Showing posts with label destruction. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 8, 2019

Have

9.15.19
Alexis Bledel

Have
Mercy
怜悯 
Liánmǐn
どうかご慈悲を
Dō ka go jihi o
ps.51
Miserere

Have mercy on me according to your love. 
Grant me compassion from above.

Wash me from the wickedness of violence and cruelty. 
Cleanse me from the evil of tyranny, terrorism and usury.

Allow me the freedom to think, learn, organize, speak,
write, 
assemble, petition, work, play and worship for happiness with what's for my peak. 

Give me a vote to support due process in law for justice. 
Protect my right to defense for what's just about us. 

Education is the best asset for my social role.
Conservative reform for government is my greatest goal. 

I know my transgression. 
The memory of false impression 
helps me to find a better way than violent aggression. 

I look for a better way than what was wrong 
with what didn't belong for long 
in the last play along to grow strong. 

Autocratic authority by liberal rule 
is not the path to redemption as the tool 
for building an economy for the people as the vestibule.

Reveal divine will through design 
as shown in nature to my mind. 

Put your law within my heart.
Let the right to life run to the final part.

Cast me not away from your presence.
Let my prayers take me to the truth of your divine essence.

Do not bring disaster on your community.
They have been working to build opportunity.

This group has been dedicated to establishing a state
that remembers your promise of inheritance as great.

The remarkable thing about the allegiance of this people
is the devotion to defense against the threat of attacks that are lethal.

The commitment to build national security
deterred the risk of destruction that was building in their immaturity.

The time has come for your joy.
Beauty and reason will be employed.

I am grateful to Christ Jesus as the teacher who taught me with his instruction.
I was deceived by my lack of belief in faith with love as defense against self-destruction.

The inside track will till fertility.
The soil will hide the seed's virility.
Hurricane Lily

The hurricane lily goes dormant in spring.
The flower blooms in September when it's time to sing.

The runner runs to feel agility.
The driver drives to wield tactility.

There will be great joy for those who repent from the lack of concern for security.
They will join the stability that comes with the generation of growth in maturity.

Purgation includes expiation in relation to the divine
to find the way to the jade of the jewel with this mind of mine.  

Socialism demands the defense of liberal expenditure
as though the competitor were the cause of the global rise in temperature.

Wash me from the wickedness of violence and cruelty.
Cleanse me from the evil of tyranny, terrorism and usury.

Create a clean heart within me.
Reveal the truth to help me see.

Have mercy on me according to your love.
Grant me compassion from above.

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あなたの愛に応じて私を憐れませてください。
Anata no ai ni ōjite watashi o awarema sete kudasai.
Have mercy on me according to your love.

Grant me compassion from above.
Ue kara omoiyari o ataete keihatsu pai.
上から思いやりを与えて啓発パイ。

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51 Miserere mei, Deus
Have mercy on me, Light

1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving-kindness;
in your great compassion blot out my offenses.

2 Wash me through and through from my wickedness
and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
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4 Against you only have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight.

5 And so you are justified when you speak
and upright in your judgment.

6 Indeed, I have been wicked from my birth,
a sinner from my mother's womb.

7 For behold, you look for truth deep within me,
and will make me understand wisdom secretly.

8 Purge me from my sin, and I shall be pure;
wash me, and I shall be clean indeed.

9 Make me hear of joy and gladness,
that the body you have broken may rejoice.

10 Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquities.
11 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.

12 Cast me not away from your presence
and take not your holy Spirit from me.

13 Give me the joy of your saving help again
and sustain me with your bountiful Spirit.

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Exodus 32:12

'Why should the Egyptians say, "It is with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth?" Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, "I will multiply your descendents like the stars of heaven and all this land that I have promised I will give to  your descendents. They will inherit it forever."'

The LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.

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Do not bring disaster on your community.
They have been working to build opportunity.

This group has been dedicated to establishing a state
that remembers your promise of inheritance as great.

The remarkable thing about the allegiance of this people
is the devotion to defense against the threat of attacks that are lethal.

The commitment to build national security
deterred the risk of destruction that was building in their immaturity.

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1 Timothy 1:12-14

I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord who has strengthened me. He judged me faithful and appointed me to his service even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor and a man of violence. I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief. The grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

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I am grateful to Christ Jesus as the teacher who taught me with his instruction.
I was deceived by my lack of belief in faith with love as defense against self-destruction.

