1st Part: I am glad you are enjoying yourself. The salvation business is a friend of happiness. Making heaven on earth is our business. Serve the Lord with gladness is one of our favorite mottos. So I am pleased that you are pleased! But amidst all your joys don't forget the sons and daughters of misery. Do you ever visit them? Come away and let us make a call or two. Here is a home, six in family, they eat and drink and sleep and sick and die in the same chamber.
4th Part: Content ourselves by singing a hymn? Offering a prayer? Or giving a little good advice? NO! Ten thousand times no! We will forgive them. Feed them! Reclaim them. Employ them!Perhaps we shall fail with many. Quite likely. But our business is to help them all the same. And that in the most practical, economical and Christlike manner.
2nd Part: Here is a drunkard hovel, void of furniture, wife a skeleton, children in rags; father now sleeping, the victims of his neglect. Here are the unemployed, wandering about, seeking work and finding none. Yonder are the wretched criminals cradled in crime passing in and out of the prisons all the time. There are the Daughter of shame deceived and wronged and ruined. Traveling down the dark and blind to an early grave.
This is an incredible find. Recording technology was in its very early stages in William Booth's day, and the fact that somebody spent the considerable sum that would have been required to record him preaching, is a testament to how great a man he was.
It "blowed up good"! Not quite as spectacular as the blow up of the Dome here in Seattle, but I sure enjoy a good explosion, especially when I have been there so many times before.
The bridge was demolished in winter because it was an emergency. They cannot waste any time in getting it down and building a new one, the bridge is vital to the economy of the area and thousands of people have been severely affected by it being abruptly condemned back in October. It's just another example of NEW YORK STATE incompetence! (they were responsible for bridge maintenance!) and very SAD because it was a beautiful and historic bridge dedicated by FDR.
Sadly, there will be another bridge to take its place. It's a never ending cycle. The only way to win this is to start in our schools, before construction begins.
