Showing posts with label HYMNS AND POEMS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HYMNS AND POEMS. Show all posts

Sunday, November 7, 2010

A GLORIOUS DAY IS DAWNING

The world's current state of affairs often seems totally hopeless.It's difficult not to become a bit overwhelmed at times. I like to think of the experiences we are all going through as a chemicalization or fermentation. Webster uses a phrase to describe fermentation..."an energy-producing transformation".


What claims to be error or evil is clamoring for recognition and our acceptance of it as ultimate reality.It seems that "world thought" or "mortal mind" wants to hold on to what it knows. It realizes that Spiritual Truth is breaking forth to nullify its false claims and is frantically calling for attention. While we don't ignore the evils taking place, we musn't personalize them. When needed we can point out where the wrong is occurring but in our hearts we musn't attach evil to any person


As we all know, darkness or evil is only an absence of the Light. It has no real power in and of itself. It will fade as Truth is realized. Please read the poem below and keep it in your hearts.




Missionary Hymn: Author unknown

A glorious day is dawning,

And o'er the waking earth...

The heralds of the morning

 are springing into birth.

In dark and hidden places

There shines the blessed light;

The beam of Truth displaces

The darkness of the night


The advocates of error

Forsee the glorious morn....

And hear in shrinking terror,

The watchword of reform:

It rings from hill and valley

It breaks oppression's chain.

A thousand free-men rally,

And swell the mighty strain


The watch-word has been spoken,

The light has broken forth,...

Far shines the blessed token

Upon the startled earth.

To hearts and homes benighted

The blessed Truth is given,

And peace and Love united,

Point upward unto heaven




Saturday, November 6, 2010

THE LAW OF LOVE


The following is a poem/hymn with the words by Richard Chenevix Trench
Make Channels For The Streams Of Love
Make channels for the streams of Love,
Where they may broadly run;
And Love has overflowing streams,
To fill them every one.

But if at any time we cease
Such channels to provide,
The very founts of Love for us
Will then seem parched and dried.

For we must share, if we would keep
That blessing from above;
They cease to have who cease to give:
Such is the law of Love.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

SPEAK GENTLY



SPEAK GENTLY
Sawley
by David Bates
Appeared in Sharpe's London Magazine in 1848


Speak gently, it is better far
To rule by love than fear;
Speak gently let no harsh word mar
The good we may do here


Speak gently to the erring ones,
They must have toiled in vain;
Perchance unkindness made them so;
O......win them back again

Speak gently, tis a little thing,
Dropped in the heart's deep well;
The good, the joy that it may bring,
Eternity shall tell