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Heaven

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

Lo , heaven is here! Be not amazed,Nor scorn the gladsome news: behold,The sick are healed, the dead are raised,The meek the wondrous truth are told!

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My Prayer

CLARA H. HEARN

Dear Father-Mother God, I plead,As did the king so long ago,For wisdom, richest gift of Love,That I the right may always know.

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Since ever time began, the sons of JacobHad journeyed through the wastes of wrong desires,Had struggled with the mental beasts of Baal,Had languished through the poppied paths of pleasure,Had fainted in the marshes of misgivings,Their eyes so blinded by a veil of dream-mistThey could not see the star that moved above them,

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The True Church

EMMA L. TRAXLER

This church not built on shifting sands,Nor reared by touch of human hands,All else excels in deeds of love,Reflected from the Mind above.

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Footsteps

WALTER CLIFFORD HARVEY

If I each day am turning more and moreTo Thee, and counting less the steps which come beforeWhere all is Thine;If I am holding fast the goal ahead,If I with trust in Thy safe guidance onward tread,Then joy is mine.

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Consecration

GERTRUDE DEANE HOUK

Grant us, O Love divine, the listening ear,That we Thy harmony sublime may hear;The seeing eye, that we may recognizeThy universe, not seen by finite eyes;An understanding heart, that we may knowThe human need—that Love heals all its woe.