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As we look again at our subject of is the Bible believable, tonight we're continuing to talk about the subject of revelation. And by that, I don't mean the book of Revelation, I mean, the subject of revelation. Basic to Christianity is the fact that the Bible is revealed book. That this Book was not written by men. It may have been put down on paper or whatever was used by men, but it was written and authored by God. This is our commitment, this is our confidence, this our belief, this our assurance. And so basic, I believe, to the Christian is the fact of the inspiration and authority of the Scripture that it is God's own revelation to men. The truths regarding God and Christ and the Holy Spirit and man and sin and all of the facets of information revealed in the Scriptures are the disclosure of God. They are the revelation of God.
Now if we do not believe that this is the revelation of God or if we question that it is, we have no foundation for our faith. Unhesitatingly week in, week out, Sunday after Sunday and then all through the week we teach the word and the teach the word and teach the word and study it and share it and discuss it and minister it. And we must beginningly at the bottom of all that have absolute confidence in its authority and its inerrancy.
But more than ever before the truths of the word of God have been questioned in recent years. The dogma of the authority and inspiration of Scripture is being questioned. It is being challenged. Seminaries challenge the inspiration and authority of Scripture. Pulpits and pulpiteers are set up to fight against the concept of biblical inspiration and authority. And it's an amazing thing, but we shouldn't be surprised. Because if you went all the way back to the very beginning, you would find that the very first attack on the part of Satan was aimed at discrediting the revelation of the God. In Genesis Chapter 3, in verse 1, Satan said to Eve, "Hath God said?" The first...the first attack of the tempter was to question the word of God. Nothing different. It's still going on.
It'll be that way at the end. The apostle Paul said to Timothy, "every Scripture is inspired of God." Later on in that same epistle, he said, "Preach the word for the time will come when they will not endure," what, "sound doctrine. But having itching ears will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts and turn away their ears from the truth and turn aside to fables."
So says 1 Timothy 3 and 4. What about the Bible? What about this dilemma? Is it resolvable? Can we really say what Jesus Christ, who said in John 17, "Thy word is truth." Or do we have to stand along side of Pilate in John 18:38 and say "What is truth?" It will be the purpose of this study as we pursue it to show that we can say with Christ "Thy word is truth." Now to begin with we've been studying the subject of revelation. Revelation by definition is the act of God by which He has made known what was otherwise unknowable. This information that is herein in terms of its spiritual content, in terms of the revelation of God and His self disclosure is unknowable unless God reveals it. Revelation then is that act by which God makes known what is otherwise unknowable.
And this book is just that. Now we've seen five things to be considered in revelation. The revealer, the revelation itself, the reason for it, the result of it, and our response to it. Now just reviewing very quickly we started talking about the revealer. Who is the revealer? God is the revealer. Hebrews 1, "God has spoken in sundry times and diverse manners." This is the word of God. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by," what, "every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." God then is the revealer. And we find that in His revelation He reveals Himself to be personal, moral, the source and stay and end of all things and He reveals Himself to be, praise Him for this, available, available to us. And so we met the revealer who is God.
Secondly then, we looked at the revelation itself. And we said that revelation as God has revealed Himself comes into broad categories. God reveals Himself in what we call natural revelation. Now natural revelation as we have seen is made up of two parts, creation and conscience. And the result of natural revelation is a consciousness of God. Natural revelation then is designed by God to give men the consciousness that He exists. And more than that, some idea of His character.
Now we said that natural revelation comes also in two parts. First of all, creation. Creation itself is the revelation of God. "The heavens declare the glory of God," Psalm 19. Romans Chapter 1 and verse 19 and following tells us that the things of God are revealed in the world by the creation so that man is without excuse. He can know His eternal power, His God head, that is absolute deity, and he can know something about the wrath of God, because he finds that God is a moral God.
So God has revealed Himself in two areas of natural revelation. Creation, which is external and conscience which is internal. And through that revelation there is the consciousness of God. And men in the world today, because of what they sense inside and because of what they see outside are conscious that God is, and that's the beginning. "For he that cometh to God must believe," what, "that He is." And so God by natural revelation establishes in the consciousness of man that He is. Like Einstein said, you have to believe in a cosmic power. A man who does not believe in a cosmic power who is the source of all things is a fool. You have to believe in that. You say well, he's sort of biblical. Yes, because the Bible says "The fool says in his heart," what, "there's no God." That's the word of a fool.
Interestingly enough, the word fool can also be translated to wicked. You know atheists are usually wicked. That's how they get to be atheists. They have wickedly reduced God to non-existence in order to entertain their sin with a sense of moral obligation. A fool denies God because he reasons against his own innate knowledge. He reasons against the most simple and obvious fact and his existence that something had to make everything.
In order for the fool to say the word God, he had to have a concept of God. And if he had to have a concept of God, that implies that God is. So when an atheist comes along and says there is no God, maybe the best answer is there is no, what? There is no God. What's that? I mean, if there isn't one and you've got the thought of one that you had to eliminate. You say well, that's the old analogical argument. Yes, you see, it's impossible to think of something that isn't.
You say well, what about the people who may have dreamed in the future about an airplane. That's simply the putting together of mechanical devices. That's just a modified bird. That's not something that isn't. That's a mechanical thing and that's just putting together the pieces of what is. But to think of an absolute non-existent thing is impossible.
Were the fool to work hard enough to try to eliminate God is testimony that God must be or he wouldn't have to worry about getting rid of Him. You say well, how would a person ever come to that. Romans 1:25 says he develops futile thinking patterns and they result in the rejection of God's existence. Now a natural revelation reveals the consciousness of God. And it tells us that God is glorious. That He is also powerful. You have to believe that when you look at the universe. That He is sovereign. Whoever He is, He's running the show.
And that He is moral, because people can see in the world that generally speaking evil brings evil results and good brings good results. There is a moral entity somewhere in the universe. And only a very wicked man denies it. You can call him a full or a wicked man. It's the same thing. Nature then is God's self-disclosure in man and around him. Herschel, the astronomer said and I quote, "the broader the field of science grows, the more manifold and irrefutable become the proofs of the eternal existence of a creative and omnipotent wisdom." Van Nadler, the professor of astronomy in Dorpat in Europe said, "No true scientist can be an atheist. Whoever has looked as deeply into God's workshop as we have and has had as much opportunity to admire omnitions and eternal ordering of nature must bow the knee in humility before the rule of a holy God."
Manaus the professor of medicine and botany at Upsula said, "I have seen the footsteps of God." Kepler the astronomer said "In creation I grasp God as it were in my hands." One of the outstanding Christian leaders of the third century, long time ago, was widely known for his wisdom. And he was once asked where he got all of his wisdom. This is what he said. "The source of all that I have learned is in two books. The one book is outwardly small, the other is outwardly large. The former book has many pages, the latter only two. The pages of the former are white with many black letters on them. One of the pages of the big book is blue and the other is green. On the blue page there is one big golden letter and many small silver ones. On the green page there are enumerable colored letters in red and white and yellow and blue and gold. The small book is the Bible, the large book is nature. These two books belong together. Both testify to the revelation of the one living God. Their testimonies are in harmony and point to the power greatness and love the Lord of the world."
So natural or general revelation gives to man the consciousness of God. But that isn't enough. God went further than that and gave to us what we call special revelation. Now special revelation really came in two parts. First of all, special revelation appears in the Holy Bible, verbal revelation. This is God's verbal disclosure of Himself. Special revelation. Now I want you to notice one thing, only in the Garden of Eden was natural revelation sufficient.
Only before the fall was natural revelation sufficient to lead men to a total knowledge of God. Because you see, they had an absolutely unclouded mind. They had a crystal clear perception. There was no sin. There was no barrier. They could live with God out of the depths of a pure heart before there was sin and so God didn't need to write anything down in the Garden. God didn't need any special revelation.
Natural revelation, the disclosure that all of creation was the work of God that that which was in the man revealed God was sufficient before sin clouded his mind. Cut the cord of life, darkened his intellect and alienated him from God. And once that happened, natural revelation wasn't enough because man was alienated. Oh it was good for him to have the consciousness of God, but the consciousness of God was only to lead him to the word of God.
