On the same day in 1939, completely independent of each other, Billie Holiday recorded Strange Fruit while Adolph Hitler celebrated his 50th birthday. Billie did not know she had had a hit, but Hitler knew he needed incentives to celebrate, and declared a public holiday. Six years later, in another parallel, Hitler left his bunker for the last time, pinning medals on his youth movement, while twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme were killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school. Strange fruit. In 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion failed. In 1968, English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech. Enoch had a formidable intelligence, evenly matched with a latter day Pauline Hanson (perhaps I should explain .. he was a dolt). His populist view on migration, being without merit, is still recalled by racist bigots everywhere around the world. But it was too late, Pharaoh had already let the people go.
For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
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Happy birthday and many happy returns for Malyka, little Zee, Dallas Beaufort, Adrian Kuswendi and Langley Bui. Born on the same day, across the years. That day, in 1939, Billie Holliday recorded Strange fruit. May your compassion and love be bountiful.
- 1492 – Pietro Aretino, Italian author, playwright, and poet (d. 1556)
- 1816 – Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (d. 1895)
- 1818 – Heinrich Göbel, German-American mechanic and inventor (d. 1893)
- 1850 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue (d. 1931)
- 1851 – Siegmund Lubin, Polish-American businessman, founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (d. 1923)
- 1889 – Marie-Antoinette de Geuser, French Christian mystic (d. 1918)
- 1889 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1945)
- 1893 – Edna Parker, American educator and super-centenarian (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster, founded Eternal Word Television Network
- 1937 – George Takei, American actor
- 1970 – Shemar Moore, American actor
- 1972 – Carmen Electra, American model, actress, and singer
- 1982 – Dario Knežević, Croatian footballer
- 1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian model
- 1992 – Ashton Moio, American actor, stunt actor and martial artist in film and television
- 2007 – Zarkandar, Thoroughbred racehorse
Matches
- 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
- 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
- 1535 – The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
- 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
- 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
- 1689 – The former king, James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
- 1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57)
- 1789 – President George Washington arrives in Philadelphia after his inauguration to elaborate welcome at Gray's Ferry just after noon first inauguration of George Washington
- 1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
- 1828 – René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
- 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment falsifying the theory of spontaneous generation.
- 1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
- 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
- 1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
- 1908 – Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
- 1912 – Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston.
- 1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
- 1916 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.
- 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
- 1926 – Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
- 1939 – Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song "Strange Fruit".
- 1939 – Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
- 1945 – World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
- 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
- 1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
- 1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
- 1951 – Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ.
- 1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
- 1964 – BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
- 1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
- 1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
- 1978 – Korean Air Lines Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
- 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
- 1998 – German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
- 1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School inColumbine, Colorado.
- 2013 – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Japan's last reactor is shut down at midnight.
Despatches
- 1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English-Irish military leader (b. 1130)
- 1873 – William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
- 1999 – Casualties of the Columbine High School massacre:
- Cassie Bernall, American student (b. 1981)
- Eric Harris, American student and murderer (b. 1981)
- Dylan Klebold, American student and murderer (b. 1981)
- Rachel Scott, American student, inspired the Rachel's Challenge (b. 1981)
- William David Sanders, American educator (b. 1951)
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“Conscience is a man's compass”
Vincent van Gogh
"Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos."
Doug Coupland
"Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick."
Robert Brault
"A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him."
Elmer G. Letterman
"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth."
Xun Zi
“Be around the people you want to be like, because you will be like the people you are around.”
Sean Reichle
“Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.”
Max Ehrmann
"The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at."
Marilyn Manson
"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."
Joshua L. Liebman
"A family in harmony will prosper in everything."
Chinese Proverb
"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."
Barbara Bush
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained”
Winston Churchill
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."
Thomas Merton
"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
George Santayana
"There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess."
Bill Cosby
"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."
Barbara Bush
"People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, …but they will always remember how you made them feel."
Maya Angelou
"You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
Mathew 5:48
"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."
Goethe
"Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression."
Margaret J. Wheatley
"He who helps the guilty, shares the crime."
Publilius Syrus
"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
Hannah More
"When you forgive, you in noway change the past - but you sure do change the future."
Bernard Meltzer
“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”
Barbara De Angelis
"America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards."
Charles W. Pickering
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
Aristotle
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without commonsense.”
