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        In recent times there are a great deal of news centers on the Middle East.  As we all know in the year 70 AD, the Roman legions, under the leadership of Titus, put down a Jewish rebellion, over ran the city of Jerusalem, and scattered its inhabitants to the four winds.  At that point, for all practical purposes there was no longer a nation of Israel.  The Jews had no homeland.  This dispersion continued for one thousand, eight hundred, seventy-eight years.          In 1948, the modern nation of Israel was established with Tel […]

         Several years ago, there was a story in the news about a family in a small town in Florida.  It consisted of a father, a mother, and two young sons.  They were a normal family, except for one problem.  Both boys had AIDS.  Both boys contracted the virus through a blood transfusion.  Their presence in the public school was bitterly resisted by other parents, whose children attended that same school.  One night, under suspicious circumstances, the family’s house burned to the ground.  Finally, they were forced to move to another town.  They had been rejected by […]

          Let us for a moment today consider the destructive effects of hate on the human soul. Find someone who is consumed by hatred and then see the results. It may be bad for the person who is the object of that hatred, but it is infinitely worse for the one who does the hating. Hatred is to the soul what cancer is to the body. Untreated and unchecked, it utterly consumes and destroys.            That is not theory; that is fact. One person hates another so intensely that he cannot hear his name without a […]

           There is a familiar quotation that says: “I shall pass through this world but once.  Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.  Let me not defer nor neglect, for I shall not pass this way again.”            Those lines serve to remind us of the transient nature of life.  It does not stand still.  It is constantly on the move.  And once any  part of life has passed us by, it is gone forever.  We can never get it […]