It isn't enough just to know that God is unless you know who He is. And unless you know what it is that He desires. And so the consciousness of God is to lead men to the searching to find the revelation of God that is specific. And by slow steps and gradual stages, God revealed Himself in special revelation. We say that special revelation as it comes in the word of God was progressive revelation. You know, if you were to read the book of Genesis would you get all the revelation of God? No.
Very limited isn't it? Say if you were to read only the Old Testament, would you get all the revelation of God? No, it's very limited. It isn't that it's wrong, it's that it's progressive. It isn't that it's in error, it's just in progression. You don't get it all until you get it all. God slowly and in stages revealed as much as He desired and finally when the fullness of time was come, He revealed Himself totally in Jesus Christ.
But the revelation was progressive. Did you know that some of the Old Testament prophets according to 1 Peter used to look at what they read and try to figure out what it meant? And they had written it. They would search in their own prophecies to determine the fulfillment regarding the Messiah. So special revelation was a process. First God would reveal Himself in just a small frame, then larger, then larger sometimes to a family, then a tribe, then a nation, then a race, and then the world. And so God's progressive revelation came. Now, let me add a footnote. You say how were people saved in the Old Testament if they didn't have the whole thing? I mean, if they were somewhere between the consciousness of God and the compilation of the Bible, let's say all they had were the books of Moses, how were they saved? You know what the requirement for salvation was? What is it in every age? Faith. Well, what was it that they had to believe then? Did they have to believe what God hadn't said? What did they have to believe? What He had said. So in any generation of time, the requirement for salvation was that a man believed what God said. Abraham believed, what, God and it was count unto him for righteousness. In any period of time up until the totality of Scripture was compiled, a man was to live up to that revelation which God had granted. And finally the revelation was complete. Now in special revelation, how did God reveal Himself? Well, I'm just going to review quickly. I told you, first of all in theophany. From phino and theas which means a visible form of God. Often in the Old Testament God appeared in a visible form. For example He appeared as a burning bush didn't He? The Lord Jesus Christ appeared as an angel, the angel of the Lord. There were times when God's presence was there, such as the Shekinah glory. There was a form to it, Exodus 33. So sometimes God's special revelation was in the form of a theophany. Or an actual appearance of God in some form. Now mark this, God's not a man. "God is a," John 4, "Spirit." And Jesus said, "A spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have." So God is not a man. But God could take on any form that He wanted to take on. That's no problem for Him, for the purpose of manifestation. So God revealed Himself through theophany. Secondly, through prophecy. Now what do we mean by that? Prophecy just means speaking forth, telling forth, announcing, proclaiming, God spoke. How did He speak? In many, many ways. Why I listed for you last week a whole lot of ways. God spoke through the casting of lots. He revealed His will through casting lots. Then He spoke through dreams. And He spoke through visions. And He also spoke directly and verbally. How many times have you read the prophet saying "Thus saith the Lord." And sometimes He spoke face to face, like He'd come down nose to nose with somebody and in a verbal confrontation in private way He would communicate. Doesn't mean that God was literally there in a body, but God came down and spoke verbally, face to face.
Now the last two that I mentioned, God's direct verbal speaking, God's said and the face to face seem to be the dominant ways that God revealed Himself in terms of prophecy. Now you can study throughout the Old Testament and you'll find this to be a very common thing. Let me show you just a couple of verses to show you what I mean by God speaking or God confronting face to face.
Deuteronomy 18:18, "I will raise them a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee and put My words in his mouth. And he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him." Now here's the prophecy of Christ, but it is a perfect picture of a prophet. "There's coming a prophet and I will put My words in his mouth. And he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him."
Now that was the characterization of a prophet in general. He spoke God's words. So God's self-disclosure, God's special revelation was a verbal revelation. In Jeremiah 1:9, listen to this, the commissioning of Jeremiah the prophet. "Then the Lord put forth His hand," and of course this is an anthropomorphism, that means it's putting God in human terms, God doesn't have a hand. "The Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth." Jeremiah said something touch my mouth. God place His hand, as it were, on my mouth. "And the Lord said unto me behold I have put My words in thy mouth."
Now when old Jeremiah opened up his mouth you know what came out? God's word. God used human instruments to be the vehicle of revelation. Now this becomes very much a pattern and a standard procedure for the prophets. Look at Ezekiel, you find the same thing in Chapter 3, verse 4. "He said unto me, Son of man, go get thee unto the house of Israel and speak with My words unto them. Speak with my words unto them."
That was the characteristic of a prophet. He spoke with God's words. Verse 26 and 27 of the same passage in Ezekiel 3, "And I will make thy tongue cling to the roof of thy mouth that thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be them a reprover for they are a rebellious house." He will put words in his mouth and sometimes He won't. And He'll leave them without words to here.
But verse 27, "But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth and thou shalt say unto them thus saith the Lord God." And so there was the very stringent characterization of a prophet. He spoke God's words and only God's words. God could silence him or God speak through him. Now do you remember the first great prophet that we know about? The man by the name of Moses.
In Exodus Chapter 4 we find an interesting account. The Lord has said to Moses that he is to go out and preach, proclaim. And Moses said to the Lord, "Oh my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant, but I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue." What he was saying was I have a speech impediment. You know, he was saying God, I...I...I...I...I stutter.
I've got a problem. And I love this answer. "And the Lord said unto him who made man's mouth?" Isn't that tremendous. Who do you think made your mouth? I think if I made it, I can make it go. Or who makes the dumb, the deaf, or the seeing or the blind, have not I the Lord. Now therefore go and I'll be with your mouth." Oh what I promise. I wish to God that I was a prophet, but I'm not in the day of prophets. I have to dig it out and I praise God for His truth in the word of God, but how fantastic it would be to have no preparation.
And then when people come to me afterwards and say I made a mistake I'd sorry fellow, no way. Now I have to say yeah, right I probably did. So He says who made your mouth, I did. Verse 12, "Now therefore go and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say." What a tremendous promise.
Well, you go on further. Moses the great hero, you know, that we think he is was really a weak character. He said, "Oh my Lord send I pray thee by the of Him whom thou wilt send. And the anger of Lord was kindled against Moses and He said is not Aaron the Levite they brother? I know that he can speak well. And also behold he comes forth to meet thee and when he sees thee he will be glad in his heart, and thou shalt speak unto him and put words in his mouth and I will be with thy mouth and his mouth and teach you what you shall do."
You know, Moses messed up by not believing God and had to go through his whole life whispering everything in Aaron's ear and Aaron announced it to the people. "And he shall be the spokesman unto the people," verse 16. God said I made your mouth. This was standard procedure. This was the way God spoke His word through the mouths of His servant. This is special revelation, verbal revelation. The Spirit of God came upon them and they spoke the word of God. That's the standard procedure in the Old Testament. And in the New Testament with the apostles who are responsible for the writing of Scripture.
And so God spoke through human instruments. That's prophecy. So you have theophany and prophecy and thirdly miracles. And I want to speak to this a minute. God revealed Himself in special revelation in terms of miracles. Now watch this, those three areas make up the testimony compiled in the Bible. The Bible includes the appearances of God, right? And what is the ultimate theophany? The ultimate incarnation of God, what is? Jesus Christ.
The Bible also has all the prophetic statements that God wanted recorded and the Bible also records thirdly the miracles. So the visible presence of God, prophecy or the spoken word of God and miracles are the composite disclosure of God that then was put together in the word of God to make up the Bible. You say well, how John do miracles reveal God?
You see any miracle is a revelation that God exists. Anything that violates the human order. Anything that alters the normal human course of events indicates an intervention by a higher power. Do you see? It's no problem for God to do a miracle. He made the world a miracle just like sticking His finger in the pond and making waves. C. S. Lewis points out so very well in his book on miracles, which is something every Christian really ought to read, that when God makes a miracle, it doesn't go bouncing through the world and create havoc all the rest of the time until Jesus comes. It has a way of just flowing back in.
For example, Jesus stands at the grave and says Lazarus come out. And you know Lazarus came out, took his grave clothes off him, he went over had dinner, and a few years later died. You see the miracle occurs and then goes right back into the natural stream again. It doesn't go pounding and bouncing through chaotically. God just makes ripples and the ripples go and they hit the shore and they're done.
