5/30/2004
The journey was a flute
NUMBER FORTY-EIGHT
A poem for travelers in the valley of the shadow
The journey was a flute that made her
want to dance. Tagore
May every bird and flower be
A secret silver flute to thee,
May each day's time and each day's chance
Call thee to celestial dance.
May starlight glow and sunrise sheen
Present the forms of things unseen,
And that Great Power who counts thy tears
Deliver thee from all thy fears.
JS
6/87
053
A poem for travelers in the valley of the shadow
The journey was a flute that made her
want to dance. Tagore
May every bird and flower be
A secret silver flute to thee,
May each day's time and each day's chance
Call thee to celestial dance.
May starlight glow and sunrise sheen
Present the forms of things unseen,
And that Great Power who counts thy tears
Deliver thee from all thy fears.
JS
6/87
053
5/24/2004
A Good Democrat
NUMBER 47
A Good Democrat
For the conscientious citizen, most trips to the voting booth are an exercise in selecting the lesser of two evils. Sometimes there appears to be very little difference between the worst and the very worst, but usually the line will get clearer if we are willing to spend some time and effort seeking to figure out which politician will do the least damage if elected.
Occasionally the distinction has to be made way back at the fundamental philosophical level where there are clear distinctions between the Republicans (right) and Democrats (left) that may not always be evident in the performance by a specific politician. The parties have platforms that generally represent these distinctions, but the parties have little control over the people they help to elect since there is virtually no accountability to the party after the election.
The decision we face in the polling booth on November 2nd deserves careful thought and consideration. The choice has never been as clear-cut. We can return President Bush to office for a second term and give him a decent majority in the Senate or we can hand things over to the Democrat barbarians clamoring at the gates.
There are at least two kinds of Democrats – hardcore and soft-core. The hardcore group (a minority) is made up of what you might call “Good Democrats.” The soft-core group (a majority) could be called many things; perhaps “Sunshine Democrats” might be a good label for them. Most of both of these groups as reported in recent polls are not “For John Kerry” but simply “Against George Bush.”
The Good Democrats are the true believers. They believe heart and soul in their socialist humanist ideology and their high and holy mission. The Sunshine Democrats pull the party lever for a hundred different reasons, most of them connected in some way to habit or a government handout or program for the redistribution of wealth from the producers to the non-producers.
Whatever your reason, if you pull the Democratic lever in November, you should at least be aware that you may be putting the security of our country and the future of your children in the hands of Good Democrats. This being the case, you should give some thought to what a Good Democrat believes and by inference, what you are buying into.
Although it is not possible to judge the hearts of people, it is not difficult to observe the pronouncements and behavior of the people and organizations held in high esteem by the Democratic National Committee. In a few cases labels may be confusing. One may be a “bad” Democrat and still be a Democrat, i.e. Zell Miller. One may be a “good” Democrat and pose as a Republican, i.e. Arlen Specter. But generally, from such observations, it is possible to draw up a list of what it appears one must surely believe to be a “good” Democrat.
A good Democrat believes that:
1. By definition, all Republicans are greedy, hateful, selfish, hard-hearted people who have absolutely no moral right to govern. Therefore the end always justifies the means when the end is denying political power to Republicans and obtaining it for Democrats. The highest good is political power held by the right people. The Good Democrats are the right people.
2. Any god or goddess is welcome in the public square, the schoolroom, or the legislature. God (with a capital G) belongs only within the walls of the church or synagogue and must never, for any reason, be allowed to run around in public.
3. All our rights are alienable, having been graciously granted to us by the loving, caring Nanny State. What Nanny giveth, Nanny taketh away, usually through an activist judge.
4. Feelings are knowledge. Opinions are truth. All sincerely held opinions are equal. It is perfectly normal to hold mutually contradictory opinions and take mutually contradictory stands on major moral issues, as long as they feel right to you today.
5. Anything bad that happens anywhere in the world outside of America is America’s fault.
6. Anything bad that happens inside America is the fault of the Republicans.
7. Anything bad that happens inside America that can’t be blamed on the Republicans is the fault of “society” and no one is really to blame.
8. As long as the taxpayer has any money left to spend as he chooses, taxes are too low. In economics, the “right to choose” is bad -- a dangerous thing in the hands of those who produce the wealth of the nation.
