"Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters."
--Thomas Paine (Common Sense, 1776); Reference: Paine: Collected Writings, Foner ed., Library of America (21)
This is advice we should apply today as well with all the dangers surrounding us. I just wish the citizenry would heed this wisdom...
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Cross-posted @ Rosemary's News and Ideas.
May you walk with the LORD always, and when you cannot take another step, may He carry you the rest of the way until you can walk along side Him again.
Friday, September 5, 2008
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