God can intervene any time He wants. If there's anybody out there, He can stick His finger in the pond and make a wave. That's a miracle. And every time a wave was made, God was saying I'm here. Do you recognize that? I'm up here. Now the unregenerate world has difficulty accepting miracles because they don't like to accept God. The liberals, amazing, David Hume, don't recommend that you read David Hume, it's really bog you down. But he's written thing called the Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
He says that experience shows the laws of nature to be absolutely unalterable. So he says, therefore, miracles are ruled out. Furthermore, no miracle has ever been observed in any age by any person. Isn't that interesting? It's nice of David Hume to tell us that. And he said, those who did testify to miracles were not telling the truth. He stands on his square inch in his own little century and lives his own 60 years and tells what happened all throughout history. You see he just says there were no miracles, no one ever saw one, and everybody who said they saw one in the Bible lied or were misled.
Renan in his book Life of Jesus, regards Bible miracles as legends. For example, he explained the raising of Lazarus this way. Lazarus faked being dead. You know why? He was so much a lover of Jesus Christ and people were being critical of Christ and he wanted people to really believe in the power of Christ, so he faked being dead and set up a phony resurrection. And he got himself laid in the tomb and then he had Mary and Martha pull off the deal. Jesus came down, everybody was gathered around, a big deal, come out and he came out and he never was dead.
Jesus never healed anybody, Renan says. He only aided people who were sick by His gentleness and they felt better. And His followers tagged them miracles. At the see of Galilee, for example, Jesus was not walking on the water, but standing on a very heavy growth of lily pads. At the feeding of the five thousand a large quantity of food was stored in a nearby cave and Jesus knew about it, got some guys to sneak it out and the disciples thought it was a miracle.
Now friends that is denial of biblical authority and it takes more faith to believe a stupid explanation like walking around on a heavy growth of lily pads. How stupid? From a responsible mind. Jesus' miracles were for the sake of revealing that He was God. He said, "Believe me for the very," what, "works sake." Miracles are the self-disclosure of God.
They're not amusement. That's why Jesus wouldn't do them when people demanded them all the time. They are revelatory and the point to redemptive truth. Mark those two terms. Miracles are revelatory and redemptive. They are revealing of God and they are to point to redemption. I'm going to say something that somebody might misconstrue, it's a guarded statement and I've thought it through. Biblical miracles, because they are revelatory, are not for this age. The cannon of Scripture is closed, and we'll get into that, the revelation of God is closed. God is not revealing Himself today apart from His word.
This is His revelation. And as I said earlier, this is the danger in people running around saying God revealed Himself to them and God spoke to them and they had a vision and etc., etc. This is the cannon and it's closed. All revelation came through the holy prophets of the Old Testament or it came through the apostles and those people who were near Jesus Christ, they were the biblical writers. The cannon of Scripture is closed. Revelation is closed. All that God intends to say, He has said in His word.
So in the truest sense, biblical miracles don't happen today. Now this doesn't mean He doesn't work in wonderful ways. It doesn't mean that God doesn't work in unusual ways. It doesn't mean that God doesn't heal. But the label miracle should be applied only to those special extraordinary ways in which God has operated in the past in His universe which is both revelatory and redemptive and then is recorded in the pages of the word of God.
And these three areas, theophany, prophecy, and miracle make up the totality of God's special revelation and then God took all that He wanted of that information and put it in the word of God. And so this Bible is a composite of theophany, prophecy, and miracle, and in it God is revealed.
Now that gives to man notice. The intellectual knowledge of God. More than just a consciousness that God is, he reads the word of God, the Bible, the verbal revelation and then he understands the facts about God. This is to give to man the intellectual knowledge of God beyond just the sense that there is a God. This defines Him more clearly.
But what is the purpose? What is the purpose of all of this? To lead to the next step. Who is that? Christ. You see the consciousness of God is meant to lead you to the word of God, which gives you the intellectual knowledge of God which leads you to Christ. What did Jesus say to the Jews? He said, "search the Scriptures and who will you find there? You'll find me there. For they are they which," what, "testify of me."
And so God has not only given a verbal revelation, but a verbal revelation to lead to a living revelation, the Lord Jesus Christ. This is God's standard. When a man comes to Jesus Christ, it isn't just the consciousness of God, it isn't just the intellectual knowledge of God, it's the spiritual knowledge of God that equals what? Salvation, and that brings man right back to God. And that's the pattern of God's revelation.
If the revelation doesn't lead you to Jesus Christ, it's incomplete. Isaiah even with all God said wanted more, did you know that? Isaiah heard a lot. God said a lot, but he wasn't satisfied. He says, Verily, God I've heard everything you've said so far, but you're still a God who hides yourself. Listen to what Isaiah said, I love this. He said, "Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down." God you're hiding, why don't you split the heavens and get down here?
Did He? That's exactly what He did. Jesus is not the bringer of revelation, He is the full and living revelation. "God who at sundry times and diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son." Jesus is the revelation of God. And so God's written revelation is to lead to God's living revelation, the Lord Jesus Christ. God in human flesh.
Oh there's so much we could read about that. There's a marvelous statement in John 1:18, "No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath," what, "declared Him." Yes, and so God's special revelation two sides, the Bible, the living Christ. And so God discloses Himself to man.
Jesus talking to His disciples in John 14 and gathered around for the last time, the night before He was betrayed and executed. Jesus said, "I'm the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me." And He said, "If you had known me, you should have known my Father." And Philip said, "Lord, could you show us the Father?" What did Jesus say? "Have you been so long with me Philip and you don't know that if you've seen me," what, "you've seen the Father." He is the revelation of God. He is the self-disclosure of God.
And all this is to bring men to that knowledge which gives them the spiritual knowledge of God equals salvation and places them back in a relationship to God. So there's the revelation. Now let me go a step further. Thirdly, in our little look at this is the idea of the reason. Why was the revelation given then? In one word it starts with S. Salvation. That's why it was given. God wants to restore man. You say well, God is self-sufficient. What does He need? I mean, Acts 17:25 says "As though He needed anything." Why the Old Testament? Why the New Testament? What does God need? You know what God needs? God needs to fulfill His love and He loves us. And the fulfillment of His love is to bring us to Himself. You know as I thought about this and just kind of thinking about the simplicity of what our salvation is, I thought there are really things God wants from us in the New Testament. He wants us to be friends, to have fellowship, and to be family. Friends, fellowship, family, that's what God wants.
Abraham was called a friend of God, wasn't he? Jesus wants to bring us into personal intimate relationship with God because that is God's desire. God wants us to be with Him. John 4:23, "The hour comes and now is when true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth." Listen, "For the Father seeketh such to worship Him."
Did you know that God seeks you? Why? The Son of man has come into the world to do what? "Seek and to save that which is lost," Luke 19:10 says. God desires first of all that we be friends, not enemies, not rebels, not foes, friends. And this is what He said. "This is my commandment that you love one another," John 15:12. "Greater love hath no man than this than a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. Henceforth I call ye not servants for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth." In other words, a servant isn't in on the decision-making. "But I have called you friends." Not servants, not slaves, friends.
It's exciting to thinking about God wanted us to be a friend. In the purest sense of all that that means. And secondly, He wanted us to be a fellowship. He wanted to create a something even closer than friendship. Now in my judgment, friendship is here, family is here, and fellowship is even closer. Fellowship is the epitome of friendship, because fellowship means the intimate interchange of life. God wanted us to be friends. Jesus used the idea of friends in the gospel.
And then when you come to 1 John, you find out that John uses the concept of fellowship. "That which was from the beginning," concerning Christ, "which we've heard and seen with our eyes and looked upon and our hands have handled of the word of life. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that you may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ."
You know what that means? That means partner, koinonas, means a partner. First we're just a friend and that's good and that's fulfilling. Then all of a sudden we become a partner. And then you move a little further along and you find out that as Paul puts it in Ephesians 2:19, "God's made us family." We are part of the household of God. And the Bible says in Hebrews Jesus is not ashamed to call us brothers and over and over and over and over again we're called children in 1 John.
So friends, fellowship, family, God desires us. He wants us for intimacy. The Bible even looks to a day when the fullness of all that that means is going to happen. I think about 1 John, "Beloved now are we the sons of God, but it doesn't yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him." I mean, it's nice to be a friend. It's better to be in fellowship. It's better to be family, but oh to be like Him. This is God's desire to bring men to Himself.
