LivePrayer | Sermon 713. Soul Murder-Who Is Guilty?
"Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness."Psalm 51:14.
DAVID had been grossly guilty towards his faithful and veteran friend Uriah. He had given instructions that Uriah should beled into the hottest part of the fight and then suddenly deserted so that he might be struck by the sword of the Syrians,and might appear to have died in the natural order ofbattle. Whereas, of course, his death was a cowardly murder, planned and devised by the very man who ought to have beenhis protector.
It is pleasing to observe in David's penitence that he plainly names his sin. He does not call it manslaughter. He does notspeak of it as an imprudence by which an unfortunate accident occurred to a worthy man, but he calls it by its true name,bloodshed. It is true he did not actually slay thehusband of Bathsheba-it was by another hand that Uriah died. But still it was planned in David's heart that Uriah shouldbe slain, and he was before the Lord the murderer of Uriah. He calls a spade a spade, and names his crime as bloodshed.
Let us learn in our confessions to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins. Call them what you will, theywill smell no sweeter. What God sees them to be, that you must labor to feel them to be, and with all openness of heart acknowledgetheir true character. Observe, too, thatDavid not only gives it the right name, but is evidently oppressed with a sense of the heinousness of his sin. It is easyto use words, but it is difficult to feel their meaning. He prays like one who is consciously guilty. The blood of Uriah wasnow not on his hands, alone, but onhis conscience. The bloody hand was before him continually and the impossibility to purge away the stain, except by thesacrificial hyssop, made David's heart lay low in the dust.
The fifty-first Psalm is the photograph of a contrite spirit. Oh, let us seek after the like brokenness of heart, for howeverexcellent our words may be, yet if the heart is not conscious of the blackness and Hell-deservingness of sin, we cannot expectto find mercy with the Judge of all the earth!Possibly, my Brethren, you will think that I ought not to use such a text as this in addressing you, for there are no murderershere. "A sermon from this text to someone who had strangled another, or fired the deadly shot through his enemy's heart mightbe well enough, but are thereany here," says one, "that are guilty of bloodshed?"
Yes, Friend. The preacher is guilty, at any rate, if no one else is! And he believes that there is not a person here who willbe able to go out of this house unconvicted of sin in this respect, if God the Holy Spirit is but here, first, to enable thepreacher to lay the charge clearly, andsecondly, to enable your conscience honestly to take that home which really belongs to you. There are other ways of beingguilty of bloodshed besides stabbing with a knife, or poisoning with a deadly drug. There is another kind of murder far lessdetested, but equally black in God'ssight-not the destruction of the body-but the destruction of the soul! Not the destruction of the mere shell, the outwardman, but the murder of the real man, the inward self, the inner spirit, the soul murder which cries for vengeance before highHeaven, concerningwhich we have need to offer the prayer of David, "Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation."
Before I proceed to the heavy work of this morning, which is to bring home sin to our consciences, I would like to put ina word by way of caution. I shall have to speak of some who "destroy with their meat those for whom Christ died," and of otherswho, "crucify the Lord afresh, and put Him to anopen shame." And when I do so, there will be some who will not dare to take exception to the Scriptural phraseology, becauseeveryone yields to that, but they will fight hard against the supposed meaning of the very expressions which they are forcedto put up with. They will say tome, "It is impossible that any should be destroyed for whom Christ died."
And I may add it is equally impossible that Christ should be crucified afresh. I shall quite agree with them in this, butif they, therefore, gather that it is impossible for anyone to be guilty of the two sins mentioned, I shall not agree withthem, because such offenses would not have beenmentioned in Scripture as having been committed if they could not be committed.
Do you not know, dear Friends, that a man may be guilty of a sin which he never could actually commit, but which he committedin his heart? For instance, in very deed and act, I can never destroy a man for whom Christ died. It is not in my power norin the power of even devils to destroy suchsouls! But if I commit an action which in the ordinary nature of things would destroy such a soul. If I utter teachings,or if I present an example which, if God did not prevent, would destroy such a soul, then I am guilty because I should havedestroyed that soul if it had not beenfor God's interposing. His interposition does not take away my guilt though it prevented its effects.
Though I cannot crucify the Lord afresh, that is to say, He is so exalted in Heaven that all Hell could not drag Him downto the Cross-yet if I do an action which would crucify Him again, if it could be done-an action which has a tendency to putHim to an open shame, though I may not beable to complete the thing in act, yet, since its natural influence would lead to such a result, I am guilty of it. Thisis easily illustrated. Suppose that a man who had the management of certain points on a railway should willfully turn thepoints in such a way that two trainsmust come into collision and the passengers must be killed.
Imagine that an angel should descend from Heaven and stand between those two trains and prevent the collision. Where wouldbe the difference between the man's guilt whether the people were killed or not killed? The guilt is the same, because thething would have happened if it were not for amiraculous interposition. So by bad teaching, and by unholy living, those for whom Christ died would be made to perish ifit were not for a Divine interposition. And by inconsistency of conduct Christ could be nailed again to the tree if it werenot prevented by Divine power. Butthat prevention does not at all alter my sin. I am just as guilty as if the natural effect had followed. If you should fireat a man and the bullet were unexpectedly turned aside, you would be as truly guilty as if your victim had died!
Human law might not call you a murderer, because human law is obliged very much to judge a sin by the effect, but the Lordlooks at the heart and weighs the motive, the desire and the design. Please understand, then, that when I shall be speakingthis morning about your destroying souls, I do notmean that you will in the end defeat the Divine purpose of Divine Grace, but you will be as guilty as if you could. JesusChrist will not lose a soul whom He has determined to save, or be thwarted in any of His designs of mercy-but this will notextenuate your guilt, or mine.I put this in by way of caution, lest any should think me dubious of the great doctrines of Sovereign Grace which are everyday dearer than ever to me.
I. The first business this morning is to awaken and bring home to the conscience of this assembled multitude A STARTLING CRIME.There are many ways of being guilty of bloodshed. Every man is guilty of it in one respect, namely, concerning the death ofour Lord. I will not say that we are all guiltyof His actual murder upon the tree, for we were not then born. Yet, as it was the common sin of mankind which rendered itnecessary that He should suffer, we cannot escape from a share in His death.
This I can see very clearly, that those who reject, despise or neglect the claims of the Lord Jesus, and refuse to bow beforeHim, do, in effect mock Him, scourge Him, and put Him to death. In speaking against His Gospel, in deriding His servants,in neglecting His Book, in denying His Deity, andin refusing to believe in Him, men are virtually guilty of crucifying the Lord of Glory-for they thus do that which provesthat if they had been in a like condition with the Roman soldiers and with the Jewish priests-they would have nailed Him tothe Cross. We havecommitted actions tantamount to the crucifying of the Savior, and therein His blood comes upon us to our condemnation-unlessby faith it comes upon us to our acceptance and forgiveness.
Oh, Sinner, let this be forever a subject of trembling to you, that you have necessarily something to do with the Cross! Thathaving heard of it, it shall be unto you either a savor of death unto death, or of life unto life! Either the blood of Jesusshall fall upon your heart to cleanse you fromall guilt, or it shall fall upon your head to condemn you. You have said, "I know Him not. I will not obey Him. I will notyield to Him. I will, as far as lies in me, put out His light and quench His dominion in the midst of mankind." What is thisbut aiming at the very life ofChrist, and being guilty of His blood?
Another form of bloodshed, and I am only hinting at these two, is that of anger without a cause. We are told on Inspired authoritythat he that is angry with his brother is a murderer. Unless there is good and sufficient cause for anger, in which case aman may be angry and sin not, anger ismurder! When I have a hasty thought against a man and wish him out of the world, I have killed him in thought, and eventhough I may disguise the wish under the expression of wishing him in Heaven, there is guilt in the desire! Oh the hard, cruel,black thoughts which men havetowards one another when they are angry! Why, they kill and slay a thousand times over! These hasty sins are soon forgottenby us, but they are not soon forgotten by God. Let us weep over our hot tempers, for the fire of Hell burns in them!
And let us be forever free from that lingering malice which harbors resentment and will not be brought to forgive, for this,especially, is before God a form of bloodshed, and concerning it we have need to pray, "Deliver me, O God, from malice, andevil temper, and envy, and all uncharitableness,lest the guilt of bloodshed should be at my door." Having hinted at these, I now come to what I am driving at, namely, thosesins against men's souls by means of which blood may be at our door.
Let me call to your remembrance, some of you, your early days and your first youthful transgressions. It is taken for grantedin the world that young persons ought to be allowed to sow their "wild oats." And then it is hoped that afterwards they willsettle down. But these wild oats are more easilysown than reaped, and many men might weep tears of blood to think of what a harvest has sprung from them. We sinned verycarelessly and joyously, and led others into sin without a thought of the future. And now that we are converted to God wehave to look back, and wish in vain thatothers could be turned from the dangerous paths into which we led them! I do not want to bring any needless bitterness intothe heart of any person who is saved and pardoned, but I should like to cast a dash of gall into men's hearts who have neversought the Savior and who aregrowing gray.
