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The Emancipation Proclamation
The following is recorded in the diary of one of Lincoln’s Cabinet
members, Secretary Salmon P. Chase, the date Lincoln unveiled his
historic EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION on September 22, 1862" THE PRESIDENT
THEN TOOK A GRAVER TONE AND SAID: "GENTLEMEN: I HAVE, AS YOU ARE AWARE,
THOUGHT A GREAT DEAL ABOUT THE RELATION OF THIS WAR TO SLAVERY; AND YOU
ALL REMEMBER THAT, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, I READ YOU AN ORDER I HAD
PREPARED ON THIS SUBJECT, WHICH, ON ACCOUNT OF OBJECTIONS MADE BY SOME
OF YOU, WAS NOT ISSUED. EVER SINCE THEN, MY MIND HAS BEEN MUCH OCCUPIED
WITH THIS SUBJECT...WHEN THE REBEL ARMY WAS AT FREDERICK, I DETERMINED,
AS SOON AS IT SHOULD BE DRIVEN OUT OF MARYLAND, TO ISSUE A PROCLAMATION
OF EMANCIPATION SUCH AS I THOUGHT MOST LIKELY TO BE USEFUL. I SAID
NOTHING TO ANYONE; BUT I MADE THE PROMISE TO MYSELF, AND...TO MY MAKER.
THE REBEL ARMY IS NOW DRIVEN OUT, AND I AM GOING TO FULFILL THAT
PROMISE. I HAVE GOT YOU TOGETHER TO HEAR WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN DOWN. I DO
NOT WISH YOUR ADVICE ABOUT THE MAIN MATTER - FOR THAT I HAVE DETERMINED
FOR MYSELF."
Pope's Essay On Man
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
(Epistle 11, Line 217)
Rooted...In Him (Colossians 2:7)
Death Valley, California is the lowest, hottest, and driest place in
the western hemisphere. The very name of this valley is dreary; yet
amidst all its harshness, more than 900 kinds of plants grow there.
Some of these plants have roots which go downward as deep as 50 feet.
Without their root system, the sun’s scorching heat would soon dry them
up causing them to wither away and die.
As it is with the desert plants, so it is with you and me. If we are
to survive life’s dreary valleys and overcome the heat of scorching
trials, we must be deeply rooted and grounded in Jesus Christ.
Therefore, "TRUST IN HIM AT ALL TIMES." (Psalm 62:8) For "BLESSED IS
THE MAN THAT TRUSTETH IN THE LORD...HE SHALL BE AS A TREE PLANTED BY
THE WATERS...THAT SPREADETH OUT HER ROOTS;;;WHEN HEAT COMETH...HER LEAF
SHALL BE GREEN...AND SHALL NOT CEASE FROM YIELDING FRUIT." (Jer.
17:7,8).
(The Bible Friend - August 2000)
From Pericles (Roe V. Wade Exactly)
You will always find some politicians who have a unique interpretation
of any Constitution and one that will serve his own purpose. Venal men
will use the Constitution in the light of their own ambitions. They can
say, "THIS IT IS NOT EXACTLY WHAT OUR FATHERS MEANT - THEY MEANT SO AND
SO." WHO WILL BE ALIVE TO REFUTE THEIR STATEMENTS? DIFFERENT AGES MAY
HAVE DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSE. LET US SAY
TREASON HAS THE DEATH PENALTY. LATER JUDGES MAY SAY, "WHAT WAS OUR
FATHERS’ DEFINITION OF TREASON? INDEED, WHAT IS TREASON? IT MUST BE
DEFINED IN TODAY’S TERMS OF ITS MEANING." SUPPOSE A FUTURE HEAD OF
STATE IS AN AMBITIOUS MAN AND LIAR. HE CAN ONLY BECOME ALL POWERFUL IF
HE IS A TRAITOR. HE MAY SAY TO HIS PEOPLE, "I LOVE MY COUNTRY, AND IN
THE NAME OF THAT LOVE I PROPOSE AN AMENDMENT OUR FATHERS WOULD HAVE
APPROVED IN THE LIGHT OF TODAY’S NEEDS. IN TRUTH, THE CONSTITUTION
MEANT SO AND SO." HE WILL ALREADY HAVE TRAITORS WHO WILL HELP HIM
CONFUSE THE PUBLIC. THEN IF A PATRIOT OPPOSES HIM, HE WILL DENOUNCE
HIM, AND HE WILL PAY THE EXTREME PENALTY FOR ALLEGED CRIME. IN YOUR
CONSTITUTION, YOU MUST EXACT THE EXTREME PENALTY FOR ANYONE WHO
SUBVERTS EVEN ONE IOTA, NO MATTER WHAT HIS CLAIM TO LOVE OF COUNTRY OR
CHANGING TIMES.