Mr. Standfast, one of the great characters of John Bunyan in Pilgram's Progress dying said these words. "I am now going to see that head that was crowned with thorns. To see that face that was spit upon for me. I have formerly lived by hearsay and faith, but now I go where I shall live by sight and I shall be with Him in His company I delight myself." I think that's the anticipation of every Christian, isn't it?
But did you know that's the anticipation of God? Did you know that the Old Testament says "precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints?" Do you know why? Because He wants them. God has spoken to bring man to Himself. But you know it isn't to accomplish this because men are sinners and there's a big barrier in the way.
I mean, it's a case of paradise regained isn't it? Because paradise was lost. Men were alienated. Man is a rebel. I mean, man is really a rebel. Ecclesiastes 9:3 says, "The heart of the sons of men is full of evil." Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart of the man is deceitful of all things and desperately wicked." You know, you can back...you say well, they got more evil toward the end there. No, no. You can go back to Genesis 6:5, "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time." That's in Genesis friends.
And nothing's changed, except evil men are worse and worse. And you start reading in the New Testament, you find the same thing. You come to Romans Chapter 3 and you get a characterization of men that really just lays them bare. "As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one." And that's for the one who say there is no righteous, but me. So he says, there's none righteous, no not you.
Verse 11 says, "There's none that understands. There's none that seeks after God. They're all going out of the way there become unprofitable." That's sour milk. It's a term used to turn sour. They've all gone sour, the whole human race. "There is none that does good, no not one. There throat is an open sepulcher with their tongues they've used to seek the poison of snakes is under their lips." Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. There's a progression. You start with the throat and then the tongue and then the lips and then it comes out of the mouth.
And Jesus said in Mark 7, "Whatever's inside is going to come out." It's the things that come out of a man that defile him. So men are evil. Men are wicked. Their devices are against God. Titus 1:15, have you ever thought about this verse? "Even their mind and conscience is defiled." God has given them a mind to think with and a conscience to be convicted by, but those things don't even function they're so tainted with sin.
And so God looks at man and says I want you for friends and fellowship and family and ultimately I want you to be like Jesus, but you've got a problem. And so God had to come and it had to be more than just the revelation of Christ, there had to be the atoning death of Christ. You see? To pay the penalty for sin. Listen, the word God as it goes out this word right here has power to transform lives, doesn't it?
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by a speech or the word about Christ. Boy you read this book and it can save. It does all the time. It's powerful, for the word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. It pierces to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. It's powerful.
I never knew anybody that really gave themself to reading that book that didn't see the power in it. Boy it's potent. I mean, it changes my life daily. And when God puts something in here it has the power to accomplish. Listen, Isaiah 55:11 God said, "So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth. It shall not return to me void. It shall accomplish that which I please. It shall prosper in the thing where unto I send it." God said, if I say it has the power to accomplish what it's intended to accomplish. The power of the word.
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto," what, "salvation." To everyone that believes. Listen, this word can bring a man to Christ and this word can transform a man into a child of God. That's the reason. The reason for revelation is to bring men to God. This book is the revelation about salvation in Christ. That's what it's about.
God didn't write it as a bunch of...sort of an almanac of spiritual clichs. God didn't write this to be a whole lot of little religious curiosities. This is a guide book to bring you to Christ which is to bring you to God so He can have you as friends and fellowship and family. The whole Bible's all about Christ. The whole thing is meant to bring you to Christ. You know there are people who study the Bible for it's literary value. That's what Anita Luke said on television the other night. Oh I read the Bible every day for it's literary value. You can go to Hell doing that. That's right, because that's not what it's for. Listen to what Paul said to Timothy. He said, "Timothy you continue in the things that you've learned and been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned them and that from a child you have known the holy Scriptures." Listen, the holy Scriptures, right here. "Which are able to make you wise unto salvation." That's right, that's what it's for.
This will make you wise unto salvation. It's to lead you to Jesus Christ. It doesn't do any good to have a Bible if you don't come to Christ. Listen to what John said. John 20:31, "These are written." Why John? Why is all this stuff written down? What's the reason? "These are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through His name." That's why it's written.
In fact, in Revelation 19:10, it says, "The spirit of all prophecy is the testimony of Jesus." That's what it's all about. So the reason for revelation redemption. Fourthly and quickly, what are the results? What are the results of revelation? Well, number one just saw salvation. As the results of this word...do you know what this word does, it saves people.
The result is, first of all, salvation. Have you ever listened to these words from Peter? "Being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which lives and abides forever." 1 Peter 1:23. Peter says you're born again by the word. One of the purposes of the word is salvation. And he says "all flesh is like grass, you know, and the glory of man is like the flower of grass, the grass withers and its flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever."
Salvation, did you know Peter says it's for something else too? He said "As new born babes desire the pure milk of the word that you may," what, "grow by it." It's not just for salvation, it's for growth. You know, you can be saved by the word and stay a spiritual infant all your life or you can grow. The word is for growing.
Long for it. I love Psalm 42:1, "As the deer pants after the water brook, so pants my heart after thee." What a verse. Well, you think about David and somebody asked me yesterday what made David a man after God's own heart? That's what made him a man after God's own heart. He panted for God like a deer for water. "So pants my heart for thee." But you know it isn't just for salvation and just for growth. The word is also for holiness. The word of God is the thing which purifies you. Listen to the words of James in James 1:21, "Wherefore, put away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness and receive with meekness the engrafted word." The word is that which purifies and is able to save your lives. John 15:3, Jesus said that "My word is like a pruning instrument, it purges you." Remember He said "I am the vine and you are the branches." And He talked about how important it was that the Father tend the branches and he said, "now are you clean through the word which I've spoken to you." The word is the cleansing agent. The word is the knife that prunes off the suckling branches, the sucker branches.
Spurgen said it is the word that purges the Christian. It is the truth that purges him. The Scripture made living and powerful by the Holy Spirit effectually cleanses the Christian. He said affliction is the handle of the knife. Affliction is the grindstone that sharpens the word. Affliction is the dresser that removes the soft garments and lays bare the diseased flesh so that the surgeons knife may get at it. And the knife is the word.
And so the word is for salvation and for growth and for holiness. And you know something else, just general the word is for blessing. It is. You study the word, and I'm telling you you're going to get blessed. Let me take you back to James 1. He says, verse 22, "Be doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves." Nothing more self-deceiving than to think that you just hear. And you know, that can happen in a situation like this you come and say wasn't that nice, we heard the word and take all your little notes and go out and live like you always live?
Don't kid yourself. You haven't learned it until you've done it, did you know that? You haven't learned it until you've done it. You haven't learned it because you heard it. You've learned it when its part of you. So he says, "Don't be hearers of the word, but doers." For if you're a hearer of the word, you're like a guy who looks at his face in the mirror and walks away and forgets what he looked like.
You've had that happen. You got to work and forgot men that you had a cowlick sticking up in the back and didn't know until you took your coffee break. Oh have I looked like that all day? Maybe you ladies have realized that too if one of those things was crooked and or your lipstick started here and ended here, you know. But listen to this, "But who so looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it." "Whoever is saturated in the truths of the word of God," particularly in this text it regards love, but "whoever is saturated in the word of God he is not a forgetful hearer, he is the doer, this man shall be blessed."
See, blessed. I don't know about you, but I like to be blessed. Oh listen the word will accomplish its purpose. It can save, it can give growth, it can purify, and it can bless. And you'll let it, it can accomplish that. Isaiah 40 says this, "The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of God shall stand forever." Isn't that great.
And Jesus said "not one jot and not one tittle shall ever be removed from this Book." It stands. Close with this, John, what should by my response? This is revelation. How should I respond to it? Let me just tell you simply. One, believe it, believe it. You say, well, I know that. Well, just I want to remind you. Believe it. You know, our response should be like Peter. We should say "Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life." We should be open to receive every word. It's enough. It's sufficient.
Jesus said in Luke 16:31, "If they don't hear Moses and the prophets they won't be persuaded until someone rises from the dead." Miracles isn't the route to go if they don't believe they word, they wouldn't believe miracles either. Believe it as is. Take it as the revelation of God receive it.
