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The same amount of paper, The same amount of ink, Makes a one or a one hundred. What’s the difference?  What do you think? Gold, by awesome contrast, Has value from weight or size, True value comes forth Very hard to disguise. Man makes money, Religions also man makes. Its value is what you “think.” [...]

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Our Lord is God of all below the sod, Every worm, every bug, beneath earth’s grand “rug.” Every rodent in his burrowed or borrowed den, Every fleck of gold, still hidden, still unsold, Every diamond in the rough, with angles enough, Every pricy stone, or coal in its black zone, Every pool or stream of [...]

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Some would explain away, Wearing gold, pearls, and costly array, “That was penned to ancients – THEM, I mean.” Then so was Chapter thirteen.                 – eab, 3/5/09   

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Need more money?  Print more money. It has value – why would you ask? If you believe in it – it’s a coupon For a temporary task.   Need value, dig, refine gold; Its value can’t be oversold. Paper will burn – how much worth is ash? Gold will not burn – value beyond a [...]

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STOP the Presses!

God made Gold               – He’s not making any more!   Man makes cheap paper (coupon “money”)               He should print NO more.             – eab, 9/9/09

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Something seems attractive about ole gold, It is dug, it is worked, it’s panned, it’s sold. Many folks wear it, all over the place; On their fingers, middle toe, on their face. But don’t let gold capture your heart or hand, Be “born-a-new” and in heaven’s true land, Gold is so low, you’ll walk on [...]

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Many a man with a callused “paw,” Has chiseled away at stone.       Workmen have made lighter gods of wood, Inlaid here and there with bone. Some have a hank’ring for gold, Gold dug from beneath the sod.          Clothing so fine (or bright pearls to entwine), Also serve time as god. Gold as a god? Or [...]

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They came. They came on camels – (probably), Lumbering hoofed ships, On a shifting, sandy sea (wind, lea).   They gave. Three tokens at least (myrrh, “gum,” gold), Presents for the King, In royal David’s household (foretold).   They left. A different way. (Don’t all men?) Time’s most Focal Point, Confronts, converts, men from sin [...]

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How much better to be possessors of the Maker of gold and silver instead of the metal!    – Martin Wells Knapp Christ Crowned Within (Cincinnati: God’s Revivalist Press, 1886), 78.   Doubt has its root in an unwilling heart.    – Martin Wells Knapp Christ Crowned Within (Cincinnati: God’s Revivalist Press, 1886), 96.   [...]

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There are men of phenomenal wealth, Some gained honestly, others by stealth. Men who can buy and sell a whole town. Their fortune seems to have never turned down. If we don’t watch, we can envy such “blokes” As more “lucky” than the rest of us folks.   Money is just a means to an [...]

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