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Happy birthday to those born on this day, across the years, along with
- 1556 – Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese daimyo (d. 1623)
- 1583 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
- 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1616)
- 1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (d. 1658)
- 1786 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker and financier (d. 1844)
- 1812 – Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1871)
- 1859 – Fanny Bullock Workman, geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer (d. 1925)
- 1860 – Emma Booth, English member of The Salvation Army (d. 1903)
- 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934)
- 1888 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
- 1902 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
- 1909 – Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
- 1912 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
- 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (The Blue Moon Boys) (d. 1977)
- 1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
- 1941 – Graham Chapman, English comedian and actor (d. 1989)
- 1941 – Boris Vallejo, Peruvian-American painter
- 1947 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Riot Squad, Tin Machine, The Hype, and Arnold Corns)
- 2000 – Noah Cyrus, American actress and singer
- 2011 – Prince Vincent of Denmark
- 2011 – Princess Josephine of Denmark
Matches
- 307 – Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi.
- 871 – Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
- 1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
- 1455 – The Romanus Pontifex is written.
- 1697 – Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.
- 1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
- 1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
- 1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
- 1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- 1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics'—his punched card calculator.
- 1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
- 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
- 1971 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
- 1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
- 2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
Despatches
- 307 – Emperor Hui of Jin (b. 259)
- 1337 – Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (b. 1266)
- 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1564)
- 1775 – John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
- 1825 – Eli Whitney, American inventor, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)
TOO COLD FOR POLEYS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 08, 2014 (4:51am)
A polar pig hits the US, and a polar bear moves inside.
UPDATE. In other bear news:
Alright, Bao Bao, this is your big moment. The world is watching. Time to shine. Do your species proud!
UPDATE II. This is what a millionaire American warmist looks like when you mock his religion:
“Oh, no no no no no …”
“Oh, no no no no no …”
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In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rita Skeeter wears a costume specifically styled to match each event. For example, during the first task of the Triwizard Tournament, Rita is dressed in a dragon-like leather ensemble, accessorized with a horned headband.
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" The country's biggest health insurer was valued at $4 billion during the Howard government years and its sale is expected to help pay down government debt, which is forecast to peak at $400 billion within four years.
"I strongly believe that the private sector owning commercial assets will bring about a lot more productive use of the assets than government ownership of the assets," Mr Sims said."
SELLING THE FARM TO PAY FOR GREEN LABOR'S SIX YEARS OF ECONOMIC VANDALISM.
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Should the group be allowed to erect the statue?>
Well, they did vote for Obama .. ed
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Michelle Malkin
Sulu snark: How cold is it? George Takei has Dem-slamming answer [pic] ==>http://twitchy.com/2014/
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Joseph Campbell
"My general formula for my students is ‘Follow your bliss.’ Find where it is, and don’t be afraid to follow it … If the work you are doing is the work that you chose to do because you are enjoying it, that’s it. But if you think, 'Oh no, I couldn’t do that!' that’s the dragon locking you in. 'No, no, I couldn’t be a writer,' or 'No, no, I couldn’t possibly be doing what So-and-so is doing.'
"Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself."
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
"Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself."
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Yes Joseph. One can only wonder at all those who cheated themselves by not doing what they wanted. - ed
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Tom Waits .. showing a horse drawing of a horse leaping to freedom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FVp2ipKEJw
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Michelle Malkin
‘Don’t be fooled, I’m huge!’: Megyn Kelly is answer to ‘Jeopardy’ question ==>http://twitchy.com/2014/
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Today in Rangoon, hundreds of Burmese journalists protested the unjust sentencing of a local reporter. Said organizer Myint Kyaw: "If we keep silent about this case, it will set a precedent and more journalists may be imprisoned later in similar circumstances under criminal charges.”
In related news, the Burmese government is warning a local journal that published pieces critical of President Thein Sein to abide by so-called "media ethics."
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We see what you did there! Martha MacCallum blasts liar Obama with well-placed snark quotes ==> http://twitchy.com/2014/01/07/we-see-what-you-did-there-martha-maccallum-blasts-liar-obama-with-well-placed-snark-quotes/
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A new year, a new face!