Second, study it. You know, you ought to be like apolis. You ought to mighty in the Scriptures and so should I. You know, when you study it, it has its fruits. I always think of the guys on the road to Emmaus and Jesus opened the Scriptures and taught them the things concerning Himself. And you know, when He finally showed them who He was and left, they said hey, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spoke to us." When we study the word, man it just sets your heart on fire. Study it. And Paul said to Timothy, "Study to show yourself," what, "proved of God." Let me give you a third one, honor it. Honor the word. The image of Diana was honor in Ephesus because they thought it fell from Jupiter out of heaven. So they worshiped a ugly, gross, black, horrible looking thing. But it fell from Jupiter they said, so they honored it. You want to know something, this beautiful thing fell from God. Honor it, honor it. It's worthy. Job honored it. Job 23:12, the Psalmist honored it. Said it was better than gold, more priceless than rubies. Let me give you another one. Along with honor it, love it. Remember Psalm 119:97, "Oh how I love thy law." Love it. If you haven't learned to love it yet, you haven't really arrived. That's where the joy is, love it. Fifth, what have I said? Believe it, study it, honor it, love it, fifth, conform to it. That's obedience friends. Do what it says. Remember in Isaiah, the key to a revival, Isaiah 8:20, remember what the battle cry was? "To the law and the testimony." That was like a battle cry. Going to storm the fort. "To the law and the testimony." The revival in Nehemiah's day started when the man came up and said "bring the book." Nehemiah 8.
Conform to it, obedience. Let me give you another one, sixth, are you ready for this? Contend for it. You know something folks, we've got something, let's fight for it. I'm not willing to let some liberals take the Bible out of my hand. I'm not willing to let them take the Bible away from the people and I'm going to continue to preach that the Bible is the authoritative word of God as long as I have breath. And I'm willing to fight for it.
Jude verse 3, "Beloved, when I give all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints." This is the faith. This is the composite, contend for it. Fight for it. The word is epoganonizomi from which we get agony. Agonize for it. Struggle for it. Fight for it. That's why I'm so protective, you know, when somebody says well, what do you think about such and such a school or such and such a seminar? If I don't believe that they really believe in the authority of the word of God, I wouldn't send anybody there.
Sending people those kind of schools isn't guarding the word of God in its sanctity. Isn't fighting and contending for it. Last, preach it. Believe it, study it, honor it, love it, conform to it, contend for it, proclaim it, preach it. Paul said to Timothy "Preach the word in season and out of season." That means all the time folks. And my prayer for you is as I mentioned earlier that you would preach it.
When it says that we are to preach the word it means just that. Like back in Ezra's day he got up and he read it and it says he read it and gave the sense of it. That's preaching the word. Not entertainment, not stories, not gimmicks, doctrine. Preach it. And my prayer for all of you as I said earlier 1 Thessalonians 2:13, "We thank God continually because when you receive the word, you heard it from us, you received it not as the word of man, but as it is in the truth the word of God which is at work in your that believe."
What a blessed promise.
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5 Questions With ... Kerli
Estonian pop singer Kerli was the recent guest for an installment of The Recording Academy's 5 Questions With … series. Held at The Academy's headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., Kerli discussed musical mentors, making her dreams come true, advice for aspiring artists, and her explanation of the musical style "bubblegoth."
"Bubblegoth is about putting things together that don't necessarily go together," said Kerli. "[It's] mixing ethereal things with really hard beats, and that's kind of like the overall vibe of [my] new album."
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Hailing from Elva, Estonia, Kerli's musical journey began at age 14 when she was the runner-up on "Eurolaul," an Estonian singing competition similar to "American Idol." Kerli continued to perform and write songs, subsequently landing an audition with Antonio "L.A." Reid, who signed her to his Island Def Jam Music Group. Kerli's debut album, Love Is Dead, was released in 2008 featuring the single "Walking On Air." That same year Kerli performed alongside GRAMMY winners the Smashing Pumpkins at the Scream 2008 awards.
In 2011 Kerli released the single "Army Of Love," peaking at No. 1 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play Songs chart. In March Kerli debuted "Zero Gravity," the first track from her forthcoming new album, which she describes as "hot angels crashing a crazy rave." To date, "Zero Gravity" has garnered nearly 1.4 million plays on YouTube. Aside from creating her own music, Kerli has crafted songs for other artists, including co-writing Demi Lovato's Top 10 hit "Skyscraper."

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Before & After: 2012 Small, Cool Winner Daniel's DIY Kitchen Makeover
As Apartment Therapy's 2012 Small, Cool winner and the man and mind behind the blog Manhattan Nest, Daniel Kanter has an amazing eye - and some serious DIY skills. The kitchen, which you see here in its Before state, was drab and lacking in storage space. A few IKEA hacks later, and you have THIS. (Oh, and did we mention Daniel is only 22 years old?!)
A close-up of the IKEA-hacked kitchen cabinet and countertop unit.
If you read Daniel's blog, you know that things are changing and improving all the time, so who knows what's next for his kitchen! I'm excited to find out.
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SORRENTO, LA (WAFB) - According to District Attorney Ricky Babin, any citations issued by Sorrento Police Officer James Bell before September 10, 2013 have been dismissed.
Officer James Bell issued more than 300 traffic citations between July 1 and September 3, 2013. The dismissal affects all traffic citations since December 2012. The exact number is not known at this time.
Earlier this month, Officer Bell was accused of speeding more than 700 times within a 64-day period.
According to District Attorney Ricky Babin, Officer Bell admitted in traffic court in September that he did not calibrate his radar gun. "Officer Bell testified in open court that he did not calibrate a device, the radar gun used for speed detection, so we dismissed the speeding tickets because of that," said Babin to WAFB Reporter Cheryl Mercedes during a phone interview. Every misdemeanor offense and traffic citation issued before September 10, 2013.
"The Assistant District Attorney was asking him about whether he calibrated his machine, which is standard operating procedure for an officer, and he said in open court that he had not, did not. So it brought to light to us the possibility the machine was inaccurate, so we bare the burden of proof so we couldn't prove it," said District Attorney Babin.
On October 15, 2013, Officer Bell was in traffic court again. Because of what he said in September traffic court, DA Babin authorized the dismissal of every traffic citation issued since September 10, 2013.
DA Babin also authorized the dismissal of every traffic citation issued by Officer Bell before September 10, 2013. That goes back to December.
I have gotten some calls from people about tickets that they have from this particular officer and what we're telling everybody is that it's case by case. If somebody has already (sic) pled guilty and they admitted they were speeding then the case is over. But if this particular officer has a pending citation, check with the court or us, check the ticket because there might be more than one thing on that ticket. There might be a seat belt violation and speeding ticket. So don't just assume the case is over," said D.A. Babin.
"Paying a ticket is basically an admission of guilt in lieu of prosecution. So if someone's done that already, if you've paid, that means you admit you were speeding. We're not giving refunds," Babin said.
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Progress Report: Hurricane Sandy Recovery – One Year Later
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This oversight hearing of the Full Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will examine the status of Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts and federal agencies' progress in implementing recovery objectives, allocating assistance funding, and meeting associated deadlines.
Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall in New Jersey on October 29, 2012, was responsible for an estimated 131 deaths and $50 billion in economic losses. Congress subsequently approved the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act to provide emergency disaster assistance, and this measure also included the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013, bipartisan legislation to reform, speed up and streamline federal disaster recovery programs. Oversight of recovery efforts for Hurricane Sandy and other disasters continues to be a priority for the Committee, and agencies in the Committee's jurisdiction will provide a progress report on their ongoing efforts.
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Summary of Subject Matter
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Hearing on "Progress Report: Hurricane Sandy Recovery – One Year Later"
November 14, 2013
Opening Statement
(Remarks as Prepared)
The purpose of today's hearing is to review the progress of the gathered agencies in implementing the recovery objectives, and meeting programmatic deadlines authorized and mandated in the "Sandy Supplemental."
Hurricane Sandy made landfall on October 29, 2012 as a Category 1 Hurricane just south of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sandy was responsible for more than 130 deaths and $50 billion in economic losses. As a result of the storm, the President made major disaster declarations for 12 states and the District of Columbia.