Robert G. Ingersoll
"Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living alife they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime."
Emma Goldman
"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny."
James Allen
"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction."
Kevyn Aucoin
“Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.”
Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question"
Willard Scott
"Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition."
Margaret J. Wheatley
"No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think."
Penelope Fitzgerald
"Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception- do not confuse them with "facts"or "truth". Wars have been fought and millions have been killed because of the inability of men to understand the idea that everybody has a different viewpoint."
John Moore
"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying."
Aldous Huxley
"Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business."
Ann Landers
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. "
Albert Einstein
"Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind."
Sydney Madwed
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Title: Music
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me go where'er I will,
I hear a sky-born music still:
It sounds from all things old,
It sounds from all things young,
From all that's fair, from all that's foul,
Peals out a cheerful song.
It is not only in the rose,
It is not only in the bird,
Not only where the rainbow glows,
Nor in the song of woman heard,
But in the darkest, meanest things
There always, always something sings.
'T is not in the high stars alone,
Nor in the cup of budding flowers,
Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone,
Nor in the bow that smiles in showers,
But in the mud and scum of things
There always, always something sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem: Music
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Just got off the phone with a friend who lives in Scotland.
She said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling.
The temperature is dropping far below zero and the north wind is increasing to near gale force.
Her husband has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare.
She says that if it gets much worse, she may have to let the drunken bastard in.
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From Larry Pickering
BOMBERS’ HERO IS AUSTRALIAN ISLAMIC IMAM
Dead student bomber, Tameran Tsarnaev, 26, idolised Australian Imam, Shirk Feiz (pictured). Fiez featured on Tameran’s facebook page and he had a large collection of his videos.
Fiez also featured on pickeringpost.com last year as a dangerous Islamist who lectures in radical Islam in both UK and Australian mosques.
As with other Imams and Mullahs who promote terrorism in mosques around the World, Australia has done nothing to stem his activities. He is free to continue to radicalise those of the Islamic faith.
Of the two apparently normal students only Tameran converted to Islam. After a six-month overseas “holiday”, he began praying five times a day, while preparing to kill Bostonians.
His younger brother Dzhokhar, 19, now in custody in a critical condition, had been affected by his radicalised older brother to the extent that he participated in his atrocity.
The Boston bombers were symptomatic of all other terrorists, they stay long enough to meld unnoticed into the community. They attract no attention until they are summoned to act. Then they need to pray that all the virgins aren’t gone, prior to acting.
Home-grown terrorism is the insidious aftermath of US, UK and NATO involvement in foreign countries.
Al Queda has found fertile ground in recent rebel movements in Libya, Egypt, Iraq and Afghanistan.
It has now taken root in Syria where the West has wisely refused to get involved and it’s spreading like Patterson’s Curse in Africa, financed by Afghanistan’s insidious heroin trade.
President Bush declared war on Islam. Is not Islam to be expected to declare war on us?
Afghanistan’s Taliban just wants to be left alone to administer their decadent Sharia law... Al Queda and its hundreds of cells wants revenge.
Pakistan, nurtured as a lone but untrustworthy link to the West, is aligned with Afghanistan’s Al Queda.
Proof-positive of that was the Egyptian Bin Laden’s safe sanctuary... officially arranged adjacent to a Pakistani Military Base in Abbottabad.
Unfortunately Australia is an active junior ally of US, NATO and UK involvement in these ill-conceived wars and to suggest we aren’t a yummy target is blind foolishness.
Why do we expect to be able to kill thousands in the homelands of these rogue states and not expect some sort of retaliation?
The ALP’s politically correct open border policy is a dangerous threat to Australia. Handing out thousands of E Bridging visas to Islamic ‘unknowns’ is about as negligent as any government could get.
Our ‘Welcome pack’ may as well include suicide vests and bomb construction instructions.
No other developed Western or Eastern country would even consider allowing illegal, unprocessed, Islamic immigrants loose in their country.
They are too busy trying to deport them. Many have banned further Islamic immigration, others have always banned it.
Ok, so we can’t deport them, we are too beholdin’ to a corrupt Islamic-dominated UN to do that and anyway 10% of our carbon tax has been promised to them. Now that wouldn’t make sense would it?
But surely Australia’s mosques should not be allowed the luxury of promoting and inflicting terrorism on their hosts. Surely the ‘freedom of religion’ ethic has gone too far?
