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The Taylor County News, April 16, 2020, Page 2.
va Lori's views
This column is by request of my grandmother, Mam. I have to
tell you, the picture is certainly NOT part of her request, so Tm
probably going to be in trouble. But, it's okay I wanted you to
see how precious my Mam is, and being in trouble with Mam is
not so bad! She’s easygoing, slow to anger, and just too sweet to
be mean or scary!
Last week, the Faith Over Fear crosses movement caught on
fire, and crosses are appearing in yards everywhere! So, Todd
decided to make us some crosses. He is a plumber, so it was
“fitting” that he constructed our crosses from PVC pipe, and 1
think they look great! We were all pretty impressed with Todd's
crosses, but nobody was quite as impressed as Mam!
When he put the cross up in her yard...well, youVe just never
seen anybody any happier. She had a huge smile spread across
her face, and tears flowing down her cheeks. She was truly
speechless and very proud of her cross,
Todd is one of those who does things, but doesn’t want any
credit for doing them, so be was wandering around acting like
be didn’t do anything. Well, he did something huge. He made
Mam extremely happy, which, in turn, made all of us happy]
We are blessed people! We are thankful for our crosses and
especially for what the crosses represent: our risen Savior and
to trust Him, have faith, and don't fear! Faith is stronger than
fear, and in these difficult times, its great to know we have a
Savior who loves us!
Faith Over Fear, good folks! We are going to be just fine!
valrn Moore
To The L-lght
B-y Bob wade
Easter 2020
Many Georgians, including those of us on The Place, on
Easter sheltered-in-place complying with Governor Brian
Kemp's order to avoid gathering in groups of 10 or more
people. We hoped to retard the spread of Covid-19 there
fore we celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ not at
church but at home.
There would have been more than 10 devoted Christians
at Bethel Church for Sunday's sunrise and again at the
11:00 o'clock morning services had it not been for that edict.
With our advanced state of electronic communications,
we nonetheless received Pastor Bentley's sermon electroni
cally. That was amazing!
Voluntary quarantine is not a new phenomenon.
Considering America's education system has pretty much
abandoned the teaching of history substituting instead
teaching victimology and VokeisnT there is little knowl
edge of the past. History teaches us that pandemics are
rather common medical events.
This pundit recalls reading an eyewitness’s recollections
of the 1855 yellow fever pandemic. That Mississippi resi
dent wrote that people quarantined themselves in their
homes at the appearance of yellow fever, {a mosquito-borne
disease). Local governments employed men that daily dug
graves in cemeteries and operated wagons on fixed routes
to collect dead bodies from homes and deliver them to the
vacant burial chambers. Because no one knew how the vi
rus spread, funerals for the dead were mostly unceremo
nious events where the gravediggers simply placed the
bodies in the waiting holes and covered the dead with dirt.
That Mississippian told that she lived outside town in a
two-story house. The father and son isolated themselves
on the top story when the fever appeared. The asymptom
atic mother and other children occupied the ground floor
in quarantine.
Her brother died at night. The next day, her father though
terribly ill llagged the driver down when the wagon col
lecting the dead approached the house. The teamster di
rected the mule-drawn wagon near and below the window.
The feverish father using sheets tied round his lifeless son
lowered the body to the collector. The family inside the
Scripture Of
The Week
Looking unto Jesus the author and
finisher of our faith; who for the joy
that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is set
down at the right hand of the throne
of God.
Hebrews 12:2
King James Version
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house said their goodbyes as the wagon continued its jour
ney to the cemetery.
Following the 1878 pandemic, in December, Congress in
vestigated that outbreak. One of the seven expert investi
gators involved in the inquiry was Dr. M.S. Craft of Jack-
son, Mississippi. As part of his report, he noted that in
1855, he wrote the virus was “a mystery in nature”. He
also satirically wrote that at the time, ‘‘yellow fever never
originates, but is always brought from somewhere else.”
Those statements remain unchanged even today.
