God can make all things...
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God can make all things new. If we doubt this, we have forgotten the New Testament or Covenant.
Something that was new this day in 1783 was the concept of Robert Raikes for what has become old to us, the Sunday school. In those days children worked six days a week. Those were the "good old days." Raikes conceived the idea of teaching the gospel and such things as arithmetic and writing.
V. S. Naipaul, the Indian author of such books as A Bend in the River and his newest, India: A Million Mutinies Now, has an article on Our Universal Civilization. Naipaul grew up a Hindu worried about pain and cruelty. Then he discovered the old, but new to him, Christian precept of doing to others as you would have them do to you. Naipaul states, "There was no such human consolation in the Hinduism I grew up with, and although I never had any religious faith, the simple idea was, and is, dazzling to me, perfect as a guide to human behavior."
A letter to the editor of Ogonyok (which means "A Small Fire"), the "hottest mass circulation magazine in the Soviet Union," and translated in the New York Times Magazine tells of a writer for whom the gospels were only available at age 30. He wrote, "... the text gripped me ... gradually I became very angry: what a treasure they have been hiding from me!"
--Richardson
Something that was new this day in 1783 was the concept of Robert Raikes for what has become old to us, the Sunday school. In those days children worked six days a week. Those were the "good old days." Raikes conceived the idea of teaching the gospel and such things as arithmetic and writing.
V. S. Naipaul, the Indian author of such books as A Bend in the River and his newest, India: A Million Mutinies Now, has an article on Our Universal Civilization. Naipaul grew up a Hindu worried about pain and cruelty. Then he discovered the old, but new to him, Christian precept of doing to others as you would have them do to you. Naipaul states, "There was no such human consolation in the Hinduism I grew up with, and although I never had any religious faith, the simple idea was, and is, dazzling to me, perfect as a guide to human behavior."
A letter to the editor of Ogonyok (which means "A Small Fire"), the "hottest mass circulation magazine in the Soviet Union," and translated in the New York Times Magazine tells of a writer for whom the gospels were only available at age 30. He wrote, "... the text gripped me ... gradually I became very angry: what a treasure they have been hiding from me!"
--Richardson
