Think About the Words – - – and the Man

When a man’s seen as a “hero” his words

 

get Accepted without adequate thought.

 

When he’s seen as a “villain” his words

 

get Rejected without adequate thought. 

- eab, 12/24/11

ISAAC NEWTON – problem, Jan. 26, 1687

…amongst the old Prophets, Daniel is most distinct in order of time, and easiest to be understood: and therefore in those things which relate to the last times, he must be made the key to the rest. (Ch.1)

The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another…every following Prophecy adds something new to the former.            (Ch.3)

 

Seeing therefore the body of the third Beast is confined to the nations on this side the river Euphrates, and the body of the fourth Beast is confined to the nations on this side Greece; we are to look for all the four heads of the third Beast, among the nations on this side of the river Euphrates; and for all the eleven horns of the fourth Beast, among the nations on this side of Greece.            (Ch.4)

 

- Sir ISAAC NEWTON, OBSERVATIONS upon the PROPHECIES of DANIEL, and the APOCALYPSE of St.  John (In Two PARTS), LONDON,  M.DCC.XXXIII.

 

Isaac Newton on this date, 1/26/1697 received from Jean [1] Bernoulli’s (bĕrn yē’), a six month time-limit-problem.  Isaac had the answer before he retired for bed that evening.

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[1] Also known as John or Johann Bernoulli (7/27/1667 – 1/1/1748) was a Swiss mathematician (one of the several in his   mathematician family).

²  A Short Scheme of the True Religion, manuscript quoted in Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton by Sir David Brewster, Edinburgh, 1850; cited in; Newton’s Philosophy of Nature, p. 65, Ref. 2.

³ Principia, Book III; cited in; Newton’s Philosophy of Nature: Selections from his writings, p. 42, ed. H.S. Thayer,         Hafner Library of Classics, NY, 1953.

Birds?

“Birds of a feather flock together” (unknown source)

 

Want better Friends? 

 

Become (with God’s help) a Better Bird.

 

– eab, 12/5/1

Uncommon Hill

 

History’s most famous land is an uncommon hill,

It’s the hill upon which the Savoir died,

Pierced by thorn, cruelly crucified.

 

History is a series of events,

Random, some seem, full of dings and dents,

Brilliant or scarred, free or barred

Filling all the past [of history fills all the past].

 

History also has to have its land,

On which acts start and then expand,

Events all pass, the land lasts.

 

History plays out on real valley and hill,

By river’s bend, by bay’s as tides fill.

 

History did not act out into thin air.

 

History takes place on dirt and sod,

Some of it for, some against God.

 

All of history took place on land

On rocky rise, on stretches of sand.

 

History fills time’s line completely full,

Ethereal-like, exciting or more dull.

 

Real history covers slopes and scarps,

Little knolls, rolling plains, hills and sharps.

The greatest history took place on an uncommon hill.

                – eab, 1/23/11               

Rowland Huw Prichard – death, Jan. 25, 1887

Alleluia! sing to Jesus! His the scepter, His the throne.
Alleluia! His the triumph, His the victory alone.
Hark! the songs of peaceful Zion thunder like a mighty flood.
Jesus out of every nation has redeemed us by His blood.

2. Alleluia! not as orphans are we left in sorrow now;
Alleluia! He is near us, faith believes, nor questions how;
Though the cloud from sight received Him when the forty days were o’er
Shall our hearts forget His promise, “I am with you evermore”?

3. Alleluia! bread of angels, Thou on earth our food, our stay;
Alleluia! here the sinful flee to Thee from day to day:
Intercessor, Friend of sinners, Earth’s Redeemer, plead for me,
Where the songs of all the sinless sweep across the crystal sea.

4. Alleluia! King eternal, Thee the Lord of lords we own;
Alleluia! born of Mary, Earth Thy footstool, Heav’n Thy throne:
Thou within the veil hast entered, robed in flesh our great High Priest;
Thou on earth both priest and victim in the Eucharistic feast.

 

 

Rowland Huw Prichard died this date,1/25/1887, at Holywell,North Wales,British Isles. (He was born, 1/14/1811, also in North Wales, Graienyn, near Bala.)   At the age of twenty he composed the tune HYFRYDOL.  Many Christians know it as the tune for “Jesus! What a Friend of Sinners!.”

What do YOU want God to do?

Many would like a god to MAKE them rich,

 

 

 or MAKE their enemy lose.

 

 

Too few want the Holy & Loving God

 

 

to MAKE them Holy & Loving. 

– eab, 1/24/12

What do YOU think?

Those who have something wrong with them,

 

THINK those who are right  

 

have something wrong with them.  

- eab,  7/31/09

Ms A. Bortion

“Someone” turns 39 this week.  Ms A. Bortion.  No, I am not wishing “her”   

happy birthday.  It’s a sad shame that “she” who has denied millions of American boys and millions of American girls their Birthdays, has “herself” a birthday, a crying shame. Why America, have we allowed this Ms (I dislike using this abbreviation – what does it mean, anyway?) to mess with the God-given right to life?  America has greatly sinned in this area.

 

Sin (like the fatal disease it is) is highly contagious.  Abortion is wrong, is a disgrace to what used to be a “Christian nation” but sadly there are other horrible sins plaguing our land.  We’ve allowed the “military industrial complex” [1] to kill 1000’s of our men under a pretense of patriotism, we’ve looked the other way as politicians had multiple marriages, as the Bible was cast out of “public” schools, as people have lusted after the same sex, as the Lord’s Day is desecrated by businesses and sports over and over.

 

In light of the above sins we, as Union Friends, need to ask God for Mercy.  Holiness churches (we need to be more than that in name) need to ask the Lord for Mercy.  Evangelical churches need to ask Him for Mercy. 39 years of government sanctioned abortions is an apt reminder the USA is ripe for God’s judgment – only obedient living and obedient praying can avert it.         

 

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[1] Pres. Eisenhower’s term warning of this in last State of the Union address, 1/17/1961.

God has not improved !

 

in the last 1000 years!

 

– Divine Perfection

 

needs no correction.                           

- eab, 1/9/12   

Read. READ! Read History.

Evangelicals voting for Catholic politicians?

 

 

What ignorance of history! 

 

 

Martin Luther, John Calvin, and

 

 

Abraham Lincoln knew BETTER!  

- eab, 1/20/12