Poems

Christmas Chimes

O'er Bethlehem's hills, long years ago Shone one bright star; Its gleaming light the wise men saw, And followed far,

My Task

O, may I see It rests with me To gain, And then maintain, My rightful part In "the great heart Of Love!"

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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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THOUGH the difficulties throng, And the struggle may be long, And the power of evil strong, Hope on.

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Thanksgiving

Give thanks to Thee, O Lord of Hosts! Give thanks in rapturous song! Thy love surrounds and blesses us, Thy mercies round us throng!
[The following poem is said to have been written by King James I.

Rondeau

"In God we trust," this motto wroughtUpon our coinage, should have taughtUs all the unity of Mind,That in our hearts its Love might bindOur countrymen in loving thought.

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Anthology of classic articles II

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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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 Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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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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He that would to a proper sense attainIn Knowledge, of the very rudimentsOf this Great Science, must his Cross upliftAnd bear it meekly in his daily life,Following in the footsteps of his LordAnd Master Jesus Christ, the Way-Shower.

A Thought

I sat in my study, thinking,When a pure and holy thought,In the depths of my quiet consciousness,Was clearly and sweetly wrought.

Resolution

There is hope for the heart that can suffer, There is strength in the metal that's wrought, Though the hope and the tempered perfection, With vintage of sorrow are bought.
Mrs.

Omnipotence

There is a power that governs all that mortal eye can see, A power we all must recognize, if from sin we would be free.

A Little Boy's Song

I smile, and then the sun comes out, He hides away whene'er I pout; He seems a very funny sun To do whatever he sees done.