth peace,Love that doth all good increase.
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He is Risen!

ISABEL SHERRICK WARDELL

In the shining, heavenward wayWhite-robed lilies bloom to-day,Waxen petals, full of grace,Bear the message now we trace,He is Risen!