Do not fret because of evil men or be envious
of those who do wrong;
for like the grass they will soon wither,
like green plants they will soon die away.
Trust in the Lord and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will
give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:1-4
To you I call, O Lord my Rock; do not turn a deaf ear to me.
For if you remain silent, I will be like those who have gone down
to the pit.
Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help, as I
lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Do not drag me away
with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak cordially with
their neighbors but harbor malice in their hearts.
Repay them for their deeds and for their evil work;
repay them for what their hands have done and bring
back upon them what they deserve. Since they show
no regard for the works of the Lord and what his
hands have done, he will tear them down and never
build them up again.
Psalm 28:1-5
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world,
and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and
established it upon the waters.
Who may ascend the hill of
the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean
hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an
idol or swear by what is false.
Psalm 24:1-4
Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates;
lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory
may come in. Who is he, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory.
Psalm 24:8-10
While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction
will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant
woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers, are
not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like
a thief.
You are all sons of the light, and sons of the day. We do
not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let
us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert
and self-controlled.
1 Thessalonians 5:3-6
For the purpose of lulling people into the
belief that they had come to a genuine transit
camp, the commandant had ordered the construction
of a false railway station,
replete with a false clock with painted numerals, and hands that never
moved, ticket windows, timetables, and painted arrows
pointing the way to Warsaw and other cities. A camp street was built.
Things were painted in beautiful, garishly bright colors. Flowers
and evergreen shrubs were planted. There was a gas station with
flowers around it.
Wooden benches dotted the landscape “like
a luxury spa.” New fences were erected. The forest was cleared.
A zoo was installed with “any number of marvelous birds” and benches
and flowers. Glazar referred to this as “a whole macabre fakery.”
(Sereny 1974,184,166,200,219).
Glazar followed the crowd. Men were directed to the right, women and children
to the left. The women and children disappeared into a barrack and the men
were told to undress. One of the SS men told them in “a chatty sort of tune”
that they were going into a disinfection bath and would afterwards be assigned
a job. Clothes could be left in a pile on the ground where they could find them
again later on. Documents, identity cards, money, watches and jewelry were to
be kept with them. There was no time from the moment they were taken in there
to talk to anyone, or to take stock of what was happening. They had no idea at
all what the whole installation was about. (Sereny 1974, 176-177).
The Nazis, Sereny explains in her book, “recognized the capacity
of the Western Jews individually to grasp the monstrous truth and
individually to resist it, therefore ordered that great pains be
taken to mislead and calm them until, naked, in rows of five and
running under the whiplash, they had been made incapable of resistance”
(Sereny 1974,199).
Her book contains an account of a special transport of 24,000 rich
Bulgarians from Salonika who arrived with 720,000 kilograms of belongings,
who, even in April 1943, with 3 million or so dead in camps in Poland,
still did not have a clue of what awaited them, and arrived as full of
illusions as Glazar’s group of Czechs had six months earlier.
(Sereny 1974, 213-214).
“The Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Hitler” by Claire Ortiz Hill 2006
from the section of Beyond Good and Evil? on p.158
Spurgeon noted that many churches were no longer having prayer meetings.
Spiritual fervor was dwindling, congregations were thinning, and enthusiasm
for the gospel was quickly becoming extinct.
“Alas! many are returning to
the poisoned cups which drugged that declining generation. . . . Too many
ministers are toying with the deadly cobra of ‘another gospel,’ in the form of
‘modern thought.’ “
Who was chiefly to blame for the decline? Spurgeon believed it was the preachers:
“The case is mournful. Certain ministers are making infidels. Avowed atheists are
not a tenth as dangerous as those preachers who scatter doubt and stab at faith. . . .
Germany was made unbelieving by her preachers, and England is following in her tracks.”
Spurgeon made no effort to disguise his contempt for the modernists:
“These destroyers
of our churches appear to be as content with their work as monkeys with their mischief.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1832-1892)
From the Spurgeon Archive
Spurgeon and the Down-Grade Controversy by John F. MacArthur, Jr.
Merely to mark time in missionary work during the war is a fatal blunder,
We must go forward.
Let the call of Christ be heard and heeded through the din of the world’s conflict,
and let the Church rise to a worthy
endeavor to accomplish speedily the work entrusted to her.
A quote from Rowland Bingham (1872-1942)
in
Christian Heroes: Then & Now
“Rowland Bingham Into Africa’s Interior” by Janet & Geoff Benge
A life maybe very lovely and yet be insignificant in the world’s eyes.
A beautiful life is one that fulfills its mission in this world, that
is what God made it to be, and does what God made it to do. Those
with only commonplace gifts are in danger of thinking that they cannot
live a beautiful life–cannot be a blessing in this world. But the smallest
life that fills its place well is far lovelier in God’s sight than the
largest and most splendidly gifted–yet fails in its divine mission.
Mrs. Charles E. Cowman (1870-1960)
“Streams In The Desert Volume 2” by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman August 6th
