A prominent former cricketer on ABC1 assures the viewer in a pre show advert that he would run through brick walls if Ricky Ponting had asked him. Neither play for Australia anymore, but it is doubtful the athletic achievement of running through brick walls would have done much for either career outside of a circus. Not even Gillard could have used that type of loyalty. But it is probable she demanded it. But it is that kind of loyalty which impresses about AGW believers. And one can only imagine what those brick walls have done to their minds. Al Gore has not helped those researchers stuck on ice, who will be unable to report on the warming world because they are stuck on ice. As is their rescuers. One thing is certain, it isn't leftists picking up the rubbish once the ship moves on.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Pamela Huynh and Xin Ha. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 1642 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1693)
- 1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
- 1727 – James Wolfe, English general (d. 1759)
- 1836 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)
- 1884 – Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator, historian and politician (d. 1973)
- 1896 – Lawrence Wackett, Australian engineer (d. 1982)
- 1914 – Vivian Stuart, Burmese author (d. 1986)
- 1920 – Isaac Asimov, American chemist and author (d. 1992)
- 1932 – Peter Redgrove, English poet (d. 2003)
- 1940 – Jim Bakker, American minister, evangelist, and television host
- 1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor
- 1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress
- 2001 – Christopher Barrios, Jr., American murder victim (d. 2007)
Matches
- 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
- 533 – Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
- 1492 – Reconquista: the Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
- 1818 – The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.
- 1900 – American Statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
- 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China.
- 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
- 1935 – Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- 1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
- 1967 – Ronald Reagan sworn in as Governor of California
- 1999 – A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) inChicago, Illinois, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported.
Despatches
- 1512 – Svante Nilsson, Sweden politician (b. 1460)
- 1557 – Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
ACADEMIC SELF-ESTEEM
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 02, 2014 (4:45pm)
ENTIRE PLANET DOOMED BY AUSTRALIANS
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 02, 2014 (5:29am)
Former Fairfax senior writer and frequent ABC commentator Margo Kingston predicts:
Our climate change denial govt will lie to destroy the planet.
Let’s hope so. These slow news days lately are really getting me down.
CHRIS CRISPY
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 02, 2014 (4:59am)
Antarctic resident Chris Turney reports that it’s been “warm all day” in his ice-barricaded, penguin-surroundedsouthern sea dwelling. Here’s Chris looking tanned and toasty:
Interestingly, media descriptions of climate change professor Turney have changed since he became trapped by ice during a voyage intended to reveal the extent of climate change. Following several days of enforced ice observation for Turney and his pals, the ABC now avoids any mention of their climate change quest. Also interesting is that one of those on board thinks warming might be a good thing for penguins:
Interestingly, media descriptions of climate change professor Turney have changed since he became trapped by ice during a voyage intended to reveal the extent of climate change. Following several days of enforced ice observation for Turney and his pals, the ABC now avoids any mention of their climate change quest. Also interesting is that one of those on board thinks warming might be a good thing for penguins:
These birds feed on the seashore, which has moved some 70km thanks to ice around Cape Denison. Every extra kilometre the penguins have to walk reduces the energy available for rearing young. Until iceberg B09B melts and the fast ice dissipates and returns open water to Cape Denison, penguin numbers will continue to drop.
So might numbers of Antarctic “tourists”, whose situation is now compared to previous mockery:
For the latest hilarious overview of events aboard the Academik Stuck-a-lotski, please read Roger Franklin.
For the latest hilarious overview of events aboard the Academik Stuck-a-lotski, please read Roger Franklin.
(Photo links via Maurie S.)
TAKING OUT THE TRASH
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 02, 2014 (4:15am)
Under cover of night I began my shameful mission. Dark clothing offered concealment from householders and authorities. Soft shoes made little sound as I paced through Sydney’s streets.
Continue reading 'TAKING OUT THE TRASH'PIZZAS AND PICNICS
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 02, 2014 (4:04am)
Nigel Roebuck, possibly the world’s best sports writer, turns his mind to the benefits and disadvantages of social media.
POWER OF ONE
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 02, 2014 (3:56am)
Speeding penalty – $146:
Jake Cassidy, 21, was pulled over on December 23 and accused of clocking 61km/h in a 60km/h zone …The police officer did not use a speed gun to catch Mr Cassidy but measured the speed by driving behind him.
The fine was subsequently cancelled following media attention. Just as well, otherwise Iowahawk’s planned 2014 Australian visit would bankrupt him before he’d completed the rental drive from the airport.
Socialists and greens don’t pick up rubbish
Andrew Bolt January 02 2014 (8:33am)
Fitzroy is a
“progressive” area, filled with people with a “social conscience”
particularly when it comes to the environment. Its council reflects
this, comprising three Greens, one socialist, three Labor members and
two independents. Fitzroy’s federal member is Adam Bandt, the sole Green
in the House of Representatives.
And when 15,000 people in one of the country’s most progressive and green areas hold a party in the local Edinburgh Gardens, they naturally leave the park looking like this:
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Rubbish is for Big Government to pick up.
