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Right-hander gives up one run on two hits over six innings, has 1.99 ERA over six spring starts
George Sipple
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Justin Verlander looks ready for the regular season.
He allowed one run on two hits over six innings against the Atlanta Braves with no walks and four strikeouts.
But the Detroit Tigers went on to lose, 2-1, to the Braves in the bottom of the ninth. Lefty Daniel Stumpf, a Rule 5 pick, allowed two hits, including an RBI single to Adam Walker with one out in the ninth. Stumpf has a 4.70 ERA this spring.
Verlander was so efficient that he ended up going to the bullpen to throw about 20 more pitches. He threw 76 pitches in the game, 53 for strikes.
Too many quick outs?
"Yeah, I guess," Verlander said. "Take away the 12-pitch at-bat."
That was against Freddie Freeman in the first inning. Freeman won that battle, hitting a solo home run to right.
Verlander retired the next 15 batters he faced, until Ender Inciarte hit a single with two outs in the sixth. Inciarte was thrown out trying to steal second.
Verlander allowed one run on two hits over six innings, lowering his ERA to 1.99 over six spring starts. He didn't allow a walk and struck out four.
"It was fun kind of back and forth," Verlander said of the battle with Freeman. "Those are kind of cool spring training moments that you probably don't get in the regular season. I mean, we're definitely not going to be looking back and forth smiling – well, he might smile at me. I probably won't."
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Verlander did throw more sliders and fastballs than usual.
"Just still trying to find it," he said. "I threw some good ones and some not-so-good ones. Just kind of still trying to get that to click. There was some hard-hit balls that were at guys. But, I guess the good sliders got the look that I wanted. That kind of weak contact."
Verlander said Inciarte's hit was a "jam job … that tells you he didn't pick it up so well, so that's good."
Verlander is scheduled to pitch Wednesday in Lakeland and will be tapered off in his final spring start. "No other way to describe it, he's been good in spring training," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. "He's got a track record too.
"Fastball's good. His slider – it was just okay early, but it's been better his last few outings. His curveball's sharp. His change-up today might have been his best his change-up has been all spring. He was good today."
Nick Castellanos batted second and went 2-for-3, including a home run to center in the fourth inning.
"That's probably gone at Comerica, quite frankly," Ausmus said of Castellanos' shot that hit midway up the batter's eye in center. "He hit that well."
As for Castellanos batting second, Ausmus said: "Don't read into it. I think tomorrow he's batting third."
Lefty Mark Lowe allowed two hits in a scoreless inning of work. Ausmus said Bruce Rondon's velocity was around 94-95. Rondon throw about a dozen pitches in an inning of work and had one strikeout.
Mel Rojas Jr. hit a double to left to lead off the bottom of the ninth against Stumpf. Rojas advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by Emilio Bonifacio.
The Tigers intentionally walked former Tiger Matt Tuiasosopo.
After a visit to the mound by Ausmus, Stumpf surrendered the winning hit, a single to center by Walker.
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Thanks for this, Ruth. It reminded me that as a child I had a number of favourite Enid Blyton books, such as 'The Treasure Seekers', which I read multiple times. (See my #blogsync contribution which explains how I just reread the same few books when I was young).
When I started teaching English in 1980 I found a copy of 'The Treasure Seekers' in the school library, and reread it, for interest. The sexism in it took my breath away! It was a bit like watching a documentary ('Washes Whiter', I think it was called) about the TV advertisements that were a staple part of my upbringing in the 1960s (things like the ads for 'Bisto'). It's a wonder we weren't scarred for life….!
Thanks for your comment, Jill. Yes, Enid Blyton was a major culprit – for racism as well. I loved the Famous Five books. I don't remember 'The Treasure Seekers'. In the Famous Five stories there was a sensible, motherly type called Anne, and a reckless tomboy called George for short – it would be interesting to deconstruct that.
I enjoyed your #blogsync contribution.
It was through 'The Secret Garden' that I came to love the name Martha. It was one of my favourites too, and I can still remember the cover with the little girl and her skipping rope -with the robin of course. But I didn't catch green fingers from it!


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A Virginia sheriff's deputy posed online as a 17-year-old boy and solicited nude photos from a teenage California girl before driving across the country and killing her mother and grandparents and setting fire to their home, authorities said on Wednesday .
Austin Lee Edwards, 28, was killed in a shootout with San Bernardino sheriff's deputies on Friday. The 15-year-old girl, from Riverside, California, was rescued and is in counseling for trauma, family members and police said at a news conference.
Edwards, a resident of North Chesterfield, Virginia, appears to have posed online as a teenager in order to begin a romantic relationship with the girl and obtain her personal information by deceiving her with a false identity known as "catfishing," he said the police.
Authorities gave no further details about their communications and said they are still combing through online accounts. Officials are investigating whether he has been harassing other minors across the country.
It's also unclear if this was the girl's first personal encounter with Edwards or if she knew he was coming to California, officials said.
Riverside Police Chief Larry Gonzalez said that due to the girl's young age and trauma, it will take time to complete interviews with her and get answers to the many questions surrounding the case, such as: B. whether she was forced or threatened to go with him.
"We don't believe at this point that she had anything to do with the murders," he said.
At one point, Edwards asked the girl for sexual photos and she stopped communicating with him, Gonzalez said, but detectives don't yet know when that happened or if Edwards killed her family in retaliation.
Authorities believe Edwards parked his vehicle in a neighbor's driveway, went to the house and killed the family members before leaving with the girl on Friday.
Officials have not yet determined how he entered the home, killed the victims, or started the fire.
The bodies, found at the Riverside home — about 50 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles in a single-family suburb where the loud roar of freeway traffic can be heard — have been identified as the girl's grandparents and mother: Mark Winek, 69; Sharie Winek, 65; and their 38-year-old daughter Brooke Winek.
"Nobody could have imagined that this crime would happen to my family, our family," said Michelle Blandin, Mark and Sharie's daughter and Brooke's sister.
A tearful Blandin said her parents and sister "lived and loved unselfishly". The killing of Brooke, a single mother, means her daughters – the 15-year-old girl and her 13-year-old sister – are now motherless, Blandin said.
A front window of the charred house on the Riverside cul-de-sac was boarded up with a wooden cross on Wednesday. Dozens of candles were set out on the sidewalk, along with bouquets of flowers and stuffed animals.