In response to this historic natural disaster, last January, Congress passed, and the President signed into law, the combined Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 and the Sandy Recovery Improvement act of 2013. Known collectively as the "Sandy Supplemental," the law provided $50.5 billion to certain federal agencies who support disaster recovery and assistance.
The law also authorized much needed reforms and streamlined disaster assistance programs authorized by the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. Key reforms include expedited debris removal, public assistance alternative procedures, federal assistance to individuals and households, and streamlined environmental review of hazard mitigation projects.
Since Hurricane Sandy devastated the east coast, federal agencies have worked together with state and local partners to get storm affected areas and its citizens back on their feet. Much has been accomplished, but there is still considerable work to do. The Committee is committed to continued oversight of recovery efforts, and to working with the agencies represented in this morning's hearing to achieve programmatic goals laid out in the "Sandy Supplemental."
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Maureen A. Coyle, 77, of Wapakoneta, died 7:20 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, at St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima.
She was born Jan. 15, 1935, in Staten Island, N.Y., the daughter of Ann and Patrick Cassidy. She married James R. Coyle, who survives.
Also surviving are four children, Linda (Daniel) McCune, of Wapakoneta, Debbie (Mark Harshbarger) Martin, of Wapakoneta, Pat (Kim) Weiler, of St. Marys, and Holly (Donnie Browning) Wallace, of Botkins; 10 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and a brother, John (Barbara) Koritar, of Denver, Colo.
She was preceded in death by a grandchild and a great-grandchild.
Mrs. Coyle was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. She did Adoration at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Botkins and had been a clerk for Holsum Bakery. She was a member of Eagles Lodge 691 in Wapakoneta, loved bingo and going on the bus to Casinos.
Services are at 10:30 a.m. Thursday Bayliff & Son Funeral Home in Cridersville, with the Rev. Patrick Sloneker officiating. Burial will follow at Fairmount Cemetery near Uniopolis.
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Chitika, an advertising network that tracks online traffic, decided to compare usage of Surface versus Google's new
Only 0.13 percent of North American tablet traffic came from Surface, which hit stores in late October. Chitika asserts that this indicates slow initial uptake of the device by consumers, at least prior to Christmas.
"While the jury is still out in terms of the Surface's long-term success in the domestic market, these stats point to Microsoft still having a good amount of ground to make up against current competitors," Chitika's Andrew Waber said.
Google Nexus users, meanwhile, are generating more than seven times the Web traffic of the Surface. But they also had a head start, with the original Nexus 7 debuting this summer.
Chitika said the gap between Nexus and Surface users will likely narrow. The company expects a clearer picture of the device's long-term prospects following the holiday season.
Of course, together these two devices make up only about 1 percent of tablet traffic. What about the other 99 percent?
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"Emma was 'accidentally' born in Canada on January 27, 1859 while her mother was making a brief visit to relatives living there and was caught in a winter storm and could not return home, creating fears as to her citizenship, but there were no problems." - An excerpt from a biography on my 2nd great-grandmother, Emma Sophia Tock (Shinn).
|Emma Sophia Tock
circa 1874
The biography above also mentions where the family was supposedly residing at the time of Emma's birth: Calais, Washington, Maine. Looking at a map reveals something interesting about Calais:
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Calais is not only on the Canadian border, it and St. Stephen, Charlotte, New Brunswick run into each other. They run into each other so much so that the family is often enumerated in records in St. Stephen and not Calais.
What a Little Research Turned Up...
I recently decided to revisit this family story and the results were interesting the say the least. Census records were the first thing I re-examined. Unfortunately, Emma, father James and mother Martha (Wadd) Tock aren't on any records (that I could find) in Maine or Canada. But, three of Emma's sisters (Mary Elizabeth, Sarah Jane "Sallie" and Martha Ann/Anna) do appear in census records.
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Next up is to look for the girls in either the 1871 Canadian census or the 1870 US census. Well, Martha Ann is nowhere to be found in 1871 or 1870, but Sallie is enumerated. She is still with William and Sarah Harris in St. Stephen. The fact that Sallie appears in their household in both 1861 and 1871 is a red flag to me that maybe the Harris family might be more than just charitable to little Sallie and her family.
I was not able to find Mary Elizabeth in the 1860 US or 1861 Canadian Census records. She is in the 1870 US census though, living in Calais. She is listed as a dressmaker in the household of Robert and Jane Temple. Both Robert and Jane were from England. Could Robert or Jane be related to William and Sarah Harris?
Well, I looked up Jane in the Maine death records at Ancestry.com. I was happy to see her record was there and even happier to see that it listed her parents names: William Harris and Sarah Barnes.
I then went and looked up Jane in earlier census years in the US, Canada and England. She appears in Calais in 1860 as Jane Harris and is a servant in her future husband Robert Temple's household.
Were They/Weren't They?
There might be some reasons that could defeat the possibility of a biological connection:
- Emma, Mary Elizabeth, Sallie and Martha Ann's mother, Martha Wadd Tock, died in 1861. It is entirely possible that James, unable to care for four small daughters on his own, sent them to live in whatever household would take them - like the Harris family (and later their daughter Jane's household)
- The Harris family put 'Wesleyan Methodist' down as their religion, and so did the Tock girls. It is entirely possible that the two families attended the same church and had become close that way. It might also be the reason why both families left England.
- I know where in Lincolnshire the Wadd and Tock families were from. I have been able to find records for both James and Martha and their siblings. I have never come across a Barnes or Harris in either family, or in the area in Lincolnshire in which they lived.
- They were both from England. Perhaps the families just bonded over their shared origins. Perhaps they left England and came to the Calais/St. Stephen area at the same time.
- Both William Harris and James Tock were laborers. Perhaps the two men worked together and the families grew close that way.
- Maybe the girls worked for the Harris and Temple households. They might just have been taken in to help Sarah Harris with household chores.
But, there are also compelling reasons why they might have been related:
- I have not been able to trace Martha and James' parents. It is entirely possible that either William or Sarah was a first (or more distant) cousin.
- William was a laborer and his daughter, Jane, was a servant before her marriage. They probably weren't wealthy or in a financial position to be charitable with anyone other than a relative.
- William and Sarah were pushing fifty in 1861. They also had at least one grown child. Unless a relative were in need, I find it hard to believe that they'd choose to take in at least two small children and raise them for ten + years.
- Sallie and Martha Ann are never explicitly listed as servants, and for that matter neither is Mary Elizabeth. In fact, Sallie is listed as attending school in 1871. If she were in the household as a servant, I doubt she would have been able to attend school.
- Their connection was multigenerational. If the Tock girls were a charity case or worked for the family, I have a hard time believing that they would have continued a connection with Jane and her family - especially since the girls probably joined the Harris family after their mother's death in 1861, when Jane was out of the house and on her own.
- Sallie's full name was Sarah Jane Tock - is it just a coincidence that her foster mother was also named Sarah and her foster mother's daughter was named Jane?
So, were they related or not? What do you think?
Note: this post was written for week 2 of 31 Weeks to a Better Genealogy Blog at Tonia's Roots.
Note: this post was written for week 2 of 31 Weeks to a Better Genealogy Blog at Tonia's Roots.


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Giovanni Veraridi, Hardships and Downfall of Buddhism in India (New Delhi, India: Manohar, 2011), 349-350.
- Violence was no longer a taboo for the Buddhists: it was part of their strategy, together with sexual unruliness and a conscious resorting to social revolt. It is a mistake to consider the incitements to revolt contained in the texts and the manifestations of violence in both texts and iconographies as purely symbolic. They are literal and metaphorical, not symbolic. As metaphors, through the analogical process, texts and iconographies transfer the violence committed by the Buddhists on the tīrthika-s to those carried out on the Brahmanical gods by the new Buddhist deities. That a symbolic interpretation started developing at an early stage is not particularly significant, because it was largely the work of trans-Himalayan Buddhists who had to adapt the received tradition to a context where there were no tīrthika-s. The Vajrayāna was considered part of the true teaching of the Buddha, and neither texts nor images could be changed: they could only be interpreted. These interpretations have their own legitimacy, and so deep and influential as to have generated an entire symbolic universe, extending from Tibet to Japan, but we must first distinguish between Indian Buddhism and the violent world where it developed and the forms it took when it was received outside India.