Mosques with their evil mullahs and imams are nurseries for terrorist activities yet are no-go areas for authorities. Why?
Do we need to suffer the disgusting attitudes of Islamists in the US, UK and France, do we need to suffer the similar murder of Boston’s sports patrons before we act?
Guess we do.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/
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April 20: Easter (Christianity, 2014); Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá'í Faith); 4/20 (cannabis culture)
- 1535 – The appearance of sun dogs overStockholm, Sweden, inspired the paintingVädersolstavlan, the oldest colour depiction of the city.
- 1828 – French explorer René Caillié became the first confirmed non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, for which he later received a 10,000-franc prize from the Société de géographie.
- 1939 – Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday was celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
- 1999 – Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarked on a massacre, killing 13 people and wounding over 20 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
- 2008 – Fernando Lugo (pictured) became the first non-Colorado Party candidate to be elected President of Paraguay in 61 years.
Events[edit]
- 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
- 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
- 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
- 1535 – The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
- 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
- 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
- 1689 – The former king, James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
- 1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57)
- 1770 – The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
- 1789 – President George Washington arrives in Philadelphia after his inauguration to elaborate welcome at Gray's Ferry just after noon first inauguration of George Washington
- 1792 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
- 1810 – The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
- 1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
- 1828 – René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
- 1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
- 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment falsifying the theory of spontaneous generation.
- 1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
- 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
- 1876 – The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
- 1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
- 1908 – Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
- 1912 – Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston.
- 1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
- 1916 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.
- 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
- 1922 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
- 1926 – Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
- 1939 – Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
- 1939 – Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song "Strange Fruit".
- 1945 – World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
- 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
- 1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
- 1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
- 1951 – Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ.
- 1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
- 1964 – BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
- 1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
- 1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
- 1978 – Korean Air Lines Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
- 1980 – Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
- 1984 – The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
- 1985 – The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
- 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
- 1998 – German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
- 1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School inColumbine, Colorado.
- 2007 – Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
- 2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
- 2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
- 2013 – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Japan's last reactor is shut down at midnight.
- 2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
Births[edit]
- 1492 – Pietro Aretino, Italian author, playwright, and poet (d. 1556)
- 1494 – Johannes Agricola, German reformer (d. 1566)
- 1586 – Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)
- 1633 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (d. 1654)
- 1646 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704)
- 1650 – William Bedloe, English fraudster (d. 1680)
- 1718 – David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
- 1723 – Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (d. 1781)
- 1727 – Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
- 1745 – Philippe Pinel, French physician (d. 1826)
- 1748 – Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian (d. 1831)
- 1808 – Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France (d. 1873)
- 1816 – Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (d. 1895)
- 1818 – Heinrich Göbel, German-American mechanic and inventor (d. 1893)
- 1826 – Dinah Craik, English author (d. 1887)
- 1836 – Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American scientist (d. 1895)
- 1840 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
- 1850 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue (d. 1931)
- 1851 – Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
- 1851 – Siegmund Lubin, Polish-American businessman, founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (d. 1923)
