AMERICA’S GREATNESS We need to pray earnestly for those who lead the nation that they might seek the Lords wisdom. An immigrant arriving at Ellis Island and hoping for U.S. citizenship, made this perceptive comment, “The gate to America is so small, but once you get through it there is so much freedom inside!” May it ever be so! In actuality, freedom is not really a gift, but something to be earned and preserved by living responsibly. It is sad to see moral degeneracy, racial hatred, intolerance and lawlessness so rampant on every hand. In all of our mad pursuits for personal gratification, man has forgotten God. The scriptural truths still prevail that “righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Oh for the right to claim that wonderful benediction o f old, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord r
intriguing epitaph, isnt it? Without knowing the background it would be difficult to understand what the family had in mind. It may have been that the man was in the habit of forgetting to wind his watch. This may have been some personal characteristic to which they made reference. In any case “Papa” is no longer in this world, but in an eternity where watches are of no value. That’s a subject which is in deed solemn, for every person is des tined to spend eternity either in Heaven or hell. Doesn’t it seem logical that the most important thing in life is to be saved, and not to suffer everlasting death and condemnation? Regardless how you voted earlier this month, men are divided, not because they’re Repub lican or Democrat, rich or poor, of one color or another. The dividing line is Jesus Christ Himself. The Bible, man’s final authority, clearly states, “He that believeth on Him [the Son] is not con demned; but he that believeth not is condemned already [literally he con demns himself] because he hath not believed in the name of the only begot ten Son of God” (John 3:18).
People who do a lot of kneeling won’t be doing much lying.
LASTING IMPRESSIONS It’s a good thing, on frequent occa sions, to take a spiritual inventory. Have you ever wondered what people might say of you after you have gone? What do you suppose will be inscribed on your cemetery marker? Here was one which appeared on the gravestone of a railroad man in Colorado: “Papa, did you wind your watch?” That’s an 26
Heaven is a prepared place for a pre pared person.
GETTING OUT OF BED You businessmen who have to be away from home from time to time, have you ever noticed how some hotel
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