9. In public debate, any reference to moral absolutes or objective truth is unacceptable because it immediately turns civil discourse into hate speech, which is, as you know, only divides us.
10. There is no problem that cannot be solved by the State. Nanny always knows best and when Nanny is not happy, no one is happy.
11. The only reason socialism has never worked is that the right people have not been in charge. We (the Good Democrats) are the right people.
12. In getting the people’s business done, a single enlightened judge trumps 435 duly elected Representatives and 100 duly elected Senators.
13. The Constitution is a ‘living document” -- similar to a WeeGee board.
14. The AIDs virus is spread by lack of Federal Funding.
15. A public school teacher unable to teach 4th graders to read (for lack of Federal Funding) is fully qualified to teach 4th graders about sex (for which there is plenty of Federal Funding).
16. Handguns in the possession of law-abiding American citizens are far more dangerous than nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in the hands of people who hate us and have promised to destroy us.
17. There was no significant art before Federal Funding.
18. Yuppies driving SUVs are tools of the Great Satan stoking the fires of global warming. Trees, seals and whales are priceless national treasures. On the other hand, people are expendable, unless they happen to be relatives or close friends.
19. Gender roles are artificial social constructions but homosexuality is a natural condition.
20. When the State takes the life of a convicted murderer it is also committing murder -- but when a doctor takes the life of a baby in its mother’s womb it is only a “choice.” The right to a dead baby is the absolute right of every woman. No legislature or court may touch it, other than to affirm and preserve it.
21. Business produces oppression – government produces prosperity.
22. Having self-esteem is far more important than actually doing what it takes to earn it.
23. If we could do away with the military, we would have no more wars.
24. The NRA is bad because it supports one part of the Constitution and the ACLU is good because it supports another part of the Constitution.
25. Historically, Margaret Sanger, Betty Friedan, and Jesse Jackson trump Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Edison.
26. All standardized tests are racist but all racial quotas and set-asides are enlightened and compassionate social policy.
27. Bill Clinton was a great President and Hilary Clinton is a wonderful lady.
28. Parades displaying homosexual, lesbian, and transvestite lifestyles are protected by the Constitution but public manger scenes at Christmas are not.
29. We could all get along in a better, safer world if we would just turn things over to the international bureaucrats of the United Nations.
One doesn’t have to hear too many speeches by Senator Ted Kennedy (D) Chappaquiddick, to guess what lever Osama bin Laden and his murderous Sons of Allah would pull on November 2nd if they had the chance. If they weren’t having some financial hard times they would also very likely be pouring millions into the pseudo-independent arms of the DNC like MoveOn.org to help their candidate along.
Think long and hard this November before you pull the lever. Will you choose a man, flawed though he may be, who has exhibited strong moral leadership in a time of great peril to the nation or will you choose the party of appeasement in the mold of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton led by a man whose moral compass swings wildly with each new poll? Beyond 2004 will we confront and defeat the objective evil of those who would destroy us, or will we hand ourselves over to the United Nations who will talk objective evil to death even as they deny that such a thing even exists? Will you choose a proven leader for the continuing war on terror or the Al Qaeda candidate who thinks it is all just a matter for the police?
There are some whose education seems to have outrun their common sense. They make a list of what government should do, apply it to the Democrats and the Republicans, decide neither will do the right things, and declare they will vote for “none of the above.” This may feel good and generate some opportunities for op-ed pieces, but it seems to me it adds a third evil to the equation. In politics, if enough people refuse to choose between the lesser of two evils, the worst of the two evils generally wins by default. In our political community, failure to think through our choices and allowing the worst evil to triumph by default is the greatest evil of all.
+++++++
“If we want to save the whales, we call the Democrats. If we want to save the world, we call the Republicans.” Tom Adkins
“Pray to Allah but tie your camel.” Arab Proverb
“…faith, if it has no works, is dead…” The Apostle James
+++++++
(Note: a correspondent who did not identify the author sent some of the ideas in the above to me. From some of the points in the original “How To Become A Democrat” I suspect it has been around for some time. I have updated it and changed it considerably but I am grateful for the thinking of the original author and would be happy to give credit where credit is due, if I knew where that was.)
A Good Democrat
For the conscientious citizen, most trips to the voting booth are an exercise in selecting the lesser of two evils. Sometimes there appears to be very little difference between the worst and the very worst, but usually the line will get clearer if we are willing to spend some time and effort seeking to figure out which politician will do the least damage if elected.
