Evil endures too. Like that of those german women who followed through with the holocaust. One has to shudder at what the daily atrocity in Middle East is doing to the children there. Obama has isolated the only state capable of stability and peace, Israel. Evil endures as those who collect money for the poor, divert it. Tim Costello and World Vision need to explain themselves.
Some were surprised at the sentence of a thug. It is ok, he wasn't going to kill a shark. An eight year old girl is wearing a suicide vest in Afghanistan, proving Obama has indeed won the war.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns all those born on this day, along with
- 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
- 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
- 1827 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
- 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (d. 1897)
- 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874)
- 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (d. 1899)
- 1876 – William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (d. 1906)
- 1922 – Eric Jupp, English-Australian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 2003)
- 1963 – Rand Paul, American politician
- 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, producer, and director
- 1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
- 1997 – Ayumi Ishida, Japanese singer (Morning Musume and Dorothy Little Happy)
Matches
- 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
- 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
- 1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
- 1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.
- 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
- 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
- 1979 – Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
- 1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
- 1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public for safety reasons.
- 1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
- 2010 – Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.
Despatches
- 672 – Tenji, Japanese emperor (b. 626)
- 1767 – Thomas Clap, American academic (b. 1703)
WORD ACCEPTED
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (1:34pm)
The New York Times, 1989:
Among climatologists, global warming is just one scenario for the unusual atmospheric changes that have been observed throughout the world. Those who accept the global-warming theory are said to take the warmist position.
Your move, Stephen.
(Via reader iberlin)
PHONING IT IN
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (5:13am)
Our World Vision kid – we’ve been sponsoring him for ten years or so – isn’t exactly meeting his KPIs:
World Vision sends us a drawing from the boy every Christmas. Sadly, there is never any sign of improvement. In fact, lately he seems to be regressing.
World Vision sends us a drawing from the boy every Christmas. Sadly, there is never any sign of improvement. In fact, lately he seems to be regressing.
He’s now 17 years old. The above image is his most recent illustration.
UPDATE. In 2008, an ABC correspondent went to Ethiopia to meet his World Vision sponsor child – who didn’t know she was sponsored:
Andrew Geoghegan has sponsored Tsehaynesh for a decade and yet she claims she was unaware, until recently, that she had a sponsor and says the only benefit she has ever received directly from World Vision is a pen and the denim jacket she wore on the day of filming.
(Via DB)
STOMPER STOMPED
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (4:59am)
As a guide to the absolute lameness of NSW courts, consider that Russell Packer’s lawyer was surprised when his thug client actually received a jail sentence:
The lawyer of NRL player Russell Packer has challenged a magistrate’s decision to imprison him for two years, claiming he had “no idea” a punishment so severe was being considered by the court.
The lawyer never saw it coming. Kind of like Packer’s victim:
The court heard Packer became involved in an argument with another man over two cigarettes, before striking him to the head with a closed fist.According to facts tendered to the court, Packer continued to strike the victim while he was lying motionless on the ground, before stomping on his head.The victim, a 22-year-old man, sustained a fractured eye socket as a result of the attack.Packer’s lawyer claimed his client had no previous criminal record and had the correct support network at the Newcastle Knights to be completely rehabilitated.
Magistrate Greg Grogin wasn’t swayed:
“Your behaviour on that night was nothing short of disgraceful,” he told Packer in court.“It is deplorable ... you should be ashamed.“The community is sick and tired of the behaviour you exhibited that night.”
Packer “seemed confused” by the sentence, which is understandable considering how violent idiots are frequently treated lightly by NSW courts. Further on the case here.
NO NO CATS
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (4:17am)
By now, we’re all familiar with the media ritual that follows your standard Islamic bombing, massacre, shooting or beheading.
Continue reading 'NO NO CATS'INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (3:20am)
The ABC is thrilled because a solitary American has joined a Western Australian shark-saving campaign:
Western Australia’s new shark killing policy is gaining international attention with an American environmentalist taking her opposition to the plan to the streets of Texas …Thousands of people joined a protest against the plan at Cottesloe Beach on the weekend.Now the protest has gone international with Texan Carey Barlow-Heyden circulating information and a petition against the plan in her local area – the city of New Braunfels in Texas.“What mainly concerns me is they would take such a drastic [action] to kill these animals,” she said …“I think it’s something we should definitely care about.”
