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  • Author's Testimony & Introduction--FAQS
    • Table of Contents
  • 1 His Kingdom to Prepare
  • 2 My Choice Companions
  • 3 Companions
  • 4 Companions II
  • 5 A Mother's MTC Farewell
  • 6 Who Will Dare for Christ
  • 7 To a Chosen Generation
  • 8. I Feel Such a Strangeness
  • 9. Not Me
  • 10. My Brother's Father
  • 11. Not Far Away
  • 12. Questions for Our Leaders
  • 13. Questions From Our Leaders
  • 14. The Visit
  • 15. Show and Tell
  • 16. Within Our Slumber We Will Dream
  • 17. Servants in the Shadows
  • 18. Joya Escojida/Chosen Jewel
  • 19. Las Aguas Del Senor/The Waters of the Lord
  • 20. Come Fasting to the Meeting House
  • 21. As Voices Join in Sacred Sabbath Worship
  • 22. A Child's Baptismal Day
  • 23. In Temple White
  • 24. Temple Hill
  • 25. This Precious Day
  • 26. The Translators
  • 27. I Your Husband Who Have Fallen [First Poem of The Repentance Trilogy.]
  • 28. The Wife's Song
  • 29. Remember Not Past Years
  • 30. A Priesthood Lullaby
  • 31. The Season of Our Need
  • 32. Cherished Daughter, Valiant Servant
  • 33. Daughter, Hear and Heed Your Savior's Voice
  • 34. Bird Mom
  • 35. Eric's Song
  • 36. A Wedding Song of Praise
  • 37. Testimonies to My Daughters
  • 38. Prayer for a Caring Granddaughter
  • 39. Firstborn Son and Firstborn Daughter
  • 40. Father's Day
  • 41 The Hospital
  • 42. The Children of the World
  • 43. For the Healers of the World
  • 44. Simple Heroes of Our Day
  • 45. To This World So Prone to Peril
  • 46. Somewhere
  • 47. Servant of Servants
  • 48. We Wish That You Were Here
  • 49. The Teacher
  • 50. To Protect Marriage and Family
  • 51. Earth's Unborn Children Weeping
  • 52. Prayers for the Peacekeepers
  • 53. That Patriot Dreams Will Come to Pass
  • 54. We Would Do It All Again
  • 55. So Much More
  • 56. Passage and Pilot
  • 57. Because of the Son
  • 58. Growing Up
  • 59. The Olive Leaf
  • 60. Until All Are One With Him
  • 61. Death Has Not Won, But Lost
  • 62. Call to Arms
  • 63. When All Is Done
  • 64. How Rarely Have I Come This Way
  • 65. At a Place So Very Different
  • 66. My Best Years Lie Ahead
  • 67. Sons of Zion, Jesus Calls You
  • 68. Come, Sing Your Song to Me
  • 69. May It Be Always So
  • 70. Until Safe in Heaven's Embrace
  • 71. Seek the Spirit
  • 72. Undertow
  • 73. If I Am Given Time
  • 74. Sons and Daughters, Heirs of Promise
  • 75. Wrestling for a Call
  • 76. When Everything is Ready
  • 77. One Thousand Times
  • 78. Tearful and Fearful I Prayed Through the Evening
  • 79. Tell Us, How Do Servants and Teachers Like You Come Along?
  • 80. Blessings for Beloved Servants
  • 81. Our Gayla's Free at Last
  • 82. I Am a Witness of Your Worth
  • 83. I'll Live With You Again
  • 84. Brother, Friend, and Fellow Servant
  • 85. Grieve Not for Him
  • 86. Press On From Payson's Hill
  • 87. The Righteous Live in Me
  • 88. Homecoming
  • 89. In Honor of My Friends Unseen
  • 90. [An Invitation] We Call to You
  • 91. Fellow Americans, Let Us Talk
  • 92. Brothers and Sisters, Fulfilled Together
  • 93. What We Have Lost in Our Digital Paradise
  • 94. Running Out of Time
  • 95. Ere You Hear the Sound of Battle
  • 96. 21st Century Gadiantons
  • 97 The Setting Apart
  • 98. What Do You Say?
  • 99. To a Woman of Tempered Steel
  • 100. A Correction Soon Begins
  • 101. The Quiet of the Morning
  • 102. Slippery Slope
  • 103. Stormy--We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This
  • 104. Warriors of the Mind and Soul [Poetic Process Discussion]
  • 105. He Wrote Just as He Lived
  • 106. Life Singer
  • 107. Zion's Daughter Leanore
  • 108. Does Your House of Worship Now Seem Lonely
  • 109. Crucify the "Old Man of Sin"
  • 110. We Loved Them Once
  • 111. Winter's Mothers God Holds Most Dear
  • 112. Lord, Please Forgive Us Anew
  • 113. Patriot's Faith Will Triumph Yet
  • 114. Indexing
  • 115. I Am Liberty
  • 116. The Beauty
  • 117. To Aid the Innocents Abused
  • 118. A Noble Bugler Has Returned
  • 119. The Music of the Lord
  • 120. Frog Cat
  • 121. God's Storms
  • 122. The Daughters of the Lord
  • 123. Come Back, Before Our Souls for Error Yearn
  • 124. Don't Tell Me That My Time Has Come
  • 125. From the Dust [Comes The Book of Mormon]
  • 126 To See the Sun Again
  • 127. Mourning America
  • 128. For Baby Adam
  • 129. Despedida Ansiosa/Anxious Farewell
  • 130. Between the Lines
  • 131. Will You Ever Ask the Questions
  • 132. The Days I Spent With You
  • 133. For Nelda
  • 134. The Covenant Path
  • 135. Heartland Dream
  • 136 We Sent Our Very Best
  • 137. Sisters of the Covenant, Daughters of God
  • 138 Sisters Share Their Cheerful Hearts
  • 139 God Looketh On the Heart
  • 140 What of Me?
  • 141 The Return
  • 142 Latter-day Defenders
  • 143. "Come and See, Come and Help, Come and Share"
  • 144. The Best of Father's Seed I've Known
  • 145. [Complete, but pending.]
  • 146. When the Days of Wait Are Over
  • 147. Red Kettles and Silver Bells
  • 148. Victory
  • 149. He Lacks Not Faith
  • 150. "Am I a Friend of Jesus?" [Spring 2020 Semi-Final Examination]
  • 151. Christ is Our Refuge Once Again
  • 152. Until We Kneel at Our Savior's Feet
  • 153. Where You Stand, You Should Still Lift
  • 154. No Day Shall Pass nor Night Shall Fall
  • 155. We Pray for You
  • 156. Bountiful Harvest
  • 157. A Message of Peace and Love
  • 158. Israel, Israel God Shall Save Thee
  • 159. For Those Who Wait
  • 160. Friends Who Intercede
  • 161. Young Women's "Frog Camp"
AN INVITATION


