Questions & Answers
In Thy way, Father, and at Thy command Would I fulfill the purpose Thou hast planned. Oh, let my ears be open to Thy Word, My heart prepared to do what shall be heard.
How wonderful it is at last to know! My heart rejoices at the tender word Which I have sought so long and learned today. I left my home these many weeks ago To seek the great I AM, of whom I'd heard, The God to whom all men must come to pray.
The house in Lynn Was filled with healing peace, That summer morning, as we slowly climbed The narrow flight of stairs And reached the room Beneath the skylight where the rocker stood. Never was a room, so humbly furnished, Filled With quieter holiness.
Though waters roar, though mountains shake, Though error's storms about us break Till earth and heaven seem to quake, Along His tried and perfect way God leads us safely day by day, When His commandments we obey.
My neighbor met me at the fence, and we Talked long of this and that as neighbors do. Declaring what we said was really true, We laughed and wondered how such things could be.
Lord , let me not, with angry heart and cold, Tear down the fence around my brother's field, Uprooting tares from out his growing wheat— Lest the good blades be trampled by my feet. Lord, let me not by jealous act pluck up The smallest seedling of my brother's hope; Let no uncalled-for candor break an ear That, left to grow, full harvesting shall bear.
Christ Jesus rose from the tomb. This is no empty story, remote and far away.
Christ rolled away the stone. And nothing now can bar us from the light.
Remember how they boarded ship that day, The Master and the twelve, and as they sailed, He fell asleep—and how great winds arose And raging waves from every side prevailed? They cried out in their fear till he awoke And calmed the tempest. "Peace, be still," he said, Affirming Mind's omnipotent control, Through which the sick were healed, the thousands fed.
They told me patience was still resignation, An underbearing of inevitable woe. They said that patience had a suffering designation.