Given that New Braunfels is only three hours or so from the ocean, you can understand why shark care is such a crucial issue for local residents. Interestingly, Carey Barlow-Heyden is apparently an Etsy girl who makes her own jewellery. Among her favourite materials:
Shark teeth, Arrowheads, Anything fun, colorful and unique
(Via J.F. Beck)
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Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (2:02am)
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@clutchy25 just blown Gillard, shorten on Corruption on 2GB unbelievable stuff. She's been found for everything, watch the Labor space?
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Earth quake in adelaide 8 40am please rally behind our desperate situation and give generously
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If you eschew cultural assets like family names, work, kindness, religion, but espouse drug use, alcoholic abuse and irresponsible behaviour then lots of things become difficult. - ed
“To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.” ~ Carl Jung
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G. D. Falksen
Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.
http://www.gdfalksen.com/
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I challenge Robertson to detail a single event where a counsellor would have effected change. Assuming that Robertson's claim is not some cynical exercise motivating union opposition to good administration. I can recall a 2008 incident at a poor Met South West school where a child was seen with a large knife showing off to other kids, and then. a week later same student ran to kick a bus that hadn't picked him up off route. School Counsellor was not involved in either incident. Neither was student counselled over either incident. - ed===
Campbell Newman
To stop tattoo parlours from being used as a front for criminal organisations, all tattoo parlour operators and tattoo artists will require a licence from July 1.Applicants will be screened by the Queensland Police Service to ensure theyare suitable to work in the tattoo industry and have no links to criminal motorcycle gangs.
Further details on how to apply for a licence or permit can be found atwww.qld.gov.au/tattoolicensing
www.fairtrading.qld.gov.au
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Larry Pickering
“Whales must not be slaughtered but for a $5,000 baby bonus, late-term infants can be butchered in an equally bloody mess”: Greens. “Native animals’ habitat must not be back-burnt but people can be incinerated”: Greens.
Every political Party has is its odd extremist; Labor its Macklins, the Libs its Bernadis and the Greens, well the Greens it seems are all extremists.
Of course the Libs aren’t serious about stopping the slaughter of the over-populated Minke whale. That’s a centuries’ old traditional Japanese food source and it used to be a world-wide food source with millions harvested on a yearly basis. Funny, but not one species became extinct.
The only way whale numbers are controlled now, to conserve their own food source of krill, is for them to beach themselves!
But hang on, aren’t the Aborigines permitted their traditional food source of turtles and dugongs? Aren’t the American Indians and the Inuits allowed to traditionally harvest their “endangered” species? Is it because there are just too many Japanese for them to be allowed their traditional food source? Or is it a case of too few whales?
Well, it simply can’t be too few whales because whales once fed and supplied the world with all sorts of stuff from oil to perfume as a renewable resource.
But the Greens’ agenda is far more extreme than mere whales.
Seven per cent of the population won’t be happy until we and our pets are no longer carnivorous, animals are not allowed to participate in sport, the diseased fruit bat can nest in our living rooms and the tree kangaroo has got control of the TV remote.
But the most shameful of the Greens’ hard-wired immorality is that Bob Brown can rail against the bloody slaughter of the Minke whale yet can legislate for the bloody slaughter of a live and kicking unborn baby.
Not only that but the bloody slaughter of the unborn baby is rewarded with a $5,000 baby bonus! The Greens signed off on that despicable legislation of the not-so-ex-communist, Jenny Macklin.
And Abbott says he will not play with abortion laws.
This is not a conservative thing, it’s a moral thing: Women are serving long jail terms right now for the murder of their newborn babies yet a doctor can insert secateurs into a uterus and rip an unborn baby to pieces, dropping it, still moving and with its heart still spewing blood, on the tiled floor!
The infant had a fully-formed nervous system, it could feel pain, yet it couldn’t breathe or make a sound, it couldn’t plead its case for life. It only felt cold instruments tearing at its little limbs and torso.
And the woman says, “It’s my body and I can do what I want!” WTF?
Is this why mum nurtured and coddled me in that warm womb for months? Is this what life’s all about? I could have been anything if only mum had given me a chance! I was perfect!
A few short developmental weeks later and it’s murder, but right now it deserves a $5k bonus.
