Poetry

from Faith, Prayer, and Tract League God broke our years into hours and days,That hour by hour, and day by day,Just going on a little way,We might be able, all along,To keep quite strong. Should all the weight of life…

When Love beckons to you, follow Him,Though His ways are hard and steep.And when His wings enfold you, yield to Him;Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And when He speaks to you, believe Him,Though His voice may…

He shall not always be threshing,For this, too, shall have its end.The sorrow, travail forgotten’Mid glories that shall transcend.He’s treading upon the mountains,His foot is upon the hills,Subduing till all is leveled,Low-lying valleys He fills.His justice and judgment are blessings,For…

I would have chosen a sunlit path, All strewn with roses fair,With never a cloud to darken my way, Nor a shade of anxious care.But He chose for me a better way- Not sunshine or roses sweet,But clouds o’erhead, and…

Many poets and those with “gentler hearts” have embraced the teaching of the salvation of all mankind through Jesus Chist. Anne Bronte is one of them. (A poem, not surprisingly left out of the anthologies of her poetry.) You may…

There once was a time, ’twas plain to seeJust what the hell, Hell was meant to be.But then theologians got into the actAnd Hell no longer was a simple fact. Hell formerly was a dark hidden spaceImperceivable, covered, a true…

“Desiderata” was written in 1927 by Max Ehrmann (1872–1945). In 1956, the rector of St. Paul’s Church in Baltimore, Maryland, used the poem in a collection of mimeographed inspirational material for his congregation. Someone who subsequently printed it asserted that…