Choices. Sometimes it is easy...
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"Choices." Sometimes it is easy to make a choice. At other times it is difficult to make a choice. A great historian said that every choice we make is important if it is between good and evil.
On September 6, 1620, the Pilgrims left Plymouth, England, on the Mayf lower. What an important choice!
On September 6, 1901, an assassin decided to kill President William McKinley in Buffalo, N.Y. What a bad choice.
Pete Fleming was converted under the ministry of a blind evangelist. Think of those choices. Fleming became sure God was calling him to be a missionary in Ecuador. On September 6, 1951, Fleming wrote a letter to a missionary who had experience in Ecuador. Acknowledging that the man's talk was helpful, Fleming wrote that the difficult field in Ecuador matched the difficult requirements Christ places on his disciples. Fleming did go to Ecuador, where he and four others were martyred by the Auca Indians.
Dr. William McBride was the gynecologist who alerted the world to the dangers of thalidomide on human fetuses in the 1960s. In 1971 McBride, in Sydney, Australia, founded Foundation 41 to research birth defects. Then in 1980, McBride deliberately falsified the results of an experiment on rabbits involving birth defects. This was found out and in 1988 McBride, who had been the medical "hero," had to resign in shame. Choices.
On September 6, 1620, the Pilgrims left Plymouth, England, on the Mayf lower. What an important choice!
On September 6, 1901, an assassin decided to kill President William McKinley in Buffalo, N.Y. What a bad choice.
Pete Fleming was converted under the ministry of a blind evangelist. Think of those choices. Fleming became sure God was calling him to be a missionary in Ecuador. On September 6, 1951, Fleming wrote a letter to a missionary who had experience in Ecuador. Acknowledging that the man's talk was helpful, Fleming wrote that the difficult field in Ecuador matched the difficult requirements Christ places on his disciples. Fleming did go to Ecuador, where he and four others were martyred by the Auca Indians.
Dr. William McBride was the gynecologist who alerted the world to the dangers of thalidomide on human fetuses in the 1960s. In 1971 McBride, in Sydney, Australia, founded Foundation 41 to research birth defects. Then in 1980, McBride deliberately falsified the results of an experiment on rabbits involving birth defects. This was found out and in 1988 McBride, who had been the medical "hero," had to resign in shame. Choices.