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Luke 15:6-7

'When he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying "Rejoice with me for I have found my sheep that was lost." Just so, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.'

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There will be great joy for those who repent from the lack of concern for security.
They will join the stability that comes with the generation of growth in maturity.

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Mystical Experience

Catherine of Genoa
b. 1447 Genoa, Italy
d. 9.15.1510 Genoa, Italy

Catherine of Genoa was an Italian mystic and social worker in the Roman Catholic Church.
She wrote the Spiritual Dialogue and a Treatise on Purgatory. She is noted as an authority regarding the doctrine of purgatory.

She is remembered for her work among the sick and the poor. She served the sick during the plague which ravaged Genoa in 1497 and 1501.

She was a member of the noble Fieschi family.  Her fame outside her native city is connected with the publication in 1551 of the book known in English as the Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa.

She and her teaching were the subject of Baron Friedrich von Hügel's classic work The Mystical Element of Religion (1908).

Genoa

The city of Genoa is located between the Apennine Mountains and the Ligurian Sea.

The Apennine are a mountain range of parallel smaller chains extending about 1,200 km (750 mi) along the length of peninsular Italy. They join with the Ligurian Alps at Altare in the northwest.

The Ligurian is part of the Mediterranean Sea between the Italian Riviera (Liguria) and the island of Corsica.

Genoa is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria. It is the sixth-largest city in Italy.

The port is located on the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea. It has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean.  it is currently the busiest in Italy.

It is the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Paganini and Grimaldo Canella, founder of the House of Grimaldi, among others.

 The Bank of Saint George was founded in 1407. It is among the oldest in the world and has played an important role in the city's prosperity since the middle of the 15th century.

The port established  itself as the merchant capital of the newly established Republic of Genoa in 1005 and maintaining its autonomy until 1797.

The capital struggled to rule itself. Many inner conflicts among the nobility weakened the Republic. The inability to rule itself caused the state to put themselves twice under French rule. Once was in 1391. It happened again in 1458.

The Black Death hit Genoa hard in 1348 and contributed to its decline.

Caterina Fieschi Adorno

Catherine's parents were Jacopo Fieschi and Francesca di Negro. Both were of noble Italian birth.  Two popes, Innocent IV and Adrian V, had been of the Fieschi family. Jacopo himself became Viceroy of Naples.

The family were Guelphs. They were in the faction that supported the pope. The Ghibellines were for the Roman emperor

Catherine was the last of 5 children. She was born in 1447. She was described as an extraordinary child who was gifted in prayer and devotion to Christ. She wished to enter a convent when about 13.

Her sister, Limbania, was an Augustinian nun. The nuns to whom her confessor applied refused her on account of her youth. She put aside the idea without any further attempt.

Her father died when she was young. She was married to the young Genoese nobleman, Giuliano Adorno, at 16. Giuliano had returned to Genoa after several experiences in the area of trade and in the military world.

Their conjugal life was not easy. Her husband's character was worldly in affection for games of chance. They didn't produce children. She felt induced to lead a life that lacked serenity. She had a feeling of profound emptiness after 10 years of marriage. She prayed to remain sick in bed for 3 months.

She received a conversion experience as an answer.  Catherine went to the church of St. Benedict and to the monastery of Our Lady of Graces for confession on March 20, 1473.

She wrote that she was wounded in heart by the knowledge of the life she had led and the goodness of God. She did not stay to finish her confession.

She went home and entered a remote room to weep and pray. She received the sense of the immense love of God. She had a vision of Jesus bent beneath the cross. She understood that he suffered so those who suffered pain from discrimination might feel loved.

She entered into a life of profound union by faith with constant prayer and the daily reception of Communion. It was unusual for laity to receive the sacrament so often.

She sought to be taught by God with the nourishment from prayer and the eucharist for 25 years. She did not become dependent upon the priest in confession. She did not become a monastic.

The place of her ascent to mystical peaks was Pammatone Hospital, the largest hospital complex in Genoa, of which she was director.

She lived an active existence despite the depth of her inner life. A group of followers, disciples and collaborators formed around her. They felt edified by her faith and charity. Her husband was won over as well. He became a Third Order Franciscan and moved into the hospital to help his wife.

