Questions & Answers
What though I fall? I need not stay; The road before me lies. Brushing each marring stain away, Undaunted I may rise.
Oh , blessed, peaceful, restful Church of Christ; Oh, blessed consciousness of Truth and Life, Within thy quietude is joy divine, That knows no separation—mine or thine. Our God is Love—eternal, boundless Love; Our fellow worshipers are all mankind.
Good is my life, my joy, my peace, My hope, my strength, which still increase Each hour, if I but humbly pray: Teach me Thy law, Thy will, Thy way. Good is the power that never wanes, But mightier proves.
What joy to know, where'er I go, My God is there! My faith in Him doth but reflect His faith in me. Love whispers low, Ah, child of God, do you not know That you Love's perfect image bear? My need of Him! Why, 't is His need of me! Without the child, the Father-Mother Would no Parent be! My call to Him? Ah, 't is the echo of eternity, Love's call to love—unblemished unity, A joy to know, where'er I go, My God is there! Yea, heaven—to know I cannot go Beyond His loving care!
Forget not who thou art, thou son of God, For God demands reflection pure of thee; Thy heritage is goodly, and thy home Is in the covert of infinity. Thou art the child of Spirit, sinless, pure; Thine is a perfect beauty, born of Soul; Wholeness is thine, and health, and energy.
I have forgiven the "seventy times seven" Another's sin against me, yet So traitorous the blow to trusting love, I still, dear Lord, cannot forget. I hear the voice of Truth repeat: "Forgiveness, then, is not complete.
Angels throng; the day is blessed! Now withdraws the crucial test, Which was given but to prove Sole dependence on His love. Did the trial seem severe? Did a very bitter tear Fall from pity-centered self? Ah, but think of all the wealth, Joy, and gladness that has come, And the victory that is won, And the freedom and the health! It is surely worth the while Thus to see the heavens smile, Blazon on the tears of earth Crystal globes, of Spirit's birth.
Seems hard the journey—all the way uphill? Prolonged, the weary conflict with the foe? "The battle is the Lord's"! Be still, and know That He is God, and peace your days will fill. Lay down the insufficient human will, Unresting as the tides that come and go; Give place to Him; and in your heart will glow That changeless Love which knows nor storm nor ill.
Blest word, thy sweetness permeates my thought With perfume as of first-born violets Found in awakening woodlands in the spring— Just this word, "Surely. " Truth is not lost; Love has not fled; Life lives eternal— " I AM THAT I AM.
Thou , O Love, art all I want. Perfect friend in Thee I find— Love that knows and understands, Love unchanging, ever kind, Love whose tender, healing beams On both just and unjust shine, Boundless, universal Love, Love impartial, Love divine.