Fairfax attacks Abbott for breaking promises one day in the future, maybe
Andrew Bolt January 02 2014 (8:04am)
Fairfax newspapers are
so mad with Abbott-hate that they accuse Tony Abbott of breaking
promises long before he’s even had a chance to keep them.
Yesterday’s Fairfax headline:
(Thanks to reader Matt.)
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Broken vows pile up as Coalition’s pledge of 1 million new jobs refutedIn fact, as the report’s first paragraph admits, this isn’t a broken vow but a projection of failure five years from now:
The Abbott government faces further pressure over broken promises with a new analysis showing it will fall well short of its pledge to create 1 million jobs over five years.Last week’s Fairfax headline:
Tony Abbott ‘breaks pension pledge’ on Disability Support PensionOnce again, Fairfax describes as a broken promise something that has not even happened and may not ever. Its claim is based on the claim of a single person - a woman on the disability pension:
The Abbott government appears hell-bent on breaking its pledge, made six days out from the September 7 election, not to change the pension arrangements, a Canberra multiple sclerosis sufferer says.Fairfax’s political coverage since the election has been utterly shameful. This meme about Abbott’s broken promises comes from a news organisation that did its best to excuse a real and brazen broken promise from Julia Gillard on the carbon tax.
Jacqui White, of Symonston, considers the breach of faith is on a par with Julia Gillard’s broken ‘’no carbon tax under a government I lead’’ pledge and ‘’probably worse’’, given Mr Abbott did not have to form a minority government.
(Thanks to reader Matt.)
What’s the big secret?
Andrew Bolt January 02 2014 (7:42am)
My guess is that the secret destination wasn’t Europe:
===A Sydney father has been charged by police over the alleged genital mutilation of his infant daughter while they were holidaying overseas…Are police worried we might jump to some right conclusions?
Police would not say which country the family was holidaying in at the time of the alleged incident.
ABC whitewash: don’t mention warmists are on board the ice-bound ship
Andrew Bolt January 02 2014 (5:29am)
The ABC’s 7.30
last night filed an astonishing report on the ship load of warmist
scientists and journalists trapped by ice as they tried to prove global
warming was melting Antarctica.
What was astonishing was that not once in that report did the ABC mention “global warming” or “climate change” or even “climate scientists”. It did everything humanly possible to cover up the most embarrassing PR disaster in years for the global warming movement.
How different it was last November, when the ABC in a two-part report eagerly presented Professor Chris Turney’s Antarctic expedition as a serious scientific quest to prove how global warming was damaging Antarctica. Back then it couldn’t mention climate change enough:
This time it sold them as merely “tourists” and a few unspecified scientists. This time it did not mention “climate change” once. Indeed, Turney, who the ABC in November identified as a professor from the Climate Change Research Centre of the University of NSW, was this time identified merely as “expedition leader”. Not once did 7.30 last night report the real story and the real joke - that a ship carrying warmist scientists and journalists, plus a Greens politician, was trapped in thick ice that those on board had insisted was melting away:
This is not reporting but covering up.
UPDATE
Turney made perfectly clear this expedition was to prompt a discussion about global warming. So why isn’t the ABC discussing it?
===What was astonishing was that not once in that report did the ABC mention “global warming” or “climate change” or even “climate scientists”. It did everything humanly possible to cover up the most embarrassing PR disaster in years for the global warming movement.
How different it was last November, when the ABC in a two-part report eagerly presented Professor Chris Turney’s Antarctic expedition as a serious scientific quest to prove how global warming was damaging Antarctica. Back then it couldn’t mention climate change enough:
EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: A modern-day scientist adventurer is about to undertake one of the largest Australian science expeditions to the Antarctic. Professor Chris Turney from the University of New South Wales and an 85-person team will spend two months trying to answer questions about how climate change in the frozen continent might already be shifting weather patterns in Australia…But last night - with Turney’s ship of warmist scientists and journalists embarrassingly stuck in ice for more than a week - the ABC’s 7.30 filed a report which no longer sold Turney’s team as “one of the largest Australian science expeditions to Antarctic” on a mission to “answer questions about ... climate change”.
MARGOT O’NEILL [reporter]: The research stakes are high. Antarctica is one of the great engines driving the world’s oceans, winds and weather, especially in Australia. But there’s ominous signs of climate change…
CHRIS TURNEY, CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH CENTRE, UNSW: So we’ve got a really good team and hopefully they won’t go psycho on us. (laughs)…
MARGOT O’NEILL: Professor Turney and his co-leader Dr Chris Fogwell are selecting PhD students for the expedition to help record thousands of measurements, assessing signs of climate change on the frozen continent… The expedition sails south tomorrow on a mission to revive the spirit of one of Australia’s greatest scientific explorations for a new generation grappling with climate change.