Filming for series 8 of #DoctorWho has begun. Here's the first pic of Peter Capaldi on set with Jenna Coleman! http://bbc.in/1hsNGmD
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Ich liebe dich. Alle von euch.
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G'day,
These legions of alarmists in the wonderful USA must really be feeling under the weather lately.....GOOD!
Here's hoping that Maurice Strong & Al Gore's little global Ponzi Scheme will finally be debunked by good old mother nature......... How ironic!
Godspeed
Zeg
Australian Freelance Editorial Cartoonist/Caricaturist
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Starfish by
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Because Your Wife DOES NOT WORK....???"
The following are Questions and Answers between Husband (H) and A Psychologist:
P : What do you do for a living Mr. Bandy?
H : I work as an Accountant in a Bank.
P : Your Wife ?
H : She doesn't work. She's a Housewife only.
P : Who makes breakfast for your family in the morning?
H : My Wife, because she doesn't work.
P : At what time does your wife wake up for making breakfast?
H : She wakes up at around 5 am because she cleans the house first before making breakfast.
P : How do your kids go to school?
H : My wife takes them to school, because she doesn't work.
P : After taking your kids to school, what does she do?
H : She goes to the market, then goes back home for cooking and laundry. You know, she doesn't work.
P : In the evening, after you go back home from office, what do you do?
H : Take rest, because i'm tired due to all day works.
P : What does your wife do then?
H : She prepares meals, serving our kids, preparing meals for me and cleaning the dishes, cleaning the house then taking kids to bed.
From the story above, who do you think works more???
The daily routines of your wives commence from early morning to late at night. That is called 'DOESN'T WORK'??!!
Yes, Being Housewives do not need Certificate of Study, even High Position, but their ROLE/PART is very important!
Appreciate your wives. Because their sacrifices are uncountable. This should be a reminder and reflection for all of us to understand and appreciate each others roles.
All about a WOMAN ....
When she is quiet, millions of things are running in her mind.
When she stares at you, she is wondering why she loves you so much in spite of being taken for granted.
When she says I will stand by you, she will stand by you like a rock.
Never hurt her or take her wrong or for granted...
Forward to every woman to make her smile and to every man to make him realize a woman's worth.
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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
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Conservative politics isn't monolithic, like leftwing politics, but instead diverse in opinion and emphasis. It is ok to disagree on small things. Of course, the papers call such diversity disunity .. ed
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The Christian and Muslim Arab population in Jerusalem has never grown faster than it has since Israel reunified the city. From 1967 to 2011, the Arab population has grown at a 3.4% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR). By comparison, under Ottoman rule from 1885 to 1922, the Arab population grew at a 0.9% CAGR, meaning no Arabs moved to the city and there were barely more births than deaths. But the lying Abbas will tell you that Israel is "ethnically cleansing" Jerusalem of Arabs.
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A word to the wise, to my photographer friends out there who might be easily impressed by an offer from a major magazine company...All I have to say is, as a struggling semi pro photographer, I am slack jawed agast at what is becoming more and more of a trend. This magazine company who pulls in well over one hundred and fifty million dollars profit a year doesn't want to pay photographers who supply images.... Shame on them!
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Yikes. It's actually one of the more upmarket restaurants too. Though appearances can be deceiving. My regular is much dodgier-looking..and no problem
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Pastor Rick Warren
Saddleback's Pastor of Students, @KurtJohnston has consistently taken bold risks to win thousands of students for Jesus. Just now he jumped out of a plane! #IloveMyStaffPastors. You should follow him.
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The more I accept responsibility for my choices,actions,and happiness,the more I grow. Blaming keeps me stuck in immaturity.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
Father God, today I choose to focus on You. I bless and praise You no matter what my circumstances look like. I know that You are on my side and thank You for always leading me in the path of victory. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Change Your Song This Year 2014.
The Scripture says,"Unto You, O my Strength, I will sing praises; for God is my Defense, my Fortress, and High Tower, the God Who shows me mercy and steadfast love" (Psalm 59:17, AMP)
In the Bible, David had all kinds of challenges. People lied about him, accused him, and tried to kill him. In Psalm 59 he says, "My enemies are coming against me like vicious dogs trying to destroy me. But as for me, what am I going to do? I will sing about Your power. And I will shout for joy for You are my refuge, my place of safety in my day of distress." Do the same and they Lord will answer you in Jesus Name,Amen.
