Started wrong?

To change MILD

 

          to WILD –

 

                    start out “up-side-down.”

– eab, 7/26/09

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ONCE THEY BELIEVED

Once they were convinced,

Believed what God said,

Believed the Bible,

Believed what they read.

 

How has it happened?

(This change that I see)

Has God Himself changed?

Oh!  How can that be?

 

Or did some wild wish,

Or did a little desire,

Burning quietly

Kindle this big fire?

 

His Word is eternal

He said, “I change not.” [1]

Yet folks are not doing

As they should, as they ought.  

                – eab, 7/25/06

 

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[1] Mal 3.6 For I am the LORD, I change not…

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William Jennings Bryan – death, Jul. 26, 1925

He warned against investments…which would divert the affections from the great purpose of life.     

            – William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 76.

 

…Love is the weapon for which there is no shield.

                  – William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 158.

 

…We have no assurance that any physical perfection can be made use of in the world above

…neither have we any assurance that the perfections of the mind survive the day of death.            

           – William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 160-161.

 

Eloquence…the speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he is saying—it is thought on fire.

                  – William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 250.

 

 

William Jennings Bryan died this date, 7/26/1925.  He was a Democratic Presidential candidate in 1896, 1900, and 1908, who later served as Secretary of State.  He wrote the above and Famous Figures of the OT (1923) Seven Questions in Dispute (1924) and Memoirs (1925).  Bryan was born at Salem, IL, 3/19/1860.

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