The COVTD-19 virus originated in Wuhan, China and ac
cording to Newsweek, The first patient to show symptoms
of what would later be identified as the new coronavirus,
known as COVID-19, presented themselves on December
8, according to Chinese officials..,Ai Fen, a doctor from
Wuhan, told Chinas People magazine in an interview for
the title's March edition that authorities had tried to sup
press her early warnings about COVID-19 in December.”
Because of jet airplane travel, the virus on Easter Day is
prevalent on every continent of planet Earth except Ant
arctica!
Our federal, state, and local government responses are
unprecedented and draconian in many ways. Mayors and
governors ordered the closures of restaurants, bars, the
aters, and even houses of worship; President Trump with
an abundance of caution ordered business closures with
the promise of federal cash to maintain those entities vi
ability Congress hastily approved the flooding of the coun
try with dollars although nobody's actually seen any of it.
[a neighbor said his second cousin once removed on his
mama's side said while he risked his life to attend a vital
business (a liquor store) he heard a man on the opposite
isle say he got his]. America's economy teeters on the brink
of collapse. Our enemies foreign and domestic are contem
plating striking us. Our political machines are gearing up
vicious fall campaigns.
This pundit recalled the Swine Flu pandemic of 1976.
The federal government reacted wildly to that threat. It
frantically rushed to immunize us all. Congress appropri
ated $135 jnillion ($569,440,778 today) to develop a vac
cine and immunize the entire nation. President Gerald
Ford received his immunization to quell the nation’s anxi
ety about the serum on live TV. The anticipated pandemic
failed to materialize thus on December 16, 1976 the fed
eral government suspended swine flu immunizations.
This writer hopes the state and federal governments' ac
tions; cancelling Easter and disrupting our economy are
not a similar hullabaloo: But, one thing is certain, on Eas
ter at The Place we celebrated the resurrection of our sav
ior, Jesus Christ!
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Lessons In
My Backyard
By Billy Powell
Our house sits in the middle of a wooded tract. Some
times I sit at the edge of our garage to watch the birds. On
this particular day, a bluebird couple was making a nest
inside a bird house given me by Tom Curry, my good friend
from Hawkinsville, Tom was quite a bluebird enthusiast
and installed birdhouses atop posts throughout his prop
erty. On that day the two birds were flitting hack and forth,
bringing straw to build a nest for their coming family. Af
ter the little birds are born, their mother will bring worms
for them to eat, gently placing sections of a worn inside
their beaks. Contrarilv, humans get their food by raising
it on their farms or going to a grocery store and buying it,
but birds, being totally dependent, have no such provisions.
I am reminded that Jesus said, “Look at the birds in the
sky! They don’t plant or harvest. They don't even store
grain in barns. Yet your Father in heaven feeds them.”
The Coronavirus has shown us (no, the whole world) how
fragile our lives really are and how much we depend upon
God for sustaining our very lives. At a time when the en
tire world was moving away from God, He has reestab
lished the fact that He is totally in charge and upon Him
we owe our very existence including the food we eat and
the water we drink.
While watching the birds, I spied a small lizard racing
across the driveway. He looked like a miniature dinosaur.
I immediately thought of Darwin’s theory of Evolution that
would say the lizard was a throwback to the ancient dino
saurs that once walked the planet. If you trace the Dar
winian interpretation back to the original creature, its
adherents can only say that “life just happened’-that one
day, an inert mass became a living organism. This one-
cel led creation evolved into a fish and one day took on legs
and walked up on the seashore. It later transitioned into
an animal, and from the progression of animals came man
eons later. I have a statue on my desk of a monkey looking
quizzically at a human skull held in his hands. It reminds
me of the proverbial question: What came first, the chicken
or the egg?
As for me and my house, we believe the first verse of the
Bible which states: In the beginning, God created the heav
ens and the earth* A little further on, we read that God
made the first man, Adam, from the dust of the earth and
breathed life into his nostrils. From Adam's rib, God made
Eve. To Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, I say “balderdash. 7 '
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