I would make them seriously reflect upon the mischief of their early days. Alas, you cannot undo the evils of your sins! Yourchildren, trained amiss with a bad example before them, are not now to be tutored for God. Your acquaintances who have copiedyour habits are not now to be reclaimed.Perhaps some of you have had companions with whom you used to drink and feast who are now in Hell and brought there verymuch through you. How sad should be those depraved men who have been partners in the sin of guilty women, or women who havelured giddy young men into the pathsof vice. I feel sure that even when such persons repent and find forgiveness the thought of the past cuts like a knife.
I can hear one of them sighing. "Alas, I cannot undo my deeds! Those with whom I sinned are gone, gone where I cannot reachthem even with a prayer. And although others linger upon earth, they are gone, now, to such extremes of sin that it is almosthopeless to think that they shall be reclaimed,and all this is due to my youthful follies. Oh that I could wipe them out, even with my blood!" "Deliver us from the guiltof bloodshed, O God, The God of our salvation."
Many unconverted persons here will perhaps feel, I trust they may, the point of the next observation, namely, that false teachinginvolves the guilt of bloodshed. Some, who afterwards have become ministers of Christ, were at one time ministers of Arianism,Socinianism, Deism, or infidelity. Now theman who leads the young mind astray from the Truth of God and guides youth into doubt and skepticism must not think thathe shall go unscathed. Those who err from the Truth perish, but their blood shall be laid at the door of the teachers whofirst sowed the seeds of evil thoughtwithin them.
There was a despot in Italy who was wont to shoot poisoned adders at passersby in the street, and there are men who delightto shoot sharp, stinging doubts into young minds. They will not deny any one grand Truth of God, but they will insinuate covertdoubts which assail the whole Gospel system.Pity, Brethren, heartily pity those false teachers who have been able to attain to eminence by the fatal gift of unsanctifiedtalent. What must be at their door who have denied the Deity of Christ, who have despised and spoken slightingly of God'sAtonement? To have beguiled theminds of men till they have looked upon you as their oracle, and then to have taught them false doctrine-what is more horrible?With what solemnity is the teacher's office invested when we remember that God will require at our hands the blood of souls!
You who are now converted, but were once infidels, or miscalled Unitarians, I pray you go not to your bed tonight till youbreathe this prayer, "Deliver me, O God, from the blood of souls! Let none go down to the pit cursing me because I taughtthem error and led them away from the fountain oflife. Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation." It is a dastardly thing to poison the wells of a city,but what is it to poison the well of the Truth of God and make soul-thirst the medium of soul-ruin?
It was an accursed thing, in the old story, for a man to pour poison into his sleeping brother's ear, and yet hundreds havedone the same! Sometimes by word of mouth, and still more often by infamous literature. Who knows the evil caused by evilbooks scattered broadcast over the land, which, likethe ashes that Moses hurled into the sky, have brought a grievous plague wherever they have fallen? O you authors and editorsof newspapers who teach ungodly principles and sneer at Divine Truth-take heed lest the blood of souls cry out against you-asthe blood of Abeldid against the first manslayer!
Our text has a voice in another direction. Some men actually trade in luring others into sin. By this craft they get theirwealth. Pandering to the drunken and vicious habits of the multitude, they literally fatten on the ruin of those whose eviltastes they gratify and excite. Satan has manysoul-hunters in his pay who hunt for the precious life. It is an amusement to some to decoy others into the snares and meshesof the Evil One. I have known beings of this class. I will paint one whom I knew who is gone to his last account. He was anold drunkard, hoary with years ofinfamy. His language-profanity. His life-abomination. I should blush to mention the sins of which he would speak with adelighted leer.
Never came there a young man within his range but what he tempted him to the tavern and to places still worse. If one sawany youth of the congregation walking with that man, you knew that he would soon be missing from the House of Prayer. It wasimpossible for a person to be five minutes with thatold wretch without being infected by the contagion of his filthiness. His whole heart went with his foul tongue in the workof depraving the youthful mind! It was a sight to see the man's lips as he spoke lusciously of a dainty sin, and to see thecontempt that was in hiscountenance as the minister of righteousness looked sorrowfully at the destroyer and his victim. His joy was greatest whenhe had been the means of casting down a professor of religion, or could see young Hopeful become as vile as himself!
When he saw those die-whom he had led into sin and educated in profanity till they became as bad as himself-no twitch of conscienceever came over him! When he died and was buried, one almost thanked God for his removal, for he was a most fearful hindranceto the kingdom of the LordJesus. Oh, should I address some such who delight to sing lascivious songs, and to talk loosely, God forgive you! You area great sinner, and may He take that black heart out of you, and give you a new heart and a right spirit, for, if He doesnot, double damnation must be yourportion, since as he that, by God's Grace, turns many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever, so shallyou who have turned many to unrighteousness be plunged in the blackness of darkness forever!
This, I dare say, comes home to but very few-indeed, I trust to none of you here-but the next point may touch us all in somerespects. Bad example is a way by which the blood of souls may come upon us. If a man should live in a densely populous neighborhood,and should carry on a tradewhich sent forth deadly fumes into the air so that everybody who breathed them would be infected with disease and die, whocould acquit him of murder? Granted that he clearly knows that the fumes which he makes are deadly-if he, for any hope ofgain-causes such ruin, hedeserves to die himself.
But what is bad example? Is not that in the family and in the social circle just such a deadly vapor? I spoke just now ofbad teaching, but bad example is even more dangerous, because its range is wider. Bad example reaches those who would nothave listened to false doctrine, but who receive thepoison through their eyes. How do you know, Mother, but that the girl who breaks your heart learns her first sin from you?Father, can you be so angry with your child when you are not quite sure but what he has imitated you?
Master, you, the other day, spoke very severely about a certain servant who forfeited your trust-are you sure there was notsome irregularity in your conduct which misled him? Every man, especially in a great city like this, is responsible not onlyfor himself but for his neighbors, and thereare some of us who are like the church clock-other people set their watches by us. It becomes such of us as are religiousteachers to be particularly careful. There are some things which I feel I might do, as far as I am concerned, which I believeI might do without sufferingany personal hurt. But I do not do them for your sakes, and which I dare not do for the sake of many who would take licensefrom my example to do a great deal more than I would do, and would make me the horse on which they would put the saddle oftheir sin.
Christian parents, you must not always say, "I can do this." Yes, but would you like everybody else to do it? Because, ifit is unsafe for one, it seems to me you have no business to touch it. "If meat offends my brother, I will eat no meat whilethe world stands," is a grand old Christian sayingof one who was not a whit behind the very chief of the Apostles. We must be careful even of things indifferent. But whenit comes to those things which are positively evil, the bad example of a Christian is ten times worse than that of one whois not a Christian. If I see a sinnercommit sin, his example is poison, but it is labeled. The inconsistent life of a professor is unlabeled poison, and I amvery likely to be injured by it. Inconsistent Christians, false professors, you that have a name to live and are dead, takecare lest bloodshed be at your door,and much of it, too!
But these are things of which the ungodly have their share, and therefore I come, now, to talk a few quiet words to the Christianonly. I want to single out those Brothers and Sisters who love the Lord, and who are saved from the wrath to come throughHim. I want to ask you, Do you not think thatyou and I may have been guilty of the blood of souls, though we are set by God to be, instrumentally, their salvation? Thoughwe are the lights of the world and the salt of the earth, yet may we not have been darkness, and salt that has lost its savor?Answer, I pray, such questionsas these! May we not have bloodshed laid to us from neglect of family duties? I fear that this is one of the sins of thisage.
The Puritans were noted for the care in which they brought up their children-they never fell into the fault of sparing therod, and their children were catechized every Sunday. They were prayed for and wept over, and the Puritan household was avery Heaven upon earth. But oh, if some of ussee our children running into sin, and growing up to be thoughtless, careless, and giddy-what can we say-who shall we blame?Are there none here, like Eli, who have only said to their children, when they have done wrong, "My sons, why do you do this?"but have let themgo unchastised? Remember the character of Hophni and Phinehas, and the message of Samuel concerning them-"Thus says theLord, I will do a thing at which both the ears of everyone that hears shall tingle: I will judge the house of Eli becausehis sons made themselves vile, andhe restrained them not."
Let us take heed, lest God bring the like on us! Oh, Sirs, it is no small charge to be a parent, and to neglect that chargebrings no small guilt upon us! When I see so many children of Christians turn out worse than others. When I find some of thesons of ministers among the ringleaders insin-what can I do but pray that I may sooner die than have such a curse fall upon myself? If any of us have neglected homeduties, let us beware lest we have the blood of our children laid at our door!
Have we not often neglected the souls of seekers in distress who would become very glad of our attention? At our meeting forprayer and fasting last Tuesday, a Brother who was, I think, the best man among us, made a confession of cowardice and weall looked at him and could not understand how hecould be a coward. A bolder man I do not know! He told us that there was a man in his congregation who was a wealthy man.If he had been a poor man he would have spoken to him about his soul. But, being a wealthy man, he thought it would be takingtoo much liberty. At last, one ofthe members happened to say to him, "Mr. So-and-So, have you found a Savior?" and bursting into tears, the man said, "Thankyou for speaking to me! I have been in distress for months, and thought the minister might have spoken to me. Oh, I wish hehad. I might have found peace."