Macklin’s legislation essentially decrees that, while in the womb and not breathing, the child can be legally murdered for profit. Out of the womb, and after taking its first breath, it could complain, therefore the mother and the doctor go to jail. But that’s only when it’s proven, and it never is.
Want to know why I appear angry?
Well, I sat beside a humidicrib for months watching a little girl of 27 weeks fight for life. She is now a beautiful, intelligent and caring five-year-old and I am within a bee’s dick of posting those horrific pics of late term abortions. But I won’t.
Instead I will listen to the Greens complain of the prolific Minke whale being killed for food and the insufficient numbers of WA bathers to keep those Great Whites happy.
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All-New! Parents say their 16-year-old daughter is out of control and that not even a GPS tracking anklet will keep her from running away. How does the teen explain her behavior?http://bit.ly/DRP0106 #DrPhil
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< I am suspicious about the veracity of this...the word Penalties in the heading is spelled incorrectly...and the correct English for the first highlighted point would be "$66 + 0 points: Sounding the horn">
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Merry Christmas to all my Orthodox Friends and Family — with Zaya Toma.
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A great video by DVB released today highlighting that many prisoners detained under criminal charges have been released, yet many activists remain behind bars.
It must be understood that international demands for the release of all political prisoners have not been met by Thein Sein. State-run media and Thein Sein's press office would like the world to believe that all political prisoners have been released as promised. Releasing criminals to make this claim is a slap in the face for the thousands of Rohingya, hundreds of Kachin, and many activists and farmers who remain behind bars for trumped up charges under Draconian laws.
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A PICTURE TELLS A THOUSAND WORDS ......
Chinese icebreaker 'Xue Long' trapped in record levels of sea ice in the Antarctic after going to the rescue of group that believed "global sea ice is shrinking" - when in fact global sea ice is at the highest extent for this time of year since satellite records began in 1979.
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50 years ago today...
1964 - Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
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Holiness doesn’t mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith. - Pope Francis
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We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The Labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. And where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
- Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell Foundation
Drugs aren't the answer - ed
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A thank you to the Embassies of the US, Turkey, and Switzerland, and the Delegation of the EU, for calling on Burma to address the dire humanitarian crisis of the IDP camp in Myebon Township, Rakhine State, where over 700 Rohingya families have languished since 2012.
"Development assistance and inward investment to Rakhine State, for the benefit of all communities, will only come when situations like that in Myebon are adequately addressed."
uscampaignforburma.org
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Not a motto popular to hookers - ed
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Michelle Malkin
‘Duck Dynasty’ star Sadie Robertson reveals the key to her heart ==>http://twitchy.com/2014/01/06/duck-dynasty-star-sadie-roberston-reveals-the-key-to-her-heart/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger
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VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Large Gold, Diamond and Ruby Clip Brooch. circa 1960s
No my love. They aren't edible. - ed
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CCP MinistriesTwo day's Mission & Apologetics Seminar organized by CCP Ministries
We tend to set-up this conference to train the pastors, evangelists and other Christian leaders from different areas so that they can equip and strengthen average Christians. This is the necessity of this considering the current religious situation in Pakistan. We need to train the leadership in order to generate missionaries who can spread the message of God in all over pakistan, so that we could spread the Gospel with a greater effectiveness.
We CCP Ministries need your prayers as well as your financial support,we will send you budget of this two days conference if you will interested to support and want to see the growth of God's work in Pakistan.for email you can use our email,lovetoothers@hotmail.com/parvaiz82@ccpak.org
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Kerry's demand that Israel release Israeli Arab citizens who committed acts of terrorism shows the long-term cost of prisoner release, and demonstrates once again why Israel must abandon the talks.
http://carolineglick.com/kerry-and-the-long-term-cost-of-releasing-terrorists/
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<If the situation that Israel now finds herself in wasn't so tragic it would be almost laughable in terms of stupidity and cowardice. Why are we so afraid to say no to releasing wanton killers especially those who have murdered their fellow citizens. Why are we allowing Abbas who has no real authority over his people to dictate terms that can ultimately lead to the end of the Jewish State. What has happened to the courage we once had in the face of evil. That one man, no not John Kerry, Barack Hussein Obama is able to strike such fear in our hearts that we Jews will agree to anything shows how far we have fallen. Once again Caroline has laid out the bare bones of our dilemma and it is ugly beyond belief.>
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Speaker Boehner, install a select committee on Benghazi now. We can no longer accept silence, obfuscation and inaction. Here's the letter I signed to him: http://allenbwest.com/
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- 1558 – Francis, Duke of Guise, retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.