(Pericles was an Athenian statesman and general - 495? To 429
B.C.)
America, Defend Life!
"If you want equal justice for all, and true freedom and lasting peace,
then, AMERICA, defend life! All the great causes that are yours today
will have meaning only to the extent that you guarantee the RIGHT TO
LIFE and protect the human person!"
(Pope John Paul II, Denver, Colorado - August, 1993)
Who Broke The Baby?
"How ironic! For years women have protested being viewed as objects,
the property of a male, and thus disposable when inconvenient and
unwanted. Now, when womanhood has finally achieved a voice, some are
using it to demand, in the same chauvinism which they deplore, a legal
right allowing them to dispose of others in the human family when those
in their turn become inconvenient and unwanted."
(From Who Broke the Baby? by Jean Staker Garton)
How Does God View A Vasectomy?
"Only two things could convince a man to get a vasectomy reversal.
Either a radical restructuring of his beliefs, or a nagging wife. For
me it was the former. "IN 1985, I BELIEVED TWO THINGS WHICH CONVINCED
ME THAT GETTING A VASECTOMY WAS FINE. THE FIRST BELIEF WAS THAT GOD
NOWHERE IN SCRIPTURE CONDEMNS THE USE OF BIRTH CONTROL; THEREFORE IT
MUST BE OKAY. THE SECOND WAS THAT GOD WANTS US TO USE ‘WISDOM,’
THEREFORE IN TODAY’S ECONOMY AND BECAUSE OF MY EMOTIONAL MAKE-UP IT
WOULD NOT BE WISE FOR ME TO HAVE MORE THAN TWO CHILDREN. . . BOTH OF
THESE BELIEFS ARE UNBIBLICAL."
(Pastor Matt Trewhella, Milwaukee, WI) -
(From CONTRACEPTION: THE TRAGIC DECEPTION by Royce Dunn, president of
Please Let Me Live and national director of Life Chain)
Gandhi's Statement On Birth Control
"... when the racist and eugenicist MARGARET SANGER (Planned
Parenthood) came to India in 1934, it was Gandhi and his philosophy
that held off the worst of ideas. Gandhi said THE ONLY BIRTH CONTROL
WORTHY OF THE HUMAN BEING IS SELF-CONTROL."
(From HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL REPORTS, Church’s Teaching
Lived in India - April 1990).
Planned Parenthood's Statement On Abortion In 1963
"An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun. It is
dangerous to your life and health. It may make you sterile, so that
when you want a child you cannot have it...Birth control merely
postpones the beginning of life."
(PLANNED PARENTHOOD "PLAN YOUR CHILDREN" pamphlet in 1963)
God Governs In The Affairs Of Men
"I HAVE LIVED, SIR, A LONG TIME, AND THE LONGER I LIVE THE MORE
CONVINCING PROOFS I SEE OF THIS TRUTH; THAT GOD GOVERNS IN THE AFFAIRS
OF MEN."
( Benjamin Franklin
addressed the chairman of the Constitutional Convention meeting at
Philadelphia in 1787).