I am afraid that often you good people have sinners convicted of sin sitting beside you in your place of worship, and whenthe sermon is over you ought to get a word with them-you might be the means of their comfort-but you forget it, and you goyour way. Now, is this a thing to beforgotten, as if it were no great offense? Let me give you a picture which may set it forth. See yonder poor wretches whoseship has gone down at sea? They have constructed a poor tottering raft and have been floating on it for days. Their supplyof bread and water is exhausted andthey are famishing. They have bound a handkerchief to a pole and hoisted it, and a vessel is within sight. The captain ofthe ship takes his telescope, looks at the object, and knows that it is a shipwrecked crew.
"Oh!" he says to his men, "we are in a hurry with our cargo, we cannot stop to look after an unknown object. It may be somebodyperishing, and it may not be, but, it is not our business," and he keeps on his course. His neglect has murdered those whodied on the raft! Yours is much the same case,only it is worse because you deal with immortal souls! And he only deals with bodies which he allows to die. Oh, my Brother,I do implore you before the Lord, never let this sin lay at your door again! If there is one who is impressed, and needs aword of comfort, fly on the wingsof Mercy to such a soul and help cheer him as God enables you!
May we not be guilty, in the next place, of neglecting to warn many that are not impressed? If I saw a man go reeling on towardsa precipice, and knew, as he went staggering forward, that in a few minutes he would go over the edge and be plunged intoeternity-if I did not shout out and warnhim to draw back-I should feel that when he fell I had a share in his death. When you hear a funeral bell toll for a neighbor,can you say, "If that soul is gone to its last account, I did at least tell him of the way of mercy"? No, I fear there aremany now slumbering in thesepulcher whom you can never warn now, but whom you ought to have warned-your brothers, your sisters, your own children,your next door neighbors- they are gone, gone from where they never can return. And among the things they will have to sayat the Day of Judgment willbe this, that they can bear witness against you that you never warned them to flee from the wrath to come.
O God, we are all guilty here! "Deliver us from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of our salvation." Further, have wenot been guilty of the blood of souls by exposing them to danger? When a father puts his boy apprentice, if he only caresabout his worldly gain and not about his soul'sinterest, I cannot acquit him, nor will God acquit him. Parents have sometimes put their girls to school and their boysto trade where if they had obtained any good it would have been a miracle, and where if they met with mischief it was onlywhat they might expect.
Now it is according to law that if I expose my child to the cold and it perishes through my negligence I am punished. Surelyit must be so with sin. So with our servants, our neighbors, and work people-if we expect them to do for us what we wouldnot do for ourselves we are guilty of theirsins. Some here may possibly be carrying on unnecessary trades which require working men to toil all Sunday (works of necessity,of course, I speak not of), but there are systems of trading which for no justifiable reason involve the keeping away of themen employed from a place ofworship. Now when these men are lost, I ask at whose door will their blood lie? Who had the profits of their labor? Whofattened on their gains? Who sucked the very blood of their souls to coin it into wealth for himself? If there is such anone, let him cease from the sin, andpray, "Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation."
Christian, do you not think that sometimes you may have been guilty from unholy silence? When I hear God's name profaned andoffer no rebuke, but take it quietly, is there no sin there? When I see my neighbor going into sin, and have an opportunityof speaking and do not, is that silence withoutblame? When I go up and down the street and meet people in many ordinary avocations to whom I might speak of Christ andnever do-when they perish, shall I be clear? Oh the thousands that some of us come in contact with, and yet leave them asif we had no care about theireternal state! Shall we be clear, Brothers and Sisters, shall we be clear?
May not another sin also be charged upon some of you? Some have a way, not only of doing no good, but doing a deal of mischiefby their harsh conversation to young beginners. I have known elderly professors who, instead of encouraging the young, wouldseem as though they would snap the child's headoff if it spoke of Divine things! They doubt the possibility of the conversion of little ones and will ask knotty questions,and raise difficult points to perplex those who have but lately found Christ. They delight to insinuate that the convert'sjoy is nothing but mere excitement,and they do all they can to thrust seeking souls into despair.
Unlike the Master, who never broke the bruised reed, they break all they can! And, unlike He who never quenched the smokingflax, they would, if they could, quench even those that have begun to blaze! Is there no guilt here? Are there none such inthis House? I know there are! May they have DivineGrace to feel the sin and to plead for mercy! Unhallowed levity about Divine things is another home-born sin. Do we evertrifle about God's Word? Are we not tempted to joke and utter a silly jest when it would have been prudent to have urged awarning? I fear, Brethren, and fearsorrowfully, that many of us who ought to know better are verily guilty here. To trifle with eternal things is no smallcrime.
But here is a point upon which I would speak more earnestly, still-how often have we withheld prayer concerning others? Weknow they are perishing, but we do not pray for them! We are conscious that their state will be one of woe, but yet no tearsflow from our inhuman eyes, and our spiritsare not affected. Neglected closets shall call upon them to speak against us. I shall leave our lack of prayer in privateto be a matter of personal confession, but I am afraid that after having thought it over we shall feel we have been guiltyof bloodshed.
Then there is a general need of earnestness especially chargeable upon us who are ministers. That I should ever have preachedto you as I have sometimes done ought to break my heart. And that some of you should teach in Sunday school as you teach oughtto cause you deep regret! And that you shouldgo even about tract distributing in so cold a manner as you sometimes do should make you smite upon your breasts. Oh ifwe were half as earnest to serve God as others are to win gold, what success we might expect! And we have not had it becauseof our want of earnestness! Deliver usfrom the guilt of bloodshed, O God!
II. In the second place, let us make AN EARNEST CONFESSION. Let us not deny our responsibility or we shall be like Cain, whosaid, "Am I my brother's keeper?" Shun a Cainish spirit. Let us not try to shift the responsibility to God's shoulders bysaying, "God's decree will be fulfilled." That istrue, but Divine sovereignty is no excuse for human negligence. Let us feel, "We are guilty here," and do not let us murmur,"Well, we have a right to do as we like. It is a voluntary work."
It is so, but, Brethren, we are debtors unto the Jew and Gentile. Loved with such mercy as that which we have received, weought to have done more for souls and we are guilty because we have not done it. Let us not soothe ourselves with, "Well,we will do better in the future." Look to thepast-how can you undo that? And the souls that have gone, past recall, down the cataract of death-what can you do for them?Bestir yourself! Bestir yourself for the future! For there you can do much. But for the past, what is to be done but weep!Let us make a cleanbreast of it when we are alone, and solemnly confess that we have been guilty of the blood of souls.
III. In the third place, our text has in it AN EARNEST PRAYER which I commend to you. You observe it is addressed to God.It is not a resolution made in his own strength, but it is addressed to God. "Deliver me, O God." You observe that it is addressedto the God of salvation. Thanks be to Hisname, He can save us! He is the God of salvation. It is His prerogative to forgive. It is His very name and office to savethose who seek His face. Let us go to the God of salvation!
Better still, the text calls Him the God of my salvation. Yes, blessed be His name, guilty as I am I am saved! Though theblood of others once lay at my door-and my sin humbles me-yet through Jesus' precious blood I can rejoice in the God of mysalvation! Then look at the word,"Deliver." It has two meanings. "Deliver me from the guilt of the past- whatever I may have been in the years gone by forgiveit. But Lord, deliver me from the power of it for the future." If I am a minister, Lord, make me more prayerful. If I am aSunday school teacher, helpme to teach the children as though they would be dead before we met again. If I am a father or a mother, help me to instructmy dear children as though their salvation rested upon me.
If I am a neighbor, let me not neglect the street, or court, or lane where I live. If I am a citizen, let me not neglect theclaims of those who live in the same city with me. If I am a Christian, do not let me be a dark lantern, do not suffer meto be unsavory salt. Some of you professors are ofno use to anybody. I know some professing Christians who hoard their money just as if they did not owe Christ anything.They never give to the cause of God and their gold and their silver are red with blood-the blood of those who might have hadthe Gospel preached to them ifthere had been the means of sending it. I know others who come in and out and occupy seats and sing and pray as others do,but take no part in the work of the Church. They are useless idlers, like the mixed multitude that came out of Egypt withthe children of Israel.
If such are present now, the Lord send the darts of conviction through them! If you are His people, I hope you have the Graceto receive the rebuke in the spirit in which it is sent to you and profit by it. If you have been bought with blood, liveas one who is not his own! If you are a mereworldling, why do you come here and make a profession of Christianity? But if you have been saved, ask to be delivered fromthe great sin of bloodshed!
IV. The psalmist ends with A COMMENDABLE VOW. It is about the only vow that I can advise any of you to make. He says, firstof all, if God will deliver him, he will sing. And I vow I will. If I am only able to say as George Fox said, when he wasdying-honest Quaker as he was-"I amclear"-oh if I can say, "I am clear," I will sing, indeed! It is enough to make any man sing if he can be minister to sucha congregation as this and be clear.