The plague hit Genoa in 1493. It was reported that it killed up to 80% of the community. Her husband died in 1497.

She resigned her position as director, although she continued working full time until 1499, when her health began to fail. She finally accepted a priest as her spiritual guide during this time. He was her successor as the head of the hospital. He would later write her biography.

She wrote the Spiritual Dialog and Treatise on Purgatory in the 10 years before her death.
Purgatory was not a place located in the bowels of the earth for her. It was an inner fire for purification. It was a movement toward full communion in the kingdom of heaven.

She died in Genoa in 1510.

Elements of Religion

The elements of religion according to Hugel are mystical, intellectual and institutional. The three work to keep religion alive and relevant. Mysticism could never be the whole of religion.

It is personal in a primitive and monotheistic way insofar as it avoids the errors of superstition and hostility, but it holds the institutional and intellectual parts in question.

Catherine used her mysticism to support that which was right about the intellectual and institutional parts. 

Hugel was engaged in theological discussions with a diverse group of scholars associated with the Modernist controversy at the start of the 20th century.

The modernists shared a belief that science had raised new questions for religious faith that undermined naïve suppositions that believers could rely purely on dogmatic authority as a source of truth.

His scholarly concerns included the relationship of Christianity to history, ecumenism, mysticism, the philosophy of religion and the rejection of much of the immanentism in nineteenth-century theology.

The anti-dogmatic position neglected to acknowledge the value that Trinitarian and Christological instruction held with respect for theology. This antagonism supported the liberal position in theology and political philosophy.

Catherine Fieschi
S. 凯瑟琳菲斯基
T. 凱瑟琳菲斯基

凯  Kai  victory             凱  gai         victory song          Ka   きゃ   キャ        Kae  캐  casserole 
瑟  se    harp                 瑟  shitsu     large koto              sa    さ        サ            seo  서  book         
琳  lin    jade                 琳  rin          jewel                     rin  りん    リン         lin    린  Lynn     
菲  Fei   poor                菲   hi           thin                        Fi    ふぃ   フィ         Pi     피  blood   
斯  si      this                 斯   shi         this                         e     え        エ             swi   쉬  wee       
基  ji       base                基  ki           fundamentals         su   す        ス                       
                                                                                         ki    き        キ                                           
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Purgation includes expiation in relation to the divine
to find the way to the jade of the jewel with this mind of mine.

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wiki Catherine of Genoa
Franciscan Media: Catherine of Genoa
Lectionary: Catherine of Genoa
Commentary: Treatise on Purgatory
Papal Podcast: Catherine of Genoa
Benedict XVI: Text St. Catherine of Genoa
wiki The Mystical Element of Religion
wiki Genoa
New Advent Encyclopedia: Catherine of Genoa
wiki Guelphs and Ghibellines

Tolerance

David Stove
b. 9.15.1927 Moree, New South Wales, Australia
d. 6.2.1994    Mulgoa, New South Wales

David Charles Stove was an Australian philosopher who argued against socialism. He was for logical probability and rational induction in reason.

Stove criticized the irrationalism that infested the modern philosophy of science. The relativist and “social constructivist” views that were current in the sociology of science and postmodernist humanities departments depicted  modern science as no better (or worse) than voodoo or astrology or reading chicken entrails. The view was made to look like the majority opinion.

Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend were irrationalists in the philosophy of science. They denied that there was reason to believe in any theory of science. There has been no significant accumulation of relevant knowledge in recent centuries according to the position.

Stove came to be known for his opposition to socialism in college departments in Australia. The socialists made their demands the basis for making decisions for higher education. It ran contrary to the consideration of benefit in reasonable administration.

The argument against socialism seeks to reduce the detrimental affect of socialist analysis on administrative decisions, but argument against it is not enough. Socialism was a derivative of liberal politics. That means that there is another tier to be considered in the argument against non-representative judgment.

The reduction of consideration in the legitimate range of choice for representative policy in democratic society is the area of concern for political organization whether it is in republic or kingdom.

Liberals have been tolerant of socialism because the focus on the role of industrial organization on political leadership has placed their 'power' in government over industry, the middle class and the poor.

They have resorted to populist factionalism in media representation as though it were a representation of democracy. They don't promote representation. They attack it in conservative forms.