The Scripture says,"Unto You, O my Strength, I will sing praises; for God is my Defense, my Fortress, and High Tower, the God Who shows me mercy and steadfast love" (Psalm 59:17, AMP)
In the Bible, David had all kinds of challenges. People lied about him, accused him, and tried to kill him. In Psalm 59 he says, "My enemies are coming against me like vicious dogs trying to destroy me. But as for me, what am I going to do? I will sing about Your power. And I will shout for joy for You are my refuge, my place of safety in my day of distress." Do the same and they Lord will answer you in Jesus Name,Amen.
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How To Achieve Intimacy With God.
1 Chronicles 28:9 says, “… If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.” What God wants from us is a genuine yearning for His presence in our lives. Not just in one area but in our entire being. God bless you.
1 Chronicles 28:9 says, “… If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.” What God wants from us is a genuine yearning for His presence in our lives. Not just in one area but in our entire being. God bless you.
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Father, today I profess that my hope and confidence is in You! I choose to believe Your Word which says You are faithful and Your Word is forever settled in heaven. Show me Your love as I keep my heart and mind stayed on You in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Have Unshakable Confidence
The Scripture says,“So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.”
(Hebrews 10:35, NIV)
Instead of being discouraged, get up in the morning and start thanking God that the answer is on the way. Instead of talking about how big the problem is, talk about how big your God is. Set your mind in one direction: victory, favor, healing, restoration. It may be taking a long time, but God didn’t bring you this far to leave you. You’ve seen Him do it in the past, and you know He will do it again in the future. You are fully persuaded because when you know your God, you have unshakeable confidence.God bless you.
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(Hebrews 10:35, NIV)
Instead of being discouraged, get up in the morning and start thanking God that the answer is on the way. Instead of talking about how big the problem is, talk about how big your God is. Set your mind in one direction: victory, favor, healing, restoration. It may be taking a long time, but God didn’t bring you this far to leave you. You’ve seen Him do it in the past, and you know He will do it again in the future. You are fully persuaded because when you know your God, you have unshakeable confidence.God bless you.
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January 8: Kim Jong-un's Birthday in North Korea
- 1697 – Scottish student Thomas Aikenheadbecame the last person in Britain to be executed for blasphemy.
- 1790 – George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.
- 1977 – Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across Moscow, killing 37 people.
- 1981 – A local farmer reported a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
- 2004 – RMS Queen Mary 2 (pictured), at the time the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
Events[edit]
- 307 – Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi.
- 871 – Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
- 1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
- 1455 – The Romanus Pontifex is written.
- 1499 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
- 1697 – Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.
- 1734 – Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- 1746 – Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
- 1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
- 1806 – Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
- 1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
- 1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
- 1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
- 1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
- 1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
- 1904 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
- 1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
- 1912 – The African National Congress is founded.
- 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
- 1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
- 1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
- 1945 – World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attackJapanese Imperial forces.
- 1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
- 1961 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
- 1962 – The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
- 1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
- 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
- 1971 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
- 1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
- 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
- 1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
- 1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
- 1979 – The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
- 1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
- 1982 – The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
- 1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
- 1989 – Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
- 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
- 1996 – An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 237 on the ground; the aircraft's crew of 6 survive the crash.
- 2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
- 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
- 2003 – US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
- 2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
- 2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
- 2009 – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
- 2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.
