POET'S CORNER #10

THE SWEET ROAD                       OF WISDOM By Brooks Alden  Overcoming Uncertainty-           1993 Oh, Loving God, what seek I in thy munificence Must my heart beat so fearfully in uncertainty  What say I when life turns its fury inward  What know I of thy wisdom, thy power, thy love  And who must to savour thy divine gifts Cannot this maelstrom deep in my brain subside  Is thy loving peace too elusive a gift to grasp  Why think I well along thy sweet path of wisdom   To find I am at but an early bend on thy road  And who must I to savour thy divine gifts So many temptations block thy narrow passageway  Yet still I hunger to grasp thy Godly promise  To relish thy peace of enduring tranquillity  To soothe my heart in the purity of thy love  For need I must to savour thy divine gifts So on go I in search of thy grand munificence  Find must I thy fountain of hallowed wisdom  Feel I my heart beat wildly with anticipation  Sensing thy power as it bathes my longing soul  For need I must to savour thy divine gifts ......   THE FINDING OF LOST ISRAEL IN THE BRITISH RACE  By Mary Sophia Brown We thank Thee for the wondrous Light  Thou sheddest forth to-day;  Leading, as Thou hast ever done, Thy children on their way. We thank Thee our eyes can trace  Within Thy Sacred Word,  Thy wondrous doings with our Race,  That oft-times sinned and erred. Speed, speed the breeze which thus shall spread  The news so quickly round -  "Lost ISRAEL, within our Race,  True to Thy Word, is found." We thank Thee for these latter days,  When ISRAEL shall see Our brethren,  JUDAH, join with us, Low bending at Thy knee. E'en now, they're coming quickly forth,  Thy Precious Name to own;  Soon shall we all be one again,  As Thine own Word hath shown. ......                       ........................