Poems

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My Offering

By L. H.

Dear God, how can I serve Thee best?
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Three Penitents

By H. A. L.

One tarried by the gatewayTo listen for the call;One stood within the portalTo chide a faith so small;

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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 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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True Giving is in Sharing

Lowell

Not what we give, but what we share—For the gift without the giver is bare;Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,—Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

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Reflections

BY HARRIET GERTRUDE RING.

In discontented mood I sought the hillsAt sunset, and looked down on busy millsBelching vile smoke, which in the valley laidAn inky blot on a fair scene displayed.
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Praise

MARY TRAMMELL SCOTT

BY MARY TRAMMELL SCOTT.
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Gladness

Ripley D. Saunders

If living is a joy to you,Because your soul is sound,And life seems good and sweet and trueThat you have haply found,Then sing no false and hopeless strainOf doubting and despair,But lift your voice all clear and plainAnd sing that life is fair!

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Anthology of classic articles

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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.

From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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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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Step by Step

BY NELLY RUTH CRAMER.

Step by step God's love will lead me,In the way I am to go;Step by step, His Truth beside me,Change and chance I cannot know.
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If I Could

BY AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS.

If I could call my thoughts to me,And read them over with the prayer,That I might justly judge and seeIf all these thoughts were true and fair;If I could call my thoughts, and then,Could read each slowly, one by one,I wonder if I once againWould send them out as I have done.
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No Little Things

BY MARY BARLING STREET.

There are no little things; the slightest word,Unkind and thoughtless, whispered, scarcely heard,Has in its way a mighty current stirred,And as it passes loud and louder rings.
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Why do I dare love all mankind?...

Henry Septimus Sutton

Why do I dare love all mankind?
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Consider the Lilies

BY FLORA I. DeWOLFE.

Clouds have closed o'er sombre skyTimes full many I trow,And the darker the cloud the richer the storeof rains that have fallen below;But I never knew the smallest treeOr the humblest flower complain,While the buds all silently, strangely grew,Waiting, no hour in vain:Till the sun shone out some blessed morn,And then were the wonderful blossoms born.
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The Power of Truth

BY LILIAN CARROLL.

Over the desert land afar,Three wise men followed a glittering starTill it stood overhead where a young child layWith eyes just open to earthly day;Offering their gifts of frankincenseAnd gold and myrrh they departed hence:And thus was all wisdom's homage laidAt the feet of a humble little babe.