- 1610 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made his first observation of the four Galilean moons through his telescope: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he was not able to distinguish the latter two until the following day.
- 1797 – The first official Italian tricolour was adopted by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
- 1979 – The Vietnam People's Army captured the Cambodian capital city Phnom Penh, deposing Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which marked the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
- 1989 – Akihito (pictured), the current Emperor of Japan, took the throne upon the death of his father Hirohito, who became known by theposthumous name Emperor Shōwa.
Events[edit]
- 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
- 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
- 1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
- 1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
- 1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
- 1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
- 1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
- 1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
- 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.
- 1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
- 1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
- 1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
- 1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
- 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
- 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
- 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- 1960 – The Polaris missile is test launched.
- 1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
- 1970 – The Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 comes into effect.
- 1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
- 1979 – Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
- 1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
- 1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- 1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
- 1989 – Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
- 1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public for safety reasons.
- 1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
- 1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
- 1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
- 1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
- 2010 – Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.
- 2012 – A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
Births[edit]
- 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
- 1502 – Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
- 1528 – Jeanne d'Albret, French wife of Antoine of Navarre (d. 1572)
- 1634 – Adam Krieger, German composer (d. 1666)
- 1647 – William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
- 1685 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish businessman (d. 1761)
- 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
- 1713 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian director (d. 1785)
- 1718 – Israel Putnam, American general (d. 1790)
- 1746 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral (d. 1823)
- 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, Italian brother of Napoleon (d. 1844)
- 1786 – John Catron, American jurist (d. 1865)
- 1796 – Princess Charlotte of Wales (d. 1817)
- 1800 – Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
- 1827 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
- 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (d. 1897)
- 1832 – James Munro, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
- 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874)
- 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (d. 1899)
- 1844 – Bernadette Soubirous, French mystic and saint (d. 1879)
- 1845 – Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
- 1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer (d. 1922)
- 1860 – Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
- 1864 – Seo Jae-pil, Korea's independence activists, journalist (d. 1951)
- 1870 – Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, English judge and politician, 7th Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1943)
- 1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
- 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet (d. 1914)
- 1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (d. 1976)
- 1875 – Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
- 1875 – Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
- 1876 – William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (d. 1906)
- 1879 – John Bissinger, American gymnast (d. 1941)
- 1880 – Jerome Steever, American water polo player (d. 1957)
- 1885 – Edwin Swatek, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1966)
- 1887 – Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1953)
- 1888 – Vera de Bosset, Russian-American dancer (d. 1982)
- 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston, American anthropologist and author (d. 1960)
- 1895 – Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (d. 1974)
- 1895 – Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
- 1896 – Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (d. 1984)
- 1899 – Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (d. 1941)
- 1899 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
- 1900 – John Brownlee, Australian opera singer (d. 1969)
- 1900 – Robert Le Vigan, French actor (d. 1972)
- 1903 – Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1906 – Bobbi Trout, American pilot (d. 2003)
- 1907 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harp player (d. 1993)
- 1908 – Red Allen, American trumpet player (d. 1967)
- 1910 – Orval Faubus, American politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
- 1911 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
- 1912 – Günter Wand, German conductor and composer (d. 2002)
- 1913 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1916 – W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan Tamil geographer and academic (d. 1989)
- 1916 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