Edwards is a former Virginia State Police Officer and was the deputy sheriff of Washington County, Virginia at the time of the murders. Law enforcement officials there said he had shown no behavior of concern and no other employer had disclosed any issues during background checks.
Gonzalez called it "really disgusting" to see someone in law enforcement involved in such heinous crimes and wondered how he'd been hired by two Virginia agencies.
"How did this person get past a background investigation? How does this person get past a lie detector test?" said the boss. "From what we know about him so far, there really isn't a major criminal record on this person or anything that would indicate that they would be able to see that result."
Police are also investigating whether Edwards used his law enforcement weapon or a government-issued laptop in the crimes.
A neighbor called police on Friday to report the red Edwards Kia Soul as a suspicious car, saying the girl appears to be in distress and involved in an interference with a man, Gonzalez said.
Police were able to check the vehicle's license plate and discovered Edwards had filed a police report alleging vandalism at the Kia earlier this year, the boss said. The police report included Edwards' cell phone number, which allowed investigators to ping his phone and quickly locate him in Southern California.
He got into a shootout with the San Bernardino sheriff's deputies, and the coroner's office is conducting an autopsy to determine if he was killed by the deputies or a self-inflicted wound.
Blandin said she last saw her parents and sister on Thanksgiving, the day before she was killed.
"We had a family debate, and it got heated over whether the brownies my mom made should be glazed with sprinkles or just left plain," she said. "I didn't know that day that my husband and I would be seeing my parents and sister for the last time."
Blandin asked parents and guardians to use her family's tragedy to start conversations about internet safety.
"If you are speaking to your children about the dangers of their online activities, please use us as a reference," she said. "Tell our story to help your parenting. Not out of fear, but out of an example of what happened."
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This dataset shows modelled habitat suitability for the Collared Pika (Ochotona collaris) under current and projected future conditions. We built habitat suitability models for 237 bird, 117 mammal, and 12 amphibian species. Species were chosen for inclusion in the study based on a simple set of criteria. For a species to be included in the study, it had to be primarily associated with terrestrial habitats, have a digital map of its current range, and have some portion of its current distribution intersect with the study area extent. In addition, we restricted the list of species used in the study to those for which a well-performing continental-scale model could be built. Digital species range maps were converted from polygons into [...]
This dataset shows modelled habitat suitability for the Collared Pika (Ochotona collaris) under current and projected future conditions.
We built habitat suitability models for 237 bird, 117 mammal, and 12 amphibian species. Species were chosen for inclusion in the study based on a simple set of criteria. For a species to be included in the study, it had to be primarily associated with terrestrial habitats, have a digital map of its current range, and have some portion of its current distribution intersect with the study area extent. In addition, we restricted the list of species used in the study to those for which a well-performing continental-scale model could be built. Digital species range maps were converted from polygons into 50 square kilometer resolution grid cells representing species presences. Although using point-based occurrence data to represent species presences is preferred when building correlative niche models, comprehensive occurrence data sets that adequately represent entire species ranges are generally unavailable, particularly for wide-ranging species with distributions extending into the subarctic and artic regions of North America. We used maps representing species ranges (Ridgley et al. 2003, Patterson et al. 2003, IUCN 2013), that at a coarse, continental scale were deemed to be adequate for representing species' climatic niches.
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Climate suitability models were developed for each of the 366 species using the 50-km resolution dataset, and we used random forests classifiers to model species distributions as a function of the bioclimatic variables. Random forest is an ensemble-based machine-learning algorithm used for both classification and regression analysis producing relatively accurate predictions based on the combined results of multiple classification trees. The random forest models produce predictions ranging from 0–1. To convert these values to a binary prediction representing suitable or unsuitable conditions, we selected a threshold value for each species model based on the receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve, and an equal weighting of the importance of false positives and false negatives. To project potential future changes in climatic suitability for the 366 species, we used projected climate from two coupled atmospheric-oceanic general circulation models (AOGCMs), the Hadley CM3 model, and the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis CGCM3.1 model. The Hadley CM3 model simulates future climatic conditions that are warmer and drier relative to CGCM 3.1 model projections. We used projections for one greenhouse-gas emissions scenario—the A2 scenario, as described by the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. The A2 scenario represents a mid-high emission scenario. Projected future values for the 23 bioclimatic variables were applied to the same 30 arc-second grid used for the historical data. The future projections were averaged across a 30-year period, spanning the years 2070 to 2099.
The models were built using 75% of the presences and absences for each species. We used the remaining 25% to test the models. We calculated the proportion of correctly predicted presences and absences for each species. The species for which the models correctly predicted at least 80% of the presences and at least 95% of the absences were used in the study. We then applied the 50-km resolution climate suitability models to the downscaled 1-km2 resolution climatic data to produce fine-scaled versions of the baseline and future projected climate suitability maps for each species To account for the impacts of vegetation on species distributions and the fact that our climate-based models, built with coarse resolution data, were unable to capture finer scale patterns, we refined our model projections with projected changes in habitat suitability based on climate-driven changes in biome distributions. To assess potential impacts of biome shifts on species distributions, we used projected biomes from Rehfeldt et al. (2012).
Terrestrial habitat associations described in the NatureServe Explorer online database records to develop the species-biome relationships using the biome classifications developed by Rehfeldt et al. (2012). With these relationships as a guide, we classified each biome type as either suitable or unsuitable for each species. We then generated maps of biome-suitability for each species based on these classifications and the projected future biome distributions. For each species, we combined the map of projected biome-suitability with the map of projected climate suitability to produce a projection of habitat suitability. As a final refinement to these projections, for all non-synanthropic species, we reclassified areas dominated by urban, suburban, exurban and agricultural land-uses as being unsuitable. We classified species as being synanthropic or non-synanthropic based on habitat associations recorded in NatureServe Explorer.
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2 Duarte - Derramadero 1 26.05 00:20:02.7 18. 00:02:53.8
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4 Ortega 1 17.23 00:11:15.0 16. 00:01:41.8
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Spygate Could be Palm Springs Mayor's Demise
Posted by Cindy Uken | Jul 9, 2018 | Politics
PALM SPRINGS – This community of more than 47,000 people is an international tourist destination that garners worldwide headlines. But Mayor Robert Moon's recent alleged acts of eavesdropping and videotaping have given the city — and City Hall — headlines they can ill-afford and a black eye. His shenanigans have become the butt of local jokes and his surreptitious moves have been dubbed Spygate.
