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Comfort Thoughts 
 
 for 
 
 Those at Home 
 
 Compiled by 
 Emily V. Hammond 
 
 Editor of " Comfort Thoughts for Comfort Kits," 
 " Golden Treasury of the Bible," etc. 
 
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 11 West 45th St 
 
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 DEDICATED 
 
 TO 
 THOSE OVER HERE WHOSE HEARTS ARE 
 WITH THEIR LOVED ONES 
 OVER THERE 
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
 
 The compiler takes pleasure in acknowl- 
 edging her indebtedness to the authors 
 and publishers who have so generously- 
 granted permission to use extracts from 
 their copyrighted publications. Among 
 these are — 
 
 George H. Doran Co. for A Little Prayer 
 for the Man in the Air by John Oxenham, 
 Miss Amelia J. Burr for Stay-at-Home Stars, 
 Macmillan Co. for How Can I Serve? by 
 Hermann Hagedorn and selections from 
 Sddhdna and Gitanjali by Rabindranath 
 Tagore, Miss Helen Eraser for selections 
 from Women and War Work, The Outlook 
 Co. for Ad Fineni by Jean Brooke Burt 
 and A Prayer by Lyman Abbott, and 
 Harper Brothers for selections from Abra- 
 ham's Bosom by Basil King. 
 
 Every effort has been made to avoid in- 
 fringing on anyone's rights, and if this has 
 occurred it has been done unconsciously. 
 
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A LITTLE PRAYER FOR THE MAN 
 IN THE AIR 
 
 I NEVER hear 
 
 The growling diapason of a plane up there, 
 
 The deep reverb 'rant humming of a plane 
 
 up there, 
 But up to God I wing a little prayer. 
 Begging His care 
 For him who braves the dangers of the air. 
 
 "God keep you. Bird-man, in your plane 
 
 up there 
 Your wings upbear, your heart sustain! 
 Give you good flight and oversight. 
 And bring you safe to earth again ! ' ' 
 
 I, too, have hostages with fortune up 
 
 above, 
 And what may come to you may come to 
 
 mine. 
 So, once again, — " God speed you as you 
 
 rove ! 
 Both you and mine to His care I consign." 
 
 John Oxenham 
 
STAY-AT-HOME STARS 
 
 Our service flag has just one star, 
 But Mother says, "of course you know 
 That you and I, like Father, are 
 In service — but the stars that show 
 Are for the people that must go. 
 Father will know our stars are bright 
 Even if no one else can see." 
 
 The sky is full of stars to-night — 
 Is it God's service flag, maybe, 
 With one for her and one for me? 
 
 Amelia J. Burr 
 
HOW CAN I SERVE? 
 
 There are strange ways of serving God, 
 
 You sweep a room or turn a sod, 
 
 And suddenly to your surprise 
 
 You hear the whirr of seraphim 
 
 And find you're under God's own eyes 
 
 And building palaces for him. 
 
 There are strange unexpected ways 
 Of going soldiering these days, 
 It may be only census-blanks 
 You're asked to conquer with a pen, 
 But suddenly you're in the ranks 
 And fighting for the rights of men ! 
 Hermann Hagedorn 
 
MY BOY 
 
 I GAVE my Boy to his country — 
 And he sailed away to sea. 
 I waved farewell to the Boy I knew, 
 For his Captain had said to me : 
 "Even if death shall pass him through, 
 This Boy will never come back to you." 
 
 I gave my Boy to his country — 
 And he never came back to me. 
 Though death had played for his life and 
 
 lost. 
 Though his body and mind went free, 
 War touched his spirit with fire and frost; 
 A man had been bom at an awful cost. 
 
 I gave my Boy to his country — 
 
 And it sent a man back to me. 
 
 My part of the price for the world's ad- 
 vance. 
 
 His Boyhood lost for liberty. 
 
 Death spared the man, by some glad 
 chance. 
 
 But the Boy that he was — had died in 
 
 France. 
 
 S. W. H. 
 
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SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE 
 
 When morning breaks and I arise, 
 And see the sunlight play and dance 
 Upon the wall, before my eyes, 
 I think of him, "Somewhere in France." 
 