Professionalism as a product of education has suffered as a result. While Stove was critical of Popper and his error in science and economics, he wasn't critical enough of liberalism.

The aggressive error of liberalism has to be challenged for the benefit of conservative reform.

Moree, New South Wales
 

Moree is a town in northern New South Wales.

New South Wales is in the southeastern part of Australia. It sits on the banks of the May may River. The name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning "long springs."

The land is a plains region. It has been used for agriculture. The town is not heavily populated. The 2016 census numbers the population at about 7,400 people.

The first constable arrived and a police station was set up in 1865. The first church (Wesleyan) was built in 1867 when the town had a population of 43.

Agriculture emerged as a thriving industry on the fertile flood plains. Banking began in 1876 and the first local newspaper was set up in 1881. The population had grown to 295.

The Great Artesian Basin which sits under Moree was tapped in 1895. The basin yields over thirteen megalitres of water every day, but was proved unsuitable to provide enough water for the agriculture.

The railway line and service from Sydney arrived in 1897. Floods in the area caused numerous washouts of the railway in January 1910. An unknown number of livestock were drowned and at least four people drowned.

A flood cut the township in two in January 1946. Several hundred homes were flooded. The water damaged the power station and caused a black out. Roads and railway lines were damaged.

Moree railway station is situated on the Mungindi line, 665 kilometres (413 mi) from Sydney. It marks the northernmost point of passenger service on the line.

David Stove

David Stove was born in Moree, New South Wales on September 15, 1927.

His parents were Robert James Stove, schoolteacher, and his wife Ida Maude, née Hill. He was the fifth surviving child.

He went to Newcastle Boys’ High School where he excelled in running and was captain of the school track team.

He attended the University of Sydney (BA, 1950) and graduated with first-class honors in moral and political philosophy.

He was strongly influenced by the Challis professor of philosophy John Anderson.

Anderson founded the empirical brand of philosophy known as Australian realism. The central claim was that "whatever exists … is real".  That which is real is spatial and temporal in a situation or occurrence that is on the same level of reality as anything else that exists.

Any object is a fact. Every fact is situated in a complex situation. There are no simple ideas, no atomic facts, no objects which cannot be, as it were, expanded into facts.

All situations exist independently of knowledge of them. All entities are caused. Ethics is concerned with establishing and describing that which is good. It is a positive science. It is not abstractly detached from reality.

Anderson's insistence on unceasing inquiry and criticism became central to the intellectual principles of the university's Libertarian Society. This group supplanted the Free Thought Society in the early 1950's. It provided a philosophic platform for the much broader subculture known as "the Push" throughout the 1960's.

The movement was against socialism, yet he was a defender of free speech. He was critical of the Australian government's bans on certain political publications (1928). People could talk about socialism, but concession to the demands of Marxist ideology was not to be granted.

Stove was appointed a teaching fellow at the University of Sydney in 1951. He became a lecturer in philosophy at the New South Wales University of Technology (later the University of New South Wales) in 1952.

He married Jessie Amelia Leahy, a biochemist on 4 November 1959 at the registrar general’s office. The next year he returned to the University of Sydney.  He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1963 and associate professor in 1974. He would teach there until his retirement in 1987.

Stove was alarmed by the spread of radical left-wing ideas on campus in the early 1970's especially in his own department. He strongly resisted the introduction of courses in Marxism-Leninism and feminism with his colleague David Armstrong, the Challis professor of philosophy.

The subjects went ahead. The dispute resulted in a split in the department. Stove and Armstrong joined a new department of traditional and modern philosophy (colloquially ‘T & M’). Stove headed the department in 1981 and 1982. The left wing department was troubled by political schism. Stove felt that T & M was a perfect environment for serious work.

His work in philosophy mostly concerned the problem of induction. He argued that inference from the observed to the unobserved was justified for purely logical reasons in Probability and Hume’s Inductive Scepticism (1973) and The Rationality of Induction (1986).

There exists a probabilistic kind of logic which renders ‘The next swan is white’ probable, though not certain, on the evidence that all swans so far observed have been white.

His more polemical philosophical work included Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists (1982). The work accused leading philosophers of science such as Sir Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn of undermining, rather than as they claimed, defending science.

Popper had concluded in his massive The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) that science could never establish truth.  Stove compared the conclusion to the one that had been made by the fox in Aesop's fable.

