This year, for the first...
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This year, for the first time, our country is officially celebrating a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. This is by decree of the federal government.
Civil rights, we realize, are vital for the common good. We could not be a united nation if people did not have basic equities.
During this time of the year, the Christian churches make praiseworthy efforts to celebrate togetherness in the observance of Unity Sunday.
There is a powerful little poem concerning the dismal results of prejudice in race and religion. It tells of six men who had no shelter on a sub-zero night, but they had a fire burning and each of them was sitting around the fire holding a log. They allowed the fire to burn itself out, for no one would donate their log because there were others around the circle who didn't belong to their religion or race or who had more money than they.
The last stanza reads: "The logs held tight in icy hands was proof of human sin, for they didn't die from the cold without, they died from the cold within."
Peter says, in today's reading, that God shows no partiality, but a person of any nation who is upright, is acceptable to him. God is so accepting of all; why can't we be?
Civil rights, we realize, are vital for the common good. We could not be a united nation if people did not have basic equities.
During this time of the year, the Christian churches make praiseworthy efforts to celebrate togetherness in the observance of Unity Sunday.
There is a powerful little poem concerning the dismal results of prejudice in race and religion. It tells of six men who had no shelter on a sub-zero night, but they had a fire burning and each of them was sitting around the fire holding a log. They allowed the fire to burn itself out, for no one would donate their log because there were others around the circle who didn't belong to their religion or race or who had more money than they.
The last stanza reads: "The logs held tight in icy hands was proof of human sin, for they didn't die from the cold without, they died from the cold within."
Peter says, in today's reading, that God shows no partiality, but a person of any nation who is upright, is acceptable to him. God is so accepting of all; why can't we be?