Palm Springs Mayor Robert Moon
Moon, elected to a four-year term as mayor in November 2015, claims that City Hall has no security so he took it upon himself without asking – or telling anyone – that he was going to use a motion-detection camera and an intercom. The camera, he claims, was to help him detect who was coming into his office during his absence. He claims the intercom was for easier communication with the City Council's administrative assistant due to logistics.
Many have cried foul, arguing that his explanations for spygate simply do not add up. First, if he was that concerned about security, why didn't he ask the City Manager? Second, why didn't he put it on the agenda for a full discussion of the City Council? That is what good leaders do. Why all the sneaking around and how long did it go on before someone finally got wise and reported it? If he was that concerned about the absence of security, why was he not concerned about all of City Hall and everyone's office – not just his own.
All of these are just some of the questions that have surfaced in the wake of the revelations. Some are even questioning his fitness for office.
Moon told Uken Report that he was "investigated" by the Palm Springs Police Department, an outside attorney and the Riverside County District Attorney. He also claims he was cleared of any wrongdoing. There was never a true and formal forensic investigation. A longtime City Hall employee said there was not a formal "investigation" because Palm Springs Police don't have jurisdiction over the executive branch of government.
The one thing that does seem to bear out is that an outside special counsel, Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley out of Grass Valley, was hired at $350 per hour to look at – and compile a report – regarding Moon's use of an intercom and videotaping equipment, according to a public records request. You can view the bills and charges here. Some of the information has been redacted, most likely a brief memo noting what work had been completed.
City Attorney Edward Z. Kotkin prepared a memorandum related to this matter, and has advised that it is exempt from public disclosure since all of the communication it contains is subject to attorney-client privilege, according to Palm Springs City Clerk Anthony J. Mejia. Attorney-client privilege can only be waived by a majority of City Council.
Some City Councilmembers seem poised to do just that as part of their pledge to be transparent. Geoff Kors and Christy Holstege serve on the ad hoc employment subcommittee and have requested that a discussion item be placed on the July 11 City Council meeting relating to surveillance equipment that Moon placed in his office and the office of an employee.
"The subcommittee will be requesting that an independent investigation be undertaken to ascertain and report on the facts so that Council can take any necessary steps to protect the city and ensure the public has accurate information about what occurred," Kors and Holstege said in a joint statement.
Critics contend that Moon's bizarre and absurd behavior isn't just the cost of needing to hire an outside counsel to study spygate. His shenanigans strain the credibility of City Hall, has employees looking over their shoulder wondering if they are being videotaped or if the mayor is eavesdropping on them. His antics have created an immeasurable sense of distrust between the mayor and both colleagues and employees.
One woman who vowed to help Moon succeed after his election victory said she can no longer sit idly by and keep quiet. That woman is former Palm Springs City Councilmember Ginny Foat, who served on the City Council for 14 years. She and Moon both ran for mayor in 2014.
In 14 years of public service, Foat said she have never witnessed such peculiar behavior, noting that she has never publicly criticized the mayor until now.
Ginny Foat
"I've given too many years to the city to want somebody to fail," Foat told Uken Report in a telephone interview. "If you let one person fail, the city fails. We saw that in what happened with Steve (Pougnet). What Steve is accused of and the scandal around that, nearly destroyed the city. It was so heartbreaking. Many of us shed a lot of tears over that."
Former Mayor Pougnet is was accused of accepting bribes from a local developer and a businessman. He has pleaded not guilty.
While working with Moon on the City Council, Foat said she helped him, coached him, answered questions about public hearings and more.
"In the last two years, I have seen, and maybe I just was blind to it, but he has become, I don't know, self-consumed," Foat said.
Is his self-absorption and reported paranoia what led to Spygate?
The defining moment for Foat came during an event at the Palm Springs Air Museum in February. No longer on the City Council, she attended an event as a guest of one of the Air Museum's board members. As introductions were made, someone made a mistake in announcing Moon. He was introduced as a Lt. Commander instead of Commander.
"(Moon's) partner came over yelling at the top of his lungs at the host of this VIP table at which Harold Matzner and many other people were sitting at, and said, 'How dare you insult my husband,' and went on and on about how he should apologize to him, he was a commander, not a lieutenant commander, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah," Foat recalled.
The host of the table was so upset. He didn't even know who this man was that was yelling at him, Foat recalled. Then, five minutes later, the mayor came over.
"That was a turning point for me, a really bad turning point, " Foat said, adding that he, too, was fuming. "Finally, I stood up, and I said, 'Stop this. This is totally inappropriate in public.' I found out later that he had stood up at his table and yelled, 'I'm a commander, not a lieutenant commander.' After he came over, he went back and got his husband, and they stormed out of the event."
His abrupt exit occurred before the military awards were awarded that evening, Foat said.
"All the people who had fought in World War II and the Korean War were there waiting for that part, and he stormed out before them, turned his back on them, and all because of the fact that he wasn't introduced as commander instead of lieutenant commander. That was the turning point for me. I could no longer keep myself quiet. I just watched as he turned into what I considered an egomaniac. It's all about him, and there's never anyone else."
She's not keeping quiet about Spygate either. Foat said councilmembers used to go in the administrative assistant's office and would often laugh and joke. She wonders if he was eavesdropping all the while.
"To think now that sitting in his office, he was listening to all of that and he was taping things just further cements in my mind the fact that this is not a man that should be in this office," Foat said. "This is the first time that I have really spoken out, because I feel like what's happening is so bad for the city. We're again having someone in the mayor's position that is changing the way people look at our city."
Moon's alleged story about spygate and why he had the video camera, akin to a nanny cam, doesn't hold water, Foat said. After City Council meetings she would often be in her City Hall office longer than others because she wouldn't get there as often as she wanted to during the week. Oftentimes, she was the last to leave and noticed something peculiar.
Every other member of the City Council locked their doors. Moon did not. He always left it open with a small nightlight in his office. If he was so concerned about his valuable art and private papers, why would he do that, Foat pondered. If he was so worried about who was coming and out, using his Keurig and moving chairs, there was a simple solution.
"Close your f***ing door," Foat said laughing at the absurdity of his faux dilemma.
And, she said, if you look at it from another perspective, Moon was only worried about his material possessions and papers during Spygate, not the larger picture of City Hall. There have been break-ins at City Hall and vending machines robbed, Foat said. Moon was not concerned about that his colleagues' offices which also house valuable document and items, only his little corner of the universe.
"It all goes back to his ego," Foat said.
