Also Serves as a Warning to the Present
Published on April 30, 2009 By KFC Kickin For Christ In Misc

First Abraham Lincoln said this:

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.  But we have forgotten God.  We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.  Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!  It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Abraham Lincoln, April 30, 1863

Then James Garfield said this later on: 

"If the next centennial does not find us a great nation ... it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces."

President James Garfield, 1876

 

I'm thinking maybe they were onto something.  I believe God never takes away first without warning the people.  The Jews know this firsthand.  But do we?   We have ignored many wise voices of the past.  Are we smarter than they? The National Day of Prayer is next week.  I think it behooves us to get on our knees and pray.  Pray for our nation, our leaders and our military. 

 


Comments (Page 11)
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on Jul 30, 2009

...Thank you, I did look at the collage you did from pictures you took in Haifa.

I did enjoy, and I feel any race or creed would do the same...

Thank you again and bless

on Jul 30, 2009

You're welcome.

on Aug 07, 2009

There are also two shopping malls in Haifa (shopping malls in Israel are an experience). Haifa mall and the "Grand Canyon" ("canyon" means "shopping mall" in Hebrew).

thanks Leauki for the lesson, but when I read this I remembered someone told me that there is no Hebrew word for coincidence.  Is that true?  Do you know? 

 

on Aug 09, 2009

 I remembered someone told me that there is no Hebrew word for coincidence.  Is that true?  Do you know? 

Actually, you are right. There is no word for coincidence. You say something like "combination of occurrences" instead.

But to be fair, there is no English word for "coincidence" either, that's why we use the latin word which is itself a combination of words (co, in, and possibly cidere).

 

on Aug 09, 2009

well then......maybe that's why I always say "there's NO such thing as a coincidence?"    I know I picked that up from somewhere along the way!    Little did I know how true that really is!   

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