- 1917 – Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
- 1921 – Chester Kallman, American poet (d. 1975)
- 1922 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
- 1922 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Eric Jupp, English-Australian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 2003)
- 1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (d. 2000)
- 1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (d. 2003)
- 1924 – Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor
- 1924 – Pablo Birger, Argentine race car driver (d. 1966)
- 1924 – Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and television producer (d. 1973)
- 1925 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist, and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park (d. 1995)
- 1926 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea
- 1928 – William Peter Blatty, American author and screenwriter
- 1929 – Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Terry Moore, American actress
- 1930 – Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Joe Berinson, Australian politician
- 1933 – Elliott Kastner, American-English film producer (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
- 1934 – Charles Jenkins Sr., American sprinter
- 1934 – Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot politician, 5th President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
- 1935 – Kenny Davern, American clarinet player (d. 2006)
- 1935 – Tommy Johnson, American tuba player (d. 2006)
- 1935 – Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut
- 1935 – Ducky Schofield, American baseball player
- 1936 – G. Robert Blakey, American lawyer
- 1936 – Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
- 1936 – Ian La Frenais, English screenwriter
- 1938 – Lou Graham, American golfer
- 1938 – Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, and actor (d. 1997)
- 1938 – Fred Whitfield, American baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
- 1941 – Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
- 1941 – Frederick D. Gregory, American astronaut
- 1941 – Manfred Schellscheidt, German-American soccer player and coach
- 1941 – John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 – Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (d. 2011)
- 1942 – Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
- 1942 – Danny Steinmann, American director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
- 1943 – Richard Armstrong, English conductor
- 1943 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese victim of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (d. 1955)
- 1944 – Arne Scheie, Norwegian sportscaster
- 1944 – Tony Whitlam, Australian lawyer, politician, and judge
- 1945 – Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
- 1945 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1945 – Dick Marty, Swiss politician
- 1945 – Raila Odinga, Kenyan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya
- 1946 – Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist and author
- 1946 – Jann Wenner, American publisher, co-founded Rolling Stone
- 1946 – Mike Wilds, English race car driver
- 1947 – Shobhaa De, Indian columnist and author
- 1948 – Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter (Loggins and Messina)
- 1948 – Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (JAM Project)
- 1949 – Marshall Chapman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1949 – Chavo Guerrero, Sr., Mexican-American wrestler
- 1949 – Anne Schedeen, American actress
- 1949 – Steven Williams, American actor
- 1950 – Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter
- 1950 – Erin Gray, American actress
- 1950 – Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
- 1950 – Malcolm Macdonald, English footballer
- 1951 – Helen Worth, English actress
- 1951 – Massimo Sigala, Italian racing driver
- 1952 – Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
- 1953 – Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1954 – Jodi Long, American actress
- 1954 – José María Vitier, Cuban pianist and composer
- 1956 – David Caruso, American actor and producer
- 1956 – Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 – Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
- 1956 – Kostas Petropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
- 1957 – Nicholson Baker, American author
- 1957 – Katie Couric, American journalist and author
- 1957 – Reena Roy, Indian actress
- 1957 – Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1958 – Linda Kozlowski, American actress
- 1958 – Donna Rice Hughes, American activist
- 1959 – Jon Larsen, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter (Hot Club de Norvège)
- 1959 – Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter (The Go-Go's)
- 1960 – David Marciano, American actor
- 1960 – Loretta Sanchez, American politician
- 1961 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
- 1961 – Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
- 1961 – John Thune, American politician
- 1962 – Aleksandr Dugin, Russian sociologist
- 1962 – Hallie Todd, American actress, screenwriter, and producer
- 1963 – Clint Mansell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pop Will Eat Itself)
- 1963 – Rand Paul, American politician
- 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, producer, and director
- 1965 – Five for Fighting, American singer-songwriter
- 1966 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
- 1966 – Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (d. 2012)
- 1966 – Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer-songwriter
- 1967 – Nick Clegg, English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1967 – Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
- 1967 – Mark Lamarr, English comedian, radio and television host
- 1967 – Tim Donaghy, American basketball referee
- 1969 – David Yost, American actor and producer
- 1970 – Todd Day, American basketball player
- 1970 – Doug E. Doug, American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
- 1970 – Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
- 1971 – C. W. Anderson, American wrestler
- 1971 – David Longoria, American trumpeter, producer, composer, and songwriter
- 1971 – Jeremy Renner, American actor