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Matthew Phillips QC - Catastrophic Injury
Inn: Lincoln's Inn
Matthew's personal injury practice revolves around high value spinal and brain injury claims arising out of road traffic and workplace/industrial accidents. Matthew is also experienced in handling fatal accident claims and the calculation of damages pursuant to the Law Reform Act and Fatal Accidents Act.
Recent cases include:
Y v The National Trust
Trial on the issue of liability on behalf of a spinally injured (paraplegic) tree surgeon. Unusual legal issue regarding the duty of care owed by occupiers to the employees of independent contractors.
W v Mckenzie
Acted for the claimant who had sustained a severe head injury in an RTA. Difficult quantum and case management issues. Recovered a lump sum and periodical payments worth in excess of £1.5 million on a capitalised basis.
H v Mackie
Claimant sustained severe head and spinal injuries in an RTA. Recovered in excess of £5 million on a capitalised basis.
H v MIB
Claimant rendered paraplegic when aged 5. Claim settled for in excess of £6 million when the claimant was aged 17. Complex issues surrounding the suitability of periodical payments for a claimant who was resident in Ireland.
W v Groupama Insurance Co
Claimant sustained a life-changing brain injury when only a few days old. Claimant compromised for in excess of £6 million (capitalised) at the age of 15.
G v Cooper
Claimant paraplegic. Presented an interim payment application for £500,000 (on top of previous payment in excess of £1 million) in order to purchase and adapt a particular property. Claim compromised for in excess of £6 million (capitalised).
M v Burr & Warren Transport
Trial on the issue of quantum in a tetraplegia claim that compromised after case opened. Lump sum in excess of £3 million plus significant periodical payments – difficult indemnity issues relating to future state funding.
L v Ling
Devastating brain injury claim with claimant requiring a 24 hour two carer regime. Difficult quantum issues in relation to care provision and accommodation. Settled shortly before trial. Lump sum value of the compromise in excess of £8 million.
M v CICA
CICA claim arising out of severe spinal injury. Applicant stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver in an unprovoked attack – suffers from Brown Sequard Syndrome (effectively incomplete tetraplegia). The claim involved an application for a new category of tariff award for "incomplete tetraplegia" which was accepted by the Tribunal who recommended it to the CICA executive. Total award in excess of £450,000.
P v James
Acting for the claimant who sustained a severe spinal injury in an RTA at the age of 21. Claimant has undergone several major spinal operations and has been left with disabling symptoms of cauda equine with significant psychological consequences.
L v Nomorex
Acted for widowed claimant whose husband, a builder, was killed at work when a wall collapsed. He was 48 years of age at the time of his death. Complex dependency claim under the Fatal Accidents Act on behalf of the claimant and three children. Claim settled for in the region of £500,000.
Association for Victims of Medical Accidents
British Association for Sport and the Law
1992 Diploma in International Law – St. Catherine's College Cambridge
1991 MA in Jurisprudence – Trinity College, Oxford
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Christian Cross-bearing in Today's Twilight Hour
George O. Lillegard
The evening twilight has long been celebrated in poetry and song for its beauties and glories. It is the hour when the light of day still lingers, but its heat and burden are past; when the gathering shades of night as yet suggest none of its terrors, but only rest from toil and the comforts of the fireside. Certainly it is the hour when Nature appears at her loveliest, whether on land or sea, in the open fields or the rugged mountains. Hence the enduring appeal of such lines as these from a favorite song:
"Just a song at twilight When the lights are low,
And the flickering shadows Softly come and go;"
or as these by Mrs. Norton:
"O Twilight! Spirit that does render birth
To dim enchantments, melting heaven with earth,
Leaving on craggy hills and miming stream
A softness like the atmosphere of dreams;
Thy hour to all is welcome! Faint and sweet
Thy light falls round the peasant's homeward
Who, slow returning from his task of toil,
Sees the low sunset gild the cultured soil,
And, though such radiance round him brightly glows,
Marks the small spark his cottage window throws."
When we, then, speak of "Today's Twilight Hours," it is to be expected that the period we describe will have its glories and excellencies. It will to all appearances be a most prosperous and pleasant period for rich and poor, great and small, flowering forth in a burst of privileges for all classes and conditions of men; a period when the Socialist dream of a heaven on earth would seem quite within the realm of possibility, if only men would believe in it and strive for its fulfillment. Many of these who live in that period will mistake it for a new dawning instead of the deepening twilight, a harbinger of a better world than has ever been known before, the end result of the onward march of evolutionary progress. Others, whose works are of the darkness, will be glad in anticipation of the coming of the night, to cloak their sinister activities. There will be few, perhaps, who will regret the passing of the day; few whose thoughts will turn with dread to the future; few for whom the twilight will have its sadness and dreary forebodings as they think of the long hours when the cry will be: "Watchman, what of the night?" and when to the echoing: "Watchman, what of the night?" the watchman can only reply: "When the morning comes, it will still be night." (Is. 21,11.)
We see this principle illustrated in the history of nations as well as of the Christian Church. The flower is at its fullest and best just before it withers and dies. Nations reach the zenith of their power and prosperity just when the seeds of decay and death are growing most prolifically in the body politic. It was no accident that Edward Gibbon began his monumental history of the "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" with the reign of Hadrian, one of the most illustrious of all the Roman emperors. Under him Rome attained its greatest extent and power. His legions kept law and order from the Scottish border in the British Isles to the Indus River in Asia. Under him Rome built its grandest architectural monuments and flourished in every way as never before. But it was also then that the seeds of decay, sown by ambitious Caesars to the disintegration of the Roman Republic and its free form of governments, grew and multiplied till they ended in as inglorious a dissolution of a mighty empire as history records. The Empire crumbled, not so much because of the attacks from without by Parthians, Vandals, Goths and Huns, as because of the corruption within, which spread out from the cancer which was Rome to the farthest reaches of the Empire and poisoned the whole body politic till it became ripe for destruction.
From these examples and analogies in Nature and History, we may expect that conditions would be of the same kind in the Christian Church in its twilight hour, the last days of the world. Then the Church will flourish and prosper as never before. But the height of its power and extent in outward appearance will mark the beginning of its de cline and death. When Jesus spoke to His disciples about the end of the world, he said: "The gospel must first be published among all nations," (Mark 13,10); and again: "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." (Matth. 24,14). Thus should be fulfilled the many glorious promises of the Old Testament prophets concerning the Messiah and His kingdom, such as: "In his (the Messiah's) days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. They that dwell in the wilderness (i.e. the barbarians) shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. — Yea, all kings shall fall down before him; all nations shall serve him. — His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed." (Ps. 72,7ff.)