Occasionally the distinction has to be made way back at the fundamental philosophical level where there are clear distinctions between the Republicans (right) and Democrats (left) that may not always be evident in the performance by a specific politician. The parties have platforms that generally represent these distinctions, but the parties have little control over the people they help to elect since there is virtually no accountability to the party after the election.
The decision we face in the polling booth on November 2nd deserves careful thought and consideration. The choice has never been as clear-cut. We can return President Bush to office for a second term and give him a decent majority in the Senate or we can hand things over to the Democrat barbarians clamoring at the gates.
There are at least two kinds of Democrats – hardcore and soft-core. The hardcore group (a minority) is made up of what you might call “Good Democrats.” The soft-core group (a majority) could be called many things; perhaps “Sunshine Democrats” might be a good label for them. Most of both of these groups as reported in recent polls are not “For John Kerry” but simply “Against George Bush.”
The Good Democrats are the true believers. They believe heart and soul in their socialist humanist ideology and their high and holy mission. The Sunshine Democrats pull the party lever for a hundred different reasons, most of them connected in some way to habit or a government handout or program for the redistribution of wealth from the producers to the non-producers.
Whatever your reason, if you pull the Democratic lever in November, you should at least be aware that you may be putting the security of our country and the future of your children in the hands of Good Democrats. This being the case, you should give some thought to what a Good Democrat believes and by inference, what you are buying into.
Although it is not possible to judge the hearts of people, it is not difficult to observe the pronouncements and behavior of the people and organizations held in high esteem by the Democratic National Committee. In a few cases labels may be confusing. One may be a “bad” Democrat and still be a Democrat, i.e. Zell Miller. One may be a “good” Democrat and pose as a Republican, i.e. Arlen Specter. But generally, from such observations, it is possible to draw up a list of what it appears one must surely believe to be a “good” Democrat.
A good Democrat believes that:
1. By definition, all Republicans are greedy, hateful, selfish, hard-hearted people who have absolutely no moral right to govern. Therefore the end always justifies the means when the end is denying political power to Republicans and obtaining it for Democrats. The highest good is political power held by the right people. The Good Democrats are the right people.
2. Any god or goddess is welcome in the public square, the schoolroom, or the legislature. God (with a capital G) belongs only within the walls of the church or synagogue and must never, for any reason, be allowed to run around in public.
3. All our rights are alienable, having been graciously granted to us by the loving, caring Nanny State. What Nanny giveth, Nanny taketh away, usually through an activist judge.
4. Feelings are knowledge. Opinions are truth. All sincerely held opinions are equal. It is perfectly normal to hold mutually contradictory opinions and take mutually contradictory stands on major moral issues, as long as they feel right to you today.
5. Anything bad that happens anywhere in the world outside of America is America’s fault.
6. Anything bad that happens inside America is the fault of the Republicans.
7. Anything bad that happens inside America that can’t be blamed on the Republicans is the fault of “society” and no one is really to blame.
8. As long as the taxpayer has any money left to spend as he chooses, taxes are too low. In economics, the “right to choose” is bad -- a dangerous thing in the hands of those who produce the wealth of the nation.
9. In public debate, any reference to moral absolutes or objective truth is unacceptable because it immediately turns civil discourse into hate speech, which is, as you know, only divides us.
10. There is no problem that cannot be solved by the State. Nanny always knows best and when Nanny is not happy, no one is happy.
11. The only reason socialism has never worked is that the right people have not been in charge. We (the Good Democrats) are the right people.
12. In getting the people’s business done, a single enlightened judge trumps 435 duly elected Representatives and 100 duly elected Senators.
13. The Constitution is a ‘living document” -- similar to a WeeGee board.
14. The AIDs virus is spread by lack of Federal Funding.
15. A public school teacher unable to teach 4th graders to read (for lack of Federal Funding) is fully qualified to teach 4th graders about sex (for which there is plenty of Federal Funding).
16. Handguns in the possession of law-abiding American citizens are far more dangerous than nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in the hands of people who hate us and have promised to destroy us.
17. There was no significant art before Federal Funding.
18. Yuppies driving SUVs are tools of the Great Satan stoking the fires of global warming. Trees, seals and whales are priceless national treasures. On the other hand, people are expendable, unless they happen to be relatives or close friends.