- 1972 – Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
- 1973 – Baiba Broka, Latvian actress
- 1973 – Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter
- 1974 – Svetlana Metkina, Russian actress
- 1974 – John Rich, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Big & Rich)
- 1975 – Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian-Candian blogger
- 1976 – Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
- 1976 – Tomas Ražanauskas, Lithuanian footballer
- 1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
- 1977 – Michelle Behennah, Singaporean-English model
- 1977 – Dustin Diamond, American actor
- 1977 – John Gidding, American architect and television host
- 1977 – Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author
- 1977 – Marco Storari, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (d. 2005)
- 1978 – Kevin Mench, American baseball player
- 1978 – Emilio Palma, Argentinian citizen, first person to be born on Antarctica
- 1979 – Bipasha Basu, Indian model and actress
- 1979 – Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian race car driver
- 1979 – Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
- 1980 – Campbell Johnstone, New Zealand rugby player
- 1980 – Zöe Salmon, Irish model and television host, Miss Northern Ireland 1999
- 1981 – Jinxx, American guitarist (Black Veil Brides, The Dreaming, and Amen)
- 1981 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 – Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
- 1982 – Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1982 – Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
- 1982 – Priit Viks, Estonian biathlete
- 1982 – Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine race car driver
- 1983 – Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
- 1983 – Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
- 1983 – Robert Ri'chard, American actor
- 1983 – Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian volleyball player
- 1984 – Diego Balbinot, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Jon Lester, American baseball player
- 1984 – Antonino Saviano, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Austin Brown, American singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Lewis Hamilton, English race car driver
- 1985 – Wayne Routledge, English footballer
- 1986 – Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
- 1987 – Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
- 1987 – Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
- 1987 – Jimmy Smith, English footballer
- 1988 – Haley Bennett, American actress and singer
- 1988 – Sergei Mošnikov, Estonian footballer
- 1988 – Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer
- 1988 – Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
- 1989 – Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
- 1990 – Liam Aiken, American actor
- 1990 – Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
- 1990 – Camryn Grimes, American actress
- 1990 – Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
- 1991 – Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer
- 1991 – Max Morrow, Canadian actor
- 1993 – Varunya Wongteanchai, Thai tennis player
- 1997 – Ayumi Ishida, Japanese singer (Morning Musume and Dorothy Little Happy)
Deaths[edit]
- 672 – Tenji, Japanese emperor (b. 626)
- 1285 – Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
- 1325 – Denis of Portugal (b. 1261)
- 1400 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
- 1451 – Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)
- 1536 – Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485)
- 1566 – Louis de Blois, Flemish monk (b. 1506)
- 1619 – Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (b. 1547)
- 1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. 1560)
- 1655 – Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
- 1658 – Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and politician (b. 1590)
- 1694 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (b. 1618)
- 1700 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
- 1715 – François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (b. 1651)
- 1758 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
- 1767 – Thomas Clap, American academic (b. 1703)
- 1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
- 1783 – William Tans'ur, English composer (b. 1700)
- 1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
- 1812 – Joseph Dennie, American writer (b. 1768)
- 1830 – John Thomas Campbell, Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)
- 1830 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
- 1864 – Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
- 1876 – Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
- 1878 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
- 1892 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1852)
- 1893 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
- 1904 – Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist (b. 1836)
- 1913 – Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
- 1919 – Henry Ware Eliot American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (b. 1843)
- 1920 – Edmund Barton, Australian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
- 1927 – Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
- 1931 – Edward Channing, American historian and author (b. 1856)
- 1932 – André Maginot, French soldier and politician (b. 1877)
- 1936 – Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (b. 1858)
- 1941 – Charles Finger, British author (b. 1869)
- 1942 – Alfred Asikainen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1888)
- 1943 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1856)
- 1944 – Lou Henry Hoover, American wife of Herbert Hoover, 33rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1874)
- 1944 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
- 1946 – Adamo Didur, Polish opera singer (b. 1874)
- 1951 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
- 1953 – Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
- 1958 – Jalmari Eskola, Finnish runner (b. 1886)
- 1960 – Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player (b. 1878)
- 1963 – Arthur Edward Moore, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
