Poems

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The Healing of the Nations

BY JOHN FRANKLIN CROWELL

THE healing of the nationsIs not by power of sword,Nor by the earthly wisdomIn tomes of learning stored;But by the heart's deep hungeringTo lovingly expressIn deeds of life undyingThe truths of righteousness.
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Seek and Find

BY ALICE A. RUSSELL

"SEARCH ye for God with all your heart,"And ye shall find His peace.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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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Only a Leaf

BY WATSON V. BABBITT.

ONLY a leaf.

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The Twilight Bell

BY A. T. HOWE.

It is said, somewhere, at twilight,A great bell softly swings,And one may listen and harken,To the beautiful music that rings.
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Hope

BY EMILY TUPPER-BENDIT

"My times are in Thy hand.
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Barberries

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

In scarlet clusters o'er the gray stone wallThe barberries lean in thin autumnal air;Just when the fields and garden plots are bare,And ere the green leaf takes the tint of fall,They come to make the eye a festival!Along the road for miles their torches flare.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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 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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Christ's Anointing

BY B. A. F.

With sin-sick soul and tears of repentanceShe came with reverence meet,And in her hands she bore a costly offering,To lay at his dear feet.
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To-day's Work

D. E. Jackson

To-morrow has a gem of beauteous rayFor you, for me; but somewhere in to-dayLies precious gold, which we must seek and win,Dear friend! to set to-morrow's jewel in.
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Consider the Roses

BY ANNIE MARIE BLISS.

Open your heart, little sister,To the sunshine and the dew;Live the life of a rose, dear,And Life's roses will bloom for you.
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My Song

BY J. H. J.

When the hidden sun touches the mountains afar,Ere the stillness of night has gone;When the silver clouds welcome the morning star,And the darkness retreats from the dawn;Then nature awakes refreshed from her sleep;The coy maiden flowers from their green beds peep;And the twittering birds, and all creatures below,And the star, and the clouds above,Are telling my soul in sweet voices and low,God is love.
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The Wall of Self

Edward C. Butler

Mahmout , the Persian, in splendor rareDwelt in Shiraz, in a palace fair;In old Shiraz, on limestone ledgesThat rim the sharp and curving edgesOf the Persian Gulf—the Gulf of Pearl,Whose waves like scimitars gleam and whirl.
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Onward

BY WILLARD G. FLEMING.

Ye toilers in the upward wayWorn by the burdens of the day,Your armor gird, your courage keep;Press forward, though the path be steep.