This time it sold them as merely “tourists” and a few unspecified scientists. This time it did not mention “climate change” once. Indeed, Turney, who the ABC in November identified as a professor from the Climate Change Research Centre of the University of NSW, was this time identified merely as “expedition leader”. Not once did 7.30 last night report the real story and the real joke - that a ship carrying warmist scientists and journalists, plus a Greens politician, was trapped in thick ice that those on board had insisted was melting away:
TRACY BOWDEN, PRESENTER: Since Christmas Eve, 74 people, including 26 tourists, have been stuck in the Antarctic ice on board a scientific expedition ship…Later in the report the ABC discussed the scientists - but this time it was no longer eager to tell us they were warmists out to prove there was global warming. And this time it shrank what it last November hyped as an “85-person team” studying “climate change” to just 22 scientists doing unspecified “measurements”:
CHRIS TURNEY, EXPEDITION LEADER: Things happen sometimes that you just can’t plan for. You try and mitigate them and, unfortunately, we’re extremely unlucky. Bad location, bad time.
LISA WHITEHEAD, REPORTER: Professor Chris Turney’s luck ran out on Christmas Eve.
After 16 days exploring the frozen continent conducting scientific tests and taking samples, his team of 22 scientists aboard the Russian-flagged ship the Akademik Shokalskiy found themselves trapped in sea ice… The $1.5 million Australasian Antarctic Expedition left New Zealand on 8th December. Its mission was to repeat the scientific measurements made by explorer Sir Douglas Mawson and his team 100 years ago.You see, if the ABC mentioned these were actually warmist scientists, some parts of the report might make a laughing stock of them. Like this:
JAN LEISER: The additional trouble in that region at the moment is a very thick snow load. If the snow cover on sea ice is sufficiently thick enough, it actually acts as super glue with the ship’s hull.True, the ABC did near the end of its report finally mention Turney’s team wanted to measure “changes” to the region - but it did not let on that the changes Turney sought to measure were allegedly caused by man-made warming:
LISA WHITEHEAD: On Saturday the passengers’ hopes rose when they spotted the Chinese ship Snow Dragon on the horizon. But it was unable to break through the thick sea ice and had to turn back. Two days later, the ice-breaker Aurora Australis was also driven back by 30-knot winds and driving snow.
LISA WHITEHEAD: A century ago, Sir Douglas Mawson and his men spent three years making observations, keeping meticulous records. The current Australasian expedition is using this unique scientific archive to compare to the changes seen today.Absolutely astonishing. Not a single mention this time of global warming or climate change. Not one.
CHRIS TURNEY (on Skype): One of the things that they absolutely adored were the local Adelie penguins, which are about 30 centimetres tall, wonderfully inquisitive creatures. And some of the early reports talk about almost not being able to hear yourself speak because of the noise and the chatter. And the census of the birds 100 years ago estimated more than 10,000 rookery - 10,000 of them breeding there. But one of the immediate things that was apparent was just how silent it was. There are penguins there, but the population is crashing and it’s a fifth of what it was a century ago.
LISA WHITEHEAD: Professor Chris Turney says the impacts over the next century are likely to be some of the most significant anywhere on our planet and could have global consequences.
CHRIS TURNEY (on Skype): And one of the arguments we’ve had, which is one we’ve come to test, is the idea that as the westerly winds are shifting away from Australia in those mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, they’re driving pole-wards and they’re changing the ocean circulation across - around the Southern Ocean, bringing up warmer water down below. ... And it’s a very complicated system, but effectively, these are big changes taking place.
This is not reporting but covering up.
UPDATE
Turney made perfectly clear this expedition was to prompt a discussion about global warming. So why isn’t the ABC discussing it?
Professional warmist attacks amateur sceptic for being on the take
Andrew Bolt January 02 2014 (12:39am)
David Karoly’s salary
depends on him being a warmist. He is Professor of Atmospheric Science
at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Climate Change
Authority.
Today he attacks sceptic Maurice Newman, the former ABC chairman and now head of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council, who is paid not a cent to point out - correctly - that the world has not warmed as alarmists predicted and the carbon tax wouldn’t prevent it anyway. Says Karoly of Newman:
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As Upton Sinclair wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”Is Karoly at all aware of how stupid he looks?
The Greens inspiration for banning Jewish businesses.
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Perfekt ausbalanciert Bravo Lorin Maazel
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Sometimes people get it fast, sometimes slow.
Some people even take the douchebag way and steal other parking spots, or just as bad, DOUBLE PARK!
Some people may wait patiently, but you may not know if you'll be missing out on better parking spots!
Maybe some people find some reason to park illegally just because they can... And somehow get away with it (in Malaysia at least :p)
Or maybe after a long long tiring search people might give up one day and decide to use valet service!
Let's not forget to mention about the vvip parking!! On behalf of the rest of the community, screw u!!
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But in the end, what really matters is that I should really stop comparing relationships to parking. The end.> from Timmy Lingy .. public transport in Sibu is not that good .. the article here seems funny as a match
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Not a bad way to go .. wife might differ .. ed
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How can the USA with close to USD$18 trillion in debt, 7% unemployment,a bankrupt Detroit and filled with homeless citizens in every city give aid to Arab countries that hate them ?
None of this money will ever reach the poor bastards it is meant for.