- 2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
Births[edit]
- 1556 – Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese daimyo (d. 1623)
- 1583 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
- 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1616)
- 1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (d. 1658)
- 1628 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
- 1632 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist and economist (d. 1694)
- 1635 – Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish archbishop (d. 1709)
- 1735 – John Carroll, American archbishop (d. 1815)
- 1763 – Edmond-Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
- 1786 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker and financier (d. 1844)
- 1788 – Archduke Rudolf of Austria (d. 1831)
- 1792 – Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
- 1805 – John Bigler, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 3rd Governor of California (d. 1871)
- 1805 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader, 3rd President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (d. 1878)
- 1812 – Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1871)
- 1817 – Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (d. 1893)
- 1821 – James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (d. 1904)
- 1821 – W. H. L. Wallace, American lawyer and general (d. 1862)
- 1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1913)
- 1824 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
- 1824 – Wilkie Collins, English author and playwright (d. 1889)
- 1830 – Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (d. 1902)
- 1830 – Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)
- 1836 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch painter (d. 1912)
- 1843 – Frederick Abberline, English police officer (d. 1929)
- 1843 – John H. Moffitt, American soldier and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1926)
- 1852 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
- 1854 – John Rahm, American golfer (d. 1935)
- 1859 – Fanny Bullock Workman, geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer (d. 1925)
- 1860 – Emma Booth, English member of The Salvation Army (d. 1903)
- 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934)
- 1864 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
- 1865 – Winnaretta Singer, American heiress (d. 1943)
- 1866 – William G. Conley, American politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1940)
- 1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
- 1870 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1930)
- 1871 – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1940)
- 1873 – Iuliu Maniu, Hungarian-Romanian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1953)
- 1873 – Elena of Montenegro (d. 1956)
- 1879 – Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (d. 1948)
- 1881 – Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
- 1881 – Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (d. 1945)
- 1883 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
- 1883 – Patrick J. Hurley, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 51st United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
- 1885 – John Curtin, Australian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)
- 1885 – A. J. Muste, Dutch-American clergyman and activist (d. 1967)
- 1886 – Thomas January, American soccer player (d. 1957)
- 1888 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
- 1888 – Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
- 1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
- 1891 – Storm Jameson, English journalist and author (d. 1986)
- 1891 – Bronislava Nijinska, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1972)
- 1894 – Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (d. 1941)
- 1896 – Arthur Ford, American psychic, founded the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship (d. 1971)
- 1896 – Jaromír Weinberger, Czech-American composer (d. 1967)
- 1897 – Dennis Wheatley, English author (d. 1977)
- 1899 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1959)
- 1900 – Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982)
- 1902 – Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
- 1902 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
- 1904 – Karl Brandt, German SS officer (d. 1948)
- 1904 – Tampa Red, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1981)
- 1905 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
- 1908 – William Hartnell, English actor (d. 1975)
- 1908 – Fearless Nadia, Indian Actress(d.1966)
- 1909 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian Bengali Novelist(d.1995)
- 1909 – Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
- 1909 – Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
- 1909 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (d. 1992)
- 1909 – Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
- 1910 – Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1998)
- 1911 – Tom Delaney, English race car driver (d. 2006)
- 1912 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
- 1912 – Lawrence Walsh, American lawyer and judge, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General
- 1915 – Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
- 1917 – Peter Taylor, American writer (d. 1994)
- 1921 – Herta Bothe, German concentration camp guard
- 1922 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
- 1922 – Abbey Simon, American pianist
- 1923 – Larry Storch, American actor
- 1923 – Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer (d. 2011)
- 1923 – Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
