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CONSERVATION COMMITTEE OF
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH, NEW YORK

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THE FACT OF PRAYER

it came to pass that as he was praying in a certain ne of his disciples said unto him, "Lord, teach us to John also taught his disciples."

EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE

A fire mist and a planet,

A crystal and a cell,
A jelly-fish and a saurian

And caves where the cave-men dwell;
Then a sense of law and beauty
And a face turned from the clod,
Some call it evolution

And others call it God.

A haze on a far horizon,
The infinite, tender sky,

The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields
And wild geese sailing high;
And all over upland and lowland
The charm of the golden-rod,
Some of us call it autumn

And others call it God.

Like tides on a crescent sea-beach
When the moon is new and thin
Into our hearts high yearnings
Come welling and surging in,
Come from the mystic ocean
Whose rim no foot has trod,
Some of us call it longing
And others call it God.

A picket frozen on duty,

A mother starved for her brood, Socrates drinking the hemlock,

And Jesus on the rood;

And millions who humble and nameless
The straight, hard pathway plod,

Some call it consecration

And others call it God.

-Carruth.

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