Poems

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Simplicity

MATTIE E. SIMPSON

How simple are the ways of love,A smile, a kindly word, a touch;Love speaks through us in simple ways;We do not need to know so much.
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True Solitude

LAURA GERAHTY

The world outside, with flare and trumpet calling,I do not hear;The voice of garish life, on closed ears falling,No longer dear,Dies in this solitude;And deepest gratitudeFor God's infinitudeHas vanquished fear.

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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 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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Christmas

KATHRINE SCOBEY PUTNAM

Star-gleam and angel chorusAt midnight's awesome hour,Self hushed and spirit wakingTo welcome heaven's dower—So learned the humble shepherdsOf Truth's eternal power;So we may find and prove itA stronghold and a tower.

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Bethlehem

MINNA MATHISON

Through the night a star has beamed;O'er the dark a ray has gleamed.
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Mother-Love

GLENNEWEIR RINGLAND

O Love divine, that gavest me my sight,Grant me, in gratitude, from just this hourTo see aright.
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O Love Divine

MAUDE A. MAY

Teach me to know Thy way, O Love divine,That I may walk therein and never stray;That I may ever feel my hand in Thine,Leading me upward to the perfect day.

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Anthology of classic articles

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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Anthology of classic articles

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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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The Way

GEORGIAN EVELYN SMITH

No matter where the way may be,My loving Father guideth me.
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Heaven

E. JEWEL ROBINSON

If we would find that gladsome placeWhere Love alone is King,We must from out our hearts effaceEach least unholy thing.
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Communion

RAY G. BROWN

"And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
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Thanksgiving

ELENORA E. PIKE

Oh, lift thy voice to God in praiseFor starlit nights and radiant days,For harvest fields with bounty spread—Earth's symbol of "our daily bread.
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Humble Desire

RUTH D. SMITH

Dear Lord, if mine be not the voice to sing Thy praiseIn mighty anthem whose reverb'rant toneEchoes throughout the sky, and rises higherWith grand crescendo as it seeks Thy throne,Then let me sing, perhaps at eventide,A song of hope, and send it forth to meetThe heart of one whose weary, wandering feetHave missed the way; who through the long, dark yearsNo song of faith has sung to banish fears.
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A Clearer Vision

MABEL M. BRIGGS

The mountain peak that seemed so far away,Is growing nearer as we journey on;The mist that seemed to hide the light of day,Is disappearing with the coming dawn.