- 1964 – Cyril Davies, English singer and harmonica player (Blues Incorporated) (b. 1932)
- 1964 – Reg Parnell, English Grand Prix driver and team manager (b. 1911)
- 1966 – Allan Chapman, Scottish politician (b. 1897)
- 1967 – David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- 1967 – Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880)
- 1968 – J.L.B. Smith, South African chemist (b. 1897)
- 1968 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b. 1930)
- 1972 – John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
- 1972 – Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek songwriter (b. 1893)
- 1980 – Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1935)
- 1981 – Alvar Lidell, English journalist (b. 1908)
- 1981 – Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
- 1983 – Eliza Amy Hodgson, New Zealand botanist (b. 1888)
- 1984 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1985 – Mary Hardy, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1931)
- 1986 – P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
- 1986 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican author (b. 1917)
- 1988 – Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
- 1988 – Trevor Howard,English actor (b. 1913)
- 1989 – Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901)
- 1990 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
- 1990 – Horace Stoneham, American businessman (b. 1903)
- 1992 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1951)
- 1995 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
- 1996 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
- 1996 – Tarō Okamoto, Japanese painter and sculptor (b. 1911)
- 1998 – Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
- 1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 2000 – Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)
- 2001 – James Carr, American singer (b. 1942)
- 2002 – Jon Lee, English drummer (Feeder, The Darling Buds, and Raindancer) (b. 1968)
- 2002 – Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2004 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Pierre Daninos, French author (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (b. 1957)
- 2007 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-Scottish journalist (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Alwyn Schlebusch, South African politician, Vice State President of South Africa (b. 1917)
- 2011 – Derek Gardner, English engineer (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Carl Berner, German-American super-centenarian (b. 1902)
- 2013 – Nancy Burley, Australian figure skater (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
- 2013 – Jim Cosman, American baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2013 – Richard Ben Cramer, American journalist and author (b. 1950)
- 2013 – Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias, Portuguese historian, author, and academic (b. 1958)
- 2013 – David R. Ellis, American director, actor, and stuntman (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Huell Howser, American television host (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Jeremy Hindley, English horse trainer (b. 1944)
- 2013 – Ada Louise Huxtable, American critic (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Maruša Krese, Slovene poet and journalist (b. 1947)
- 2013 – Louise Laurin, Canadian educator and activist (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Epifanie Norocel, Romanian archbishop (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Joseph Roney, Haitian politician (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Harvey Shapiro, American poet (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Fred L. Turner, American businessman (b. 1933)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Canute Lavard
- Charles of Sezze
- St. André Bessette (Canada)
- Lucian of Antioch
- Raymond of Peñafort
- January 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian Calendar)
- Distaff Day (medieval Europe)
- Festival of Seven Herbs or Nanakusa no sekku (Japan)
- Pioneer's Day (Liberia (controversial))
- Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist (Julian Calendar)
- Tricolour day or Festa del Tricolore (Italy)
- Victory from Genocide Day (Cambodia)
“Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.” - 1 Peter 1:13
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 6: Morning
"Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." - 1 Peter 5:7
It is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel--"HE careth for me." Christian! do not dishonour religion by always wearing a brow of care; come, cast your burden upon your Lord. You are staggering beneath a weight which your Father would not feel. What seems to you a crushing burden, would be to him but as the small dust of the balance. Nothing is so sweet as to
"Lie passive in God's hands,
And know no will but his."
O child of suffering, be thou patient; God has not passed thee over in his providence. He who is the feeder of sparrows, will also furnish you with what you need. Sit not down in despair; hope on, hope ever. Take up the arms of faith against a sea of trouble, and your opposition shall yet end your distresses. There is One who careth for you. His eye is fixed on you, his heart beats with pity for your woe, and his hand omnipotent shall yet bring you the needed help. The darkest cloud shall scatter itself in showers of mercy. The blackest gloom shall give place to the morning. He, if thou art one of his family, will bind up thy wounds, and heal thy broken heart. Doubt not his grace because of thy tribulation, but believe that he loveth thee as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness. What a serene and quiet life might you lead if you would leave providing to the God of providence! With a little oil in the cruse, and a handful of meal in the barrel, Elijah outlived the famine, and you will do the same. If God cares for you, why need you care too? Can you trust him for your soul, and not for your body? He has never refused to bear your burdens, he has never fainted under their weight. Come, then, soul! have done with fretful care, and leave all thy concerns in the hand of a gracious God.
"Lie passive in God's hands,
And know no will but his."