Yet the conquering course of Christ's Gospel through all the world is not to result in a millennia!period when Christians will live in peace with the world and be able to govern the nations by the Word of God. For the promises of a world-wide diffusion of the Gospel and of the triumphs of the messengers of the Cross over their enemies always go together with warnings of persecutions and afflictions which are to come to all true disciples of Christ. Thus Jesus says in connection with His promise that the Gospel shall be preached in all the world: "They shall deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved." (Matth. 24,9ff.) The circumstance that the gospel is preached to all the world does not mean that it will be believed everywhere. Note that Christ says the Gospel shall be preached in all the world "for a witness unto all nations." At another time Jesus said: "Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" This question implies that there will be little true faith on earth when Christ returns to judge all men by His word, in spite of the world-wide diffusion of the Gospel. Jesus tells us that conditions will be like they were in the days before the Flood, when everyone knew the word of God and heard Noah, the preacher of righteousness, proclaim the end of their world, and yet did not believe. (Matth. 24.) and as they were in Sodom and Gomorrah before the "cities of the Plain" were destroyed by fire from heaven, not even ten righteous men being found in them to save them from the holy wrath of God. (Luke 17.) Men will have to seek far and wide, for true faith, and will scarcely find it, as was the case of Elijah who complained to the Lord: "I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." (I Kings 19,10.) He believed that he stood alone in the midst of a godless and heathenish generation, although there actually were 7,000, unknown to Elijah, who had not yet bowed the knee to Baal. And so true Christians have always had to sing with Selnecker, and will sing not least in the last days of this earth:
Lord Jesus Christ, with us abide, For round us falls the eventide;
Nor let Thy word, that heavenly light, For us be ever veiled in night.
O God! how sin's dread works abound, Throughout the earth no rest is found;
And wide has falsehood's spirit spread, And error boldly rears its head.
And ever is there something new Devised to change Thy doctrine true;
Lord Jesus! as Thou still dost reign, Those vain, presumptuous minds restrain;
And as the cause and glory, Lord, Are Thine, not ours, do Thou afford
Us help and strength and constancy, And keep us ever true to Thee.
But worldliness and lust for earthly power and honor are firmly rooted in the corrupt heart of natural man. And so there is nothing which troubles the Church of Christ more than the Chiliastic hopes for a period of prosperity and power, which crop up continually, not only in heretical sects, but also in the orthodox church. There are many who believe firmly that the Church of Christ is destined to become the ruling power in the world by the gradual spread of the Gospel and its leavening influence on society. There are others who believe that Christ will come again to establish His kingdom of righteousness and peace on this present earth, and that He will reign for a thousand years, making His disciples the lords of all the earth. The Chiliastic hope may take a hundred different forms, from the gross "Jewish opinions" which the Augsburg Confession condemns to the refined "Lutheran Millennialism" which practically all Lutherans condone. The Roman Church strives as craftily and zealously as ever to regain the power over kings and peoples which it possessed in the Middle Ages. There is no retreat from the ancient papal contention that the Pope represents God on earth, so that both Church and State must recognize him as the divinely appointed ruler of the earth. Protestant Churches have to a large extent forgotten their first love for the word of God as their only weapon against the forces of evil and are vying with the Catholic Church for power and influence in the world of politics and statecraft. They look upon it as a part of their mission in the world to put the teachings of Christ into effect in the affairs of the State as well as of the Church. They are not satisfied to save individuals, like brands from the burning, from the fires of Hell, but plan to put out the fire, abolish Hell, and bring in a new "Social Order" where men will no longer be driven by the "profit motive," but by love for their fellowmen and the desire to serve one another.
Now it is, indeed, true that the Gospel has been brought during this last "Century of Missions" even to the farthest isles of the seas, in accordance with the prophecy: "The Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. — The abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.-Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee." (Is. 60,3.ff.) It is true that the visible Church exercises more power today than ever before, in spite of its losses to an atheistic Communism; that not only the Roman Catholic Church, but also the Protestant Churches, through such organizations as the World Council of Churches, seek and wield influence in the councils of the nations more than ever before. It is true that the Bible is distributed in larger quantities and reaches more different races and nations than ever before; that the membership of the Churches has increased relatively more than the population has in countries like ours. We could go on to paint a rosy picture of the future of the Christian Church, supported as it is by the wealth and faith of the most prosperous and the most zealous peoples in the history of the world.
But the measure of the outward success of the visible Church is the very measure of its failure as a bearer of the Gospel of the Crucified Redeemer. For Christ did not come to earth to wear a crown, except the crown of thorns, nor to occupy a throne, except the throne of the cross. And it is simply not true that the disciples of Christ are at any time to exercise power over the world or succeed in making a heaven out of this earth or in building the kingdom of glory visibly among men. On the contrary, "all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution," (II Tim. 3,12). Jesus tells us: "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." (Matth. 16,24). And again Jesus says of His disciples: "The world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." (John 17,14) And St. Paul tells us: "We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God" (Acts 14,22.) It is only if we suffer with Jesus that we shall reign with Him, (II Tim. 2,12) and be glorified with Him. (Rom. 8,17) Those within the ranks of the Christian Church who seek earthly power for the Church reveal themselves thereby as enemies of the cross of Christ as tares among the wheat, the seed of the Enemy of Christ. Only the persecuted minority, the "very small remnant," (Is. 1,9) can properly be called the true church of God.
That this must necessarily be the case we see from the example of Jesus Christ Himself. The prophets foretold His sufferings and shameful death in the same breath in which they foretold His triumphant exaltation as the King of kings and Lord of lords. He was the one who should rule in the midst of His enemies, (Ps. 110,2.) The heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing, the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His anointed, all the while that the Lord has set his king upon his holy hill of Zion and has given him the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession. (Psalm 2.) Isaiah spoke of the Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief Who hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Who was smitten of God and afflicted, and Who yet was to see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied, Who was to divide him a portion with the great and divide the spoil with the strong, because He had poured out His soul unto death. (Is. 53.)