- 1860 – Justinien de Clary, French target shooter (d. 1933)
- 1871 – Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (d. 1951)
- 1875 – Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet (d. 1909)
- 1879 – Paul Poiret, French fashion designer (d. 1944)
- 1882 – Holland Smith, American general (d. 1967)
- 1884 – Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
- 1884 – Oliver Kirk, American boxer (d. 1960)
- 1884 – Daniel Varoujan, Armenian poet (d. 1915)
- 1889 – Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish rabbi, lawyer, and activist (d. 1996)
- 1889 – Harold Bache, English cricketer (d. 1916)
- 1889 – A. J. Balaban, American showman based in Chicago (d. 1962)
- 1889 – Robert Butler (Australian politician), Australian politician (d. 1950)
- 1889 – Walter Costello, American gangster (d. 1917)
- 1889 – Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, Swedish prince (d. 1918)
- 1889 – Marie-Antoinette de Geuser, French Christian mystic (d. 1918)
- 1889 – S. W. Harrington, American physician and surgeon, All-American football player, and head football coach (d. 1975)
- 1889 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1945)
- 1889 – Tonny Kessler, Dutch footballer (d. 1960)
- 1890 – Maurice Duplessis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Quebec (d. 1959)
- 1893 – Harold Lloyd, American actor and producer (d. 1971)
- 1893 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (d. 1983)
- 1893 – Edna Parker, American educator and super-centenarian (d. 2008)
- 1895 – Emile Christian, American trombonist and composer (d. 1973)
- 1895 – Henry de Montherlant, French author and playwright (d. 1972)
- 1896 – Wop May, Canadian pilot and captain (d. 1952)
- 1899 – Alan Arnett McLeod Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
- 1904 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972)
- 1904 – George Stibitz, American computer scientist (d. 1995)
- 1907 – Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek bishop (d. 2010)
- 1908 – Lionel Hampton, American vibraphonist, pianist, bandleader, and actor (d. 2002)
- 1913 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor and poet (d. 1986)
- 1913 – Willi Hennig, German biologist (d. 1976)
- 1914 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1915 – Joseph Wolpe, South African-American psychotherapist (d. 1997)
- 1916 – Nasiba Zeynalova, Azerbaijani actress (d. 2004)
- 1918 – Edward L. Beach, Jr., American captain and author (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
- 1919 – Richard Hillary, Australian pilot, lieutenant, and author (d. 1943)
- 1920 – Clement Isong, Nigerian banker and politician (d. 2000)
- 1920 – Ronald Speirs, American colonel (d. 2007)
- 1920 – John Paul Stevens, American lieutenant and judge
- 1921 – Janine Sutto, French-Canadian actress
- 1923 – Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster, founded Eternal Word Television Network
- 1923 – Irene Lieblich, Polish-American painter (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Tito Puente, American drummer and producer (d. 2000)
- 1924 – Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (d. 2008)
- 1924 – Leslie Phillips, English actor
- 1924 – Guy Rocher, Canadian sociologist and academic
- 1925 – Ernie Stautner, German-American football player and coach (d. 2006)
- 1927 – Bud Cullen, Canadian judge and politician (d. 2005)
- 1927 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
- 1927 – K. Alex Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1928 – Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
- 1928 – Arvo Kruusement, Estonian actor and director
- 1929 – Harry Agganis, American baseball and football player (d. 1955)
- 1930 – Dwight Gustafson, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
- 1930 – Antony Jay, British writer, broadcaster and director
- 1931 – Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby
- 1931 – John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, English businessman and politician
- 1936 – Pauli Ellefsen, Faroese politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2012)
- 1936 – Pat Roberts, American politician
- 1936 – Christopher Robinson, British condutor and organist
- 1937 – George Takei, American actor
- 1937 – Antonios Kounadis, Greek discus thrower
- 1937 – Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (d. 2011)
- 1938 – Eszter Tamási, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
- 1939 – Peter S. Beagle, American author and screenwriter
- 1939 – Ray Brooks, British actor
- 1939 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian physician and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Norway
- 1939 – José Alves da Costa, Brazilian bishop (d. 2012)
- 1939 – Johnny Tillotson, American singer-songwriter
- 1940 – James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1941 – David L. Boren, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Oklahoma
- 1941 – Ryan O'Neal, American actor
- 1942 – Giles Henderson, British, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
- 1942 – Arto Paasilinna, Finnish journalist and author
- 1943 – Alan Beith, British politician
- 1943 – John Gardiner, English conductor
- 1943 – Edie Sedgwick, American model and actress (d. 1971)
- 1943 – Jamie Gillis, American pornographic actor and director (d. 2010)
- 1944 – Toivo Aare, Estonian journalist (d. 1999)
- 1945 – Michael Brandon, American actor
- 1945 – Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden, British historian, author and politician
- 1945 – Judith O'Dea, American actress
- 1945 – Thein Sein, Burmese politician, 8th President of Burma
- 1945 – Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
- 1946 – Tommy Hutton, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1946 – Julien Poulin, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1946 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (d. 1982)
- 1947 – Rita Dionne-Marsolais, Canadian economist and politician