Sometimes when I have gone down out of the pulpit, and somebody has said, "There are six or seven thousand people withoutexcuse because they have heard the Gospel," I have said, "Yes, it is so," but I have thought, "Have I preached it as earnestlyas I ought?" And many a time it has made me tosson my bed to think of the responsibility of this mass of human beings, and the twenty thousand or more who regularly readthe sermons as they come from the press. Who is sufficient for these things? Truly a saved minister will be an everlastingwonder!
Then it is said, "My tongue shall sing aloud." Oh yes, indeed! Who can sing in any other style if such a mercy as this isafforded us? If, indeed, we are found faithful, we will not sing in a whisper! If we have discharged our conscience, and noman can say, "You have been unfaithful to me," ourtongue shall sing aloud! But note the subject, note the subject! It does not say my tongue shall sing aloud of my faithfulness,of my integrity, or of my earnestness. Oh no! When I have done my best. When I am delivered from all guilt of bloodshed, andmy tongue begins tosing-it shall not sing of anything but Your righteousness, YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, O Jesus!
" Jesus, Your blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress" and that verse was sung slowly and solemnly- "When from the dust of death I rise, To take my mansion in the skies, Even then shall this be all my plea, 'Jesus has lived and died for me.'"
Now, poor Sinner, what do you say of Christ's righteousness? Do you not see that you are guilty of many sins? Oh that youmay have Divine Grace to confess them! Remember the righteousness of Christ can wash away all sin, and however black and foulwe may have been, we have but to come to thefountain filled with blood, and if we wash there, we shall be white as snow! The Lord give us such a washing, and we willsing aloud of His righteousness!


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IPL 2021: Here is the complete schedule of all the eight teams, know when and where your favorite team will clash
The 14th season of the Indian Premier League will begin from April 9 with the Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians clash. The final is to be played on 30 May.
The team of Chennai Super Kings has won the title thrice. Under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the team will try to win the title once again. The team's first match will be against Delhi Capitals on 10 April.
The team of Rajasthan Royals will also come down as the changed captain this time. This time, the captaincy of the team has been given to Indian wicketkeeper batsman Sanju Samson. Their first match will be played against Punjab Kings in Mumbai.
Kolkata Knight Riders, captained by Oyen Morgan, have been struggling in the last few seasons. This year she will start her campaign against Sunrisers Hyderabad on 11 April.
Kolkata Nightriders
The team of 2016 champion team Sunrisers Hyderabad will also come under the captaincy of David Warner this time. The team will have their match against Kolkata Knight Riders on 11 April. This match will be played in Chennai.
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Punjab Kings, captained by KL Rahul, will play their first match this time against Rajasthan Royals on 12 April. This match will be played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
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The team of Delhi Capitals will descend this time under the leadership of new captain Rishabh Pant. Last season, the Delhi team lost to Mumbai Indians in the final. This time the team will start the campaign against the Delhi Capitals on 10 April.
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Defending champion Mumbai Indians is the second team in the IPL to have defended their title. The five-time champion will play their match this season against Royal Challengers Bangalore, captained by Virat Kohli, on April 9.
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Last year, the team of Royal Challengers Bangalore, led by Virat Kohli, reached the playoffs after a long time. This time he will have to face the defending champion Mumbai Indians in their first match. The first match between the two will be held in Chennai on April 9.
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Paul Rudd Really Wants You to Wear a Mask
The 51-year-old actor takes on the role of a hip millennial in a PSA for NYC
By Ronnie KoenigPublished: September 16, 2020 September 16, 2020
New Jersey's own Paul Rudd wants you to wear a mask! The Passaic-born Rudd filmed a PSA for his "homie" Gov. Andrew Cuomo as part of the "Mask Up, America" campaign and in it he's speaking to the millennial generation about how to play their part in stopping the spread.
In the hilarious clip, Rudd, 51, wears a hoodie and headphones and speaks directly to the camera.
"I was talking on the iPhone with my homie, Gov. Cuomo, and he's just going off about how us millennials need to wear masks because, get this, apparently a lot of COVID is transmitted by us millennials," he says.
"So Cuomes asks me, he's like, 'Paul, you've got to help. What are you, like, 26?'" says Rudd, who is famously thought to never age. "And I didn't correct him. So, fam, let's real-talk. Masks, they're totally beast. So, slide that into your DMs and Twitch it."
The actor, who introduces himself as a "certified young person," continues to speak to his generation about the importance of masking up when you go out. "We want to go to bars, we want to drink, hook up, do our TikToks. I get it. I'm not gonna preach at you like some celebrity. Ugh. This is a convo, where I talk, you shut up. Wear your mask."
Toward the end of the clip, the "Clueless" actor turns serious. "Just wear a mask. It's simple, please. It's not hard. People are dying! Hundreds of thousands of people are dying, and it's preventable."
"I shouldn't have to make it fun. It's science!" he says. Other ads in the series for the #MaskUp campaign have featured Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro.
We say it's time for Gov. Phil Murphy to hit up some Jersey born-and-bred celebs for our own campaign. We nominate Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Willis and, of course, The Boss!
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Is that a Beatles song? I think so. Anyhow, today was just one of those days...pretty miserable. Mommy had her bottle of gin and Sprite Zero (a good calorie free drink---b/c my usual Corona Light beer has CALORIES. Sidebar: I always wished I could have anorexia for like a month..but I like food too much. And bulimia is out. I HATE to puke)...ready to go before 5pm, if that gives you any indication. At multiple points throughout the day, all 3 children were crying at once. And then again at bathtime, all 3 were crying in the tub (Thank God, by then I had a buzz). I actually peered all around to see if Candid Camera was possibly set up in my house, playing a practical joke on me. I seriously felt like, "This is really my life????"
Eldest is having a tough time adjusting to 4 afternoons a week in preschool. He's a boy who seriously needs his sleep, or watch out. We're usually in "meltdown mode" by 5pm daily. It's been pretty rough. And Middle and Baby got gypped out of their afternoon naps today--they slept from 12:30 (b/c I literally WHISK them home from dropping Eldest off at school, and THROW them in bed immediately) until 2:30 when I had to wake them up to go back to preschool to pick Eldest up. So sleep was deprived and the boyz were NOT happy.
The countdown is officially on: one week from today Mommy will be in Myrtle Beach!!


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This one will be quick, without a doubt I'd want Opposites.com here. I like CruiseSale.com but I think you could get a substitute domain and you'd be OK, while with the single word Opposites you can't get a substitute.
This is a tough one, I'm not feeling giddy about any of these guys. Gun to the head I'd take PregnancyTesting.com though I'm not sure how many people use that term when looking for products online.
Easy, without a doubt I'd take Cush.com here. It is a certain type of weed (weed as in pot as in 4:20) and one day when they legalize it this will be a valuable domain.
I like ChinaTourism.com out of this group. HomeNews.com comes in at a distant second. I just don't know what people are going to do with LLL.com's with non-premium letters unless they know an end user that they can sell it to.
I think this grouping shows what most of you already know, that LLL.com's will sell in the almost mid $XXXX range even if the letter combo is not good. Ughhhhhh, I'd take either RGZ.com or ZTN.com… give me RGZ.com.
I think AdultBusiness.com is a very solid domain and I also like EnergyEfficient.com because of the recognition that term is getting with regards to household appliances. I'd be happy with either one but since I can only pick one I'd take EnergyEfficient.
Bobbleheads.net. And I'd hope that I could sell it to the owner of Bobbleheads.com. And I'd hope there is no trademark on the term because I didn't check (though I would have before spending the $3,600).
I think because the finance sector affiliate commissions are very high I'd go with MortgageOptions.com here. I like Scorecast and HouseContractors, but I think MortgageOptions could generate the most revenue and therefore it could generate the best sales price in a flip.
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The long and short of it: A balanced vision for the international monetary and financial system
Remarks (delivered virtually)
Tiff Macklem - Governor
Thank you for your kind introduction. I'm very pleased to be here with you, virtually at least. I look forward to the day when we can meet in person again. But the need to invest in international cooperation can't wait. And I know we'll have some thoughtful and engaging conversation despite the virtual format.
My hope is that we can take inspiration from the cooperation among researchers who developed effective vaccines against COVID-19 in record time. Their efforts and collaboration are saving lives and livelihoods and are underpinning the global economic recovery. This is international cooperation at its very best.
Tragically, there hasn't been nearly as much success in ensuring the equitable global distribution of vaccines, especially to developing countries. This is the biggest health and economic risk facing the world, and—as the G20 highlighted in July—governments and the private sector must work together to make vaccines available to all.
While global public health is the most urgent challenge for international cooperation, the international monetary and financial system is one of the most enduring. August marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates. Canada exited early, moving to a floating exchange rate in 1970.1 That was a year before the United States suspended convertibility of the US dollar into gold and most major countries floated their exchange rates. This anniversary provides a timely occasion to reflect on the international monetary and financial system that has emerged—and how well equipped it is to deal with the challenges ahead.