The New Testament also shows us clearly that it was because of his sufferings and death that Christ was made our King and Lord. St. Paul says: "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father." (Phil. 2,5–11). The cross and the crown go together in God's kingdom. Those who would enter Christ's kingdom of glory must walk the narrow path that Jesus has trodden before us, to Gethsemane and Calvary first, and then the Mount of Ascension. There is no easy road to heaven. So the time will never come on this earth when it will be popular to confess Christ in the way the Word of God tells us to do. The greater success a man has in proclaiming the Gospel and winning souls for Christ, the greater will the trials and burdens also be with which he will have to contend. Thus St. Paul gives us a long list of afflictions (II Cor. 11) which he had to endure for the sake of the Gospel, at the same time as he tells us of the marvelous visions and revelations of the glory of God which he had received. And he states God's purpose with these afflictions in the words: "Lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure." (II Cor. 12,7.)
When we speak of Christian cross bearing, then we mean not the trials and griefs which come to all men as a result of their sins, but the temptation and sufferings which result from following Christ!
The cross which Christians bear may, indeed, take a thousand different forms in the different cases. We in this country do not suffer physically for our Christian faith; we may seem rather to be honored and respected for it We are not cast in prison and falsely accused or sent to slave labor camps or slain by brutal executioners. But millions of Christians in other lands which once were counted as Christian have been tortured, banished from their homes or slain for no other crime than for believing in the Triune God of the Bible rather than in the Socialist trinity: Marx, Lenin and Stalin. And it is not only where Communists rule that open persecution decimates the visible church. In several Catholic lands the government has laid restrictions upon Protestant mission work which rival anything we could point to in the Middle Ages of the days of the Spanish Inquisition. In Colombia, during these last six years, 53 Protestants have suffered martyrdom, 43 churches and chapels have been destroyed and 116 schools have been closed. And none can say that such open persecution may not afflict also our land some day, if present trends toward a State religion are not checked. For that would necessarily be a false religion, the common denominator of Jewish, Catholic and Protestant faiths, which would be bound to persecute all those who venture to criticize or condemn the false, anti-Christian teachings of either Jew or Catholic or Modernistic, legalistic Protestant.
But such open persecution is not, as a rule, the most difficult to bear patiently and bravely. There are more insidious attacks on our Christian faith, before which all too many people faint and fall. The devil comes not only as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, but also as an angel of light, promising us many fine and good things, if we only will not expose him too clearly as the foul spirit from the Pit that he is. When Jesus told his disciples "how he must suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day," Peter began to rebuke him, saying, "Be it far from thee Lord; this shall not be unto thee." He meant well. He just could not understand that it should be either necessary or possible for the Messiah, the Son of the living God, to be destroyed by his enemies. But Jesus turned and said unto him, "Get thee behind me Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men." (Matth. 16,21ff.) Peter had worldly ideas of what kind of kingdom Christ should establish; he did not understand things that be of God. And even as he was an offence and a temptation to Jesus because of this, so we, too, are often tempted, by those who have worldly ideas of what a Christian or the Christian Church should be, to forget the cross and to grasp at a mere earthly crown. We need, then, to review the temptations which meet men under our conditions, so that we may the better learn how to bear the cross of Christ after him.
There is, first, the ever-present temptation to worldliness in life and conduct on the of both pastor and people. Not even the most orthodox person is immune to the siren calls of the world and its honors. He, too, takes his Old Adam with him wherever he goes. We need not grant that an orthodox believer is more prone to worldliness and the sins of the flesh than the heretical pietist or legalist is, as is falsely charged. On the contrary, there is no stronger bulwark against sin than true faith in Jesus Christ as the Redeemer who has taken away our sins by his death and has justified us by his resurrection from the dead. But it is too often the case that those who confess the true faith do not adorn their faith by a godly life. And at the root of their failure lies unwillingness to bear the cross of the world's scorn and enmity. It is so easy to follow the crowd, to conform to the majority, to set our moral standards by what is popular in a given age or place, instead of by the eternal word of God.
Even when we for the sake of the pure doctrine separate ourselves from those who teach falsely, we still may fall short in our Christian life and in zeal for the work of preaching the Gospel. We hear much in certain church circles about "dead orthodoxy." And there is no use in denying that there is such a thing, unless we maintain that a "dead Christian" is neither Christian nor orthodox. Nor is it an adequate retort to say there is "dead heterodoxy" also, or that the energy and zeal with which errorists and heretics spread their heresies are derived from the devil who comes with "all power and signs and lying wonders," (II Thess. 2,9), and whose spirit "now worketh in the children of disobedience." (Eph. 2,2.) We need every day to repent of our lukewarmness and sinfulness and to ask God for the gift of His Holy Spirit to permeate and inform our every act, word and thought.
The temptation to worldliness is particularly great in a country like ours where temporal prosperity is so general and advanced. A recent European visitor, remarking on this, expressed the opinion that our prosperity had made us as a people "soft" and lacking in independence and character. Surely it is true that luxury and prosperity do have a corrupting influence on Society. When Christians are faced with the choice between giving up some of the luxuries of modern living or of denying important principles or tenets of their biblical faith, it is not everyone who will stand the test. Our Savior warns us of this in his parable of the Sower: "He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful." (Matth. 13,22.) The wise Agur said: "Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." (Prov. 30,8–9). There are too many in our Socialistic age who have accepted the false notion that all the ills of Society could be cured, if only everyone had enough of this world's goods. They trace all the evils in the world to poverty and unequal distribution of wealth. They should know from experience as well as from the word of God that riches and prosperity are just as prolific a breeding-ground for vice and misery as poverty is. The radical Socialists and Communists of our day are more likely to be found among the wealthy and well-educated than poor and "under-privileged." But it is no easy matter for Christians, — particularly if they themselves love luxury and fear "the scorning of those that are at ease — and the contempt of the proud," (Ps. 123,4) — to take a stand against the Mammon-worship and the idolatrous love of pleasure which is such a prominent part of the American scene today.
It is only another aspect of the spirit of worldliness when people want to compromise with such popular and generally respected organizations as the Secret Societies or Lodges, the Boy Scout Movement, and other semi-secular, semi-religious organizations which are so plentiful in our land. These represent in every case the religion of the Law and aim to build character and to promote civic righteousness. It may seem entirely in order for a Christian to join these organizations, if only for the sake of the State and Society, helping them to follow the moral law which forms the very basis for all order and good government. But it is impossible for a Christian through membership in these societies to fulfill his first duty, that of preaching the Gospel of the crucified Redeemer as our only salvation. For the religion of the Law and the religion of the Gospel are two antithetical things. If in doubt about this, read Romans and Galatians again. According to the Lodges, the Boy Scout principles, etc., the essential thing is to do good and keep the Law. But according to the Bible teaching, the essential thing is to admit that there is no good in us, and that we can stand in judgment only by a borrowed righteousness, that of Jesus Christ who "of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." (I Cor. 1,30.) Try proclaiming this Gospel in a Lodge meeting or in a Boy Scout camp, emphasizing the fact that "doing a good turn each day" may produce a fine Pharisee, but never a consecrated Christian, and see how far you will get! These organizations could not permit such preaching without giving up their basic tenets. So, if anyone is inclined to think that it should be possible in our day and age to confess Christ without suffering persecution, let him just take a determined stand against Lodges, Boy Scouts, and similar organizations. He will soon find that social ostracism, public ridicule, and the contempt and enmity of the "leading citizens" of his community will be his reward.
