Conspiracies? You better believe it.

Don’t believe EVERY conspiracy.        

 

Don’t DOUBT the possibility of conspiracy.

 

There’s a conspiracy to hush all conspiracies.

 

                                – eab, 4/22/09

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SOW, REAP

“I want to plant ‘wild oats,’ but reap only what’s tame;

 

“Have a wild time, ‘Live it up’ but slide by all the shame.

 

“I’ll be an exception to heredity’s plan;

 

“Watch me ‘fool around,’ yet beat all the clan.”

 

Thou fool.  Sow Right or Wrong – you’ll harvest the same.

 

                – eab, 10/13/10

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James Montgomery – wrote on this date, Oct. 13, 1834

In the hour of trial, Jesus, plead for me,
Lest by base denial I depart from Thee.
When Thou seest me waver, with a look recall,
Nor for fear or favor suffer me to fall.

With forbidden pleasures would this vain world charm,
Or its sordid treasures spread to work me harm,
Bring to my remembrance sad Gethsemane,
Or, in darker semblance, cross-crowned Calvary.

Should Thy mercy send me sorrow, toil and woe,
Or should pain attend me on my path below,
Grant that I may never fail Thy hand to see;
Grant that I may ever cast my care on Thee.

When my last hour cometh, fraught with strife and pain,
When my dust returneth to the dust again,
On Thy truth relying, through that mortal strife,
Jesus, take me, dying, to eternal life.

The above poem (hymn) was penned this date 10/13/1834 by James Montgomery. 

James Montgomery was born 11/4/1771 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland where his father John was a minister in the Moravian Church.  In 1783, his parents were sent to the West Indies as missionaries and left James in the Moravian settlement near Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland. He passed from this life, 4/30/1854, Mount, Shef­field, Eng­land.

 Montgomery become the editor/owned of the Sheffield Iris.  In addition he wrote 400 hymns including “Hail To the Lord’s Anointed” “Angels From the Realms of Glory,” “Go to Dark Gethsemane,” “Prayer is the Souls’ Sincere Desire.”

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