- 1923 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer scientist and author (d. 2008)
- 1924 – Benjamin Lees, American composer (d. 2010)
- 1924 – Ron Moody, English actor and singer
- 1925 – Mohan Rakesh,Indian Hindi Novelist(d.1972)
- 1925 – Helmuth Hübener, German activist (d. 1942)
- 1926 – Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian dancer (d. 2004)
- 1926 – Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
- 1926 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (d. 2009)
- 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet and academic
- 1928 – Slade Gorton, American politician, 14th Attorney General of Washington
- 1928 – Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and editor (d. 1996)
- 1929 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-English actor
- 1929 – Wolfgang Peters, German footballer (d. 2003)
- 1931 – Bill Graham, German-American music promoter (d. 1991)
- 1931 – Chuck Metcalf, American bassist (d. 2012)
- 1933 – Nolan Miller, American fashion designer (d. 2012)
- 1933 – Charles Osgood, American journalist
- 1933 – Jean-Marie Straub, French director
- 1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
- 1934 – Gene Freese, American baseball player
- 1934 – Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1934 – Alexandra Ripley, American author (d. 2004)
- 1935 – Lewis H. Lapham, American publisher, founded Lapham's Quarterly
- 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (The Blue Moon Boys) (d. 1977)
- 1936 – Zdeněk Mácal, Czech conductor
- 1936 – Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-English scientist
- 1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
- 1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host
- 1938 – Nanda, Indian Actress
- 1938 – Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens, English sociologist
- 1938 – Fred J. Lincoln, American porn actor, director, and producer (d. 2013)
- 1938 – Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian opera singer
- 1939 – Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan-American fashion designer
- 1939 – Ruth Maleczech, American actress (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Alan Wilson, English mathematician and social scientist
- 1940 – Jimmy O'Neill, American radio and television host (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Graham Chapman, English comedian and actor (d. 1989)
- 1941 – Boris Vallejo, Peruvian-American painter
- 1941 – Yoshinori Watanabe, Japanese mobster (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Valya Balkanska, Bulgarian singer
- 1942 – Robin Ellis, English actor
- 1942 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
- 1942 – Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician, 56th Prime Minister of Japan
- 1942 – Yvette Mimieux, American actress
- 1943 – Charles Murray, American political scientist and author
- 1944 – Terry Brooks, American author
- 1945 – Nancy Bond, American author
- 1945 – Yvonne Kennedy, American politician (d. 2012)
- 1945 – Jeannie Lewis, Australian actress and singer
- 1945 – Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-American radio host
- 1945 – Kathleen Noone, American actress
- 1945 – Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician, 31st Mayor of Istanbul
- 1946 – Robby Krieger, American guitarist and songwriter (The Doors, The Butts Band, and Manzarek–Krieger)
- 1946 – Elijah Moshinsky, Australian director of opera, theatre and television
- 1947 – Don Bendell, American author
- 1947 – William Bonin, American serial killer and sex offender (d. 1996)
- 1947 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Riot Squad, Tin Machine, The Hype, and Arnold Corns)
- 1947 – Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
- 1947 – Terry Sylvester, English singer and guitarist (The Escorts, The Swinging Blue Jeans and The Hollies)
- 1947 – Laurie Walters, American actress
- 1947 – Luke Williams, New Zealand wrestler
- 1948 – Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish director
- 1949 – John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff
- 1949 – Lawrence Rowe, Jamaican former cricketer
- 1950 – Jos Hermens, Dutch runner
- 1951 – Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
- 1951 – John McTiernan, American director and producer
- 1951 – Karen Tei Yamashita, Japanese-American writer
- 1952 – Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist
- 1952 – Mel Reynolds, American politician
- 1953 – Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
- 1955 – Karine Kazinian, Armenian diplomat (d. 2012)
- 1955 – Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
- 1955 – Mike Reno, Canadian singer and drummer (Loverboy and Moxy)
- 1957 – Nacho Duato, Spanish dancer and choreographer
- 1957 – David Lang, American composer
- 1958 – Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler
- 1959 – Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House, Split Enz, Deckchairs Overboard, and Tarmac Adam) (d. 2005)
- 1959 – Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer (d. 1982)
- 1960 – Dave Weckl, American jazz fusion drummer
- 1961 – Keith Arkell, English chess player
- 1961 – Calvin Smith, American sprinter
- 1962 – Chris Marion, American singer and keyboard player (Little River Band and Western Flyer)
- 1964 – Ron Sexsmith, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1965 – Michelle Forbes, American actress
- 1965 – Maria Pitillo, American actress
- 1966 – Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2009)
- 1966 – Andrew Wood, American singer-songwriter (Mother Love Bone and Malfunkshun) (d. 1990)
- 1967 – Willie Anderson, American basketball player
- 1967 – Torsten Gowitzke, German footballer
- 1967 – R. Kelly, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Public Announcement)
