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AGELESSNESS

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Yesterday youth ran away—flung to the wind its pride, and sobbed and cried;then ran away and left mein maturity, and I cried, too—it was the only thing that youth could do!

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HIS FATHER'S BUSINESS

Jessie R. Richardson

Let our dear children find their way As Jesus did on that far day, When at the age of twelve he knew His place was in the temple.

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CHRISTMAS REVELATION

David Foote Gosnell

There fell from my eyes"As it had been scales.

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HIGHER ATTAINMENT

Gerald Stanwell

What blessed my brotherblesses me impartially as dawnthe highest peak, and then emblazeshidden beauty in another.

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That night, sudden singing:so that, tonight, in Cape Town and Atlantashepherds awake!The wondrous laser beam,for all its special properties,piercing between moleculeshas not that certain way with lightthat can shine dayinto a heart's or a world's night.

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MODERN IDOLS

Gibbs Hofmann

Within the temple of my worldly thoughtThe idols, mute but of imposing mien,To which a daily sacrifice I brought,Were ancient Baals in a modern scene.

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LET GO AND LEAN!

Frank Saddler

To lean upon the sustaining infiniteWill bless usOnly as we lean full weight, wholeheartedly;If leaning means inclining only—With drag of matter holding back,With but irresolute finger-touch on Spirit—Then Love's sustaining is denied.