Verardi's ideas are somewhat contentious as a lot of Indian scholars are reluctant to acknowledge the violence that occurred between Brahmans and Buddhists. I had tea with a certain eminent scholar not so long ago and he rejected Verardi's ideas outright.
Nevertheless, I think Verardi makes a compelling case.
There's also the point that Nālandā and other such monasteries became fortresses in the post-Gupta period (c.550 onward). Granted, fortresses are used for self-defence, but then at the same time it reveals it was a hostile world that existed, otherwise there would have been no need for such defences.
So did the violent iconography and literature of Vajrayāna have literal reality behind it? It would seem so, but then people might be reluctant to concede this. For ideological reasons Buddhists would not want to admit their predecessors ideologically sanctioned violence. However, this point is still up in the air.


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Coscoroba swan
(Coscoroba coscoroba)
Facts about this animal
A small swan with a body-weight of about 4.6 kg in males and 3.8 kg in females, and a total length of 87.5-112.5 cm. The plumage is entirely white.
The female lays 4 to 7 creamy-white eggs, in a bulky ground nest near water, lined with much down for a swan. The eggs are incubated for 35-40 days exclusively by the female.
. The food of coscoroba swans includes various plants, aquatic insects, fish spawn and at times small crustaceans.
|Name (Scientific)
|Coscoroba coscoroba
|Name (English)
|Coscoroba swan
|Name (French)
|Cygne coscoroba
|Name (German)
|Name (Spanish)
|Cisne coscoroba
|Local names
|Brasil: Coscoroba, Apororoca
|CITES Status
|Appendix II
|CMS Status
|Appendix II (as Anatidae spp.)
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Adrian Pingstone
|Southern cone of South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, Paraguay, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Uruguay
|Freshwater wetlands, including bogs, marshes, swamps, fens, peatlands, ponds, dams and lakes.
|Wild population
|The global population is estimated to be 10,000-25,000 individuals by Wetlands International (2002).
|Zoo population
|199 reported to ISIS (2006).
In the Zoo
How this animal should be transported
For air transport, Container Note 17 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
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Why do zoos keep this animal
The coscoroba swan is not a threatened species but it os of educational interest because it is a taxonomic conundrum. It is swanlike overall, but its honking voice and gooselike head make it somewhat indistinguishable. Its bill looks like a duck and it is the only swan with offspring that look like tree ducks. Some scientists, who believe it to be a member of the swans, think there is a link either between swans and true geese, or between swans and whistling ducks.
Coscorobas display typical swanlike threats that involve lifting their folded wings to make them appear larger. Aggressive wing flapping is also a typical threat. Unlike typical swans, coscorobas are not known to have a triumph ceremony. Such ceremonies are when a male attacks a rival suitor, then returns to his potential mate to perform an elaborate ceremony while posturing and calling.


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It's obvious from the big speech that President Obama has no intention of downshifting on spending. In fact, much of what he proposed will call for additional revenue, which of course is why he made no reference to the manner of implementing anything he said. Let's look at some of the biggies.
What is the effect of raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour? The debate will rage once again with advocates believing the lowest paid workers will be better off and opponents believing they'll be laid off. In reality it will have little effect on employment rates and won't cost the federal government a dime to implement. Yet the free market has been at work and 20 states already have minimum wages above the federal level. Do we really need the White House Poobah dictating pay rates? True cost won't be known until we see the effect it will have on an erratic economy and whether it ignites the spiral of inflation.
Not only did the president propose how much to pay workers, he also wants a say in where they will work. Fifteen new 'manufacturing hubs' is the vision - the details are left to your imagination.
Although Obama called the 'Fix it First' initiative a jobs program, it's really about infrastructure maintenance. This will cost billions but will put a lot of people to work. He didn't say how we would pay for it - only that taxpayers won't have to shoulder the entire burden cause private enterprise can join in, too. Huh? It must be a new version of 'don't ask, don't tell.'
When Obama said "we've produced more oil at home than we have in 15 years… and more natural gas than ever before," it must be understood that this has occurred in spite of his policies, not because of them. Ditto for the accompanying jobs. To prop up renewables, watch for even more EPA intrusion and regulation of domestic fossil fuel production. More taxes, fees and penalties will be levied because, in Obama's world, the U.S. must take the lead in reversing global climate change "before it's too late."
Surprisingly, Obama took his lines on immigration reform straight from the Republican playbook. Border security, background checks, paying taxes and penalties, learning English and going to the back of the line are all parts of a prescription long ago written.
There was an emotional plea that victims of gun violence deserved a vote on gun control proposals. But the proposals being touted have been tried, have failed and will have zero effect on curbing future mass killings. Rather than seriously trying to solve this problem, Democrats are trying to look like they're doing something. Obama did not address the shameful state of our mental health system - nor did he mention gun control measures for federal use of armed drones.
Unfortunately, nothing new was offered. The same party gridlock instituted during term one will continue. Even the stupid sequestration mandate that Obama signed into law may be triggered by inaction. And a solution to deficit spending and ever rising national debt will not be found under current adversarial conditions. Obama has given the problem a deep shoulder shrug. In the absence of leadership, Congress is frozen like a deer in the headlights, and will remain there, staring blankly as the lights grow larger and closer, larger and closer…
Columnist Michael Raymond can be reached at email@example.com.


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But many farmers are becoming convinced that the World Wide Web postings have only served to confuse the issue – either accidentally or on purpose, depending on what motives you impute to the Washington-based EWG.
Aside from the fact that the EWG never points out that the payments mainly follow production, it makes no distinctions between who receives the payments.
"The Grassley-Dorgan amendment was passed in large part due to the Environmental Working Group statistics regarding the concentration of payments in the top 10 percent of recipients," a farmer writes. "These are greatly distorted by the number of share-rent landlords included in the data base."
The writer notes that in summarizing the data for Richland Parish in Louisiana, the EWG says the farm programs are unfair because the top 10 percent received 70 percent of the payments.
"What they don't say is that almost every producer in Richland Parish is included in the top 10 percent of recipients," he noted. "The bottom 90 percent are almost entirely share-rent landlords who receive a portion of farm program payments as part of their rental agreement."
Looking at the concentration of program payments to those recipients that are actually producers, the top 10 percent receive about 20 percent of the payments, he said. "This is a much more accurate portrayal of the concentration of benefits to the top 10 percent of farmers in Richland Parish, but it would not have created the type of outrage that the Environmental Working Group was seeking."
On its Web site, the EWG says, "robust programs are needed to support farmers' incomes while helping them protect natural resources and the environment. But we also think current policy has badly failed almost everyone in agriculture but the very largest producers of a few favored crops.
It's difficult to argue with such "motherhood and apple pie" statements. It's true that many farmers and ranchers don't receive government payments. What the EWG doesn't point out is that the organizations representing those farmers have never asked for such payments and, in some cases, have policies rejecting them.
In a recent e-mail complaining about our coverage of the EWG, a spokesman cited correspondence from small farmers applauding its posting of the information, confirming their suspicions that the programs are "heavily tilted to bigger producers." But what does the EWG consider a small farmer? Someone with 50 acres?
Unfortunately, the EWG tries to paint with a very broad brush an issue that is extremely complex; one that could impact the futures of thousands of farmers whose mistake was trying to grow bigger to achieve the economies of scale government economists have been suggesting for decades.
I suspect that for all its protests to the contrary, the EWG shares the same agenda as other environmentalists: wiping out large-scale commercial agriculture, so that we can go back to some idyllic version of small organic farms that they somehow think can feed America and a share of the world's population.
The Environmental Working Group had the following response to this column:
"We already have an overproduction problem that is a partial result of these subsidies driving production, rather than the market. In every crop category, we're exporting large amounts, so the feed-the-nation argument is a house of cards. Don't take that from some watchdog organization. That sentiment is shared by folks with some pretty solid conservative credentials - such as George Bush, Richard Lugar (R-IN), and Ann Veneman - all of whom criticized both the House and Senate bills for their overemphasis on commodity subsidies.
"The fact is that 60 percent of farmers and ranchers in America don't get subsidy money. As The New York Times story yesterday (April 9) suggested, the positions of commodity trade groups to which you refer are against expanding commodity payments to include their crops - not against receiving farmland conservation programs payments, which those producer groups have clearly and repeatedly said they favor.