 My son, whose boyhood and whose youth 
 Were kept so free from care and pain 
 By us, who prayed he'd love the truth 
 And count true manhood more than gain. 
 
 At noon, when turns the day toward night, 
 And clouds float high in heaven's expanse, 
 My thoughts are with him, far from sight, 
 My son, my pride, "Somewhere in France." 
 
 At night, I gaze upon the skies, 
 And myriad stars see at a glance, 
 Those stars are shining where he lies. 
 My stalwart son, "Somewhere in France." 
 
 God keep him safe, and make me strong 
 To do my part where'er it lies. 
 Until the right shall conquer wrong 
 And Freedom's sun blaze in the skies, 
 
 L. B. H. 
 
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YE THAT HAVE FAITH 
 
 Ye that have faith to look with fearless 
 eyes 
 Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife, 
 And know that out of death and night 
 shall rise 
 . The dawn of ampler life; 
 Rejoice, whatever anguish rend the heart, 
 That God has given you a priceless 
 dower, 
 To live in these great times and have 
 your part 
 In Freedom's crowning hour, 
 That ye may tell your sons who see the 
 light 
 High in the heavens — their heritage to 
 take — 
 "I saw the powers of Darkness put to 
 flight, 
 I saw the morning break." 
 
 Note: — These lines were found penciled 
 on a sheet of paper in the pocket of a young 
 Australian who died in the trenches at 
 Gallipoli — evidently written by him just 
 before he met his death. 
 
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OUR AFFINITY WITH THE INFINITE 
 
 Pain, which is the feeling of our finite- 
 ness, is not a fixture in our life. It is not 
 an end in itself, as joy is. To meet with 
 it is to know that it has no part in the true 
 permanence of creation. It is what error 
 is in our intellectual life. 
 
 It is a truth that man is not a detached 
 being, that he has a universal aspect; 
 and when he recognizes this, he becomes 
 great. 
 
 The tragedy in human life consists in 
 our vain attempts to stretch the limits of 
 things which can never become unlimited, 
 — to reach the infinite by absurdly adding 
 to the rungs of the ladder of the finite. 
 
 Gaining a thing is by its nature partial, 
 it is limited only to a particular want; 
 but being is complete, it belongs to our 
 wholeness, it springs not from any neces- 
 sity but from our affinity with the infinite, 
 which is the principle of perfection that 
 we have in our soul. 
 
 That only which is done for love is done 
 freely, however much pain it may cause. 
 Therefore, working for love, is freedom in 
 action. — From Sddhand by Rabindranath 
 Tagore. 
 
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SONG FROM GITANJALI 
 
 Where the mind is without fear and the 
 
 head is held high; 
 Where knowledge is free; 
 Where the world has not been broken up 
 
 into fragments by narrow domestic 
 
 walls ; 
 Where words come out from the depth of 
 
 truth; 
 Where tireless striving stretches its arms 
 
 towards perfection ; 
 Where the clear stream of reason has not 
 
 lost its way into the dreary desert 
 
 sand of dead habit ; 
 Where the mind is led forward by thee into 
 
 ever widening thought and action — 
 Into that heaven of freedom, my father, 
 
 let my country awake. 
 
 Rabindranath Tagore 
 
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WOMEN AND WAR WORK 
 
 The regeneration of the world cannot 
 come from the sacrifice of our men alone, 
 or even of some of us at home. The few 
 may save countries and do great things, 
 but the work of reconstruction rests 
 on everybody. Nations are made up of 
 individuals, and a nation cannot hope for 
 moral and social regeneration except 
 through individual self-denial, self-sacri- 
 fice, and service. 
 
 It is in our hearts and our own minds 
 that the great task of reconstruction must 
 be done. 
 
 The greatest task of reconstruction 
 for most of us is to make all our actions 
 worthy of our highest self — to bring to the 
 problems that confront us, not one de- 
 tached and prejudiced bit of us, but the 
 whole mind and spirit of ourselves the 
 best of us always in unity. 
 
 Helen Fraser 
 
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 IF 
 
 (With Apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling.) 
 