The fox had decided that the grapes must be sour, because he could not reach them. Stove added that to make the comparison complete, the sly creature would have gone on to write a long book on the progress of viticulture.

He wrote 'A Farewill to Arts' in protest to the spread of postmodernist varieties of left wing thought in 1986. He described the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney as a disaster area.

This disaster was like an area that had been ravaged by flood, a badly leaking nuclear reactor or an outbreak of hoof and mouth disease in cattle. His complaint was that Marxism, semiotics and feminism were being used to favor the employment of women on the faculty.

His opinion was that logically probable deduction and simple induction were the path to truth. Common sense has to be applied in practical reason for realism to work.

He was witty and irreverent in expression, but principled in thought. He was pessimistic in that he found no consolation in religion or hope for political progress.

He found some comfort in classical music, old books and nature. He enjoyed planting trees at his rural property at Mulgoa. He also liked cricket and rugby league.

He was a heavy smoker. He contracted oesophageal cancer.

He committed suicide on 1 or 2 June 1994 at Mulgoa after a period of depression following severe treatment for the disease.

While his criticism of socialism was warranted, his conservatism was pessimistic. He did not admit to room for the stable management of reform.

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David Stove
S. 大卫斯托夫
T. 大衛斯托夫

大 Da       great              大 dai        large                   De   で     デ          De  데  place             
卫 wei     health              衛  ei        defense                bi    びっ  ビッ      i    이  this             
斯  Si         this               斯  shi       this                      Do   ど      ド        bi     비  ratio           
托  tuo      support          托   taku    requesting           su    す    ス          deu  드  de             
夫  fu        husband         夫  fu         husband              to    と-   ト-        Seu   스  s                           
                                                                                      bu    ぶ    ブ         to     토  sat     
                                                                                                                    beu  브 bro                 
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Socialism demands the defense of liberal expenditure
as though the competitor were the cause of the global rise in temperature.

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wiki David Stove
James Franklin: Sydney Philosophy Disturbance
Bio David Charles Stove

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Restore

8.18.19
Jennifer Lawrence

Restore
the Garden
恢复花园 
Huīfù huāyuán
庭を復元する
Niwa o fukugen suru
ps 80
Horti restituet

The garden has been destroyed.
Re-construction must be employed.

Let the light from the sun shine.
Let the rain provide for that which is mine.

Beauty will be restored with cultivation mined.
The destruction was motivation's fine.

Knowledge about the garden
was taken from anguish so the heart would not harden.

The land had been prepared for growth
with the use of what was known.

Sunken Gardens, St. Petersburg, FL

Fertility nurtures her success.
The heavens declare warmth with wetness;
The heat of light is relieved with darkness.

Enslavement was cast out as a test.
Invasion and terrorism are next.

One day tells its tale to another.
Each night imparts knowledge to uncover.

I like the dark. I'm a poetry lover.
Dreams dance for the conscience to discover.

I dread the extent of improbability, 
but there are problems with the liability 
of empirically tried hostility.
There is also the issue of deficient utility.

I surrender to the truth of the dream's dance
despite the lance of cruelty's stance.

Re-construction is a game of chance.
The time has come to mention France.

It has acquired a timeless quality with respect for law.
The Roman republic had been destroyed by attack from Gaul. (390 BCE)

It was a lesson learned by those who saw.
Now France promotes the rule of law for all.

Time has no language or words with which to speak,
but the message is a unique critique of the mystique of the bleak
that we tweak for the meek. The source has gone out to the earth we seek
to fertilize with knowledge from the Ancient Greek.

The sound of music as drawn from myth
harvests the grain by the scythe of pith.

This sound has gone out to all forthwith
to celebrate the sun as a monolith.

A pavilion has been set for the sun in the deep.
Illumination rises to run a course for time to keep.

Light comes forth like a celebrity on the stage to reap
the reward of praise from the fans that weep.

The stage is set for the course to run
from the outer edge to the end of fun.

Nothing but darkness is hidden from the radiance won.
The stream of sampling gets things done.

The rule of law requires respect for rights.
No one is above the law of light.

Judgment is for liberty with judicial sight
based on reason without discrimination's blight.

France is known for constitutional reform.
The US and the UK need to consider the importance of this political norm.

