Oh! I hear the people calling through the day time and the night time,They are calling, they are crying for the coming of the right time.It behooves you, men and women, it behooves you to be heeding,For there lurks a note of menace underneath their plaintive pleading. Let the land usurpers listen, let the greedy-hearted […]

Oh! the earth is full of sinningAnd of trouble and of woe,But the devil makes an inningEvery time we say it’s so.And the way to set him scowling,And to put him back a pace,Is to stop this stupid growling,And to look things in the face. If you glance at history’s pages,In all lands and eras […]

She must be honest, both in thought and deed,Of generous impulse, and above all greed;Not seeking praise, or place, or power, or pelf,But life’s best blessings for her higher self,Which means the best for all.She must have faith,To make good friends of Trouble, Pain, and Death,And understand their message.She should beAs redolent with tender sympathyAs […]

Let me to-day do something that shall takeA little sadness from the world’s vast store,And may I be so favoured as to makeOf joy’s too scanty sum a little moreLet me not hurt, by any selfish deedOr thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend;Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need,Or sin by silence when […]

All the aim of life is justGetting back to God.Spirit casting off its dust,Getting back to God.Every grief we have to bearDisappointment, cross, despairEach is but another stairClimbing back to God. Step by step and mile by mile –Getting back to God;Nothing else is worth the while –Getting back to God.Light and shadow fill each […]

The earth is yours and mine,Our God’s bequest.That testament divineWho dare contest? Usurpers of the earth,We claim our share.We are of royal birth.Beware! beware! Unloose the hand of greedFrom God’s fair land,We claim but what we need –That, we demand.

I leave with God to-morrow’s where and how,And do concern myself but with the Now,That little word, though half the future’s length,Well used, holds twice its meaning and its strength. Like one blindfolded groping out his way,I will not try to touch beyond to-day.Since all the future is concealed from sightI need but strive to […]

Woman is man’s enemy, rival, and competitor.–JOHN. J. INGALLS. You do but jest, sir, and you jest not well,How could the hand be enemy of the arm,Or seed and sod be rivals! How could lightFeel jealousy of heat, plant of the leaf,Or competition dwell ‘twixt lip and smile?Are we not part and parcel of yourselves?Like […]

Reply to Rudyard Kipling’s “He travels the fastest who travels alone.” Who travels alone with his eyes on the heights,Though he laughs in the day time oft weeps in the nights; For courage goes down at the set of the sun,When the toil of the journey is all borne by one. He speeds but to […]

All the uniforms were blue, all the swords were bright and new,When the regiment went marching down the street,All the men were hale and strong as they proudly moved along,Through the cheers that drowned the music of their feet.Oh the music of the feet keeping time to drums that beat,Oh the splendour and the glitter […]

Hark! high o’er the rattle and clamour and clatterOf traffic-filled streets, do you hear that loud noise?And pushing and rushing to see what’s the matter,Like herds of wild cattle, go pell-mell the boys. There’s a fire in the city! the engines are coming!The bold bells are clanging, “Make way in the street!”The wheels of the […]

Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide.On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight,But back on the incoming waves it may rideAnd land at your threshold again before night.Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. Be careful what follies you toss in life’s sea.On bright dancing billows they drift far away,But […]

Words are great forces in the realm of life:Be careful of their use. Who talks of hate,Of poverty, of sickness, but sets rifeThese very elements to mar his fate. When love, health, happiness, and plenty hearTheir names repeated over day by day,They wing their way like answering fairies near,Then nestle down within our homes to […]

Begin each morning with a talk to God,And ask for your divine inheritanceOf usefulness, contentment, and success.Resign all fear, all doubt, and all despair.The stars doubt not, and they are undismayed,Though whirled through space for countless centuries,And told not why or wherefore: and the seaWith everlasting ebb and flow obeys,And leaves the purpose with the […]

Over and over and overThese truths I will weave in song –That God’s great plan needs you and me,That will is greater than destiny,And that love moves the world along. However mankind may doubt it,It shall listen and hear my creed –That God may ever be found within,That the worship of self is the only […]

Do you know what moves the tidesAs they swing from low to high?‘Tis the love, love, love,Of the moon within the sky.Oh! they follow where she guides,Do the faithful-hearted tides. Do you know what moves the earthOut of winter into spring?‘Tis the love, love, love,Of the sun, the mighty king.Oh the rapture that finds birthIn […]

If you are sighing for a lofty work,If great ambitions dominate your mind,Just watch yourself and see you do not shirkThe common little ways of being kind. If you are dreaming of a future goal,When, crowned with glory, men shall own your power,Be careful that you let no struggling soulGo by unaided in the present […]

With every rising of the sunThink of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deepAll yesterdays–there let them sleep, Nor seek to summon back one ghostOf that innumerable host. Concern yourself with but to-day;Woo it and teach it to obey Your wish and will. Since time beganTo-day has been the friend […]

With each strong thought, with every earnest longingFor aught thou deemest needful to thy soul,Invisible vast forces are set throngingBetween thee and that goal ‘Tis only when some hidden weakness altersAnd changes thy desire, or makes it less,That this mysterious army ever faltersOr stops short of success. Thought is a magnet; and the longed-for pleasure,Or […]

Smile a little, smile a little,As you go along,Not alone when life is pleasant,But when things go wrong.Care delights to see you frowning,Loves to hear you sigh;Turn a smiling face upon her –Quick the dame will fly. Smile a little, smile a little,All along the road;Every life must have its burden,Every heart its load.Why sit […]