Let all the ends thou aimst at be thy Country’s, thy God’s and Truth’s. Be noble! and the nobleness that lies in other men sleeping but never dead shall rise in majesty to meet thine own.
-J.R. Lowell.
Monthly Archive for March, 2010
I am building, ever building,
As I live from day to day,
Something good or something evil,
In the things I do and say.
Soon I’ll have a finished structure,
Standing for eternity,
But if Christ should look upon it,
Would he be ashamed of me?
There are little seeds of kindness
That are ready to be sown;
There’s a noble deed that waiting
To be done by me alone.
There are acts that break or injure -
Mean and selfish as can be.
If my deeds were known to Jesus,
Would He be ashamed of me?
There are words at random spoken,
That may soothe or wound a heart.
I can never repossess them
Once they from my lips depart.
Every word can bring some blessing,
Or a cursing it may be.
If He heard the words I’ve spoken,
Would He be ashamed of me?
Up ahead the road’s dividing;
Here and now I must decide.
One there is that’s straight and narrow,
While the other’s smooth and wide.
After one of these is chosen,
And I’ve reached my destiny,
When He found me there, I wonder,
Would He be ashamed of me?
PFC. Seth Baker
A.A.B., Alliance, Nebraska
Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting.
-Galatians 6:7,8.
Study history and learn one thing; he who thinks he can cheat a moral God in a moral universe is a moral imbecile. It simply cannot be done. Evil carries the seeds of its own destruction within it. The universe is not built for the success of lies. They break themselves upon the moral facts of the universe. The Lord reigneth – whether that reign is acknowledged or not. Every wrong breaks itself upon the fact of God.
-E.S. Jones.
The moral laws are deeply embedded in the constitution of things – we do not break them, we break ourselves upon them.
-E. Stanley Jones.
John Oxenham
To every man there openeth
A Way, and Ways, and a Way.
And the High Soul climbs the High Way,
And the Low Soul gropes the Low,
And in between on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth
A High Way, and a Low.
And every man decideth
The Way his soul shall go.
It makes a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.
-James F. Clark.
To live is to meet life eager and unafraid – to refuse none of itas challenges, and to evade none of tis responsibilities; but to go forth daily with an adventurous heart to encounter its risks, overcome its difficulties, and seize its opportunities with both hands.
-John Oldham.