The lower house has declared itself the priority
over the executive office authority. 

When the impeachment of the president is worked as the assumption
society is pelted with liberal media that demands the presumption.

Due process in law requires objective investigation.
The presumption of guilt is a form of negation
that won't rule out subjective generation.


Prejudice against the executive in office
is used against those who don't condemn the person out of caution.


Justice revives the soul.
It gives wisdom to those who know
that it is needed as a goal.
It is there when we are ready to go.

I have a sacrifice by which I will be baptized.
I am on fire with distress until it has been realized.

Do not harbor false belief.
Truth will give you what you seek.

Do not abuse authority for power to speak.
Leave time to rest to rebuild the strength you need.

Honor your family for length of life.
Do not murder or contribute to strife.

Do not destroy property or your relations might.
Do not steal or bear false witness for your delight.

Do not covet property.
You desire only the novelty.

It creates social impropriety
and reduces the quality of sobriety.

The vineyard for the Lord of hosts
is the house that held Israel's oaths.

The people in the kingdom of Judah
were the pleasant planting from each hallelujah!

The Judge expected justice in practice
but saw bloodshed to increase status.

The Priest longed for righteousness with faith
but heard a cry to overthrow the authority in place.

Do not support sacrifice for invasion or genocide.
It is a larger case of homicide applied.

It increases liability beyond the size of your stride.
It is a burden cursed by the monstrous size of the lies
by which it tries to hide those who have died. 

Spending on the military and supporting technology 
has to be limited to defense for the surety of maturity.

Put your faith in action to show love for others.
Earn respect by honoring rights for sisters and mothers.

Direct yourself away from causing damage to avoid crime with any color.
Love your enemy. It will cover your numbers. You won't be smothered.

Hate violence and deception without brutality or contrivance.
Crisis is managed with calm conception and non-violence.

Re-direct anger from hostility to the tireless spiraling of silence.
Use quietness to produce viable speech or action rather than idleness.

The destruction of false argument with logic in the measure of reason
promotes political change without sedition in the call for treason.

See if our differences will produce a greater unity.
Investigate the largest wave in the storm for community.
The trees produce a forest with the sacred grove of opportunity. 

Survivors receive their dead by resurrection.
Order is restored by the detection of recollection. 

The rule of law is just when it is justly applied.
It gives joy to the heart and insight to the mind.

It makes the vine take root to produce grapes for wine.
It makes the grain that is used for bread that's fine.

Restore the garden.
Love will grow in the bargain.

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Psalm 80
Qui regis Israel
King of Israel

1 Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, leading Joseph like a flock;
shine forth, you that are enthroned upon the cherubim.
2 In the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh,
stir up your strength and come to help us.
3 Restore us, O God of hosts;
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
4 O Lord God of hosts,
how long will you be angered
despite the prayers of your people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears;
you have given them bowls of tears to drink.
6 You have made us the derision of our neighbors,
and our enemies laugh us to scorn.
7 Restore us, O God of hosts;
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt;
you cast out the nations and planted it.
9 You prepared the ground for it;
it took root and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered by its shadow
and the towering cedar trees by its boughs.
11 You stretched out its tendrils to the Sea
and its branches to the River.
12 Why have you broken down its wall,
so that all who pass by pluck off its grapes?
13 The wild boar of the forest has ravaged it,
and the beasts of the field have grazed upon it.
14 Turn now, O God of hosts, look down from heaven;
behold and tend this vine;
preserve what your right hand has planted.
15 They burn it with fire like rubbish;
at the rebuke of your countenance let them perish.
16 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand,
the son of man you have made so strong for yourself.
17 And so will we never turn away from you;
give us life, that we may call upon your Name.
18 Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.

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Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the LORD of hosts
is the house of Israel.

The people of Judah
are his pleasant planting.

He expected justice
but saw bloodshed;
righteousness
but heard a cry!

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The vineyard for the Lord of hosts
is the house that held Israel's oaths.

The people in the kingdom of Judah
were the pleasant planting from each hallelujah!

The Judge expected justice in practice
but saw bloodshed to increase status.

The Priest longed for righteousness with faith
but heard a cry to overthrow the authority in place.

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Hebrews 11:35

Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection.

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Survivors received their dead by resurrection.
Order was restored by the detection of recollection.