Instead it will feather the nest of corrupt Arab leadership and flow into off shore bank accounts.>
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In conclusion, all quenelliste is indeed support the anti-Semitic policy (anti-Jewish) Dieudonné!>
Alors que tout le monde parle de la quenelle de Dieudonné, voilà une infographie pour expliquer aux gens que le "système" que ce dernier prétend dénoncer, et que tout le monde utilise comme argument pour légitimer le geste, est en fait bien le pseudo "lobby juif" (les Juifs). Décryptage de l’affiche du Parti Antisioniste présenté par Dieudonné pour les Elections européennes de 2009, où la quenelle a commencé à devenir virale.
En conclusion, tout quenelliste est bel et bien un soutien de la politique Antisémite (Anti-Juifs) de Dieudonné !
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The real truth - Israel is the most dangerous enemy of Israel
Let's think realistically about American anti-Semitism and Chutzpa-audacity - 4 Points to ponder
1. Taliban and al-Qaeda are holding American prisoners. But Americans have an iron rule: never negotiate with terrorist gangs . Then why are the Americans forcing Israel to ignore and cross this iron rule?
2. The Americans conquered and occupied territories spreading over thousands of miles, from Mexico, from the Indian tribes who lived in the Americas before they arrived to the land, and as a result they pushed, even almost destroyed, various peoples. But Americans have an iron rule: they do not negotiate over a grain of their sacred land. So why are the Americans forcing Israel to ignore this iron rule, specifically when Israel did not conquer or is occupying any land that does not belong to her?
3. And one other iron rule the Americans have: to never release a security prisoner, or even a criminal prisoner, before he or she finishes his/her sentence. Bernard Madoff, who was convicted of a gigantic defrauding - the largest defrauding scam in history – will not be released one day before he serves his 150 years prison sentence. So why do Americans force upon Israel to cross this iron rule and release murderers - not thieves - who have not fully completed serving their sentence?
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We must therefore ask ourselves, from where does John Kerry, who claims to be a man with moral and values, gets the political and psychological power to demand, time after time after time, that Israel must act opposite of what he supposedly believes in and stands for?
From where does Kerry get the never ending Chutzpah-audacity to come to Jerusalem, again and again and again, from his country that is stretching over thousands of miles, and pressure Israel - to impose on Israel fear, conduct against Israel an ongoing political and economic jihad, and demand that Israel returns to the 1948 armistice lines - not borders – that in their narrowest area -their hips measure 13 kilometers in total, those armistice lines that then Foreign Minister Abba Eban called the Auschwitz borders?
We must not pretend that this is a surprise!
Everything happens because John Kerry and his boss Obama are well aware that in Israel rules are like butter, red lines melt after they were drawn on a bomb drawing, the laws have no meaning. Israel does not have ironclad rules! Israel has pretty good politicians but it has no leaders, it has no leadership, it has no vision and Israel has no direction and the way. In Israel one can talk about everything and anything is tradable - all in Israel is tradable even respect for the Jews! In Israel there is not even one who can rise to the rank of a leader, even for one moment, stand up and say: Enough, up to here. And from there and then return Israel to the right path, along the right ironclad rules.
Where are those days of Israel's Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and Shamir who stood their grounds for the future of Israel?
You can comfortably say today that Benjamin Netanyahu is the weakest Prime Minister Israel ever knew. To hide his weaknesses and fears he turned to be a speechster demagogue - a big ineffective talker , worst of all, he us dangerous to Israel.
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The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said ambassador Jamal al-Jamal had been trying to open a safe that was recently moved to his new home and a Czech government source told Reuters that the explosion was probably caused by a security device on the unit.
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Oskar Freysinger, a member of the Swiss Parliament gave a passionate speech filled with truth that no politician in Washington, DC has yet to give from the floor of Congress. He calls out Islam for what it is: A dogma that is gnawing away at the pillars of our system of laws, wherever it is granted the space to do so.
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Israeli Gov’t Regrets Hanging Eichmann; ‘Could Have Freed Him Today’A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today lamented Israel’s execution of Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann in 1962, noting that the architect of the Final Solution could have been released with other killers
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- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creeknear Trenton, New Jersey.
- 1941 – Second World War: Llandaff Cathedral inCardiff, Wales, was severely damaged by German bombing during the Cardiff Blitz.
- 1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong won its first major victory in theBattle of Ap Bac.
- 1967 – Former actor Ronald Reagan (pictured) began his career in government when he was sworn in as the 33rd Governor of California.
- 1976 – The Gale of January 1976 began, which resulted in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, leading to at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
Events[edit]
- 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
- 533 – Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
- 1492 – Reconquista: the Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
- 1788 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1791 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
- 1818 – The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.
- 1833 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
- 1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
- 1865 – Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as Brazilian and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
- 1871 – Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
- 1900 – American Statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
- 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China.
- 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
- 1920 – The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
- 1927 – Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government.
- 1935 – Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- 1941 – World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
- 1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
- 1942 – World War II: Manila, Philippines is captured by Japanese forces.
