Age

Age: 

Partly a point of view

 

Partly a matter of pain

 

Partly a privilege                                  – eab, 1/1994

 

 

 

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Winter’s Grip

If you have a gripe with winter’s grip,

With to have less snow and frosty dip,

Wish winter to end, end with in a hurry,

Want to have seen the last snow flurry,

Be encouraged.  Winter’s begun to slip.  –eab, 3/5/08 

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Sam Jones – started crusade, Mar. 5, 1899

Sam Jones, on this date (3/5/1899) started a crusade in Toledo, Ohio.  The mayor of Toledo then was also named Sam Jones.  At first the mayor like the publicity.  Later worried that the evangelist Jones (a converted alcoholic himself) was talking too much about the city’s immorality – Jones said things like “If the devil were mayor of Toledo, he wouldn’t change a thing.”  As it turned out mayor Jones was reelected the next month.

 

Sam Jones once heard a group of preachers praying for him with prayers like “Help him to have more tact” or “Change his mannerisms.”  Jones is said to have joined their prayer meeting with, “Lord, I hope You won’t listen to a one of these preachers.  They don’t preach against sin.  They don’t visit door to door. They don’t weep over sinners, and they don’t win souls.  And they want You to change me until I’m just like them.  O Lord, help these preachers to have enough sense to realize that if You were to answer their prayers I would be as worthless and no account as they are…”

 

            – Ed Reese, Sam Jones (Glenwood, IL: Fundamental Publishers, n.d.), 11.  

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