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Luke 12:50

I have a baptism with which to be baptized. I am under stress until it is completed!

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I have a sacrifice by which I will be baptized.
I am on fire with distress until it has been realized.

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Supremacy

William Porcher DuBose
b. 4.11.1836 Winnsboro, SC
d. 8.18.1918 Sewanee, TN

William Porcher DuBose was an American priest, author and theologian in the Episcopal Church in the United States. He served as a Professor, Chaplain and Dean of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee after service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He had served as chaplain in his cousin's regiment.

He served as Chaplain at Fairmount College in Monteagle, Tennessee later. Monteagle is only 5 miles (8 km) from Sewanee.

Winnsboro

Winnsboro is a town in the north central part of South Carolina. The town is about 33 miles (53 km) north of Columbia. It is part of the Metropolitan statistical area.

Richard Winn from Virginia moved to what is now Fairfield County in the upland or Piedmont area of South Carolina several years before the Revolutionary War.

The Piedmont is a plateau that runs the length between the Appalachian mountains and the eastern seaboard. It stretches from New Jersey in the north to Alabama in the south.

The settlement was known as "Winnsborough" as early as 1777 since he was the major landowner. His brothers John and Minor Winn joined him there. They became the family founders for their land.

The village was laid out and chartered in 1785 upon petition of Richard and John Winn. John Vanderhorst joined in the request. The brothers Richard, John and Minor all served in the Revolutionary War. Richard became a general. He was said to have fought in more battles than any Whig in South Carolina. John gained the rank of colonel.

The area was developed for the cultivation of short-staple cotton after Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793. The device made the processing of this type of cotton profitable. It was considered too labor-intensive previously.

Short-staple cotton was widely cultivated on plantations in upland areas throughout the Deep South through an interior area that became known as the Black Belt.

The increased demand for slave labor resulted in the forced migration of more than one million African-American slaves into the area through sales in the domestic slave market. Fairfield county's population was majority black and majority slave by the time of the Civil War.

William Porcher DuBose

William Porcher DuBose was born near Winnsboro, Fairfield County, South Carolina on April 11, 1836. He was son to the former Jane Sinkler Porcher (por-shay) and her husband, Capt. Theodore Samuel DuBose (du-boys).

Both sides of his family were descended from French Huguenots. They had immigrated as religious refugees in 1686 and settled in the Midlands of South Carolina.

William grew up on the 2,500-acre (10 km2) family plantation near Winnsboro. His parents were planters and major slaveholders. They owned 204 slaves in 1860.

His great-uncle William DuBose (1788 - 1855) was also a planter and slaveholder. He was elected as South Carolina's lieutenant-governor.

W.P. was educated privately. He went to  Mount Zion College, a private male academy in Winnsboro before moving to the military academy in Charleston. He entered the South Carolina Military Academy (The Citadel) in 1851 at the age of 15. He was the ranking officer as well as Assistant Professor of English by his final year in 1855.

He had a conversion experience while he was at the Citadel. He said that he was surrounded by a light with a presence that filled the room. He was possessed by an ineffable joy.

DuBose entered the University of Virginia in 1856. He graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 1859. He entered the just-opened South Carolina diocesan seminary in Camden, South Carolina later that year.

He left the seminary and enlisted with South Carolina's Holcombe Legion when the Civil War began. He accepted an appointment as its adjutant. The legion fought at the Second Battle of Manassas is 1862. He was injured twice. He was a prisoner of war before being exchanged. He was wounded again in December of that year.

Family friends and church contacts helped DuBose gain a commission as a chaplain. He was ordained a deacon at Grace Church in Camden, South Carolina in December 1863. He joined Kershaw's Brigade as its chaplain in Greeneville, Tennessee. It was led by his lawyer cousin Dudley M. DuBose.

DuBose married Anne Barnwell Peronneau of Charleston, South Carolina while on leave from the military on April 30, 1863. They had four children before her death.

He was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church by Bishop Thomas F. Davis in 1866. He had aligned with the Protestant Episcopal Church when his brother served as Attorney General for the Confederacy.

Fr. William  served St. John's Parish, Fairfield. The parish included St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and St. John's Episcopal Church in Winnsboro. He also taught Greek at his alma mater, Mt. Zion College while there.