O child of suffering, be thou patient; God has not passed thee over in his providence. He who is the feeder of sparrows, will also furnish you with what you need. Sit not down in despair; hope on, hope ever. Take up the arms of faith against a sea of trouble, and your opposition shall yet end your distresses. There is One who careth for you. His eye is fixed on you, his heart beats with pity for your woe, and his hand omnipotent shall yet bring you the needed help. The darkest cloud shall scatter itself in showers of mercy. The blackest gloom shall give place to the morning. He, if thou art one of his family, will bind up thy wounds, and heal thy broken heart. Doubt not his grace because of thy tribulation, but believe that he loveth thee as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness. What a serene and quiet life might you lead if you would leave providing to the God of providence! With a little oil in the cruse, and a handful of meal in the barrel, Elijah outlived the famine, and you will do the same. If God cares for you, why need you care too? Can you trust him for your soul, and not for your body? He has never refused to bear your burdens, he has never fainted under their weight. Come, then, soul! have done with fretful care, and leave all thy concerns in the hand of a gracious God.
Evening
"Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening." -Ezekiel 33:22
In the way of judgment this may be the case, and, if so, be it mine to consider the reason of such a visitation, and bear the rod and him that hath appointed it. I am not the only one who is chastened in the night season; let me cheerfully submit to the affliction, and carefully endeavour to be profited thereby. But the hand of the Lord may also be felt in another manner, strengthening the soul and lifting the spirit upward towards eternal things. O that I may in this sense feel the Lord dealing with me! A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles. At such times we are full to the brim with spiritual joy, and forget the cares and sorrows of earth; the invisible is near, and the visible loses its power over us; servant-body waits at the foot of the hill, and the master-spirit worships upon the summit in the presence of the Lord. O that a hallowed season of divine communion may be vouchsafed to me this evening! The Lord knows that I need it very greatly. My graces languish, my corruptions rage, my faith is weak, my devotion is cold; all these are reasons why his healing hand should be laid upon me. His hand can cool the heat of my burning brow, and stay the tumult of my palpitating heart. That glorious right hand which moulded the world can new-create my mind; the unwearied hand which bears the earth's huge pillars up can sustain my spirit; the loving hand which incloses all the saints can cherish me; and the mighty hand which breaketh in pieces the enemy can subdue my sins. Why should I not feel that hand touching me this evening? Come, my soul, address thy God with the potent plea, that Jesus' hands were pierced for thy redemption, and thou shalt surely feel that same hand upon thee which once touched Daniel and set him upon his knees that he might see visions of God.
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Meshullam
[Mēshŭl'lam] - associate or a friend.
1. An ancestor of Shaphan, the scribe of King Josiah's time (2 Kings 22:3).
2. A son of Zerubbabel and descendant of Jeconiah, son of King Jehoiakim (1 Chron. 3:19).
3. A leading man among the Gadites in the reign of Jothan (1 Chron. 5:13).
4. A Benjamite, descended from Shaharaim through Elpaal (1 Chron. 8:17).
5. A Benjamite, father of Sallu, who dwelt in Jerusalem (1 Chron. 9:7; Neh. 11:7).
6. Another Benjamite, son of Shephathiah, also of Jerusalem (1 Chron. 9:8).
7. A priest, son of Zadok and father of the high priest, Hilkiah, who lived in Josiah's reign (1 Chron. 9:11; Neh. 11:11).
8. A priest, son of Mishilemith of the house of Immer (1 Chron. 9:12).
9. A Kohathite Levite who, with others, superintended the repair of the Temple in Josiah's time (2 Chron. 34:12).
10. A chief man who, with others, returned from exile with Ezra (Ezra 8:16).
11. One who assisted in the numbering of those who had married foreign wives (Ezra 10:15).
12. A son of Bani who had married a foreign wife (Ezra 10:29).
13. A son of Berechiah who helped to repair two portions of the wall (Neh. 3:4, 30; 6:18).
14. The son of Besodeiah who also repaired a part of the city wall (Neh. 3:6).
15. A prince or priest who stood beside Ezra as he read and explained the Law (Neh. 8:4).
16. A priest who, on behalf of his father's house, signed the covenant with Nehemiah (Neh. 10:7).
17. A chief of the people who also signed the covenant (Neh. 10:20).
18. A priest of the family of Ezra who assisted at the dedication of the wall (Neh. 12:13, 33).
19. Another priest, head of his father Ginnethon's house, in the days of Joiakim the priest (Neh. 12:16).
20. A Levite, and sanctuary porter after the exile (Neh. 12:25)
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Today's reading: Genesis 16-17, Matthew 5:27-48 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 16-17
Hagar and Ishmael
1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her."
Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 5:27-48
Adultery
27 "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
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