"A New Creature In Christ" - Norma McCorvey
"I am Norma McCorvey. I
became known as Jane Roe on January 22, 1973 when the U. S. Supreme
Court released the Roe v. Wade decision which created a woman’s ‘right
to abortion.’ I am now a child of God, a new creature in Christ: I am
forgiven and redeemed. Today I publicly recant my involvement in the
tragedy of abortion. I humbly ask forgiveness of the millions of women
and unborn babies who have experienced the violence of abortion. In
this place of healing, the National Memorial for the Unborn, I stand
with those who honor the worth of every unborn child as created in the
image of God. I will strive, in the name of Jesus, to end this
holocaust."
(Norma McCorvey - March 23, 1997)
Procrastination
It is by little procrastinations that men ruin their souls. They have
no intention to delay for years - tomorrow, if you will, they will
attend to serious things; but the present hour is so occupied and
altogether so unsuitable, they beg to be excused. (C. H. Spurgeon)
You Have Lost Everything
If we meet, and you forget me, you’ve lost nothing: If you meet Jesus
Christ and forget Him, you have lost everything! - (The Lord’s Line)
No Births And No Control
"There is an evil that often leads to abortion. It is the sinful
prevention of life called contraception. A nicer name for it is birth
control which Chesterton defined as no births and no control. St.
Augustine taught that a man who prevents conception, reduces his wife
to the role of a harlot. . . " (THE POINT - January, 1990)
Too Early To Tell
"We tried to avoid the women seeing them (the fetuses). They always
wanted to know the sex, but we lied and said it was too early to tell.
It’s better to think of the fetus as an ‘it’."
(Abortion clinic worker Norma Eidelman)
Giving
Those who give have all things. Those who withhold have nothing.
(Old Hindu proverb)
Willing People
The church is full of willing people - 20% willing to work, and 80%
willing to let them.
(From THE BIBLE FRIEND - March 1994)
Cain And Abel
Like Cain, the pregnant woman asks: "Am I my brother’s keeper?"
(Rev. Frank Melvin, C.M.)
Every Child A Wanted Child
"As to the argument that
every child should be a wanted child, there is no such thing as an
unwanted child. Even if the mother doesn’t want it, there are many
people who do. I don’t believe in the unwanted child myth. Hitler was
the adored, passionately wanted child of his parents. Beethoven was
something like the 13th child of a syphilitic whore. The abortionists
would have gotten rid of Beethoven, but boy, would they have preserved
Hitler."
(Dr. Margaret White, a noted English physician, addressing a
gathering at the University of San Francisco in November, 1974.)
"Beyond A Reasonable Doubt"
American law has long cherished and protected the principle that even
the most despicable felon cannot be deprived of his life or freedom
until he is found guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt." How so then can
Americans acquiesce to the destruction of the unborn child when there
is so much more than reasonable doubt as to his humanity and his
innocence?
(Thomas W. Hilgers, MD and Robert P. N. Shearin, M.D.)
The Fourth Commandment
From San Juan Capistrano, California: My elderly mother is bedridden
most of the time. Last week the doctor told me what a wonderful fellow
I was because she is home with me and not in a rest home. I told him to
get thee behind me, Satan, don’t you believe in the Fourth Commandment?
The Right to Be Let Alone
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty
when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are
naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded
rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment
by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. . . The makers
of the Constitution. . . sought to protect Americans in their beliefs,
their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as
against the government, the right to be let alone - the most
comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized man."
(JUSTICE BRANDEIS, in his dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. U.
S. 277 U.S. 478.)
The Highest Motives
At the Crystal Palace
Aquarium not long ago I saw a crab euthanatising a sickly fish,
doubtless from THE HIGHEST MOTIVES.
(Anonymous letter to the editor, The Spectator, 46:241, 1873)
"What's The Matter With You Americans?"
Perhaps the following exchange, made at the United Nations World
Population Conference in Belgrade in 1965, best delineates the
value judgment inherent in the concept of overpopulation. When the
American representative queried: "Though the world now has three
billion people and, by the year 2000, will probably have six billion
people whom we’ll have no difficulty sustaining, wouldn’t the world be
better off with only two billion people?" The Russian delegate
answered: "WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH YOU AMERICANS? DON’T YOU LIKE
PEOPLE?"
(Herbert Ratner (Child & Family - Volume 10, No. l, 1971)