19. Gender roles are artificial social constructions but homosexuality is a natural condition.
20. When the State takes the life of a convicted murderer it is also committing murder -- but when a doctor takes the life of a baby in its mother’s womb it is only a “choice.” The right to a dead baby is the absolute right of every woman. No legislature or court may touch it, other than to affirm and preserve it.
21. Business produces oppression – government produces prosperity.
22. Having self-esteem is far more important than actually doing what it takes to earn it.
23. If we could do away with the military, we would have no more wars.
24. The NRA is bad because it supports one part of the Constitution and the ACLU is good because it supports another part of the Constitution.
25. Historically, Margaret Sanger, Betty Friedan, and Jesse Jackson trump Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Edison.
26. All standardized tests are racist but all racial quotas and set-asides are enlightened and compassionate social policy.
27. Bill Clinton was a great President and Hilary Clinton is a wonderful lady.
28. Parades displaying homosexual, lesbian, and transvestite lifestyles are protected by the Constitution but public manger scenes at Christmas are not.
29. We could all get along in a better, safer world if we would just turn things over to the international bureaucrats of the United Nations.
One doesn’t have to hear too many speeches by Senator Ted Kennedy (D) Chappaquiddick, to guess what lever Osama bin Laden and his murderous Sons of Allah would pull on November 2nd if they had the chance. If they weren’t having some financial hard times they would also very likely be pouring millions into the pseudo-independent arms of the DNC like MoveOn.org to help their candidate along.
Think long and hard this November before you pull the lever. Will you choose a man, flawed though he may be, who has exhibited strong moral leadership in a time of great peril to the nation or will you choose the party of appeasement in the mold of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton led by a man whose moral compass swings wildly with each new poll? Beyond 2004 will we confront and defeat the objective evil of those who would destroy us, or will we hand ourselves over to the United Nations who will talk objective evil to death even as they deny that such a thing even exists? Will you choose a proven leader for the continuing war on terror or the Al Qaeda candidate who thinks it is all just a matter for the police?
There are some whose education seems to have outrun their common sense. They make a list of what government should do, apply it to the Democrats and the Republicans, decide neither will do the right things, and declare they will vote for “none of the above.” This may feel good and generate some opportunities for op-ed pieces, but it seems to me it adds a third evil to the equation. In politics, if enough people refuse to choose between the lesser of two evils, the worst of the two evils generally wins by default. In our political community, failure to think through our choices and allowing the worst evil to triumph by default is the greatest evil of all.
+++++++
“If we want to save the whales, we call the Democrats. If we want to save the world, we call the Republicans.” Tom Adkins
“Pray to Allah but tie your camel.” Arab Proverb
“…faith, if it has no works, is dead…” The Apostle James
+++++++
(Note: a correspondent who did not identify the author sent some of the ideas in the above to me. From some of the points in the original “How To Become A Democrat” I suspect it has been around for some time. I have updated it and changed it considerably but I am grateful for the thinking of the original author and would be happy to give credit where credit is due, if I knew where that was.)
5/14/2004
Food For Thought
NUMBER FORTY-SIX
Food For Thought
The best thing about a fortune cookie is the cookie itself. What is inside seldom rates a second look. Usually what's inside doesn't even rate a first look - but human beings are a curious lot so we usually look once.
Recently we read this one:
"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."
What is wrong with this statement?
Where in the New Testament is there a statement of the same type?
Food For Thought
The best thing about a fortune cookie is the cookie itself. What is inside seldom rates a second look. Usually what's inside doesn't even rate a first look - but human beings are a curious lot so we usually look once.
Recently we read this one:
"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."
What is wrong with this statement?
Where in the New Testament is there a statement of the same type?
5/08/2004
Mom
NUMBER FORTY-FIVE
MOM
The world is filled with houses,
Some great, most very small.
Though made of mud or brick or tin,
One thing is true of all
From Timbuktu to Rome,
Any fool can build a house
But only Mom can make a home.
A house is made
Of mortal stuff
To keep out snow and rain,
But only Mom can love enough
To keep away the pain.
That mortal stuff
Is cold and hard,
It never feels a thing.
Only Mom can care enough
To make the sad heart sing.
Only Mom
Can take a house
And turn it into home.