"The biggest producers do get most of the money. We understand the co-op you've referred to with 9,000 members told reporters it got $98 million over the last six years. We've never contested that these producers tend to produce bigger yields, but so what? It is a fact that they are the biggest and get the most money, which gives us, and lot of small producers concerns that the big producers use their subsidy money to buy out neighbors and out compete them in the rental markets. That's a concern USDA and the Bush administration have voiced recently in their October report. Only if one thinks increasing concentration in agriculture is a positive thing should one think that giving the most to the biggest is a good principle.
"Said another way, the general pattern in government programs is to help those struggling, small operations. We have a Small Business Administration; we don't have a Large Business Administration to subsidize IBM or Microsoft.
"Churchill said the definition of madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. We've spent $90 billion in the last six years to save farmers while record numbers of them have gone bankrupt, prices have fallen because of overproduction, and agriculture has become increasingly concentrated. Doing more of the same will produce more of the same, it's fair to assume. Is this the future for rural communities that we as a country want?"


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Election Day in Wisconsin, Tuesday, is becoming yet another chapter in the ongoing debate over the collective-bargaining power for unions in that state. Both political parties are targeting an open state Supreme Court seat with the hope that it will swing the majority vote on the issue in their favor – a prospect that has elevated the race to the national stage and is generating millions of dollars from national interest groups.
The stakes are high because both sides agree that whoever wins will probably end up ruling on the controversial union bill, which strips collective-bargaining rights from public-employee unions. That legislation is expected to wind its way through the state court system in the coming weeks. On Friday, a circuit court judge ruled that the temporary restraining order designed to block the legislation will stand for at least two months in order to determine whether Republican legislators violated the state's open meeting policy in making it law. The administration of Gov. Scott Walker (R) insists the law's passage was sound and is already adopting it as official policy.
Tuesday's election is being seen as giving voters their first opportunity to weigh in on the matter. Republicans favor Justice David Prosser, the incumbent since 1998, while Democrats and union organizations are backing Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg.
IN PICTURES: Wisconsin protest signs
In a different year, the race would be unencumbered by outside issues, says Mike McCabe, executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonprofit watchdog group located in Madison, the state capital. But then came the fight over Governor Walker's bill, which critics say erodes union power in that state but supporters say is needed to shore up the state budget and deal with the big deficit.
"I don't think there's any question that [the Supreme Court election] is a referendum on Scott Walker," Mr. McCabe says. "We're not used to having Wisconsin Supreme Court elections get national attention. They don't even have attention in the state."
Tuesday's election, McCabe adds, is being seen as an extension of the citizen protests that took place outside the State Capitol starting in mid-February. As 14 state Democrats camped in Illinois to prevent their Republican peers from achieving the quorum needed to pass the bill, Madison streets were filled for weeks with hundreds of thousands of protesters and national media.
Interest from outside Wisconsin
"Because of what happened there in the last month and a half, [the election] is giving the electorate the first opportunity to express their opinion via the ballot box ... and I think people are seizing the opportunity," McCabe says.
The election's outcome is seen as so pivotal that national special-interest organizations from outside the state are getting involved. According to data compiled by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, a nonpartisan public-policy organization, spending on television advertising for the election reached $1.4 million by March 27 – and special-interest groups accounted for 82 percent of the spending. By comparison, during the last state Supreme Court election in 2009, special-interest groups were responsible for just 23 percent of all spending for television advertising.
For the current election, both candidates were provided $100,000 in public money during the primary and $300,000 for the general election. But the greatest increase in spending for television advertising was expected to take place last week. By Tuesday, McCabe estimates, the combined spending for both sides will total almost $5 million.
Among the biggest spenders, according to data compiled through March 27, are the Greater Wisconsin Committee, a liberal organization that spent more than $575,000, and the Wisconsin Club for Growth, which spent about $415,000.
Sarah Palin weighs in
The Tea Party Express, a national political-action committee (PAC), has spent more than $150,000 on television advertising so far disparaging Ms. Kloppenburg. Sal Russo, whose firm operates the PAC, told Politico that his organization became involved "because the left wants to use success in Wisconsin as a warning to fiscal conservatives in other states."
Sarah Palin also weighed in this week, tweeting to followers to vote for Justice Prosser and to visit his website.
The heightened attention is expected to result in greater voter turnout, especially in Dane and Milwaukee counties, which are the most populated and most Democratic counties in the state. The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board is predicting a 20 percent voter turnout, although local experts say it will be higher.
Whatever the outcome, a resolution over the collective-bargaining law is not guaranteed. John McAdams, who teaches political science at Marquette University in Milwaukee, says the issue "will be a battle" once it reaches the state Supreme Court because of the variety of challenges to the law. Some argue its passage violated procedural law, while others say it is constitutionally flawed.
"Pretty much everything will be litigated," he says. "This whole business is an invitation to prolonged trench warfare."


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Originally Posted by 82GTforME
I hope it goes back together leak free like the last and only time I put this one together.
Once I get it together I am going to double check the stator and rotor marks at the proper base timing mark.
After that I suppose I try to start it up OR check the lashes as Stormy suggests to rule that out too.
I really want to drive this this year!


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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia – Sadie Bjornsen of Mazama led the U.S. women's cross-country ski team by finishing 18th in the Olympic 10K classic race this morning.
All four U.S. skiers finished in the Top 35.
Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk, skiing on a broken foot, captured the gold medal in 28 minutes, 17.8 seconds.
Bjornsen finished in 29:59.7 to lead the Americans.
Charlotte Kalla of Sweden earned silver (28:36.2) and Therese Johaug of Norway took bronze (28:46.1).
The other three Americans were separated by 8 seconds.
Vermont's Sophie Caldwell, who placed sixth in Tuesday's freestyle sprint, was 32nd (31:11.4), Vermont's Ida Sargent was 34th (31:15.1) and Anchorage's Holly Brooks was 35th (31:19.1).
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The New York Giants have signed veteran defensive linemen Mike Patterson.
The 29-year-old Patterson, a first-round draft pick by the Eagles, had spent the last eight seasons in Philadelphia. He has 16 1/2 career sacks.
Patterson played in only five games last season. He was diagnosed with a rare brain condition called arteriovenous malformation (AVM) and had surgery in January 2012.
This is the second ex-Eagle defensive lineman the Giants have recently signed. They inked Cullen Jenkins last month.


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Stonehouse Robbery
Stonehouse Robbery
Edwin Stonehouse was 59 years old when the Red Ryan gang tried to steal a 1935 V-8 Chevrolet Master Sedan from his automotive business. As gang member Edward McMullen started to drive the car away, Edwin and his 22-year-old son James ran and jumped in. The Stonehouses and McMullen were fighting in the Chevy as they drove west on Highway 7. McMullen's accomplices, Harry Checkley and Norman "Red" Ryan, pursued them in their Model-A Ford. It was snowing heavily and the roads were slippery. At some point, the Stonehouses succeeded in pulling the keys out of the ignition and throwing them into the snow. Shots were fired; the first hit James in the hand and the second hit Edwin. More shots were fired after which Edwin collapsed. He had been shot in the head by McMullen and James had taken a shot in the stomach.
The robbers fled in the Model-A which stalled half a mile away. At this point, a police constable drove past the Chevy and saw James and Edwin lying on the ground. He then reached the Ryan Gang trying to get their car started. When the constable approached, the gunmen fired five shots at his car, hitting the mudguard. The robbers started their car and fled, firing at the constable who was in hot pursuit. The police officer eventually abandoned the chase and went back to look after the injured men. Fifty-six pellet marks were found in the constable's car, although he escaped injury.
It was only later that the crime was linked to "Red" Ryan and his accomplices and this resulted in a scandal that changed Canada's parole system. Ryan had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1924 and served part of his sentence at Kingston penitentiary. He managed to convince the public and a number of senior politicians that he had changed his ways, becoming a spokesperson for prison reform. He was paroled and moved to Toronto where he hosted a popular radio program denouncing his past criminal life. Meanwhile, his gang was terrorizing southern Ontario with armed robberies and safecracking. During this crime spree, Ryan killed six people. When officials realized how they had been made to look like fools by the "Jesse James of Canada," the parole system was tightened.


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