- 1945 – World War II: Nuremberg, Germany (in German, Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces.
- 1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
- 1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated.
- 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
- 1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac.
- 1967 – Ronald Reagan sworn in as Governor of California
- 1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match.
- 1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
- 1975 – A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Minister of Railways Lalit Narayan Mishra.
- 1975 – Bangladeshi Marxist leader Siraj Sikder is arrested and dies while in police custody.
- 1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, which results in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, resulting in at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
- 1981 – One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
- 1992 – Leaders of armed opposition declare the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia deposed during a military coup in Georgia.
- 1993 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35-100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
- 1999 – A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) inChicago, Illinois, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported.
- 2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
- 2006 – An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition.
Births[edit]
- 1642 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1693)
- 1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader (d. 1676)
- 1699 – Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1757)
- 1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
- 1719 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
- 1727 – James Wolfe, English general (d. 1759)
- 1732 – František Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1771)
- 1777 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
- 1822 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
- 1827 – Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914)
- 1833 – Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
- 1836 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)
- 1836 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (d. 1917)
- 1837 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1910)
- 1857 – M. Carey Thomas, American educator and activist (d. 1935)
- 1860 – William Corless Mills, American historian (d. 1928)
- 1860 – Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer (d. 1931)
- 1866 – Gilbert Murray, Australian scholar (d. 1957)
- 1870 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (d. 1938)
- 1873 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun (d. 1897)
- 1873 – Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (d. 1960)
- 1877 – Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (d. 1906)
- 1878 – Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai,Indian Freedom Fighter(d.1970)
- 1879 – Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian discus thrower (d. 1932)
- 1882 – Herbert von Petersdorff, German swimmer (d. 1917)
- 1884 – Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator, historian and politician (d. 1973)
- 1885 – Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
- 1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English explorer (d. 1959)
- 1886 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
- 1889 – Bertram Stevens, Australian politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)
- 1890 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and dramatist (d. 1951)
- 1891 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (d. 1990)
- 1892 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
- 1893 – Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
- 1893 – Elmar Reimann, Estonian runner (d. 1963)
- 1895 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)
- 1896 – Dziga Vertov, Russian director (d. 1954)
- 1896 – Lawrence Wackett, Australian engineer (d. 1982)
- 1897 – Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975)
- 1901 – Bob Marshall, American activist (d. 1939)
- 1902 – Dan Keating, Irish soldier (d. 2007)
- 1905 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
- 1905 – Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
- 1904 – Truus Klapwijk, Dutch diver and swimmer(d. 1991)
- 1905 – Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
- 1905 – Jainendra Kumar, Indian Hindi Writer(d.1988
- 1909 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
- 1909 – Barry Goldwater, American army officer and politician (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
- 1914 – Noor Inayat Khan, Russian-English SOE agent (d. 1944)
- 1914 – Vivian Stuart, Burmese author (d. 1986)
- 1916 – Zypora Spaisman, Polish-American actress and producer (d. 2002)
- 1917 – Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer (d. 2003)
- 1918 – Willi Graf, German activist (d. 1943)
- 1920 – Isaac Asimov, American chemist and author (d. 1992)
- 1921 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1921 – Jan Slepian, American children's author
- 1923 – Rachel Waterhouse, English local historian and writer
- 1924 – Evgenios Spatharis, Greek puppeteer (d. 2009)
- 1925 – William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat (d. 2007)
- 1925 – Larry Harmon, American clown (d. 2008)
- 1926 – Howard Caine, American director (d. 1993)
- 1927 – Grigoris Varfis, Greek politician
- 1928 – Avie Bennett, Canadian businessman and philanthropist
- 1928 – Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988)
- 1928 – Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese spiritual leader
- 1929 – Lehri, Pakistani actor and comedian (d. 2012)
- 1930 – Julius La Rosa, American singer
- 1931 – Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan
- 1932 – Peter Redgrove, English poet (d. 2003)
- 1932 – Richard Thorp, English actor (d. 2013)
- 1933 – Ed Casey, Australian politician (d. 2006)
- 1933 – On Kawara, Japanese painter
- 1933 – Seiichi Morimura, Japanese author
- 1933 – Richard Riley, American politician, 111th Governor of South Carolina
- 1933 – Keith Thomas, Welsh historian
- 1935 – David McKee, English writer and illustrator
- 1935 – K. Navaratnam, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
- 1935 – Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer (d. 1987)
- 1936 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1992)
- 1937 – David Bailey, English photographer
- 1938 – Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
- 1938 – Robert Smithson, American land art artist.