From way down south
In Rio to way up north
In Nome.
JS
5/91
068
MOM
The world is filled with houses,
Some great, most very small.
Though made of mud or brick or tin,
One thing is true of all
From Timbuktu to Rome,
Any fool can build a house
But only Mom can make a home.
A house is made
Of mortal stuff
To keep out snow and rain,
But only Mom can love enough
To keep away the pain.
That mortal stuff
Is cold and hard,
It never feels a thing.
Only Mom can care enough
To make the sad heart sing.
Only Mom
Can take a house
And turn it into home.
From way down south
In Rio to way up north
In Nome.
JS
5/91
068
5/04/2004
Feedback
NUMBER FORTY-FOUR
Feedback
I have been sending my thoughts into cyber-space for six months. That makes about 7 a month. Some have been quite long, some contentious, and I am sure many of the 40 or so of you on my list can think of other words to describe them.
I do hear occasionally from a few of you. One suggested I mail her at home, not at work. Another said, “I don’t have time for that stuff.”(He is 79 and almost to the “Don’t buy green bananas” stage.) Other comments have been both helpful and encouraging. The reason for this note on feedback is to be sure that if any one does not wish to get these things, I find out and remove that person from the list. We all get a lot of email, some of it we can do without. If you can do without my Blogs, please let me know and I will retire you from my list.
It costs me no more to send a hundred emails than it does to send one. I suppose I would do these blogs if only one person cared to read them. That is because I think I am something of a diarist:
“A diarist…is someone who seeks freedom, attention and companionship—and finds it locked in a room all by himself.”
Christopher Caldwell reviewing The Assassin’s Cloak, An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists.
Actually, I am not quite a diarist in this sense; my spouse of 49 plus years reads all I write and often makes good suggestions.
I enjoy doing this and will continue. But I do not want to inflict it on anyone who is not willing. On the other hand, if you have friends, acquaintances, or relations who might like to read these, give me their email addresses and I will add them to the list.
If I don’t hear from you, I will keep sending you my stuff. If you want out, please just let me know. Thanks a bunch.
Feedback
I have been sending my thoughts into cyber-space for six months. That makes about 7 a month. Some have been quite long, some contentious, and I am sure many of the 40 or so of you on my list can think of other words to describe them.
I do hear occasionally from a few of you. One suggested I mail her at home, not at work. Another said, “I don’t have time for that stuff.”(He is 79 and almost to the “Don’t buy green bananas” stage.) Other comments have been both helpful and encouraging. The reason for this note on feedback is to be sure that if any one does not wish to get these things, I find out and remove that person from the list. We all get a lot of email, some of it we can do without. If you can do without my Blogs, please let me know and I will retire you from my list.
It costs me no more to send a hundred emails than it does to send one. I suppose I would do these blogs if only one person cared to read them. That is because I think I am something of a diarist:
“A diarist…is someone who seeks freedom, attention and companionship—and finds it locked in a room all by himself.”
Christopher Caldwell reviewing The Assassin’s Cloak, An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists.
Actually, I am not quite a diarist in this sense; my spouse of 49 plus years reads all I write and often makes good suggestions.
I enjoy doing this and will continue. But I do not want to inflict it on anyone who is not willing. On the other hand, if you have friends, acquaintances, or relations who might like to read these, give me their email addresses and I will add them to the list.
If I don’t hear from you, I will keep sending you my stuff. If you want out, please just let me know. Thanks a bunch.
5/02/2004
Revival
Number Forty-Three
Revival
Spring came to Kentucky in the blink of an eye. It seems like overnight the trees got new leaves, the dogwoods and redbuds danced in the lanes and byways, and the flowers were all up. Driving south we also see on almost every church sign, “Revival.”
Growing up in the North I always thought of revival as something often prayed for and seldom seen – something that might happen but could not be scheduled and planned. Moving to Atlanta, we learned there was more to it than that.
In Atlanta the whole church went every spring to the campground for three days of heavy preaching and heavy eating. The day started with a big country breakfast, then morning preaching. After a big country lunch and a little siesta, came the afternoon preaching. Supper was big too, followed by evening preaching. By the end of three days, the saints were stuffed with good news and good food. The holdouts were converted, the backsliders were restored and the apathetic were stirred up to faith and good works.