The Norwegian writer, Waldemar Ager, in his story, "Christ Before Pilate," pictures very effectively what happens to an honest, earnest pastor when he tries to hew to the line and apply the word of God to each concrete situation as it arises. The young pastor in this story finds opposition and criticism at every turn and gains strength to go on with his work only by contemplating daily the famous painting, "Christ Before Pilate," which adorns the wall of his study. The Pharisees hated Christ because he took away from them the righteousness which was their boast and their god. Pilate despised Jesus and counted Him as but a harmless "crack-pot" because He said that He was "the Truth," – absolute and final truth; and to Pilate there was no such thing as Truth. So today also the Gospel must earn the hatred of self-righteous men and the contempt of all who boast of their wisdom and scientific knowledge. Therefore, more than human strength and courage is required to take a stand for the truth against its enemies within and without the visible church.
The true disciple of Jesus Christ finds himself tempted also by men who claim to be His followers, though they deny His Gospel, particularly such as promote the spirit of unionism and indifferentism with regard to pure doctrine. This spirit finds its culminating expression today in the so-called "Ecumenical Movement," an ambitious effort to unite all churches in one grand "World Council of Churches," or to establish a sort of Protestant Papacy. Practically all of the Protestant churches, including the great majority of Lutherans, have already joined this World Council. The image-worshiping Eastern Orthodox Churches also belong, except where they are prevented from doing so by the Communists. Its doors are open to Communists, too, from lands where the church is but a propaganda arm of the Communist State. It is a fundamental principle of this World Council that it must make room for every manner of opposing teachings. It justifies this by the palpable lie that these opposing doctrines represent merely different facets of the same truth, instead of truth on the one hand and error on the other. This "inclusivist principle" makes it impossible for the Church to combat error or to cleanse its house of the leaven of false doctrine. And yet there apparently are very few people left who have the courage and the faith to stand up and be counted against this modern Tower of Babel. The ELC did vote a few years ago not to enter the World Council. But now it has voted to enter a Merger with other Lutheran churches which already belong to the World Council, so that when the Merger is consummated, they will all, no doubt, be dragged into the Council. The Missouri Synod, too, has had contacts with this organization and its daughter, the Lutheran World Federation. The time may soon be here when only such "splinter sects" as our own will refuse to join this Modernistic "super-church," and resist its interference in affairs of State and its pretensions to speaking for God and the whole Christian Church.
It is the more necessary to avoid the World Council and all its works because its leaders, if not also most of its rank and file members, are Modernists and advocates of the "Social Gospel." And the Social Gospel is but a foolish attempt to combine the tenets of atheistic, evolutionistic Socialism with the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, and to pass this off on an unsuspecting public as the Gospel for our day and age. As certainly as this is a religion of Law alone and knows nothing of the Gospel concerning the Savior of sinners, so certainly is it a false religion which will at the first opportunity persecute those who adhere to the true Gospel. For it has always been true that the religion of the law persecuted the religion of the Gospel. Thus Paul says, referring to Ishmael and his persecution of Isaac: "But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now." (Gal. 4,29) And again he says: "And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased." (Gal. 5,11.) He shows how the fear of persecution determines the conduct of many people when he says: "As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. — but God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." (Gal. 6,12ff).
"As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh!" — there we have it: the lust for power and honor for the Church of Christ, which so readily takes the place of glorying in the cross; the desire to "make a greater impact on the world," or to "win the world for Christ," which so often expresses merely ambition for honor and glory in this world. The Protestant World Council differs not a particle from the Roman Papacy in this regard.
There is an even more sinister aspect of the ambitions and activities of the World Council of Churches, namely that it is being used as a cover for those who would transform our free Republic into a Socialist Dictatorship, and even for such perhaps, as are secret agents of the tyranny called Communism. As stated before, the "Social Gospel" which the World Council openly advocates is nothing else than an application of the theory of evolution to the field of Sociology and the moral teachings of the Bible. It is in practice hardly distinguishable from Socialism itself, except that the forthright Socialist will condemn all religion as but out-of-date superstition, while the Social Gospel preacher will blasphemously use the name of Christ and of God freely in support of his anti-Christian teachings. Hence it is inevitable that the one who believes in the Social Gospel will also accept Socialistic theories in political and social matters and will mouth their cliches about the sins of Capitalism and the present "social order" as glibly as any Bolshevik Then it is only a step from such advocacy of Socialism into the web of Communist intrigue and treason. According to recognized authorities, there are 10,000 ministers in our country who are connected in some way or other with the Communist apparatus. And the churches, Protestant and Catholic both, are called the greatest source of strength for the Communist movement. It is an ironical commentary on the state of affairs in this twilight hour of the world's history that this should be so. And yet it is nothing new that the Church should welcome its enemies into its bosom. The prophet Hosea, 2,700 years ago said: "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help." (13,9) There are suicidal tendencies at work in the Church of Christ, as well as in the hearts of millions of individuals. Our Lord and Savior wept over the Holy City, saying: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killeth the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." (Luke 13,34.) Time and again the visible church has been destroyed, not by its enemies from without, but by corruption within, and by its failure to exclude from its fellowship those who preach "another gospel" than that of the Crucified One. When God lets persecution come over the Church, it is His way of cleansing it. It grows and thrives by walking the way of the cross, and perishes only when it marches on the broad road of the world. For the blood of the martyrs is ever the seed of the Church. When those, then, who call themselves Christians adopt the teachings, the principles and the ways of the anti-Christian world, there is nothing left for God to do but to condemn them and "spue them out of His mouth." (Rev. 3,16). The warnings of John, written 1,900 years ago, are meant also for us in these last days of the world: "I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left they first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent." (Rev. 2,4–5).