Jesus' "original" Church in Jerusalem was restored in these, the last and latter days, by Joseph Smith.  The boy-prophet saw God the Father and Jesus Christ in sacred daylight vision in 1820. Subsequently, in fulfillment of ancient prophesy and Divine command, he translated a sacred history of a portion of the tribe of Joseph who had left the old world and come to this continent hundreds of years before Christ's birth. His translation of their records, known as the Book of Mormon, is, like the Bible, a true and vibrant testament of Jesus Christ.  It is freely available to all with a mere phone call or e-mail to www.lds.org.  

Given power and authority from God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, Joseph Smith restored Christ's Church with all of its officers, laws, ordinances, and blessings--sealing his testimony of Jesus' reality and atonement with Joseph's own blood when he died a martyr's death at the hands of a lawless mob.    

The restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has flourished the world around despite every attack, every deceit, and every misrepresentation made against it.  In compliance with Jesus' command to serve Him by serving our brothers and sisters, the Restored Church and its members engage in innumerable acts of compassion, benevolence, and charity without regard to race, creed, or color in every land where allowed.  

We acknowledge that we have never been alone in seeking to lift up our needy brothers and sisters.  A great host is engaged in the work of saving men physically, and preparing for the return of the Great Jehovah, Jesus Christ, in awesome glory.  

We invite all who share our goals, if not our convictions, to join with us around the world to serve others.  We love you.  We applaud your service.  We acknowledge the sincerity and profundity of your own sacrifices.  We daily pray for you.  We see our Savior's compassion in your inspired labors.  We ask all who share such compassion to both join with us, and allow us to join with them, to serve Jesus Christ by serving His children. 

90. We Call to You

We call to you, our not-yet-friends,
And bid you serve with us today.
For though, at times, life’s path seems dark, 
Christ offers all His Better Way.
That He may fill us with His joy,
A peaceful spirit all His own.
And if chill fears now shade your hearts,
We seem to hear: “You're not alone.
Christ die
d, in grief and pain, to bear, 
Your greatest burdens of the night,
And, soon, in glory He'll return,
That all will see God's perfect Light."
Thus let us work toward what-shall-be, 
With you who share our troubled days. 
That by Christ’s grace, throughout all time, 
With you we’ll sing our Savior’s praise.


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I know that only Jesus Christ has the power to save.  I affirm the reality of His virgin birth; His life; His sufferings in the Garden and upon the Cross; His voluntary death; His resurrection, and His infinite atonement.  I testify that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only religion which contains the fullness of our Savior's gospel and the authority, ordinances, and leaders (apostles and prophets as in Jesus' day) necessary for the salvation of mankind. I know that Christ will come again.  I pray that with you, my brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, I will be worthy to kiss his feet and shed my tears of worship and joy with all who love Him.  

I deem myself an unworthy servant, who has been blessed to serve as scribe, recorder, and recipient of these modest pieces. I solemnly confess that if you, the reader, should find any merit in these pieces, you should praise God, who is the source of all good.  May God bless you and keep you in your service as He has blessed me in mine.  
Russell Hicks 

NOTE:

This was the end of the original, printed version of the book, His Kingdom to Prepare--no longer in print.  It will not be reprinted.  The "Core 90" poems above, plus some 65 (and counting) subsequent poems are presented without charge here for unlimited non-commercial usage.


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