- 1947 – David Leland, English actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1947 – Ken Scott, English record producer
- 1947 – Björn Skifs, Swedish singer-songwriter, actor, and screenwriter (Blue Swede and Slam Creepers')
- 1947 – Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author
- 1948 – Craig Frost, American pianist and songwriter (Grand Funk)
- 1948 – Merlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll, Lord High Constable of Scotland
- 1948 – Gregory Itzin, American actor
- 1948 – Hugh Roberts, British art historian and curator
- 1948 – Rémy Trudel, Canadian educator and politician
- 1948 – Peter Williams, British educationalist
- 1949 – Veronica Cartwright, English-American actress
- 1949 – Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater and painter
- 1949 – Massimo D'Alema, Italian journalist and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Italy
- 1949 – Jessica Lange, American actress
- 1950 – Steve Erickson, American author
- 1950 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (d. 2002)
- 1950 – Robert Mair, British professor of geotechnical engineering
- 1950 – N. Chandrababu Naidu, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
- 1950 – Milt Wilcox, American baseball player
- 1951 – Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (d. 2005)
- 1952 – Louka Katseli, Greek politician
- 1952 – Božidar Maljković, Serbian basketball coach
- 1952 – Eric Pickles, British politician
- 1952 – J. Thiviyanathan, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
- 1953 – Robert Crais, American author
- 1953 – Sebastian Faulks, English journalist and author
- 1954 – Gilles Lupien, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1955 – Donald Pettit, American astronaut and engineer
- 1956 – Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician
- 1957 – Geraint Wyn Davies, Welsh-Canadian actor
- 1957 – Bryan Illerbrun, Canadian football player (d. 2013)
- 1958 – Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
- 1959 – Clint Howard, American actor
- 1960 – Rodney Holman American football player and coach
- 1961 – Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
- 1961 – Nicholas Lyndhurst, English actor
- 1961 – Don Mattingly, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1961 – Corrado Micalef, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1961 – Barry Smolin, American radio host and composer
- 1962 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American comedian (d. 2001)
- 1963 – Aubrey de Grey, English gerontologist and author
- 1963 – Maurício Gugelmin, Brazilian race car driver
- 1964 – Crispin Glover, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
- 1964 – Andy Serkis, English actor, director, and author
- 1964 – Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
- 1964 – John Carney American football player
- 1965 – Adrián Fernández, Mexican race car driver
- 1965 – Kostis Chatzidakis, Greek politician
- 1965 – April March, American singer-songwriter and animator
- 1966 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
- 1966 – David Filo, American businessman and the co-founded Yahoo!
- 1966 – Vincent Riendeau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1967 – Lara Jill Miller, American actress and lawyer
- 1967 – Mike Portnoy, American drummer (Dream Theater, Transatlantic, Liquid Tension Experiment, and Flying Colors)
- 1967 – Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
- 1968 – Evelin Ilves, Estonian businesswoman, 4th First Lady of Estonia
- 1968 – Julia Morris, Australian comedian, actress, and producer
- 1968 – J.D. Roth, American television host and actor
- 1968 – Yelena Välbe, Russian skier
- 1969 – Felix Baumgartner, Austrian skydiver
- 1970 – Sarantuya, Mongolian soprano
- 1970 – Shemar Moore, American actor
- 1970 – Adriano Moraes, Brazilian bull rider
- 1971 – Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
- 1971 – Allan Houston, American basketball player and manager
- 1971 – Nikos Kyzeridis, Greek footballer
- 1972 – Le Huynh Duc, Vietnamese footballer, coach, and manager
- 1972 – Carmen Electra, American model, actress, and singer
- 1972 – Željko Joksimović, Serbian singer-songwriter, and producer
- 1972 – Marko Kon, Serbian singer-songwriter
- 1972 – Stephen Marley, American singer, guitarist, and producer (Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers)
- 1973 – Todd Hollandsworth American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1973 – Geoff Lloyd, English radio host
- 1973 – Lamond Murray, American basketball player
- 1974 – Tina Cousins, English singer-songwriter and model
- 1974 – Urmas Paet, Estonian politician
- 1975 – Benjamin Butler, American painter
- [[1975 – Killer Mike, American hip hop recording artist and occasional actor
- 1976 – Aldo Bobadilla, Paraguayan footballer
- 1976 – Shay Given, Irish footballer
- 1976 – Joey Lawrence, American actor
- 1976 – Chris Mason, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 – Lenka Němečková, Czech tennis player
- 1977 – Jon Hugger, American wrestler
- 1977 – Meelis Rooba, Estonian footballer
- 1978 – Clayne Crawford, American actor
- 1978 – Mirei Kuroda, Japanese model
- 1979 – Ludovic Magnin, Swiss footballer
- 1979 – Nate Marquardt, American mixed martial artist
- 1979 – Gregor Tait, Scottish swimmer
- 1979 – Quinn Weng, Taiwanese singer (Seraphim)
- 1980 – Gunta Baško, Latvian basketball player
- 1980 – Chris Duffy, American baseball player
- 1980 – Arin Paul, Indian director and screenwriter
- 1980 – Jasmin Wagner, German singer, actress, and model
- 1981 – Saša Tabaković, Slovenian actor
- 1982 – Jacqueline Govaert, Dutch singer-songwriter and pianist (Krezip)
- 1982 – Sayaka Kamiya, Japanese actress and model
- 1982 – Dario Knežević, Croatian footballer
- 1983 – Danny Granger, American basketball player
- 1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian model
- 1983 – Joanne King, Irish-English actress
- 1983 – Patrice M'Bock, Cameroonian footballer
- 1983 – Erik Segerstedt, Swedish singer (E.M.D.)
