Poems

Oh Abba, Father, hear us as we pray; Guard, guide, and keep us in the narrow way. Oh, Love Eternal, listen to our call, And on us let Thy Holy Spirit fall.

Do you believe in Wisdom of Nature? What is Wisdom? There is no Wisdom without aim! What is the finishing aim of this World?

Life is the school; and the Master Is the man Jesus Christ; We are his charity-scholars; His the teaching inspired. Some of the lessons are pleasant, Pleasant and easy to learn; The page of our text-book simple, Simple and easy to learn.

I'll lift my heart in gratitude above, For gifts of nature and redeeming Love; And next for thee, who dost with fondness prove— A Mother. With kindness thou didst watch my infant years, Soothed when I grieved, and wiped the falling tears; To pity now, in care or grief, appears, No Mother.

Press on, dear traveller, press on! I am the Way, the Truth, the Life, Press on! It is the strait and narrow way That leads to that eternal day, That turns the darkness into light, That buries wrong and honors right; Press on! Press on! and know that God is all, He is the Life, the Truth, the Love. Press on! It is the way the Saviour trod, It is the way that leads to God, Think of the word, "No cross, no crown;" Though tasks are sore, be not cast down, Press on!

From David's lips this word did roll,      'T is true and living yet: " No man can save his brother's soul,      Nor pay his brother's debt. " Alone, self-poised, henceforward man      Must labor; must resign His all-too-human creeds, and scan      Simply the way divine.

From David's lips this word did roll,      'T is true and living yet: " No man can save his brother's soul,      Nor pay his brother's debt. " Alone, self-poised, henceforward man      Must labor; must resign His all-too-human creeds, and scan      Simply the way divine.

March comes, but Winter lingers      Safe in the lap of Spring; Grasp crystal-jewelled fingers,      Her lengthening apron-string.

Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime, Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime— The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made: each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. Byron.

Love threatens, that it may not strike; and, still Unheeded, strikes, that so it may not kill. Love set me up on high.