This global system—the exchange rate and capital accounts as well as the institutions and rules that govern them—affects everyone and is critical to our shared prosperity. The investments we have made collectively to strengthen the system have allowed us to clear some hurdles. But we need a system that better balances the immediate imperatives of the short run with the important building blocks for longer-run prosperity. That's what I want to talk about today.
We aspire to an international monetary and financial system that favours inclusive and sustainable growth. In the long run, that is best achieved by a system that promotes economic integration—with free trade, open capital markets and flexible exchange rates. But the current system isn't there yet, and while we aspire to the long run, we live in the short run. For both these reasons, policy-makers face a delicate balance.
Too much confidence that open markets will always deliver economic and financial stability increases the risk of volatile episodes that hurt jobs and growth. But too much focus on managing short-run pressures risks thwarting the medium- to long-run adjustments that are fundamental to productivity and rising standards of living. Finding the right balance between managing short-run pressures and ensuring steady progress toward liberalization is the crucial task of the international monetary and financial system.
While much progress has been made in the 50 years since the end of Bretton Woods, achieving this balance remains elusive. And looking ahead, it will not get easier or less critical. As the recovery from the pandemic progresses, and major economies begin to remove exceptional monetary stimulus, the system will likely come under more pressure. Tighter financial conditions globally will suit some countries better than others. And beyond the pandemic recovery, new and even bigger challenges are on the horizon, including climate change, the digitalization of currencies and growing inequality.
In my time today, I'd like to talk about Canada's place in the global monetary and financial system. Then I'd like to highlight some of the challenges the system faces, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Finally, I'd like to outline our vision for the 21st century.
Canada and the global monetary and financial system
Cross-border economic integration has been a critical source of increased prosperity for Canadians and for citizens the world over. To be effective, the international system needs to deliver stability in prices and allow exchange rate movements that reflect fundamentals. At the same time, it must be able to adjust to shocks and structural changes in a timely way. In Canada, we have long-standing experience with open capital accounts, inflation targeting and flexible exchange rates, and they have served us and a growing number of countries well.
Still, weaknesses in the arrangements and policies that make up the international monetary and financial system are long-standing. Over the past two decades, the Bank of Canada has emphasized the need for sound economic and financial policy frameworks in advanced and emerging-market economies (EMEs) and sound governance of our global institutions.2
Progress has made the system better able to prevent and manage crises. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has strengthened its surveillance, enhanced its financing facilities and developed a framework to guide the use of capital controls. Many EMEs have strengthened their policy frameworks, including the wider use of inflation targeting and greater exchange rate flexibility.3 Financial regulation and supervision have been enhanced globally through the implementation of the Basel III reforms. Swap lines and reserve pooling between central banks—two elements of the global financial safety net—have expanded.4 And advanced economies have also become more attuned to the spillovers their policies might cause.
This progress has helped the global economy weather the COVID-19 shock. But the crisis has also reminded us of the connectedness and fragility that are inherent in the system. As we all know, massive liquidity interventions by central banks were needed to restore market functioning and support the provision of credit. The interconnections in the global financial system—across countries and between banks and non-bank financial institutions—have brought great benefits. But these interconnections can also propagate and amplify stress. The test we faced together during the COVID-19 shock as well as the challenges that lie ahead underline the need to refocus our attention on where the system should be headed and how we get there. The fallout from the pandemic and the inevitable adjustments ahead as major regions recover at different speeds make dealing with these issues more urgent.
Challenges and issues facing the system
The current challenges facing our global system can be grouped into two categories: short-run pressures and longer-run challenges. Let me first talk about those short-run issues.
EMEs have continued to experience volatility in their financial conditions, despite improvements in fundamentals that have resulted in fewer full-fledged crises. In the last dozen years, episodes of global stress have been all too frequent: the global financial crisis in 2008–09, the taper tantrum in 2013, the sell-off in China in 2015 and the sell-off in emerging markets in 2018. The COVID-19 shock dwarfs these in global scale and reach. In March 2020, capital flew out of EMEs at a historic pace (Chart 1).
While the situation has since stabilized, capital outflows could happen again when the largest economies start reducing the extraordinary stimulus put in place to deal with the pandemic.
To address similar circumstances, EME policy-makers have used a variety of measures, including restricting capital flows and intervening in foreign exchange markets. These policies have gained increased acceptance, and there are circumstances in which they are justified and can be effective in managing short-run pressures. At the same time, these policy interventions can thwart or delay necessary adjustment in their economies and stunt the development of domestic financial markets and products. For example, the use of capital controls and foreign-exchange interventions—particularly the repeated use of them—can undermine the longer-run development of deep and liquid domestic financial markets. Appropriate guardrails are required to ensure that short-run actions do not get in the way of needed development. Otherwise the short run can become the long run.
There is another knock-on effect. Faced with elevated volatility, EMEs are taking out more insurance by accumulating reserves (Chart 2). At a minimum, this self insurance looks globally inefficient. And this demand for reserves is contributing to a shortage of reserve assets, which may be reinforcing the decline in the neutral rate of interest. This in turn raises the risk of liquidity traps and can lead to the buildup of financial vulnerabilities everywhere.
Turning to longer-run challenges, there are several. The first involves the welcome evolution of countries from frontier to emerging to advanced economies. As these economies grow and increase in importance, their integration into the international monetary and financial system will become more pressing. Early on, they may not have a well regulated and stable domestic financial sector, or open trade and capital markets that promote economic integration. The international community needs to develop and invest in a clear long-run strategy to assist with the smooth integration of these countries into the global system and to encourage them to adopt the rules that guide this system.
A second longer-run challenge is the choice of exchange rate regime. We've seen how a freely floating exchange rate may lead to excess volatility in response to short-run disturbances. But to accommodate longer-run structural changes that are essential for sustained development, some margin of flexibility is needed. If nominal exchange rates remain fixed, then domestic prices and wages have to adjust, and this can be protracted and painful. In particular, if domestic prices and wages need to fall, this is likely to require an extended period of weak demand and high unemployment. In the medium run, the real exchange rate moves and the system adjusts, but the cost of forcing the adjustment through all wages and prices can be steep. Worse still, if that adjustment is also hampered by capital controls, external imbalances are likely to persist and build. And if, as a result, the currency peg becomes unsustainable, the country is likely to face an abrupt adjustment, and the effects are often felt by the entire system.
Vision and agenda for the 21st century
As we consider these challenges together, the right balance is crucial. We need a vision for the international monetary and financial system of the 21st century in which EMEs will form an increasing share of the global economy, while gradually developing their financial systems. This vision for the long run cannot merely focus on a utopian system where all participants have mature, well-regulated financial systems, fully open capital accounts and exchange rates that are freely floating. We must also be mindful that some are closer to the destination than others. In discussing this vision, I want to focus on three priorities: the need to find balance between short-run policies and long-run progress, the value of a framework for currency intervention, and the need for global cooperation and resources.
Over the past decade, the focus has been on widening the set of policies countries use to deal with temporary external shocks. This is welcome and is reflected in the IMF's Institutional View. But there has not been enough attention to ensuring that these policies do not impede longer-run progress. Many EMEs seem to be settling for intermediate exchange rate regimes with more or less regular foreign exchange interventions. This risks slowing needed structural adjustments in the real economy. It also risks exacerbating the very pressures these short-run tools seek to manage. By thwarting adjustment, they can cause pressures to build up, leading to greater volatility.
Finding balance means allowing countries to respond to excess volatility or disruptions in the short run while making the system flexible enough to adjust in the long run. Progress has been made in the IMF's Institutional View, which supports the use of macroprudential policy to manage financial stability risks. And only if macroprudential measures are insufficient, should capital flow management be considered. But more work is required to understand the implication of short-run policies for longer-run financial development.
Currency intervention needs attention as well. A freely floating currency may not provide as much benefit to some EMEs as once thought. Dominant currency pricing reduces the benefits of exchange rate adjustment for some countries, and currency mismatches on balance sheets increase the costs.5 But the system needs guardrails to make sure currency intervention does not get in the way of needed relative price adjustments. At the Bank, we would like to see the development of a framework for exchange rate management similar to that in the IMF's Institutional View for capital flow management. Such an agreed-upon framework could guide managed floating exchange rate regimes to make sure they do not stall adjustment in the medium to long run. The focus here should be on a coherence between the choice of exchange rate regime and other policies.
In the end, policy-makers need to recognize that capital account and currency interventions should be targeted to address specific concerns, and these interventions should be temporary. Over the longer run, countries should plan to rely less on these policies as their financial systems mature. In the shorter run, every time these interventions are used, a clear exit plan should be in place. And the circumstances under which interventions may occur should be well defined, so that an exit can be facilitated when conditions are no longer met.
Global cooperation and resources are also required to agree on a long-run vision for the international system. Considerable resources have been devoted to the management of short-term liquidity and volatility issues, and that has been necessary and important. Global policy-makers need to balance this effort with greater focus and resources to promote longer-term economic and financial development. The IMF's multilateral role in surveillance is essential—the global system needs to be managed as a system. And the Financial Stability Board is doing valuable work with peer review and assessments to strengthen adherence to international standards. My hope is that we can build on these elements to deepen the engagement of systemically important economies on an international monetary and financial system that maximizes the benefits of economic and financial integration.