- 1967 – Tom Watson, English politician
- 1968 – James Brokenshire, English politician
- 1968 – Keith Mullings, American boxer
- 1968 – Bull Nakano, Japanese wrestler and golfer
- 1969 – Ami Dolenz, American actress
- 1969 – Lucy Winkett, British Anglican priest
- 1970 – Rachel Friend, Australian actress
- 1971 – Jason Giambi, American baseball player
- 1971 – Mike Süsser, German chef and author
- 1971 – Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
- 1972 – Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer
- 1973 – Mike Cameron, American baseball player
- 1973 – Henning Solberg, Norwegian race car driver
- 1973 – Jason Stevens, Australian rugby player
- 1974 – Maria Matsouka, Greek politician
- 1975 – DJ Clue?, American rapper, DJ, and producer
- 1975 – Harris Jayaraj, Indian composer
- 1975 – Tift Merritt, American singer-songwriter
- 1976 – Jenny Lewis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Rilo Kiley)
- 1976 – Josh Meyers, American actor
- 1976 – Carl Pavano, American baseball player
- 1977 – Amber Benson, American actress
- 1977 – Ron Pederson, Canadian actor
- 1977 – Melanie Seeger, German race walker
- 1977 – Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
- 1978 – Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess player
- 1978 – Just Blaze, American record producer
- 1978 – Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
- 1979 – Torry Castellano, American drummer (The Donnas)
- 1979 – Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
- 1979 – Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
- 1979 – Tomasz Schafernaker, Polish-English meteorologist
- 1979 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
- 1979 – Sarah Polley, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1979 – Mirella van Melis, Dutch cyclist
- 1980 – Rachel Nichols, American actress
- 1981 – Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
- 1981 – Carmen Schäfer, Swiss curler
- 1981 – Ioannis Kokkodis, Greek swimmer
- 1981 – Genevieve Padalecki, American actress
- 1981 – Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player
- 1982 – Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer
- 1982 – Wil Francis, American singer-songwriter and producer (Aiden and William Control)
- 1982 – Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
- 1982 – John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
- 1983 – Felipe Colombo, Mexican-Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1983 – Kim Jong-un, North Korean politician, 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea
- 1983 – Chris Masters, American wrestler
- 1984 – Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
- 1985 – Rachael Lampa, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1986 – Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
- 1986 – Maria Ozawa, Japanese-Canadian porn actress and model
- 1986 – David Silva, Spanish footballer
- 1987 – Carmen Klaschka, German tennis player
- 1987 – Freddie Stroma, English actor, model and singer
- 1988 – Allison Harvard, American model and actress
- 1988 – Adrián López Álvarez, Spanish footballer
- 1988 – Michael Mancienne, English footballer
- 1989 – Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player
- 1989 – Kristján Einar, Icelandic race car driver
- 1989 – Barbora Silná, Czech-Austrian ice dancer
- 1991 – Jorge Enríquez, Mexican footballer
- 1991 – Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer (Hinoi Team)
- 1992 – Apostolos Vellios, Greek footballer
- 1993 – Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare disease (d. 2013)
- 2000 – Noah Cyrus, American actress and singer
- 2011 – Princess Josephine of Denmark
- 2011 – Prince Vincent of Denmark
Deaths[edit]
- 307 – Emperor Hui of Jin (b. 259)
- 482 – Severinus of Noricum, Italian saint (b. 410)
- 1107 – Edgar, King of Scotland (b. 1074)
- 1198 – Pope Celestine III (b. 1106)
- 1337 – Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (b. 1266)
- 1456 – Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1381)
- 1464 – Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian and academic (b. 1385)
- 1557 – Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (b. 1522)
- 1570 – Philibert de l'Orme, French architect, designed the Château d'Anet (b. 1510)
- 1598 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525)
- 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1564)
- 1664 – Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
- 1707 – John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
- 1713 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1653)
- 1775 – John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
- 1789 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703)
- 1794 – Justus Möser, German jurist (b. 1720)
- 1815 – Edward Pakenham, Irish general and politician (b. 1778)
- 1825 – Eli Whitney, American inventor, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)
- 1853 – Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene-Hungarian poet and educator (b. 1788)
- 1854 – William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English general (b. 1768)
- 1865 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician (b. 1779)
- 1874 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French historian and archaeologist (b. 1814)
- 1878 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1821)
- 1883 – Miska Magyarics, Slovene-Hungarian poet (b. 1825)
- 1880 – Emperor Norton, English-American businessman (b. 1811)
- 1896 – William Rainey Marshall, American politician, 5th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
- 1896 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
- 1901 – John Barry, Irish soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1873)
- 1916 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
