![]() Shes wearin threadbare, shes mighty thin,īut shes a good flag for the shape shes in.Īnd I know she can take a while lot more.Ĭause Im mighty proud of That ragged old flag.Ī few years ago, a substitute teacher wrote in the Washington Post about the depressing experience he had while teaching three advanced government classes in a suburban Virginia school. She was defiled, dishonored, burned, refused, You see, She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.īut they werent waving her much back home. Oh, the south wind blew hard on the ragged old flag.Īnd hung limp and low before it was through. She got cut with a sword at Chancendorville With the Texas flag, but she waved on through. With Packingham and Jackson tuggin at her seams. It got kind of pulled apart at New Orleans Was watching and writing, “Oh say can you see.” It got powder burned the night that Francis Scott Key When Washington was crossing the Delaware.” I think that it is.” He said, “We dont like to brag,īut were sort of proud of that ragged old flag.” He said, “Is this the first time youve been to our little town?” I said, “But your flag pole leans quite a bit,Īnd theres a ragged old flag flying from it.” He said, “No, its all right for our little town.” I said, “Your courthouse looks kind of run down.” On a park bench, an old man was sitting there. I walked through a county courthouse square So it is with people who dwell too long on their sin and refuse to release it to God. The repeated probing, which the physicians thought would help the man, eventually killed him. The president hung on through July, through August, but in September he finally diednot from the wound, but from infection. In desperation they asked Alexander Graham Bell, who was working on a little device called the telephone, to see if he could locate the metal inside the presidents body. Teams of doctors tried to locate the bullet, probing the wound over and over. ![]() ![]() Despite the summer heat, they tried to keep him comfortable. They took Garfield back to Washington, D.C. He couldnt find it, so he tried a silver-tipped probe. At the hospital, the doctor probed the wound with his little finger to seek the bullet. In l880, he was elected president of the United States, but after only six months in office, he was shot in the back with a revolver. They say he was ambidextrous and could simultaneously write Greek, with one hand and Latin with the other. James Garfield was a lay preacher and principal of his denominational college. Mark Hatfield recounts the following history: They do not stand on the promises of forgiveness and Christ propitiation. Some people try to punish themselves for their sins. Finally, before you fall asleep at night, repeat slowly and thoughtfully that phrase from the Lords Prayer, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” ![]() If the offense is especially hard to forget, try to erase the memory by thinking gracious and generous thoughts.Ĩ. Go even further by looking for an opportunity to help him.ħ. Make an honest effort to pray for the one who has injured you.Ħ. Thank Him for blessing you with His love and forgiveness each day.ĥ. List the benefits you have received from the Lord.Ĥ. Recall the many kind deeds that have been shown to you, perhaps even by the person who has harmed you.ģ. Begin by assuring yourself that compared to Christs suffering you havent been seriously wronged at all.Ģ. Because this is so difficult to put into practice, he offers the following suggestions:ġ. Smith says that the art of forgiving is a spiritual grace every Christian should develop. ![]()
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