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To: BlueLancer
200 years from now, I want

Fortunately for us all, God is more merciful than you are. If he thought (and acted) the way you desire to act, Mankind would've been long extinguished...and *justly* so.

I want...all people to someday realize that all Men are Men, and that all Men are created in the image of God, and that God cares for each and every one of us...and has urged us to do likewise.

If we must destroy our fellow Man in order to ensure survival of that which we call good, then that is, I suppose, a necessary evil, but not one that should be undertaken lightly or with any happiness.

One of the worst results of technology is the ability to kill other people from afar with a push of a button.

Tuor

132 posted on 04/10/2002 8:04:30 AM PDT by Tuor
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To: Tuor
O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie!
Above the deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.
Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light;
The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.

For Christ is born of Mary, and gathered all above,
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
O morning stars together, proclaim the holy birth,
And praises sing to God the King, and peace to men on earth!

How silently, how silently, the wondrous Gift is giv'n;
So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of His heav'n
No ear may hear his coming, but in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive him still, the dear Christ enters in.

Where children pure and happy pray to the blessed Child,
Where misery cries out to Thee, Son of the mother mild;
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door,
The dark night wakes, the glory breaks, and Christmas comes once more.

O holy Child of Bethlehem, descend to us we pray;
Cast out our sin, and enter in, be born in us today.
We hear he Christmas angels the great glad tidings tell;
O come to us, abide with us, our Lord Emmanuel!

words by Phillips Brooks, 1867

Brooks wrote about his horseback journey from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, where he assisted with the midnight service on Christmas eve 1865:

"I remember standing in the old church in Bethlehem, close to the spot where Jesus was born, when the whole church was ringing hour after hour with splendid hymns of praise to God, how again and again it seemed as if I could hear voices I knew well, telling each other of the Wonderful Night of the Savior's birth."

156 posted on 04/10/2002 10:22:27 AM PDT by ganesha
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