 If you can keep your head while all about 
 you 
 Are spending cash on foolish things or 
 worse, 
 If you can do with shabby clothes and 
 cornbre^ad 
 To buy War Savings Stamps for "Un- 
 cle's "purse, 
 If you can work and not be tired by 
 working 
 At some dull round where Conscience 
 is the boss, 
 With no more chance of getting cash or 
 credit 
 Than getting the Distinguished Service 
 Cross ; 
 
 If you can stick, with all your pulses 
 tingling. 
 At that small thing you can and must 
 do well, 
 And not for petty pleasures set them 
 jingling— 
 Those quarters that must go for shot 
 and shell — 
 
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But watch and work, and turn and twist, 
 contriving 
 To make a dollar do the work of four, 
 And know full well that you are just 
 arriving 
 At what the French have done for 
 years — and more; 
 
 If you can talk and always still remember 
 That gossip often plays the German 
 game, 
 If you can silent be and yet a member 
 Of that great host that feeds the Torch's 
 flame, 
 If you can give your heart and soul and 
 spirit 
 And all the best you are, the best you've 
 won, 
 Then only is this sacred land yours to 
 inherit, 
 And you have earned your right to 
 freedom , son ! 
 
 FiTZHUGH Thomson 
 
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BORDERLAND 
 
 There is a mystic borderland that lies 
 Just past the limits of our work-day 
 
 world, 
 And it is peopled with the friends we met 
 And loved, a year, a month, a week or 
 
 day. 
 And parted from with aching hearts, yet 
 
 knew 
 That through the distance we must loose 
 
 the hold 
 Of hand with hand, and only clasp the 
 
 thread 
 Of memory.- But still so close we feel this 
 
 land. 
 So sure we are that these same hearts are 
 
 true. 
 That when in waking dreams there comes 
 
 a call 
 That sets the thread of memory aglow: 
 We know that just by stretching out the 
 
 hand 
 In written word of love, or book, or flower. 
 The waiting hand will clasp our own once 
 
 more 
 Across the silence, in the same old way.. 
 
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AD FINEM 
 
 When it is over and the Great Cause won, 
 Then you can say how hard it was to go, 
 We two together, underneath the sun. 
 Alone, on some far hill where sweet winds 
 
 blow. 
 But now there is not time for talk, just 
 
 deeds 
 Of sacrifice, made glorious to us all. 
 We will be brave for one another's needs. 
 Answering dry-eyed the country's call. 
 We will be wise, my Love, unto the end 
 When you must leave me, not forlorn, for 
 
 now 
 I know our hearts flame as one fire, and 
 
 blend 
 Like mist that gathers at a steamer's bow. 
 We have had days together, you and I ; 
 Memories of these lie fresh within my 
 
 heart, 
 So when the hour must come to say good- 
 
 by, 
 Remembering, I will be brave to part. 
 When it is over, if you come to me. 
 Your clear eyes kind with knowledge of 
 
 the fires 
 Of battlefields, God grant we two will see 
 Peace, and the waiting dreams of our 
 
 desires. 
 
 Jean Brooke Burt 
 
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PREPARATION 
 
 Somewhere, dear God, in this great 
 world of Thine, 
 Lives he who once was absolutely 
 mine — 
 Before the war with all its horrors grim 
 Called to his manhood that it needed 
 him. 
 So close we walked that naught could 
 come between, 
 But now, in dreams alone, his face is 
 seen. 
 So close he held my hand I could not fall, 
 And now but silence, as of some dark 
 wall. 
 
 I know not if tonight, on land or sea. 
 His prayer ascends to ask Thy care of 
 me, 
 But I do know that when he comes^again — 
 When Earth is rid of all this scourging 
 pain — 
 He will be different, and I, too, must 
 grow 
 If I, his wife, would understanding 
 know^ 
 
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And when he talks of things all strange 
 and new 
 ■I'd have him find that I have learned 
 them, too. 
 
 He'll not have lost the tender little ways 
 
 With which he used to glorify all days, 
 But he will wear a look as not of yore — 
 
 As one who sees beyond a closed door. 
 Then will I try with all a woman's wiles 
 
 To woo his thoughts across the dreary 
 miles — 
 To strip them bare of every awful thing, 
 
 And make the horrors that he sees take 
 wing. 
 