- 1916 – Ada Rehan, Irish-American actress (b. 1860)
- 1918 – Johannes Pääsuke, Estonian photographer and director (b. 1892)
- 1918 – Ellis H. Roberts, American politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (b. 1827)
- 1925 – Fernand Sanz, French cyclist (b. 1881)
- 1932 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian philanthropist (b. 1866)
- 1934 – Andrei Bely, Russian author, poet, and critic (b. 1880)
- 1934 – Alexandre Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (b. 1886)
- 1938 – Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (b. 1880)
- 1941 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English army officer and author (b. 1857)
- 1942 – Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American lawyer and religious leader (b. 1869)
- 1943 – Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (b. 1919)
- 1943 – Andres Larka, Estonian politician and military commander (b. 1879)
- 1944 – William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American businessman (b. 1878)
- 1945 – Karl Ernst Krafft, Swiss astrologer (b. 1900)
- 1948 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
- 1948 – Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
- 1950 – Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
- 1953 – Hugh Binney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
- 1956 – Jim Elliot, American missionary (b. 1928)
- 1958 – Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (b. 1869)
- 1958 – Paul Pilgrim, American runner (b. 1883)
- 1958 – John Duff, Canadian racing driver, winner of 1924 24 Hours of Le Mans (b. 1895)
- 1961 – Schoolboy Rowe, American baseball player (b. 1910)
- 1963 – Kay Sage, American painter and poet (b. 1898)
- 1963 – Bimal Roy, Indian director (b. 1909)
- 1967 – Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1927)
- 1969 – Albert Hill, English runner (b. 1889)
- 1970 – Jani Christou, Egyptian-Greek composer (b. 1926)
- 1970 – Georges Guibourg, French actor, singer, and playwright (b. 1891)
- 1972 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)
- 1975 – John Gregson, English actor (b. 1919)
- 1975 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
- 1976 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
- 1976 – Robert Forgan, Scottish-English physician and politician (b. 1891)
- 1979 – Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter and harp player (Carter Family) (b. 1898)
- 1980 – John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
- 1981 – Matthew Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
- 1982 – Grégoire Aslan, Armenian actor (b. 1908)
- 1983 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German pilot (b. 1919)
- 1983 – Ron Frazer, Australian actor (b. 1924)
- 1983 – Tom McCall, American journalist and politician 30th Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
- 1984 – Eerik Kumari, Estonian ornithologist (b. 1912)
- 1986 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
- 1990 – Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator and gallery artist (b. 1919)
- 1990 – Terry-Thomas, English actor (b. 1911)
- 1991 – Steve Clark, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
- 1992 – Reta Shaw, American actress (b. 1912)
- 1994 – Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1994 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 1995 – Carlos Monzón, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
- 1996 – John Hargreaves, Australian actor (b. 1945)
- 1996 – François Mitterrand, French politician, 21st President of France (b. 1916)
- 1996 – Howard Taubman, American author and critic (b. 1907)
- 1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 1998 – Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
- 2000 – Fritz Thiedemann, German horse rider (b. 1918)
- 2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
- 2002 – Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (b. 1932)
- 2003 – Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)
- 2004 – John A. Gambling, American radio host (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Campbell McComas, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1952)
- 2005 – Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer (b. 1954)
- 2005 – Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
- 2006 – Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Irish politician (b. 1943)
- 2007 – Jane Bolin, American judge (b. 1908)
- 2007 – Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, English politician (b. 1916)
- 2007 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1922)
- 2007 – David Ervine, Irish politician (b. 1953)
- 2007 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1925)
- 2008 – George Moore, Australian jockey (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Richard John Neuhaus, Canadian-American priest and author (b. 1936)
- 2009 – Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1958)
- 2010 – Tony Halme, Finnish wrestler, actor, and politician (b. 1963)
- 2010 – Monica Maughan, Australian actor (b. 1933)
- 2011 – Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1937)
- 2011 – John Roll, American judge (b. 1947)
- 2011 – Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Tandyn Almer, American songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Bernard Delcampe, French footballer (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Antonio Frasconi, Argentinian-American woodcutter (b. 1919)
- 2013 – Jeanne Manford, American educator and activist, co-founded Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Alasdair Milne, Indian-English television producer (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Manuel Mota, Spanish fashion designer (b. 1966)
