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True Religion and Inner Renewal
blessed of my Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world."
What is the moral of this story? Well, you
figure it out.
Paraphrased after the gospel hymn
"There
is
a
Sea,"
by
L.
I. Zahn, the following piece by
Bruce Barton titled
"Two Seas"
compares and
contrasts the processes of getting and giving :
There are two seas Jn Palestine.
One is fresh, and fish are in it.
Splashes of green adorn its banks.
Trees spread their branches over it and
stretch out their thirsty roots to sip of its
healing waters.
Along its shores the children play, as
children played when He was there. He
loved it. He could look across its silver
surface when He spoke His parables.
And on
a
rolling plain not far away He
fed five thousand people.
The river Jordan makes this sea with
sparkling water from the hills. So it
laughs in the sunshine. And men build
their houses near to it, and birds, their
nests; and every kind of life is happier
because it is there.
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