 So, help me, God, a fitting mate to be 
 
 When my Beloved comes again to me. 
 When he recounts, as in heroic dream. 
 Some comrade's deed of sacrifice su- 
 preme, 
 Then I will thank Thee from a woman's 
 heart 
 That he was there, prepared to do his 
 part — 
 To give his all if need for that should 
 be— 
 And yet was spared to come again to 
 me. 
 
 Janie Screven Heyward 
 
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WAITING 
 
 Serene, I fold my hands and wait, 
 Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; 
 I rave no more 'gainst time or fate. 
 For lo ! my own shall come to me. 
 
 I stay my haste, I make delays. 
 For what avails this eager pace? 
 I stand amid the eternal ways, 
 And what is mine shall know my face. 
 
 Asleep, awake, by night or day. 
 The friends I seek are seeking me; 
 No wind can drive my bark astray, 
 Nor change the tide of destiny. 
 
 What matter if I stand alone? 
 I wait with joy the coming years; 
 My heart shall reap where it hath sown, 
 And garner up its fruit of tears. • 
 
 The waters know their own, and draw 
 The brook that springs in yonder heights; , 
 So flows the good with equal law 1 
 
 Unto the soul of pure delights. 
 
 The stars come nightly to the sky, 
 The tidal wave unto the sea; 
 Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high. 
 Can keep my own away from me. 
 John Burroughs 
 
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A PRESENT HEAVEN 
 
 *' Those who love Light inherit it. There 
 are no leaps and bounds in life. What 
 mortals call death takes them where it 
 finds them — as every day and hour does 
 the same." 
 
 "Is death an invention? Isn't it the 
 most real of all realities ? " " Everything is 
 real to which we lend reality. It has 
 just the reality we lend to it." 
 
 "We see God by what we understand of 
 Him; we understand Him by H;s attri- 
 butes ; and we measure His attributes by 
 their beauty and goodness and practi- 
 cality. Whenever there has been a bless- 
 ing for you to enjoy, you've seen God. 
 Whenever love has helped you or kindness 
 cheered you, you've seen God. There is 
 not one world in which God is seen and 
 another where He is not. There is not a 
 life with God and another life away from 
 Him. There is only one world, and God 
 fills it ; there is only one life, to which God 
 is All-in- All. There is no Beyond. There 
 is only a universal Here! There is only 
 an ever-present Now! To know God is 
 eternal life, and they who possess even 
 the rudiments of that knowledge shall 
 never and can never die." 
 
 Basil King 
 
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FROM THE TRENCHES 
 
 O death! At home they call it death 
 
 And sit and weep because they think 
 
 Their sons beloved are slain, 
 
 And they are left alone 
 
 To mourn their dead. 
 
 While we, across the trenches' top, 
 
 Have leaped to Life, and find 
 
 We have but left behind 
 
 The rags and blood and dirt 
 
 Of grimy battlefield, and — 
 
 A great host of us. 
 
 All eager, happy and alive — 
 
 Are pressing onwards towards a goal 
 
 We dimly see, of duty, beauty, 
 
 Love and Life, which calls us on 
 
 To tasks more glorious than 
 
 We could achieve midst stress 
 
 And storm and reek of cannon smoke. 
 
 Hark! You can hear us calling 
 
 From each to each a greeting 
 
 As we meet, — comrades and erstwhile 
 
 foe. 
 "Friend! Is this all to death? 
 Why should we ever fear 
 This passing through a shadow 
 Which but seems a moment's shock, 
 
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As though we had but bowed our heads 
 To pass beneath a narrow doorway 
 From some dug-out small, and found 
 Ourselves a little blinded by the light 
 Which shines from heaven's eternal 
 
 day? 
 You here! — You too! — And you! 
 How glad we are to find 
 Each other, and to prove 
 There is no death! " , 
 
 Mary Lloyd McConnel 
 
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BIBLE VERSES 
 Selections from Isaiah 
 
 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, 
 whose mind is stayed on thee: because he 
 trusteth in thee. 
 
 Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in 
 the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. 
 
 He giveth power to the faint; and to 
 them that have no might he increaseth 
 strength. 
 
 They that wait upon the Lord .shall 
 renew their strength ; they shall mount up 
 with wings as eagles; they shall run, and 
 not be weary, and they shall walk, and 
 not faint. 
 
