William d longstaff biography of donald
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September 2019
Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer. However, the official start of the autumn season is Monday, September 23. Granted, if you walk into department stores right now, we find Halloween decorations and costumes already on display. Unbelievably, some stores are pulling out the Christmas displays! (Please stop that!)
It seems part of everyone’s recent conversations centers around the changing season. Everyone has their opinion. Some (like me) are lamenting the ending of the shorts and flip-flop season. I hear many bemoan the fact that soon darkness will fall on this part of the earth as early as 4:30 pm.
Others, like my grandchildren, are eagerly anticipating fall. Emmelia tells me it is her favorite time of year. She eagerly anticipates Halloween, followed by the many fun activities winter has to offer: sledding, ice skating and snow skiing.
All of this chatter about the changing of the season reminds me of Ecclesiastes 3:1-15, which begins, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted...”
The changing of the seasons are also reminders that God has provided markers to help us remember changes that take place in our lives
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The Battle Cry
Take Time to
Be Holy
Text: William D. Longstaff, 1822-1894
Music: George
C. Stebbins, 1846-1945
Take time to be holy,
speak oft with thy Lord;
abide in him always,
and feed on his word.
Make friends of God’s children,
help those who are weak,
forgetting in nothing
his blessing to seek.
Take time to be holy,
the world rushes on;
spend much time in secret
with Jesus alone.
By looking to Jesus,
like him thou shalt be;
thy friends in thy conduct
his likeness shall see.
Take time to be holy,
let him be thy guide,
and run not before him,
whatever betide.
In joy or in sorrow,
still follow the Lord,
and, looking to Jesus,
still trust in his word.
Take time to be holy,
be calm in thy soul,
each thought and each motive
beneath his control.
Thus led by his spirit
to fountains of love,
thou soon shalt be fitted
for service above.
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William Dunn Longstaff, United Kingdom 1822-1894. Born at Sunderland,
Durham, England, the son of a wealthy ship owner, he was a person of independent
financial means. Although Longstaff had everything he desired, he still had an
empty feeling in his life, and attended church one day and was inspired by words
of a China missionary, Griffith John, on
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