Story of Christmas 2020

 

Christmas Eve 2020

In a high school Speech Class each student was assigned a short essay to memorize and present to class. This was assigned to me. While I could not now recite from memory, it has stayed with me all these years because it is...

the Real Christmas Story

Here is a man who was born in an obscure village,

child of a peasant woman.

He grew up in another village.

He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty.

Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.

He never owned a home.

He never wrote a book.

He never held an office.

He never had a family.

He never went to college.

He never put His foot inside a big city.

He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born.

He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness.

He had no credentials but Himself...

While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him.

His friends ran away.

One of them denied Him.

He was turned over to His enemies.

He went through the mockery of a trial.

He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves.

While He was dying His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth – His coat.

When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.

Nineteen long centuries have come and gone,

and today He is a centerpiece of the human race

and leader of the column of progress.

I am far within the mark when I say that

all the armies that ever marched,

all the navies that were ever built;

all the parliaments that ever sat

and all the kings that ever reigned,

put together,

have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.

Adapted from a sermon by Dr James Allan Francis in “The Real Jesus and Other Sermons” © 1926 by the Judson Press of Philadelphia (pp 123-124 titled “Arise Sir Knight!”)

 

DATELINE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 2020

THE ELECTION RULE OF 50

As prescribed by Federal Laws enacted under authority of the Constitution, 50 States held public meetings in which the archaic function known as the Electoral College voted as pledged for President and Vice-President of the United States of America. Joseph R Biden, Jr. received 306 of 535 Electoral votes.

Preceding this day:

...50 State electoral officials attested completed counts, hand recounts, and prescribed audits of election results as recorded by thousands of equal numbers of Republican and Democrat election judges, clerks, and observers;

...50 Secretaries of State certified results of the elections as being free of interference, fair, and legally valid;

...50 State Governors certified to Congress the 535 individual Electors, who hold no other public office, as those who would be ‘official’ voters in 2020 presidential election;

...50 courts, State and Federal, with judges appointed by both Republicans and Democrats, found there was no basis for plaintiffs filing complaints of voting irregularities;

...50 plaintiffs did not charge voting fraud, or declined to do so when asked, because they had no proof of fraud and could have been found guilty of perjury if they so alleged;

...50 States voting procedures were reviewed by the sitting President’s Department of Justice which found no credible evidence of fraud that would change the outcome of the above;

...50 or so specifically empowered computer geeks had tracked the election for four years and determined it to be the most secure election ever;

...50 or more Civil Suits and/or Federal and State criminal investigations against the current President and his co-conspirators currently remain pending or inactive according to AP report.

God Save the United States of America