One Eternal Day

"O’er all those wide extended plains / Shines one eternal day;
     "There God the Son forever reigns / And scatters night away."

Friday, July 31, 2020

What is truth?

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Andrew Sullivan explains "The Roots Of Wokeness" : .... Beginning as a critique of all grand theories of meaning—from Christia...
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Thursday, July 30, 2020

Joy was important in his creed

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Looked into a book that I have owned for a very long time but had not read, Christ the Tiger (1967), by Thomas Howard. It is a kind of spir...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Wait for Him

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The L ORD waits to be gracious to you,  And therefore He exalts himself to show mercy to you.  For the L ORD is a God of justice; Bl...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Library

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When I was growing up Dad would often take me to the Milton College Library. It was also the Milton Village Library and the village appropr...
Friday, July 24, 2020

No permission needed

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From R. Albert Mohler Jr. on "Why I Am a Baptist" in First Things : .... Every great movement probably begins in an argument ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

"Rest and see, see and love, love and praise"

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In a post at his blog, Snakes and Ladders, Alan Jacobs excerpted a passage from the final chapter of Augustine's City of God , "O...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

The "loud and troublesome insects of the hour"

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Re-posted. An important reminder in these times. From Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor : Edmund Burke in 1791. Because h...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Light reading

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J.I. Packer died yesterday (1926–2020) . Among many other things he was general editor and chairman of the Translation Oversight Committee ...
Friday, July 17, 2020

The whole human family

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From The Book of Common Prayer (2019) O God, you made us in your own image, and you have redeemed us through your Son Jesus Christ: Loo...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Present laughter to utopian bliss

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From Michael Oakeshott's essay "On being conservative": .... The general characteristics of this disposition are not dif...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Senseless destruction

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Seen on Twitter today:  Which brought to mind one of my favorite G.K. Chesterton passages: In the matter of reforming things, as d...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

Making a home

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Michael Brendan Dougherty : .... In this unsettled age, conservatism is the work of recovering and restoring a home in this world—a plac...

He who would valiant be

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Of course the last post reminded me of this great hymn also with Bunyan's words: He who would valiant be ’gainst all disast...

And all the trumpets sounded for him

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After this it was noised abroad That Mr Valiant for Truth Was taken with a summons And had this for a token that the summons was ...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

Tranquility, serenity, peace and repose

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Rev Herbert E. Saunders on Sabbath rest: "Six days of labor will feed and clothe the body; Sabbath labor will starve the soul....
Friday, July 10, 2020

"For Thy mercy's sake..."

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Hide not Thou Thy face from us, O Lord, And cast not off Thy servants in Thy displeasure; For we confess our sins unto Thee, And...

And give us grace

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Lord, for Thy tender mercy's sake, Lay not our sins to our charge, But forgive that is past, And give us grace to amend our ...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Singing together

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Barton Swaim in the Wall Street Journal : .... Almost the only people who still sing together are the religious. The Christian traditi...

Be joyful and do good

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  Reminded of these good verses this morning: What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

Happy Independence Day!

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Leyendecker, 1929
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