I asked a friend how they got all this eating and preaching done and she explained it was the volunteers who made it all work. The volunteers were black ladies who came along to cook and clean up and generally keep things tidy. Our friend told us that when she was a girl her Grandpappy was in the insurance business. He had a special deal for poor folks who wanted a good burial. He would sell them a modest life insurance policy and break the premiums down into weekly pieces of fifty cents.
Even fifty cents a week was a stretch for some and there were always a few who got behind. When camp meeting time came around, Grandpappy would collect the debtors and offer to wipe the slate clean for three days of cooking and cleaning. The black ladies had good food, good fellowship and a debt relief – and the white folks were free to devote themselves fully to John 3.16, fried chicken, country ham, all the trimmings, and three kinds of fruit pie.
Thinking about this other day a poem came to mind. This was written about a different group in Southern California, but the revival habit was alive and well there too.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
HANDBILL
HEALING EXPLOSION
HEALING*****DELIVERANCE!!!
Screams the yellow handbill
Offered all and sundry by
The ragged disciple
On the walk outside
The fabric shop.
In run-down sneaks
And jeans worn thin
With honest work,
In faded blue-check shirt
And scraggly beard
He stands proclaiming,
EVANGELIST HARRY HILLS
WHO HEALS
CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS,
STRANGE GROWTHS,
DEAF EARS!!!
COME TO VICTORY CHAPEL
Where
THE LAME WILL WALK,
THE BLIND WILL SEE,
THE DEAF WILL HEAR!!!
ALL SEATS FREE!!!
Down the walk
The disciple's friend
Debates his doctrine
With a hapless passer-by.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL...
7/91
069
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
John answered and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name; and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow along with us.” But Jesus said to him, “Do not hinder him; for he who is not against you is for you.” Luke 9.49-50
Revival
Spring came to Kentucky in the blink of an eye. It seems like overnight the trees got new leaves, the dogwoods and redbuds danced in the lanes and byways, and the flowers were all up. Driving south we also see on almost every church sign, “Revival.”
Growing up in the North I always thought of revival as something often prayed for and seldom seen – something that might happen but could not be scheduled and planned. Moving to Atlanta, we learned there was more to it than that.
In Atlanta the whole church went every spring to the campground for three days of heavy preaching and heavy eating. The day started with a big country breakfast, then morning preaching. After a big country lunch and a little siesta, came the afternoon preaching. Supper was big too, followed by evening preaching. By the end of three days, the saints were stuffed with good news and good food. The holdouts were converted, the backsliders were restored and the apathetic were stirred up to faith and good works.
I asked a friend how they got all this eating and preaching done and she explained it was the volunteers who made it all work. The volunteers were black ladies who came along to cook and clean up and generally keep things tidy. Our friend told us that when she was a girl her Grandpappy was in the insurance business. He had a special deal for poor folks who wanted a good burial. He would sell them a modest life insurance policy and break the premiums down into weekly pieces of fifty cents.
Even fifty cents a week was a stretch for some and there were always a few who got behind. When camp meeting time came around, Grandpappy would collect the debtors and offer to wipe the slate clean for three days of cooking and cleaning. The black ladies had good food, good fellowship and a debt relief – and the white folks were free to devote themselves fully to John 3.16, fried chicken, country ham, all the trimmings, and three kinds of fruit pie.
Thinking about this other day a poem came to mind. This was written about a different group in Southern California, but the revival habit was alive and well there too.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
HANDBILL
HEALING EXPLOSION
HEALING*****DELIVERANCE!!!
Screams the yellow handbill
Offered all and sundry by
The ragged disciple
On the walk outside
The fabric shop.
In run-down sneaks
And jeans worn thin
With honest work,
In faded blue-check shirt
And scraggly beard
He stands proclaiming,
EVANGELIST HARRY HILLS
WHO HEALS
CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS,
STRANGE GROWTHS,
DEAF EARS!!!
COME TO VICTORY CHAPEL
Where
THE LAME WILL WALK,
THE BLIND WILL SEE,
THE DEAF WILL HEAR!!!
ALL SEATS FREE!!!
Down the walk
The disciple's friend
Debates his doctrine
With a hapless passer-by.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL...
7/91
069
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
John answered and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name; and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow along with us.” But Jesus said to him, “Do not hinder him; for he who is not against you is for you.” Luke 9.49-50