In Canada's experience, the destination is one with open capital markets, robust and transparent policy frameworks—including monetary, fiscal and macroprudential policies—and enough exchange rate flexibility to promote the timely and symmetric adjustment to shocks. Effective and legitimate multilateral institutions are essential to this destination. To this end, continuing efforts to improve the governance of these institutions are important. This includes ensuring that IMF members are properly represented in their quota shares and there are transparent and clear roles and responsibilities for each level of decision-maker at the IMF.
Let me conclude here, so that we have enough time for a good discussion. I want to leave you with a sense of urgency and purpose. The pandemic and the looming challenges ahead, including climate change and digital currencies, make it more important than ever that the international monetary and financial system evolves. We need a clear long-run destination that everyone is committed to and a framework to manage short-run challenges in a way that doesn't derail us from that ultimate destination. What we need is an international monetary and financial system that can handle—even facilitate—the transitions to come, including the exit from exceptional monetary policy, the transition to net zero emissions and the potential digitalization of the international monetary system.
I look forward to discussing all of these issues with you. Thank you.
I would like to thank Julien Bengui, Gitanjali Kumar, Lori Rennison and Eric Santor for their help in preparing this speech.
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Governor Tiff Macklem makes the case for greater cooperation to shape a stronger international monetary and financial system.
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Global financial architecture — Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, speaks by videoconference (12:00 (ET) approx.).
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Global financial architecture — Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, takes questions from reporters by videoconference following his remarks (13:30 (ET) approx.).
1. Canada first abandoned the Bretton Woods pegged exchange rate in 1950 but returned to it in 1962. In 1970, Canada left the Bretton Woods system for good. See J. Powell, A History of the Canadian Dollar (Ottawa: Bank of Canada, 2005).[←]
2. See, for example, T. Macklem, "Renewing the IMF: Some Lessons from Modern Central Banking" (speech to the Global Interdependence Center, Philadelphia, March 9, 2006); D. Dodge, "Making Global Economic Institutions Work—What the World Needs Now" (speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Chicago, May 21, 2007); and M. Carney, "The Paradigm Shifts: Global Imbalances, Policy and Latin America" (speech to the Inter-American Development Bank, Calgary, March 26, 2011).[←]
3. Countries that attempted to fix their exchange rate in the 1990s, and paid the price when their regimes collapsed, have adopted inflation targeting. See A. Rose, "iPhones, iCrises and iTargets: Inflation Targeting Is Eradicating International Financial Crises in the iPhone Era," CEPR Policy Insight No. 100 (May 2020).[←]
4. Swap lines are agreements between two central banks to exchange currencies, with one of them being a reserve-currency country. Reserve pooling involves access to a shared pool of reserves that countries contribute to.[←]
5. The US dollar has become the dominant currency in pricing many goods that countries trade. Consequently, exchange rate movements may affect the price of imports relative to domestic goods, but they may not immediately affect the price of exports relative to foreign goods. This, in turn, would reduce the role of exchange rate movements in facilitating adjustment.[←]


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12 They repay me evil for good and leave my soul forlorn.
14 I went about mourning as though for my friend or brother. I bowed my head in grief as though weeping for my mother.
Isaiah 1:14-16(New Living Translation) 14 I hate your new moon celebrations and your annual festivals. They are a burden to me. I cannot stand them! 15 When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims.
1 I am the one who has seen the afflictions that come from the rod of the Lord's anger.
7 He has walled me in, and I cannot escape. He has bound me in heavy chains.
8 And though I cry and shout, he has shut out my prayers.
31 For no one is abandoned by the Lord forever.
32 Though he brings grief, he also shows compassion because of the greatness of his unfailing love.
33 For he does not enjoy hurting people or causing them sorrow.
1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Timothy 2:8 I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, withoutanger or disputing (including theological disputes).
In the same way, you husbands must give honour to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.
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Between the dusted and broken sidewalk I found a butterfly wing–on the walk home.
Fly was no longer attached to its wing but wing wanted to get away from me, all the same. Wind blew it so.
Road to home, from Main street is long [1 KM], deserted — punctuated with big trucks plowing through and building materials strewn about.
Situated above the road is a bridge–connecting, Hong Kong-Macau-ShenZhen-Guangzhou –slowly being built by migrants.
Migrants– in the 'waiting place,' I see these people every day i walk to and from school. They lay between big trucks on bamboo mats. Two liter bottles hold tea for these people. Besides carrying these bottles of tea, they don't have much.
One lady creates a cherry blossom cross-stitch as she waits. Waits for work, waits for a break, waits for food, waits to leave?
One man sleeps on the same mat every day on a swept up-rubble patch of road, sleeping, or staring at the sky.
Others sit on the railing– waiting/watching, waiting/watching, waiting/watching– for work.
Trucks still blazing through this road kicking up dust/rubble/rocks in these workers' faces.
One man opened a fire hydrant for water the other day. Created a pool beneath, soaked his shirt, and proceeded washing it against a concrete stone.
I walk past these people/these faces every day. I want to high five them, give them some fruit, smile-wave, anything to make their faces look less longing/less bitter towards me–wearing my jumpsuit school uniform.
My butterfly wing made it home with me– didn't take off on the wind.
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i request to PPSC to not conduct exams of LRO on 20th December.
20th December of Inspector (Investigation) FIA ka test hai by FPSC jiski date sheet bhi issue ho chuki hai.
iske ilwala Punjab Eduction Foundation ka test bhi 20th December ko hai.
plz abbasian,Naveed or moderator of this forum humara paighaam PPSC tak pohancha den.
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zerogravity bilkul theek keh raha ha,mere apne 4 exams 20th December ko hain,saron ke fees bhari hue hai.
un 4 me se bhi muje 2 exams quit karne paren gay because of clash of time.
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Anyone tell about the result of FBR nts expected.
Sir Abbasian , agr LRO ka Test 20 ko han To kia SI ka b Test 19 ko Almost Cnfrm han?


Tanda is a cloud-based workforce management solution for small, midsize and large businesses. It caters to multiple industries including hospitality, education, manufacturing, medical, pharmacy, retail and warehousing. Primary features include employee onboarding, rostering, time clock attendance, leave management and project management.
Other features include timesheet management, award interpretation and real-time reporting. It allows users to create and share rosters online, via email or SMS, employees can clock-in and out of work using a 4-digit passcode from their smartphones. The time is updated in the timesheet and the employees are paid on the basis of timesheets. It offers integration with MYOB, Xero, Quickbooks, Google Calendar, Sage, IdealPOS, ADP, Revel Systems, Paychex and others.
It is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux. Mobile apps for iOS and Android devices are offered. Support is provided via email and over the phone. Onboarding and dedicated account managers are also available.
Overall Tanda provides enterprise level employee information control with minimal cost. The improvements in staff timekeeping, reduction in wage costs and the improved accuracy of our payroll and HR records have been superb. In our instance its less than 0.3% of our monthly payroll cost to run Tanda. You really have to do this.
Cost of hardware is miniscule and doesn't require specialist contractors. Anyone handy with an ipad or similar tablet, (old or new) can setup in minutes.
Its more than just a time clock - we have sped up employee enboarding hugely and now have completely accurate personal information, sickness, lateness and holiday records.
Tanda have taken onboard feedback provided and made some changes/ added features we provided.
Theyre working through a few minor tweaks, but as a service its continuing to grow.
Worked times are self-calculating with the flexibility of different breaks included.
Allowing more accurate attendance tracking of our employees.
Links to Award conditions. Allows for automatic Public Holiday & other leave planning.
Allows interrogation of rosters and attendance data to plan finite resources and show the costs associated with proposed rosters.
Allows set-up of roster templates (memorised) to be used over and over.
Allows new employees to fill in their own details into the system. Clerical duties & responsibility back to employees.
No more missing timesheets or timesheets sitting on the desk of a manger awaiting approval.
No more 'the dog ate my timesheet' - Frustration and time-wasting just evaporates.
Allows SMS to be sent to manager and employee if clock-in or clock-out is missing. Gentle reminder that they have stuffed-up (again)..
Exporting capability of completed timesheets into Reckon & XERO - Priceless. Saves duplication & eliminates transposition errors. A huge time-saver.
Allows the attachment of approved leave forms (PH/AL/SL/LWOP) to the event, for full traceability/paper-trail.
Allows to add notes into the timesheet as part of the history of events, i.e. who authorised amended times and why & how this was relayed to payroll.
The thing I like most about TANDA is the feeling that rostering and payroll is NO longer a frustrating & time-wasting chore that has to be done. I feel in control of my function and my efficiency.
The two control buttons (Clock-in and Clock-out buttons) - even seasoned and reliable employees managed to clock-in (twice) when they were supposed to clock-out. A minor headache, but a redesign would improve the total reliability i.e. if the buttons were further apart or only one showing.
Tanda has been a vast improvement for our business and has sped up our payroll processes, created better accountability and viasability. I am excited to see the platform improve.
