Poems

So buffeted by mortal mind, Can this frail craft safe harbor find? So dark the night, so loud the gale, Can any power now prevail? Lilt up your eyes! Across the sea The Christ, the Truth, comes speedily. Go forward! Do not fear the waves.

"How strange," he well might say if he were here, "They seem not to remember what I taught, Nor that I came to free them from their fear. Was my earth journey then so much for nought?" Would he believe they could so far have strayed From all his heart poured forth in Galilee? For men still seem in bondage, though he prayed So long ago they might be lifted, free.

" Let not your heart be troubled" Was the Saviour's tender plea, And those words, so gently spoken, Can be heard eternally. When the clouds of darkness gathering Would obscure our onward way, Let us pause and hear the message Christ would speak to us today.

He told us we should winter there in Crete. Had we obeyed, we would have saved the ship.

Dear Father, as I greet this day I pray Thy guidance all the way. Let Thy radiance round me shine Till I lose my will in Thine.

Dear God. I pray for guidance in this hour That Truth alone may speak here in this place; For understanding that Love's radiant power Can light the way and show Thy saving grace.

When Moses, humble servant of the Word, Led through the desert waste and barren sand The gentle flock entrusted to his hand. He came to Horeb, mountain of the Lord; And there he saw the hush that burned, there heard The voice of God and knew the flame was fanned To light a way for him to understand The great I AM—the All of Life's accord.

This is my heritage as Life's ideal: Dauntless dominion under Love's control, lrradiant manhood stamped with Spirit's seal, Unfettered freedom in the realm of Soul. Swifter than light, defying time and space, My thoughts wing forth, impelled by that great Mind Creative of a universe, to grace With strength, and health, and peace, all humankind.

Look up! Look up! Salvation is at hand. Put trust in God.

They say that in the Holy Land there lives An ancient olive tree which was alive When he was here. Today as then it gives A welcome shade.