Protect the Flame

You protect a match flame until it gets started;

 

                   protect your children. 

 

Don’t let the winds of atheism etc. blow out their flame.

 

When they get started the winds will help keep them going.

                                                                                – eab, 2/1975

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Tombstones

Pillars and spires and slabs of stone,

Each inscribed with a name of its own,

And date for death, and date for birth.

They show how long they lived on earth.

          – eab, May ‘95

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It is more important that you trust the Rock of Ages than that you know the age of the rocks.

                – William Jennings Bryan, Bible and Its Enemies, The

                                 (Chicago: Bible Institute Colportage Ass’n, 1921) 39.

 

No mental processes can stop the mad race for money.  Man must be born again. 

                – William Jennings Bryan, Bible and Its Enemies, The

                                 (Chicago: Bible Institute Colportage Ass’n, 1921) 43.

 

Evil forces do not hurt for men to do their bidding.  Today is the day (5/5/1925) that a young high school biology teacher, John Scopes, was arrested for teaching the “theory of evolution” in Dayton, Tennessee. 

William Jennings Bryan, a Christian rightly defended the Bible and right in the “Scopes Monkey Trial.”  Mr. Bryan, three times contender (Democrat) for the presidency of the US, died shortly after this historic trial.

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