The reports function is not customisable. I don't have any use for the reports Tanda has but I do export the data in the system and build my own reports.
I would like a leave liability by team or business area report. A longest hours worked report.
I have been promise GPS time punches for a while now and am yet to see any progress made, this is an imperative function for my business.
i would like the ability to edit the award interpretation before exporting. Currently i export to excel as our Payroll provider is not integrated. So i can manually change what i need to, but then Tanda is different to what was actually paid. I would like the ability to edit in in Tanda so that everything is current, correct and aligned.
This is efficient, innovative, time saving software. Keeps staff on time and accountable. Very user friendly. The team at TANDA are very responsive, helpful and always listen to the customer. I have been very impressed with it and the company who own and run it. I have recommended it over and over and no-one I know has been disappointed.
Tanda makes managing staff very simple, excellent graphs to indicate rostering, easy to enter leave, directly imports into MYOB for payroll. Constantly being updated by the enthusiastic staff to keep up to date with requirements in the workforce.
No cons really, would like a better way to indicate when staff take leave and they have no entitlements.
Staff breaks are a give with TANDA, we don't have to enforce breaks. Time-sheets are accurate and in live time. TANDA has eliminated the need to data entry payroll, it is more accurate, on-boarding is easier. Fine tuning leave and local rule sets can be tricky but workable in the framework once you understand the limitations of TANDA. Overall we have found TANDA to be a great product.
Tanda is a user friendly service that works, gets the data in live time and provides accurate and timely feedback on costings and reporting of your payroll costings. We can set it up to push live data through to the cost centres we choose saving time and money for management reporting.
Leave approvals are open ended, managers and supervisors can approve any amount of leave, regardless of staff entitlements.
Any problems are dealt with quickly and efficiently by support staff. You are asked for any ideas that may help you within your business. The ideas are integrated into the system if the demand is there this makes me feel that TANDA listen to their clients are are constantly looking at ways to improve and develop their system.
There is nothing I don't like about this software but it would be useful for the administrators to see when there are updates on their screen so they can update the tablet rather than the update just showing on the tablet as this can sometimes effect the data they are seeing.
Tanda provides a great platform to be able to streamline rostering, payroll and employee onboarding. This ensures we minimise payroll errors, it provides visibility for employees and ensures we are compliant with employment laws around Award Interpretation.
Tanda provides peace of mind that employees are being paid correctly through Award Interpretation. The new on-boarding functionality streamlines the paperwork around employee new staff saving valuable time.
There is room for improvement in the area of different levels of access to line managers to not be able to see rates above them and only below.
When using the software, it is handy because it all links up with the other departments and I am able to easily access all information that I need.
I am unable to 'black' out certain time periods for staff so they can't add unavailability (I saw that it was on its way though), also when the roster has been published the staff are still able to change their unavailability.
Tanda has streamlined the process of rostering staff from different departments. It also ensures that all team member receive their roster promptly both via SMS and email.
Tanda allows me to budget and tweak roster to ensure that I maximize the staff while minimizing wages. Staff can place their Uni timetable or N/A into Tanda well in advance which has reduced swapping of shifts or no shows of staff. It is great that it is continually evolving and improving.


In a house in the woods about 40 miles west of Cleveland, Hooked Like Helen began as the musical brainstorms of husband-and-wife, Nikki and Jonathan Stipp. Experimental home recordings quickly developed into an alt-pop vision; within a year of the project's inception, Nikki and Jonathan had shaped a new sound that reflected their truth and their influences in a seamless blend of organic and electronic production. Hooked Like Helen has had songs featured on the MTV documentary series "Unlocking The Truth", and the full tracks are included on the show's official Spotify soundtrack playlist. The band is set to release a new four song EP "Tragedy Of Physics" in December of 2018, co-produced by Nikki and long-time friend and collaborator, Grammy-winning Isha Erskine. Track 2 from the EP, the angsty/beautiful piano ballad, "Liar" has the honor of providing the soundtrack for a beautiful dance scene in the upcoming film "High Strung: Free Dance", set to hit international theaters this year. Hooked Like Helen's sound embodies a unique vein of pop music; Nikki's haunting, layered harmonies and lush vocal arrangements create a surreal atmosphere of simultaneous melancholy and hope, dissonance and resolve. Dark lyrics and themes of existential pondering provide an eerie contrast to HLH's melodic sensibilities. Piano hooks, intricate bass lines, and epic, driving drums carry the songs of Hooked Like Helen through a slightly sad world view, always with a groove and a constant sense of Pop.


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The Merchant of Menace: A Jane Jeffry Mystery by Jill Churchill
Twilight, 1999
Hardcover, Paperback
Reviewed by Theresa Ichino
Murder at Christmas time should be unthinkable, but in fact Christmas mysteries are popular in the genre. Jill Churchill's charming series stars Jane Jeffry, a stay-at-home widowed mom whose snooping inevitably leads her into investigations of murder. In this festive offering, Jane is nearly overwhelmed by the demands of the season. In addition to decorating, cooking, and preparing to celebrate with her three teenage children, she has been trapped into hosting two large-scale Christmas parties, one for the neighbourhood carollers and one for a Christmas cookie exchange. She is also dreading the first visit of her police detective boy-friend's mother (as if one disapproving mother-in-law isn't enough), whom she is meeting for the first time.
Jane's generous heart and interest in others (or 'snooping' as Detective Mel VanDyne disparagingly terms it) embroil her in the affairs of her neighbours, including too-well-behaved 'Pet', her youngest son's classmate, and the raucous newcomers who have moved in next door and are making themselves unpopular with their antics. Worst of all, muck-raking reporter Lance King has decided that a neighbourhood carolling party is worth his attention; and despite Jane's best efforts, succeeds in attending (scaring almost everyone into their best behaviour and seriously putting a crimp in the festivities). Although he has the grace to leave early, his departure creates as much dismay as his presence did, since his dead body is found draped across one of the life-sized plastic reindeer in the new neighbours' garish display.
Watching Jane cope with the demands of ordinary life while following the trail of King's killer makes for a pleasant interlude. Churchill's reputation for an entertaining and satisfying read is well founded. This cozy mystery boasts well-rounded and interesting characters who enliven the mystery and keep the reader engrossed. Jane is intelligent, lively, and fun (I did think her divination of King's password rather too swift, but then I couldn't have done it). Her family and friends are people you would like to meet (with the possible exception of her mother-in-law Thelma and VanDyne's mother Addie); her best friend Shelley is a delight, outspoken and formidable in her competence. In short, both are great role-models.
The prolific Churchill has several books to her credit, all with clever titles and featuring the engaging Jane Jeffry. Merchant of Menace would be a welcome stocking stuffer for the mystery reader on your list.


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Lifestyle / Arts + Culture / Disney releases new Christmas ad 'The Stepdad,' sequel to last year's 'Lola'
Disney releases new Christmas ad 'The Stepdad,' sequel to last year's 'Lola'
Remember that young girl with her Lola last year? She is all grown up now and has kids
A master in presenting heartwarming holiday campaigns, Disney once again tugs everyone's heartstring with the release of its latest advert titled "The Stepdad."
Still from 'The Stepdad'
The new ad, released on Nov. 3, 2021, follows Nicole, the young girl from last year's "Lola" ad, who is now a mother of two, Max and Ella. In the three-minute video, Nicole and her family are seen doing holiday traditions with another character, Mike, the kids' stepdad who moves into their home.
"At the heart of the story is a very special storybook—a precious item belonging to Max from his birth father," Disney UK says. "The book celebrates the power of storytelling and how it can deepen family bonds; as the family are shown delighting in the magic of Disney storytelling, beautiful animation springs off the pages, igniting the true spirit of Christmas. Follow their emotional journey as we see them combine existing festive traditions with wonderful new ones. We hope you enjoy this special Christmas ad, celebrating the joy that the stepdads of the world bring us."
With Grammy Award winner Gregory Porter's "Love Runs Deeper" song playing in the background, the ad echoes its predecessor's themes of Filipino culture, with parols—a key element in "Lola"—and Nicole's Mickey Mouse dolls, among others, making an appearance in the new campaign with some Jamaican cultural references to celebrate Mike's origin.
The campaign was developed and produced by Disney EMEA's in-house creative team, led by Angela Affinita, director of brand marketing and creative, in partnership with Flux Animation Studios in New Zealand and story consultants, POCC. Angela's Filipino upbringing played a huge influence in the "Lola" 2020 campaign.
Bringing more love this season, the campaign is also "in celebration of the 'From Our Family To Yours' campaign," where "Disney will give support worth more than $2 million to its long-standing charity partner, Make-A-Wish International, and their network of Affiliates around the world."
"We're delighted to once again support our long-term charity partner Make-A-Wish through our Holiday campaign," Tasia Filippatos, SVP Disney EMEA, says. "Reading together can be a truly magical experience and our advert celebrates this age-old tradition and the wonder and imagination it inspires. We hope the story will resonate with anyone who has seen the magic 'lift off the pages' of a book through the eyes of a child."
