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What to Do When You Find Yourself In A Hole

If you find yourself in a hole, the very first thing to do is stop diggin'. - - - Old Saying

And He Probably Will

"Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined." - - - Old Saying

MARK TWAIN ON GETTING A BICYCLE

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ----- Mark Twain

Groucho Marx on Dog As Man's Best Friend

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." ---- Groucho Marx

WASHINGTON ON IMPORTANCE OF
THE BIBLE

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

---George Washington, First President of Our Country

Wm. HUNTINGTON ON LAW OF LIFE (Grace)
& LAW OF DEATH (Moses)

"Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?" The liberty which Peter here alludes to is the liberty of the Holy Spirit, which God had given them, which Paul calls the law of the Spirit of life, which made him free from the law of sin and death; and "where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty," (2 Cor.3:17) for, as David says, the Spirit of God is a free Spirit. (Psa. 2:12).

"The rule that Peter gives them is faith, which purifies the heart. The unbearable yoke that they were going to tempt God with, by galling the neck of the disciples, was first, the needfulness of circumcision; Secondly, a command to keep the law of Moses; and it is called tempting God, because it was a reflection cast upon His work who had purified their hearts by faith, and sent His Spirit to govern and lead them into all truth; as if the Holy Spirit was not sufficient to make them obedient, nor God's purifying their hearts a sufficient purification, nor faith a sufficient rule, without yoking them with the killing letter as the only rule of life.

"The law obeyed, and disarmed of its curse, is in the heart of the Mediator, who is Judge of quick and dead, and therefore keeps the keys of hell and of death.

"The believer is under the law of faith to Christ; and they that are His have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts; such are delivered from the law; and against such there is no law; and sin is not imputed where there is no law. I do insist upon it that, if a believer be brought to the law of Moses, to be under it in any other sense, sin stares him in the face, wrath works in his heart, his enmity is stirred up, bondage seizes him, and despondency or despair will sink him, unless the law of the Spirit of life makes him free from the law of sin and death." William Huntington, 1745-1813.

POEM ON FAVOUR OF THE TRINITY

May the grace of Christ, our Saviour,

And the Father's boundless love,

With the Holy Spirit's favour,

Rest upon us from above.

Thus may we abode in union

With each other and the Lord;

And possess, in sweet communion,

Joys which earth cannot afford.

---By John Newton, the great Preacher, ex-slave trader, and author of "Amazing Grace"

ON LAZINESS, OR BEING "WORK CHALLENGED"

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.----from the Authorized or KJV Bible, Proverbs 20:4

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.----from the Authorized or KJV Bible, Proverbs 18:9

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.---from the Authorized or KJV Bible, Proverbs 21:25

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.---from the Authorized or KJV Bible, Proverbs 19:15

Forrest Keener on Alcoholic Beverage Industry

I have been thinking that the alcohol industry must have the best "spin doctors" in the world. They can get the news media to give them free advertising and also to hawk their perpetual hypocrisy.

Have you heard them say on New Years Eve, "Take a designated driver with you, who will not drink at all?" Now who can expect that a total abstainer will be able to tolerate a bunch of drunks?

You hear them say, "Know when to say when." How can any sane person expect a human being, who is too stupid when he is cold sober to abstain, to have enough sense after he is half soaked to know he should stop?

Again, they frequently say, "If you drink don't drive." Are they really stupid enough to expect that a person who drives his car to a store or a bar, buys that slop and drinks it, then has enough sense not to drive?

I DON'T THINK SO! I think this is probably the greatest hypocrisy that has ever been displayed in all of human history.

---Dr. Forrest Keener, in his paper, "The Baptist Watchman"

FAMOUS SEA CAPTAIN AND EXPLORER

"I . . . . had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."

FROM THE BARD OF AVON

"Sweet are the uses of adversity;

Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;

And this our life, exempt from public haunt,

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,

Sermons in stones, and good in everything."

--From William Shakespeare's "As You Like It"