Obvious though these things should be, it is not easy for Christians to meet the propagandists who with such diabolical cleverness pervert the word of God and manage to combine it with atheistic philosophies, and who play such a prominent part in most churches, including the Roman Catholic. Socialism, they say, is "the wave of the future," a movement which is as useless to resist as it would be to seek to change the stars in their courses. We are told, through almost every medium of education, from grade-school text-books to radio and television, that it is only a question of time until the whole world will be united, as it should be, under one International Socialist government and one Universal Religion. And the saddest part of the picture is that so many who should know better are bemused by the lying propaganda of these children of Belial, until they join in opposing and persecuting those who warn against the enemies of God and of our free institutions, instead of supporting them.
But the hardest test that we as Lutheran Christians must meet today is the temptation to go along with those who would compromise our faith and confession in some way, in order to heal the sad breaches in the walls of our American Lutheran Zion. It is not easy to stand alone, or to break with old friends and associates over differences in doctrine, as we learned in 1918 when our Synod was formed in protest against the unionistic Merger of 1917. There were many then whom we knew as staunch Lutherans, but who fell by the way-side, leaving but a pitiably small minority to carry on the teachings and principles of the old Norwegian Synod. Now, after a long generation, it appears that history may repeat itself. We may have to decide again whether to stand alone rather than compromise the doctrines and principles for which our Synod has stood for a century. If we do find ourselves forced to separate from former brethren, we may be sure that we will again hear the cry: "The Norwegian Synod has no right to exist." "It is a separatistic sect." "It should not leave those who after all are as orthodox as anyone else." No doubt we will be exposed to even greater opposition and ridicule than in 1918. It will surely not be an easy cross to bear for any man.
But then we should remember, whatever form our cross may take, that there are glorious rewards promised to those who remain faithful unto death. God does not promise us freedom from persecutions and trials; but He does tell us that we shall learn to rejoice in them as surely as we trust in Him and believe His word. It is true even of the triumphs and rewards of this world that they are gained only through much tribulation and labor. "Per aspera ad astra," "Through difficulties to the stars," — even the pagans knew this to be true. It is hardship, danger, strife and struggle that make life interesting. Without them there would be no sagas or epics, no tales of adventure or of thrilling exploits. And since the rewards of the Christian soldier of the cross are a thousand times greater than any of those to be gained by this world's heroes, it is only right that their trials and afflictions should be greater also. But with them always go such promises as these:
"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." (John 16,33) "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." (Matth. 5,10–12.) "Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me." (John 15,20–21). "I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." (Rom. 8,18) At the end of his life, when he had been condemned as an evil-doer, St. Paul could say: "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: And not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." (II Tim. 4,6ff.) Cf. also Mark 10,28–30.
We might fill pages with similar statements of Scripture concerning the joy and blessing which come to the Christian along with and even through his afflictions. We might also quote many hymns which express beautifully the comfort which the believer finds in God's wonderful promises, such as Paul Gerhardt's hymn:
"Why should cross and trial grieve me? Christ is near With His cheer;
Never will he leave me. Who can rob me of the heaven
That God's Son For my owm To my faith hath given?
Though a heavy cross I'm bearing And my heart feels the smart,
Shall I be despairing? God, my Helper, who doth send it,
Well doth know All my woe And how best to end it.
God oft gives me days of gladness; Shall I grieve If He give
Seasons, too, of sadness? God is good and tempers ever
All my ill, And He will Wholly leave me never.
Hopeful, cheerful and undaunted Everywhere They appear
Who in Christ are planted. Death itself cannot appall them,
They rejoice When the voice Of their Lord doth call them.
But we shall close with the reminder that the twilight hour of this present world is for the Christian the harbinger of ills final redemption; as Christ says: "And when these things (the signs of the end of the world) begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." (Luke 21,28) For the wicked, the night of eternal death must follow the twilight of the present age. But for the true believer, the growing darkness is not only a warning to be prepared for the coming of the Lord but also the promise of a new day, — the great Day when this sin-cursed world shall pass away and our Lord and Savior shall make all things new; and when the Holy City, new Jerusalem, shall come down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Rev. 21,1ff) "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever." (Rev. 22,5.)
May it in this twilight hour of the world and the church be our constant prayer:
In the hour of trial, Jesus, plead for me
Lest by base denial I depart from Thee.
When Thou see'st me waver, With a look recall
Nor for fear or favor Suffer me to fall.
With forbidden pleasures Should this vain world charm
Or its tempting treasures Spread to work me harm,
Bring to my remembrance Sad Gethsemane
Or, in darker semblance, Cross-crowned Calvary.
Should Thy mercy send me Sorrow, toil, and woe,
Or should pain attend me On my path below,
Grant that I may never Fail Thy hand to see;
Grant that I may ever Cast my care on Thee.
When my last hour cometh, Fraught with strife and pain,
When my dust returneth To the dust again,
On Thy truth relying, Thro' that mortal strife,
Jesus, take me dying, To eternal life. Amen.


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Adsorption of cadmium(II) from aqueous solutions by thiol-functionalized activated carbon
Mar. 1, 2011 - By: Doyoon Kim , Young Wook Jung , Seokjoon Kwon , Jae-Woo Park
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Thiol groups of adsorbent surfaces offer strong affinities for heavy metal ions, such as Hg(II), Pb(II), Cd(II), and so on. In this study, thiol group was impregnated to activated carbon by a series of treatments of oxidation and chlorination followed by 1,2-ethanedithiol introduction in order to investigate the adsorption properties of Cd(II) in aqueous solution. Batch sorption experiments were carried out to study kinetics, and the effect of Mg(II) and different pH conditions on Cd(II) sorption. Sequential extraction experiments were performed to understand binding characteristics. In general, thiol-functionalization improved the removal of Cd(II) by activated carbon in aqueous solution. Compared to untreated activated carbon, over a factor of four of the maximum sorption capacity enhancement was achieved. The presence of Mg(II) interfered Cd(II) sorption, but the degree of the sorption interference was alleviated significantly. Cd(II) sorption occurred more rapidly due to more involvement of ion exhchange by thiol- functionalization.
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Ulica zaczyna się na skrzyżowaniu, na którym z ulicy Warszawskiej (biegnącej od Placu Wolności) zmienia się w ulice Fryderyka Chopina, a kończy na Wschodzie Leśnym. Na prawie całej długości jest szeroką, dwujezdniową, czteropasmową arterią. Chopina jest częścią drogi krajowej nr 91.

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