Watch "The Stepdad" below.
the stepdad
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3 The best USB microscopes reviews!
The way of looking at this world got completely changed with the invention of the microscope, today we even have ones that can easily plug into your computer and are much smaller.
No one would have ever thought that this innovation could've made it so simpler that one day, ordinary people will be using it and use it for all kinds of stuff to zoom in on.
I've listed the Highest rated Best ones so you can find the ultimate one for you!
Digital USB microscope is very easily connected to a PC or iPhone through the USB port. And below I will go through which one are the good ones. The things about these compared to a regular bigger one is that it has the wide scope, bit smaller camera, is very easy to use and affordable.
Choosing the best one can be difficult. Moreover, best is somewhat relative here, and it can vary from person to person and according to their needs.
THE QUALITY OF IMAGE- No one can think of getting a picture as good as electron lens, but expecting a sharp image won't be wrong. The image should have an adequate resolution so that on focusing the image carefully it doesn't get distorted.
USAGE- These are great to play around with, and the thought is such that everyone can easily use it. The sole purpose of making this type was to make the ordinary people see the how the things look like. But since everyone doesn't possess technical knowledge, so if the usage is confusing, the sole purpose cannot be achieved. Using it is a ton of fun and relatively cheap.
CONSTRUCTION- No one is going to play cricket with this equipment, but it must be constructed sturdily, it shouldn't easily break.
SOFTWARE- To view all the images taken with the camera objective on the computer screen, an excellent software is required. The software must be good enough so that no one faces any problem in using it.
The best USB microscopes reviews!
This one from Plugable is for those who want to work efficiently, easily and quickly at the microscopic level.
Little things like coin analysis and identification of parasites on the leaves of garden 's plant are easily done with high accuracy. With the installation of the proper software available on different websites, one can quickly zoom into the images and observe the subject effectively. The microscope that can use by the ordinary people (people with no technical knowledge) this is an easy to use gadget.
For the bottom plate, it has LED's placed at right positions so that the subject could be illuminated properly.
With the installation of the proper software available on different websites, one can quickly zoom into the images and observe the subject effectively. It also has LED's placed at right positions so that the object could be illuminated properly.
crisp and sharp view of the object, the object must be located at an appropriate distance from the camera lens.
It proved to be extremely useful for students and other interested ones who want to explore this world. It could be adjusted on arms stand that is flexible enough to give views from different positions.
The LED fitted is such that its brightness could be easily adjusted. Moreover, one can also change the color settings and get a decent image. One can also record short videos using this product. For the price this is available, it's a good choice.
Adjustment options available on the head sometimes cause the vibration issue while modifying. One should not have very high expectations because this is created for simple jobs only. It can be used at a primary level only. Sometimes there is a problem in connecting the device to the PCs. It takes less than 30 seconds to connect, but sometimes it's challenging to connect with other devices.
This device sets up a new level of usability and does ultimately whatever the makers boasted about it. It could be handheld or used with an adjustable metal stand. But maintaining accurate focus while holding in hand is very difficult. The camera works great and shows good pictures. This camera has a fixed magnification and cannot be varied, but it's adjustable on the software.
But on placing closer to the subject, useful magnification can be achieved. One might have some trouble regarding the usage of software if downloaded from any random sites. But the official software works excellently.
and again on changing the focus ring; subject could be correctly zoomed. The components are neither too easily breakable nor too sturdy. The vertical tube stand is short and restricts the full range of the camera. On setting up the camera to higher resolution, the image produced may disappoint many users.
The components are neither too easily breakable nor too sturdy. The vertical tube stand is short and restricts the full range of the camera. On setting up the camera to higher resolution, the image produced may disappoint many users.
Although this product is the most versatile one but the user may be dissatisfied with the price of this special toy. The stand is not very good and sometimes the software freezes. Moreover, the design after being light weight is not tough enough as it needs to be. Since this is portable and is carried away to different places, the casing needs to be sturdy. Durability is the biggest issue that this device is currently facing. The software that is installed for using this device on the PC isn't Mac supported. While using it on high power, it is tough to adjust the focus ring.
Since this is portable and is carried away to different places, the casing needs to be sturdy. Durability is the biggest issue that this device is currently facing. The software that is installed for using this device on the PC isn't Mac supported. While using it on high power, it is very difficult to adjust the focus ring.
This digital microscope is a kind of instrument that is used both at indoor and on fields. It has a Lithium-Ion battery which is rechargeable and lasts around 2-3 hours. It has 5 MP digital camera and has a magnification up to 160x on camera and can be magnified up to 200x through the monitor. By using Celestron portable capture pro software, one can see the object on any screen. It becomes straightforward to use this after reading the manual provided. The 5-element IR cut glass lens plays a very vital role in giving a sharp, crisp image.
This product also allows one to record short videos.
It has few drawbacks like the platform is not stable, the object has to placed very close to the lens. Although coins and other small specimen could be easily observed, but it is difficult to observe a bulky specimen. Moreover, the manual doesn't cover up all the info about this gadget.
The real advancement in the technology of USB microscope is felt after using this one. As it can be connected to the smartphones over wifi, it can be connected to Android and iPhones. In fact, for the iPhone users, this is the best option.
It also has a lithium battery that is rechargeable and lasts for about an hour. Its image quality is also good with its 2MP camera, and the LED's present allows it to take pictures in different conditions. It is flexible and handles great. Though the users have claimed to have a magnification of about 200x, it gives somewhat less. It has a wifi control range about 28meters.
Its image quality is also good with its 2MP camera, and the LED's present allows it to take pictures in different conditions. It is flexible and easy to use. Though the users have claimed to have a magnification of about 200x, it gives somewhat less. It has a wifi control range about 28meters.
There are also few issues regarding this. The wifi-box is not of very good quality and its durability can't be trusted. The resolution can be changed and sometimes this becomes an issue. Sometimes, the images must be viewed with different resolution, which is not possible with this.
The knob present at the top is used to change magnification, below that it has nice wide focus adjustment wheel that wraps around the body and gives extra control focusing. This portable gadget has an aspheric lens which provides the image with less distortion and a much better image to the user.
The built-in LED's position is such that one can look 3-dimensional objects and flat surfaces with the same accuracy. This instrument is very much cost effective and offers a lot, according to its price. The most amazing part of this device is that it can be used even by a three-year-old child. It has been made up of tough, sturdy material and it is easily carried during any journey. The eyepiece is rubberized so that the user does not get hurt while seeing the objects. The LED's placed is powerful enough to give a clear and crisp image.
As everything has its negative side, this also has some issues. People whose hands shake a lot are going to face a lot of problems because viewing anything with that much magnification requires a still image. The plastic body can't be trusted, since it is affordable at such a good price, the duration for which the plastic body will last can't be said.
All these technical toys have their own merits and demerits. Everyone's requirement will be different. The one which suits one's interest is the best choice for the buyer. No matter whichever gadget you buy.
So these were my picks for best USB microscopes.
Thanks for reading, let me know in the comments if you have anything to add.
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Justin Thomas sounds off on new rules: 'I think they're terrible'
By Dylan Dethier
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Justin Thomas is no huge fan of golf's new rules. He made that much clear on Wednesday in the run-up to the Honda Classic. When asked about an increasingly-outspoken Brooks Koepka, Thomas reminded reporters that he, too, is willing to speak out.
"[Brooks] is definitely not causing issues by any means and I feel I'm very similar. There's no reason for me to sit up here and tell you guys I think the rules of the golf changes are great when I don't. I think they're terrible," Thomas said. "So why would I say that? I think anything you can do that's going to change the game positively, or have an impact on something, there's no reason to feel like you need to hold back."
Justin Thomas is no great fan of golf's new rules.
Thomas told GOLF.com in a followup that it wasn't any particular rule that had drawn his ire — it was the lot of 'em.
"Pretty much all of them seemed like they didn't better the game, to me," Thomas said. "I mean, the ball-dropping thing is weird, it doesn't make sense. The tapping spike marks thing down — I understand that, but I think it's a great amateur rule. I just think as a whole they just didn't make a whole lot of sense to me."
Thomas has been outspoken in the past with regards to rules changes. Early in the year, he said he "couldn't take himself seriously" putting with the pin in. And when Denny McCarthy was penalized for his caddy standing behind him, Thomas called the rule "ridiculous" and "mind-blowing" in a tweet.
This is ridiculous… the fact this is a penalty is mind blowing. @USGA this NEEDS to be changed ASAP… there is nothing about this rule that makes the game better https://t.co/wtPmPOcss4
— Justin Thomas (@JustinThomas34) February 2, 2019
Thomas enters the Honda Classic as the favorite and is coming off a hot start to 2019 that included four top-10s in five starts. He was selected first overall in Tuesday evening's pro-am partners draft and teed off with several Honda executives at 7:05 a.m. Wednesday (Brooks Koepka was drafted second).
Thomas jumped to No. 3 in the world after a ninth-place finish in last week's WGC-Mexico Championship, where he finished with a sizzling Sunday 62. He tees off alongside Rickie Fowler (himself a victim of the new rules) and Billy Horschel at 12:35 p.m. on Thursday.
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