Questions & Answers

Let us remember Him when days are long And shadows gather on the changing sky. Let us be quick to honor Him with song In whom our hope and our salvation lie.

I once believed that courage lay In uttering my own conviction, But I have learned a better way: To give to Mind the jurisdiction, And let omniscient Spirit speak— To voice His Word, not my opinion. True courage is in being meek.

Thou art my sure defense; No dark embattled skies Can hide the sunlight of Thy truth With armaments of lies. Thou art my shelter strong; No hatred can destroy The Love that is immortal Life, That gives eternal joy.

Never let the vision go, Cherish it with all your might, For the vision you may know Helps to bring the whole world light. Lift your thought—this is your place: He who seeks will always find In God's love he doth efface All unlike the fruits of Mind.

The pure in heart their God shall see; They'll see man pure and undefiled, Not born of earth—from Spirit sprung, The man of God, His perfect child. The joys of Soul shall e'er be theirs; In love they'll walk unlabored, free.

And Jesus wept. He who had said, "I am the resurrection, and the life," could prove unreal the bitter dream of death.

I wandered far, I sought strange lands to see, I satisfied my childish wish to roam; Yet after long and weary miles I found I never once had left my Father's home. I builded me a house with vaulted rooms, I planted lovely gardens, sweet and fair, And looked with foolish pride upon my work, Until I found God's presence everywhere.

The light of Truth can clear the darkest hour, The warmth of Love, prove seeming woe untrue; The strength of Spirit shall protect him who, Placing his trust in God, gives fear no power.

Alone I climb, in earnest quest, The mount of vision's highest crest, Where winds of heaven sweep clean the skies— The pinnacle where meekness lies— And pause awhile, at God's behest. This realm of Love, where every guest May breathe in goodness, repossessed, Is God's domain.

Angels at the tomb, saying, "He is risen," Bade us come to meet him here in Galilee. There by Calvary we had fled for fear of hate, Fled from love.