- 1983 – Fabio Staibano, Italian rugby player
- 1983 – Yuri van Gelder, Dutch gymnast
- 1984 – Nelson Évora, Ivorian-Portuguese triple jumper
- 1984 – Anthony Fasano, American football player
- 1984 – Tyson Griffin, American mixed martial artist
- 1984 – Edixon Perea, Colombian footballer
- 1984 – Jenna Shoemaker, American triathlete
- 1984 – Harris Wittels, American actor
- 1985 – Amanda Fahy, English actress
- 1985 – Curt Hawkins, American wrestler
- 1985 – Ehsan Jami, Dutch-Iranian politician and activist
- 1985 – Billy Magnussen, American actor
- 1985 – Jadyn Maria, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Brent Seabrook, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (d. 2003)
- 1987 – John Patrick Amedori, American actor
- 1987 – Thorsten Kirschbaum, German footballer
- 1987 – Michael Klauß, German footballer
- 1987 – Anna Rossinelli, Swiss singer-songwriter
- 1988 – Brandon Belt, American baseball player
- 1989 – Alex Black, American actor
- 1989 – Heejun Han, South Korean-American singer
- 1989 – Sergei Zenjov, Estonian footballer
- 1991 – Thomas Curtis, American actor
- 1991 – Marissa King, English gymnast
- 1991 – Ondřej Kraják, Czech footballer
- 1991 – Allie Will, American tennis player
- 1991 – Luke Kuechly, American football linebacker
- 1992 – Kristian Álvarez, Mexican footballer
- 1992 – Marko Meerits, Estonian footballer
- 1992 – Ashton Moio, American actor, stunt actor and martial artist in film and television
- 1994 – Anastasia Vdovenco, Moldovan tennis player
- 1999 – Carly Rose Sonenclar, American actress and singer
- 2002 – Twist Magic, Thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2010)
- 2007 – Zarkandar, Thoroughbred racehorse
Deaths[edit]
- 1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English-Irish military leader (b. 1130)
- 1314 – Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
- 1517 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed, Romanian son of Stephen III of Moldavia (b. 1470)
- 1521 – Zhengde Emperor of China (b. 1491)
- 1534 – Elizabeth Barton, English nun (b. 1506)
- 1558 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German priest and theologian (b. 1485)
- 1643 – Christoph Demantius, German composer and poet (b. 1567)
- 1703 – Lancelot Addison, English educator (b. 1632)
- 1769 – Chief Pontiac, American tribal leader (b. 1720)
- 1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)
- 1873 – William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
- 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
- 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)
- 1899 – Joseph Wolf, German illustrator (b. 1820)
- 1902 – Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet (b. 1833)
- 1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
- 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
- 1927 – Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter (b. 1866)
- 1929 – Prince Henry of Prussia (b. 1862)
- 1931 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer and businessman (b. 1862)
- 1932 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
- 1935 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (b. 1863)
- 1935 – John Cameron, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1872)
- 1942 – Jüri Jaakson, Estonian politician and businessman (b. 1870)
- 1944 – Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot (b. 1917)
- 1945 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist (b. 1874)
- 1947 – Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
- 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
- 1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1899)
- 1967 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1896)
- 1968 – Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (b. 1877)
- 1969 – Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian general (b. 1911)
- 1980 – M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (b. 1924)
- 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet (b. 1892)
- 1986 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (b. 1916)
- 1989 – Doru Davidovici, Romanian pilot (b. 1945)
- 1990 – Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect and artist (b. 1911)
- 1991 – Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Small Faces and Humble Pie) (b. 1947)
- 1991 – Don Siegel, American director and producer (b. 1912)
- 1992 – Benny Hill, English comedian and actor (b. 1924)
- 1992 – Marcel Albers, Dutch motor racing driver (b. 1967)
- 1993 – Cantinflas, Mexican actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
- 1993 – Ben Platt (actor), American actor
- 1994 – Jean Carmet, French actor (b. 1920)
- 1996 – Trần Văn Trà, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)
- 1996 – Christopher Robin Milne, English bookseller (b. 1920)
- 1999 – Casualties of the Columbine High School massacre:
- Cassie Bernall, American student (b. 1981)
