John Clifton Gasque Poems

We can find no other road except the one that leads to the church, that gives us a oneness that helps us to share alike and realize that all we have belongs to God who gaveth. Thereby enabling us to gladly surrender what we have to help build bridges over which those who come after us may pass over to Jesus Christ our Lord.
Youth can you shout to the world, saying, "I love thy church O God" Her walls before us stand, can we convince the slipping world that its salvation is in the church of the living God?
Wars will not change the situation, money cannot alter the conditions, prestige does not help. Youth can make a change, this church can alter the conditions, whether large or small. Sincere and pure holds the answer to the cry of the masses of all youth, also the people of God who are drifting away in the midstream, or are being carried swiftly by the turbulent waters of drugs, wars, and sin.
It is within the confines of the church that we find strength to meet the needs and demands of this day. Water to cool the ever present fevered brow of sin. It is here you, the youth of this church and community, learn the glory of brotherhood and sisterhood as one in Christ; the sanctity of the Fatherhood of the glory of God, which makes us all brothers and sisters. Here it is that we care and are able to unfold ourselves from the shell of selfishness to live for others.
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