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title: 'The Toiling of Felix and Other Poems'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Jr.'
date: 1917-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Devotional'
- 'Economics, Employment, and Work'
- 'Archaeology'
scriptures:
- 'Colossians 3'
- 'John 6'
- 'Matthew 25'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/van-dyke-1917-the-toiling-of-felix-and-other-poems
---

# The Toiling of Felix and Other Poems

Devotional poems framing labour as a sacrament, built around a legendary 'lost saying' of Jesus from an Oxyrhynchus papyrus. It finds Christ present in everyday work.

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