- Eric Harris, American student and murderer (b. 1981)
- Dylan Klebold, American student and murderer (b. 1981)
- Rachel Scott, American student, inspired the Rachel's Challenge (b. 1981)
- William David Sanders, American educator (b. 1951)
- 1999 – Rick Rude, American wrestler (b. 1958)
- 1999 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)
- 2001 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
- 2002 – Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
- 2002 – Pierre Rapsat, Belgian singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
- 2003 – Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
- 2003 – Bernard Katz, German biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 2005 – Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (b. 1943)
- 2005 – Ea Jansen, Estonian historian (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese author(b. 1904)
- 2007 – Andrew Hill, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1931)
- 2007 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931)
- 2007 – Fred Fish, American computer programmer (b. 1952)
- 2008 – VL Mike, American rapper (Chopper City Boyz) (b. 1976)
- 2008 – Monica Lovinescu, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Beata Asimakopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (b. 1912)
- 2011 – Tim Hetherington, English-American photographer and journalist (b. 1970)
- 2011 – Chris Hondros, American photographer (b. 1970)
- 2011 – Gerard Smith, American guitarist (TV on the Radio) (b. 1974)
- 2012 – Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, Mexican general (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, English politician (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Matt Branam, American academic (b. 1954)
- 2012 – George Cowan, American chemist, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Bert Weedon, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Günseli Başar, Turkish model, Miss Europe 1952 (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Glenn Cannon, American actor and director (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Peter Kane Dufault, American poet (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Huang Wenyong, Malaysia-Singaporean actor (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Jocasta Innes, Chinese-English journalist and author (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Rick Mather, American-English architect (b. 1937)
- 2013 – Howard Phillips, American politician (b. 1941)
- 2013 – Nosher Powell, English actor and stuntman (b. 1928)
- 2014 – Neville Wran Australian Politician (b. 1926)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- 4/20 (International cannabis culture holiday)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá'í Faith)
- UN Chinese Language Day (United Nations)
“But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.” -1 Corinthians 15:20-22
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom."
Matthew 27:51
Matthew 27:51
No mean miracle was wrought in the rending of so strong and thick a veil; but it was not intended merely as a display of power--many lessons were herein taught us. The old law of ordinances was put away, and like a worn-out vesture, rent and laid aside. When Jesus died, the sacrifices were all finished, because all fulfilled in him, and therefore the place of their presentation was marked with an evident token of decay. That rent also revealed all the hidden things of the old dispensation: the mercy-seat could now be seen, and the glory of God gleamed forth above it. By the death of our Lord Jesus we have a clear revelation of God, for he was "not as Moses, who put a veil over his face." Life and immortality are now brought to light, and things which have been hidden since the foundation of the world are manifest in him. The annual ceremony of atonement was thus abolished. The atoning blood which was once every year sprinkled within the veil, was now offered once for all by the great High Priest, and therefore the place of the symbolical rite was broken up. No blood of bullocks or of lambs is needed now, for Jesus has entered within the veil with his own blood. Hence access to God is now permitted, and is the privilege of every believer in Christ Jesus. There is no small space laid open through which we may peer at the mercy-seat, but the rent reaches from the top to the bottom. We may come with boldness to the throne of the heavenly grace. Shall we err if we say that the opening of the Holy of Holies in this marvellous manner by our Lord's expiring cry was the type of the opening of the gates of paradise to all the saints by virtue of the Passion? Our bleeding Lord hath the key of heaven; he openeth and no man shutteth; let us enter in with him into the heavenly places, and sit with him there till our common enemies shall be made his footstool.
Evening
"The Amen."