 Arise, shine; for thy ligl^ is come, and 
 the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. 
 
 For, behold, the darkness shall cover 
 the earth, and gross darkness the people: 
 but the Lord shall arise upon them, and 
 his glory shall be seen upon thee. 
 
 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither 
 shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the 
 Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and 
 the days of thy mourning shall be ended. 
 
 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; 
 because the Lord hath anointed me to 
 
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preach good tidings unto the meek: he 
 hath sent me to bind up the broken- 
 hearted, to proclaim Hberty to the cap- 
 tives, and the opening of the prison to 
 them that are bound; to proclaim the 
 acceptable year of the Lord, and the day 
 of vengeance of our God; to comfort all 
 that mourn; to appoint unto them that 
 mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty 
 for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the 
 garment of praise for the spirit of heavi- 
 ness; that they might be called trees of 
 righteousness, the planting of the Lord, 
 that he might be glorified. 
 
 Selections from Psalms 
 
 The Lord is my light and my salvation- 
 whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength 
 of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 
 
 I had fainted, unless I had believed to 
 see the goodness of the Lord in the land 
 of the living. 
 
 Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, 
 and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, 
 I say, on the Lord. 
 
 Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt 
 preserve me from trouble; thou shalt 
 compass me about with songs of deliver- 
 ance. 
 
 I will instruct thee, and teach thee in 
 the way which thou shalt go: I will guide 
 thee with mine eye. 
 
 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a 
 broken heart ; and saveth such as be of a 
 contrite spirit. 
 
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous : 
 but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. 
 
 God is our refuge and strength, a very 
 present help in trouble. 
 
 He maketh wars to cease unto the 
 end of the earth ; he breaketh the bow, and 
 cutteth the spear in sunder: he burneth 
 the chariot in fire. 
 
 Be still, and know that I am God; I 
 will be exalted among the heathen, I will 
 be exalted in the earth. 
 
 He that dwelleth in the secret place of 
 the Most High, shall abide under the 
 shadow of the Almighty. 
 
 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror 
 by night, nor for the arrow that fiieth by 
 day, nor for the pestilence that walketh 
 in darkness, nor for the destruction that 
 wasteth at noonday. 
 
 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and 
 ten thousand at thy right hand, but it 
 shall not come nigh thee. 
 
 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, 
 and see the reward of the wicked. 
 
 Because thou hast made the Lord, 
 which is my refuge, even the Most High, 
 thy habitation, there shall no evil befall 
 thee, neither shall any plague come nigh 
 thy dwelling. 
 
 For he shall give his angels charge over 
 thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 
 
 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, 
 from whence cometh my help. 
 
 My help cometh from the Lord, which 
 made heaven and earth. 
 
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He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: 
 he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 
 
 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall 
 neither slumber nor sleep. 
 
 The Lord is thy keeper; the Lord is 
 thy shade upon thy right hand. 
 
 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor 
 the moon by night. 
 
 The Lord shall preserve thee from all 
 evil: he shall preserve thy soul. 
 
 The Lord shall preserve thy going out, 
 and thy coming in, from this time forth, 
 and even for evermore. 
 
 Words of the Master 
 
 Come unto me, all ye that labour and 
 are heavy laden, and I will give you 
 rest. 
 
 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they 
 shall see God. 
 
 I am the light of the world: he that 
 followeth me shall not walk in darkness, 
 but shall have the light of life. 
 
 My sheep hear my voice, and I know 
 them, and they follow me: and I give 
 unto them eternal life; and they shall 
 never perish, neither shall any man pluck 
 them out of my hand. My Father, which 
 gave them me, is greater than all; and 
 no man is able to pluck them out of my 
 Father's hand. 
 
 I will not leave you comfortless: I will 
 come to you. 
 
 Peace I leave with you, my peace I 
 give unto you: not as the world giveth, 
 
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give I unto you. Let not your heart be 
 troubled, neither let it be afraid. 
 
 This is my commandment, That ye 
 love one another, as I have loved you- 
 
 Greater love hath no man than this, 
 that a man lay down his life for his friends. 
 
 This is life eternal, that they might know 
 thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, 
 whom thou hast sent. 
 