- 2013 – Watson Parker, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Cornel Pavlovici, Romanian footballer (b. 1943)
- 2013 – Ten Most Wanted, American race horse (b. 2000)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
- Earliest day on which Children's Day can fall, while January 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Saturday in January. (Thailand)
- Kim Jong-un's Birthday (North Korea)
“Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” -Ephesians 5:1-2
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 7: Morning
"For me to live is Christ." - Philippians 1:21
The believer did not always live to Christ. He began to do so when God the Holy Spirit convinced him of sin, and when by grace he was brought to see the dying Saviour making a propitiation for his guilt. From the moment of the new and celestial birth the man begins to live to Christ. Jesus is to believers the one pearl of great price, for whom we are willing to part with all that we have. He has so completely won our love, that it beats alone for him; to his glory we would live, and in defence of his gospel we would die; he is the pattern of our life, and the model after which we would sculpture our character. Paul's words mean more than most men think; they imply that the aim and end of his life was Christ--nay, his life itself was Jesus. In the words of an ancient saint, he did eat, and drink, and sleep eternal life. Jesus was his very breath, the soul of his soul, the heart of his heart, the life of his life. Can you say, as a professing Christian, that you live up to this idea? Can you honestly say that for you to live is Christ? Your business--are you doing it for Christ? Is it not done for self- aggrandizement and for family advantage? Do you ask, "Is that a mean reason?" For the Christian it is. He professes to live for Christ; how can he live for another object without committing a spiritual adultery? Many there are who carry out this principle in some measure; but who is there that dare say that he hath lived wholly for Christ as the apostle did? Yet, this alone is the true life of a Christian--its source, its sustenance, its fashion, its end, all gathered up in one word--Christ Jesus. Lord, accept me; I here present myself, praying to live only in thee and to thee. Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either."
Evening
"My sister, my spouse." - Song of Solomon 4:12
Observe the sweet titles with which the heavenly Solomon with intense affection addresses his bride the church. "My sister, one near to me by ties of nature, partaker of the same sympathies. My spouse, nearest and dearest, united to me by the tenderest bands of love; my sweet companion, part of my own self. My sister, by my Incarnation, which makes me bone of thy bone and flesh of thy flesh; my spouse, by heavenly betrothal, in which I have espoused thee unto myself in righteousness. My sister, whom I knew of old, and over whom I watched from her earliest infancy; my spouse, taken from among the daughters, embraced by arms of love, and affianced unto me forever. See how true it is that our royal Kinsman is not ashamed of us, for he dwells with manifest delight upon this two-fold relationship. We have the word "my" twice in our version; as if Christ dwelt with rapture on his possession of his Church. "His delights were with the sons of men," because those sons of men were his own chosen ones. He, the Shepherd, sought the sheep, because they were his sheep; he has gone about "to seek and to save that which was lost," because that which was lost was his long before it was lost to itself or lost to him. The church is the exclusive portion of her Lord; none else may claim a partnership, or pretend to share her love. Jesus, thy church delights to have it so! Let every believing soul drink solace out of these wells. Soul! Christ is near to thee in ties of relationship; Christ is dear to thee in bonds of marriage union, and thou art dear to him; behold he grasps both of thy hands with both his own, saying, "My sister, my spouse." Mark the two sacred holdfasts by which thy Lord gets such a double hold of thee that he neither can nor will ever let thee go. Be not, O beloved, slow to return the hallowed flame of his love.
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Magog
[Mā'gŏg] - expansion or increase of family.
The second son of Japheth and founder of descendants occupying Magog, or Scythia (Gen. 10:2; 1 Chron. 1:5; Ezek. 38:2; 39:6;Rev. 20:8 ). The grandson of Noah was the father of those Josephus calls the "Magogites," and those the Greeks call "Scythians." When Ezekiel used the terms Gog and Magog, he used them in a historical sense of the future, referring to the Prince of the Northern Confederacy and his scope of rule, and they are thus literally to be understood. Gog is the symbolic designation for the future head of all nations embraced within the Northern Confederacy (Ezek. 38; 39 ). Magog is the symbolic territory covered. When the Apostle John uses the terms it is to describe the wicked on the earth at the close of Christ's millennial reign, and is thus to be symbolically understood. Gog and Magog in the Book of Revelation are to be thought of in a moral, not a geographical sense (Rev. 20:8).
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Today's reading: Genesis 18-19, Matthew 6:1-18 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 18-19
The Three Visitors
1 The LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. 2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground....
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 6:1-18
Giving to the Needy
1 "Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2 "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
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