Revelation 3:14
Revelation 3:14
The word Amen solemnly confirms that which went before; and Jesus is the great Confirmer; immutable, forever is "the Amen" in all his promises. Sinner, I would comfort thee with this reflection. Jesus Christ said, "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." If you come to him, he will say "Amen" in your soul; his promise shall be true to you. He said in the days of his flesh, "The bruised reed I will not break." O thou poor, broken, bruised heart, if thou comest to him, he will say "Amen" to thee, and that shall be true in thy soul as in hundreds of cases in bygone years. Christian, is not this very comforting to thee also, that there is not a word which has gone out of the Saviour's lips which he has ever retracted? The words of Jesus shall stand when heaven and earth shall pass away. If thou gettest a hold of but half a promise, thou shalt find it true. Beware of him who is called "Clip-promise," who will destroy much of the comfort of God's word.
Jesus is Yea and Amen in all his offices. He was a Priest to pardon and cleanse once, he is Amen as Priest still. He was a King to rule and reign for his people, and to defend them with his mighty arm, he is an Amen King, the same still. He was a Prophet of old, to foretell good things to come, his lips are most sweet, and drop with honey still--he is an Amen Prophet. He is Amen as to the merit of his blood; he is Amen as to his righteousness. That sacred robe shall remain most fair and glorious when nature shall decay. He is Amen in every single title which he bears; your Husband, never seeking a divorce; your Friend, sticking closer than a brother; your Shepherd, with you in death's dark vale; your Help and your Deliverer; your Castle and your High Tower; the Horn of your strength, your confidence, your joy, your all in all, and your Yea and Amen in all.
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Adaiah
[Ăd-aī'ah] - jehovah hath adorned or pleasing to jehovah.
1. A man of Boscath and father of Josiah's mother (2 Kings 22:1).
2. A Levite descended from Gershom (1 Chron. 6:41-43).
3. A son of Shimhi the Benjamite (1 Chron. 8:12-21).
4. A Levite of the family of Aaron, and head of a family living in Jerusalem (1 Chron. 9:10-12).
5. The father of Captain Masseiah who helped Jehoiada put Joash on the throne of Judah (2 Chron. 23:1).
6. A son of Bani who married a foreign wife during the exile (Ezra 10:29).
7. Another of a different Bani family who did the same thing (Ezra 10:34, 39).
8. A descendant of Judah by Perez (Neh. 11:5).
9. A Levite of the family of Aaron. Most likely the same person as No. 4 (Neh. 11:12).
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Today's reading: 2 Samuel 6-8, Luke 15:1-10 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: 2 Samuel 6-8
The Ark Brought to Jerusalem
1 David again brought together all the able young men of Israel--thirty thousand. 2 He and all his men went to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark.3 They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart 4 with the ark of God on it, and Ahio was walking in front of it. 5 David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the LORD, with castanets, harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals....
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 15:1-10
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
1 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. 2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."
3 Then Jesus told them this parable: 4 "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn't he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? 5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' 7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent....
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Today's Lent reading: John 15-16 (NIV)
View today's Lent reading on Bible GatewayThe Vine and the Branches
1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples....
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FOOT WASHING
It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. ( John 13:1-5)
The final drama was drawing near. The disciples went to the upper room where they would have the Passover meal and Jesus would teach them about things to come. Jesus “knew that the time had come.” He knew that “the Father had put all things under his power” and that he was returning to God. Satan had already entered the heart of the betrayer, Judas Iscariot. With the stage thus set, Jesus chose to do a most peculiar thing. He removed his outer garment, wrapped a towel around his waist, poured water in a basin, and began to wash his disciples’ feet.
Foot washing was not unusual in that world of dusty paths and dry air. What was unusual was for the master to do this for all his followers at this moment when everything held in the balance.
“Do you understand what I have done for you?” Jesus asked. I am Lord. I am Master. Yet if I serve you in this way, surely you can serve each other. And if you do, you will be blessed.
Love each other. Care for each other. Serve each other. Do the dirty work for each other. Humble yourself before each other. Expend yourself for each other.
One more time Jesus showed the disciples what it means to be a disciple. And he also knew that only on the other side of the cross, when they would see just how far Jesus’ service would go, would they understand it all.
Ponder This: What would your reaction have been if Jesus approached you in order to wash your feet?
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