 Words of St. Paul 
 
 For I reckon that the sufferings of this 
 present time are not worthy to be com- 
 pared with the glory which shall be re- 
 vealed in us. 
 
 We know that all things work together 
 for good to them that love God, to them 
 who are the called according to his pur- 
 pose. 
 
 If God be for us, who can be against us? 
 
 For I am persuaded that neither death, 
 nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor 
 powers, nor things present, nor things to 
 come, nor height, nor depth, nor any 
 other creature, shall be able to separate us 
 from the love of God, which is in Christ 
 Jesus our Lord. 
 
 All things are your's; and ye are Christ's; 
 and Christ is God's. 
 
 There hath no temptation taken you 
 but such as is common to man: but God 
 is faithful, who will not suffer you to be 
 tempted above that ye are able; but will 
 with the temptation also make a way to 
 escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 
 
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Now we see through a glass, darkly; but 
 then face to face: now I know in part; 
 but then shall I know even as also I am 
 known. 
 
 And now abideth faith, hope, love, 
 these three; but the greatest of these is 
 love. 
 
 Be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always 
 abounding in the work of the Lord, foras- 
 much as ye know that your labour is not 
 in vain in the Lord. 
 
 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is 
 liberty. 
 
 We all, with open face beholding as 
 in a glass the glory of the Lord, are 
 changed into the same image from glory 
 to glory, even as by the Spirit of the 
 Lord. 
 
 Our light affliction, which is but 
 for a moment, worketh for us a far 
 more exceeding and eternal weight of 
 glory. 
 
 While we look not at the things which 
 are seen, but at the things which are not 
 seen: for the things which are seen are 
 temporal but the things which are not 
 seen are eternal. 
 
 My grace is sufficient for thee: for my 
 strength is made perfect in weakness. 
 Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in 
 my infirmities, that the power of Christ 
 may rest upon me. 
 
 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so 
 fulfil the law of Christ. 
 
 Be careful for nothing; but in every- 
 
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thing by prayer and supplication, with 
 thanksgiving, let your requests be made 
 known unto God. 
 
 And the peace of God, which passeth 
 all understanding, shall keep your hearts 
 and minds through Christ Jesus. 
 
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EVENING HYMN 
 
 Father Divine, the daylight now is 
 gone 
 
 I rest in Thee. 
 Teach me Thy will, that I may be at one 
 
 With love and harmony. 
 
 My rest is following where truth shall 
 lead 
 
 To realms above, 
 And in Thy service I have every need 
 
 Supplied by perfect love. 
 
 Thou art my strength, O Lord, it cannot 
 fail, 
 Supply Thou me. 
 So when the glowing stars shall wane and 
 
 pale 
 I rise to work for Thee. . 
 
 No evil can approach me while I sleep. 
 
 For God is near, 
 And He in harmony His child will keep 
 
 Till daylight doth appear. 
 
 Peace, perfect peace and love shall be my 
 rest 
 When night doth fall, 
 I sink to sleep, by thoughts of heaven 
 blest, 
 Knowing that God is all. 
 
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MORNING HYMN 
 
 Father Divine, the sunrise gloweth 
 bright, 
 I rise to do Thy will; 
 The love that kept me through the pass- 
 ing night 
 Can guide and keep me still. 
 
 Fear cannot enter where the Love Divine 
 
 Doth ever dwell, 
 The guidance and the strength alone are 
 Thine 
 
 And Thou do'st all things well. 
 
 The weight of a decision unto me doth not 
 belong, 
 Thou rulest all, I look alone to Thee 
 And in Thy strength am strong. 
 
 The power of love alone the world can 
 sway, 
 Good shall prevail. 
 If naught but love reign in my heart to- 
 day 
 Nothing I do can fail. 
 
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A PRAYER 
 
 O God, in whom we live and move and 
 have our being, and who dost also live 
 and move and have some measure of Thy 
 being in us Thy children, we do not ask 
 for Thy presence, for we know that we are 
 always in Thy presence. We ask that we 
 may have the eyes to see Thee; and the 
 ears to hear Thy still, small voice, and the 
 hearts to welcome Thee; that we may 
 always walk in Thy ways, inspired by Thy 
 companionship. Amen. 
 
 Lyman Abbott 
 
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