- 1938 – Goh Kun, South Korean politician, 31st Prime Minister of South Korea
- 1938 – Ian Brady, High profile serial killer
- 1939 – Doug McAvoy, British trade unionist
- 1940 – Susan Wittig Albert, American author
- 1940 – Jim Bakker, American minister, evangelist, and television host
- 1940 – S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
- 1942 – Dennis Hastert, American politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- 1942 – Ray Moore, English radio host (d. 1989)
- 1942 – Hugh Shelton, American general
- 1943 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1999)
- 1944 – Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor
- 1944 – Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
- 1946 – Richard Cole, English manager
- 1947 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist
- 1947 – Calvin Hill, American football player
- 1947 – David Shapiro, American poet, critic, and historian
- 1947 – Valery Shary, Belarusian weightlifter
- 1948 – Judith Miller, American journalist
- 1948 – Tony Woodley, English trade unionist
- 1949 – Christopher Durang, American playwright
- 1949 – Jean Krier, Luxembourger poet (d. 2013)
- 1949 – Leijn Loevesijn, Dutch cyclist
- 1949 – John Turner, English cricketer (d. 2012)
- 1950 – Débora Duarte, Brazilian actress
- 1950 – Leo van der Goot, Dutch singer and radio host
- 1950 – David Shifrin, American clarinet player
- 1950 – Anatoli Ushanov, Russian football player and coach
- 1951 – Stipe Božić, Croatian mountaineer
- 1951 – Jim Essian, American baseball player
- 1951 – Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian painter
- 1952 – Jimmy Santiago Baca, American poet and author
- 1952 – Robbie Ftorek, American ice hockey player
- 1952 – Christine Lavin, American singer-songwriter (Four Bitchin' Babes)
- 1952 – Wendy Phillips, American actress
- 1952 – Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter (Skyhooks) (d. 2001)
- 1953 – Vincent Racaniello American virologist, author, and academic
- 1953 – Jacques Tichelaar, Dutch politician and union leader
- 1953 – Manfred Wittke, German footballer
- 1954 – Henry Bonilla, American politician
- 1954 – Dawn Silva, American singer
- 1955 – Tex Brashear, American voice actor
- 1955 – Vivien Savage, French singer-songwriter
- 1956 – Lynda Barry, American cartoonist and author
- 1956 – Jishu Dasgupta, Indian actor and director (d. 2012)
- 1958 – Helen Goodman, English politician
- 1958 – Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
- 1959 – Kirti Azad, Indian cricketer and politician
- 1959 – Kim Coates, Canadian-American actor
- 1960 – Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (d. 1998)
- 1960 – Naoki Urasawa, Japanese illustrator
- 1961 – Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
- 1961 – IJsbrand Chardon, Dutch horse rider
- 1961 – Todd Haynes, American director
- 1961 – Craig James, American football player
- 1961 – Robert Wexler, American lawyer and politician
- 1963 – David Cone, American baseball player
- 1963 – Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
- 1964 – Luis d'Antin, Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1964 – Michael McCann, British politician
- 1964 – Luis Moro, Cuban-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1964 – Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
- 1965 – Greg Swindell, American baseball player
- 1966 – Kate Hodge, American actress and producer
- 1967 – Tia Carrere, American actress and singer
- 1967 – Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician
- 1967 – Robert Liberace, American artist
- 1967 – Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
- 1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor
- 1968 – Evan Parke, Jamaican-American actor
- 1968 – Goichi Suda, Japanese video game designer
- 1968 – Anky van Grunsven, Dutch horse rider
- 1969 – William Fox-Pitt, English equestrian
- 1969 – Robby Gordon, American race car driver
- 1969 – Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
- 1969 – Patrick Huard, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1969 – Glen Johnson, Jamaican boxer
- 1969 – Tommy Morrison, American boxer and actor (d. 2013)
- 1969 – Róbert Švehla, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1969 – Christy Turlington, American model
- 1970 – Royce Clayton, American baseball player
- 1970 – Sanda Ladoși, Romanian singer
- 1970 – Eric Whitacre, American composer and conductor
- 1971 – Taye Diggs, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1971 – Renee Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
- 1971 – Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
- 1971 – Markus Hoffmann, German actor (d. 1997)
- 1971 – Yutaka Takenouchi, Japanese actor
- 1972 – Adam Elliot, Australian animator and screenwriter
- 1972 – Rodney MacDonald, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
- 1972 – Hristos Meletoglou, Greek triple jumper
- 1972 – Mattias Norström, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1973 – Lucy Davis, English actress
- 1974 – Jason de Vos, Canadian soccer player
- 1975 – Chris Cheney, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (The Living End and The Wrights)
- 1975 – David Sandström, Swedish musician (Refused, AC4 and Final Exit)
- 1975 – Jeff Suppan, American baseball player
- 1975 – Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player
- 1975 – Dax Shepard, American actor, comedian, writer and director
- 1976 – Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek triple jumper
- 1976 – Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist
- 1976 – Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
- 1976 – Phil Radford, Environmental, clean energy and democracy leader, Greenpeace Executive Director
- 1976 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress
- 1977 – Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player
- 1977 – Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player
- 1977 – Aleš Píša, Czech ice hockey player
- 1977 – Nikos Soultanidis, Greek footballer
- 1978 – Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American dancer
- 1978 – Megumi Toyoguchi, Japanese voice actress
- 1979 – Jonathan Greening, English footballer
- 1980 – Annie Bellemare, Canadian figure skater
- 1980 – Mac Danzig, American mixed martial artist
- 1980 – Melvin Holwijn, Dutch footballer
- 1980 – Jérôme Pineau, French cyclist
- 1981 – Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
- 1981 – Ryan Garko, American baseball player
- 1981 – Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
- 1981 – Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
- 1982 – Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
- 1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress
- 1984 – Otacilio Jales, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
- 1985 – Ivan Dodig, Croatian tennis player
- 1986 – Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu, Turkish-Bosnian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1986 – Nicolás Bertolo, Argentine footballer
- 1986 – Nathan Cohen, New Zealander rower
- 1986 – Trombone Shorty, American trumpet player
- 1988 – Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player
- 1989 – Maksims Bogdanovs, Latvian motorcycle racer
- 1989 – Romain Dedola, French footballer
- 1990 – Karel Abraham, Czech motorcycle racer
- 1991 – Katrin Loo, Estonian footballer
- 1991 – Davide Santon, Italian footballer
- 1991 – Steele Sidebottom, Australian footballer
- 1992 – Anna Arina Marenko, Russian tennis player
- 2001 – Christopher Barrios, Jr., American murder victim (d. 2007)
Deaths[edit]
- 1512 – Svante Nilsson, Sweden politician (b. 1460)
- 1514 – William Smyth, English bishop (b. 1460)
- 1557 – Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
- 1664 – George II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl (b. 1588)
- 1726 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
- 1861 – Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
- 1892 – George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
- 1904 – James Longstreet, American general (b. 1821)
- 1913 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
- 1915 – Karl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
- 1917 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
- 1920 – Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
- 1921 – Doud Eisenhower, American son of Dwight D. Eisenhower (b. 1917)
- 1924 – Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
- 1939 – Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
- 1941 – Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist (b. 1898)
- 1946 – Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
- 1948 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
- 1950 – James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
- 1950 – Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1883)
- 1951 – William Campion, English army officer and politician, 21st Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
- 1959 – Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American author (b. 1880)
- 1960 – Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
- 1960 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907)
- 1963 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor (b. 1910)
- 1963 – Dick Powell, American actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1904)
- 1968 – Nikolai Stepulov, Estonian boxer (b. 1913)
- 1971 – E. V. Knox, English poet (b. 1881)
- 1974 – Tex Ritter, American singer and actor (b. 1905)
- 1977 – Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (b. 1921)
- 1983 – Dick Emery, English comedian and actor (b. 1915)
- 1986 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
- 1987 – Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian Freedom Fighter(b.1899)
- 1989 – Safdar Hashmi, Indian playwright, actor, and director (b. 1954)
- 1990 – Evangelos Averoff, Greek politician and author (b. 1910)
- 1990 – Leonhard Merzin, Estonian actor (b. 1934)
- 1994 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician, 17th Governor of Washington (b. 1914)
- 1994 – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French businessman (b. 1915)
- 1995 – Siad Barre, Somalian military officer and politician, 3rd President of Somalia (b. 1919)
- 1996 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
- 1997 – Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Spirit and The Blue Flame) (b. 1951)
- 1998 – Frank Muir, English radio host (b. 1920)
- 1999 – Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
- 1999 – Rolf Liebermann, Swiss composer (b. 1910)
- 2000 – Patrick O'Brian, English author (b. 1914)
- 2000 – Elmo Zumwalt, American admiral (b. 1920)
- 2001 – William P. Rogers, American politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (b. 1913)
- 2002 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish model and singer, Miss Finland 1977 (b. 1958)
- 2005 – Frank Kelly Freas, American illustrator (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
- 2005 – Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
- 2006 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino jurist (b. 1913)
- 2006 – Lidia Wysocka, Polish actress (b. 1916)
- 2007 – Garry Betty, American businessman (b. 1957)
- 2007 – Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Mauno Jokipii, Finnish academic and author (b. 1924)
- 2007 – Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician (b. 1911)
- 2007 – Paek Nam-sun, North Korean politician (b. 1929)
- 2007 – A. Richard Newton, Australian-American engineer and academic (b. 1951)
- 2007 – David Perkins, American geneticist (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Robert C. Solomon, American scholar (b. 1942)
- 2008 – Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1926)
- 2008 – George MacDonald Fraser, English journalist and author (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Martinus Tels, Dutch physicist and engineer (b. 1926)
- 2008 – Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Inger Christensen, Danish poet (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese super-centenarian (b. 1893)
- 2010 – David R. Ross, Scottish author and historian (b. 1958)
- 2011 – Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946)
- 2011 – Szeto Wah, Hong Kong politician (b. 1931)
- 2011 – Richard Winters, American army officer (b. 1918)
- 2011 – Bali Ram Bhagat, Indian Polotician(b.1922)
- 2012 – Ioan Drăgan, Romanian footballer (b. 1965)
- 2012 – Anatoly Kolesov, Russian wrestler (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Helmut Müller-Brühl, German conductor (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Paulo Rodrigues da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1986)
- 2013 – Wren Blair, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Jim Boyd, American actor (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Council Cargle, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Karel Čáslavský, Czech historian and television host (b. 1937)
- 2013 – Charles Chilton, English radio host and producer (b. 1917)
- 2013 – Angelo Coia, American football player (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Zaharira Harifai, Israeli actress (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Merv Hunter, Australian politician (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Géza Koroknay, Hungarian actor (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian and author (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Ian McKeever, Irish mountaineer (b. 1970)
- 2013 – Maulvi Nazir, Pakistani militant leader (b. 1975)
- 2013 – Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, American psychologist and author (b. 1959)
- 2013 – Mamie Rearden, American super-centenarian (b. 1898)
- 2013 – Stephen Resnick, American economist (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Rudolf Szanwald, Austrian footballer (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Teresa Torańska, Polish journalist (b. 1944)
- 2013 – Ned Wertimer, American actor (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Ancestry Day (Haiti)
- Berchtold's Day (Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Alsace)
- Carnival Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
- Christian Feast Day:
- The first day of Blacks and Whites' Carnival, celebrated until January 7. (southern Colombia)
- The first day of the Carnival of Riosucio, celebrated until January 8 every 2 years. (Riosucio)
- The ninth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)
- The second day of New Year (A holiday in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Mauritius, Montenegro, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine):
- Bank Holiday, if it is a Sunday, the day moves to January 3 (Scotland)
- Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town)
- Victory of Armed Forces Day (Cuba)
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” - 2 Corinthians 5:17
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 1: Morning
"They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year." -Joshua 5:12
Israel's weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the land. Perhaps this year, beloved Christian reader, this may be thy case or mine. Joyful is the prospect, and if faith be in active exercise, it will yield unalloyed delight. To be with Jesus in the rest which remaineth for the people of God, is a cheering hope indeed, and to expect this glory so soon is a double bliss. Unbelief shudders at the Jordan which still rolls between us and the goodly land, but let us rest assured that we have already experienced more ills than death at its worst can cause us. Let us banish every fearful thought, and rejoice with exceeding great joy, in the prospect that this year we shall begin to be "forever with the Lord."
A part of the host will this year tarry on earth, to do service for their Lord. If this should fall to our lot, there is no reason why the New Year's text should not still be true. "We who have believed do enter into rest." The Holy Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance; he gives us "glory begun below." In heaven they are secure, and so are we preserved in Christ Jesus; there they triumph over their enemies, and we have victories too. Celestial spirits enjoy communion with their Lord, and this is not denied to us; they rest in his love, and we have perfect peace in him: they hymn his praise, and it is our privilege to bless him too. We will this year gather celestial fruits on earthly ground, where faith and hope have made the desert like the garden of the Lord. Man did eat angels' food of old, and why not now? O for grace to feed on Jesus, and so to eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan this year!
A part of the host will this year tarry on earth, to do service for their Lord. If this should fall to our lot, there is no reason why the New Year's text should not still be true. "We who have believed do enter into rest." The Holy Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance; he gives us "glory begun below." In heaven they are secure, and so are we preserved in Christ Jesus; there they triumph over their enemies, and we have victories too. Celestial spirits enjoy communion with their Lord, and this is not denied to us; they rest in his love, and we have perfect peace in him: they hymn his praise, and it is our privilege to bless him too. We will this year gather celestial fruits on earthly ground, where faith and hope have made the desert like the garden of the Lord. Man did eat angels' food of old, and why not now? O for grace to feed on Jesus, and so to eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan this year!
Evening
"We will be glad and rejoice in thee." - Song of Solomon 1:4
We will be glad and rejoice in thee. We will not open the gates of the year to the dolorous notes of the sackbut, but to the sweet strains of the harp of joy, and the high sounding cymbals of gladness. "O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise unto the rock of our salvation." We, the called and faithful and chosen, we will drive away our griefs, and set up our banners of confidence in the name of God. Let others lament over their troubles, we who have the sweetening tree to cast into Marah's bitter pool, with joy will magnify the Lord. Eternal Spirit, our effectual Comforter, we who are the temples in which thou dwellest, will never cease from adoring and blessing the name of Jesus. We will, we are resolved about it, Jesus must have the crown of our heart's delight; we will not dishonour our Bridegroom by mourning in his presence. We are ordained to be the minstrels of the skies, let us rehearse our everlasting anthem before we sing it in the halls of the New Jerusalem. We will be glad and rejoice: two words with one sense, double joy, blessedness upon blessedness. Need there be any limit to our rejoicing in the Lord even now? Do not men of grace find their Lord to be camphire and spikenard, calamus and cinnamon even now, and what better fragrance have they in heaven itself? We will be glad and rejoice in Thee. That last word is the meat in the dish, the kernel of the nut, the soul of the text. What heavens are laid up in Jesus! What rivers of infinite bliss have their source, aye, and every drop of their fulness in him! Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, thou art the present portion of thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.
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Today's reading: Genesis 1-3, Matthew 1 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 1-3
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day.
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 1
The Genealogy of Jesus
1 A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham:
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac,
Isaac the father of Jacob,
Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
3 Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar,
3 Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar,
Perez the father of Hezron,
Hezron the father of Ram....
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