He was called as rector of Trinity Church in Abbeville, South Carolina in January 1868.
Vice-Chancellor Charles Todd Quintard nominated The Rev. DuBose to serve as Chaplain of the newly established University of the South and Professor of the School of Moral Science in July 1871. DuBose served as Chaplain of the school from 1871-1883.

His wife Anne died in 1873. He married Louisa Yerger in 1878. She was the headmistress at Fairmount College for Young Ladies in Monteagle, Tennessee.

He helped to establish the Theological Department at the university. The department would later be known as the School of Theology at the University of the South. He was a professor in the Theological Department from 1877-1893.

He was also elected Dean of the Theological Department. He served in that position from 1894 until retiring in 1908. He has been described as possibly the "greatest theologian that the Episcopal Church in the USA has produced."

He was fluent in Greek. He was well-read both in Greek philosophy and the early Christian fathers. Two of the best known among his numerous books are The Soteriology of the New Testament and The Gospel in the Gospels.

Soter is the Greek word for "Savior." Soteriology is the branch of theology that deals with such questions as, "What does it mean to say that Christ saves us?" "How does his death and resurrection do us any good?" "How are the benefits of Christ's work applied to the individual?" and so on.

Dr. DuBose lived at Fairmount College and cared for the religious needs of the school and of the townspeople upon his retirement from the faculty of the University. He rode on horseback to Gruetli. It was a distance of some twenty miles twice a month.

He made the trip to perform services for the Swiss inhabitants in the area. One Sunday he would conduct the service in German and the next Sunday he would do the same in French.

It was during this period of his life at Fairmount that Dr. DuBose wrote some of his greatest literature. He wrote High Priesthood and Sacrifice, The Reason of Life and Turning Points in My Life from his study in Monteagle after his retirement in 1908. He remained at the School until his death.

DuBose died in Sewanee, Tennessee in 1918. He was buried in the cemetery of The University of the South.

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The supremacy of Christ not only included opposition to captivity for slavery. The rejection of rebellion was included by Jesus as well.

Monarchy was overthrown by republic by the association of slavery with serfdom as equivalents. The distinction between the two is subtle but important. Slaves were regarded as property. Serfs were treated as part of the management of the property. Serfs in British society have had upward mobility. Such was probably the case in other societies as well, but it was denied in order to support revolutionary overthrow of the monarchical government.

Supremacy has a bad connotation in the Protestant world due to the claim to the same made by the papacy. When you think of supremacy of Christ as God with respect for the law, slavery is outlawed. Rebellion is deterred by invoking the right to protest and petition. Republic has moved forward with respect for this view of supremacy.

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William DuBose
S. 威廉杜波斯
T. 威廉杜波斯

威 Wei    prestige                 威  i           dignity               Ui     うぃ   ウィ         Wil  윌  will     
廉 lian     to investigate       廉  ren      cheap                   ri       り     リ               li     리  lee           
杜 Du       to stop                 杜  mori   shrine grove         a       あ      ア             eom  엄  moth         
波 Bo       storm                   波  nami   wave                    mu   む      ム              Dyu  듀  dew           
斯 si         this                       斯  shi       this                     Dyu  でゅ デュ           Bo    보  bo   
                                                                                          Bo    ぼ-   ボ-               seu   스   s           
                                                                                           su    す      ス                             
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See if our differences will produce a greater unity.
Investigate the largest wave in the storm for community.
The trees produce a forest with the sacred grove of opportunity.

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Monday, August 5, 2019

Save

8.6.19

Save
the World
拯救世界 
Zhěngjiù shìjiè
世界を救う
Sekai o sukuu
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The sun shines for all the earth.
The moon shows fractions for what it's worth.

Rain falls for growth
in plants and animals, both.

Life is for living.
Love is for giving.

We live to rejoice!
Make music with your voice!

Praise the essential presence
of life in the present
as the field of perception
that rules out deception.

Use what was right in the past
to make the goodness last
and plan improvement for the future
to guide the present with its nurture.

Mighty lovers of justice,
equity will not bust us!

Wonderful winners of fame,
responsibility builds your game!

Wise witness of accountability, 
care for others. Build your security.

Security is compensation
for unfair dispensation.

Reconciliation for the damage to liberty's bell
is more important than the crack can tell.

The competition for prosperity
has to be governed for posterity.

Let people agree.
This is easy to see.

No one is without flaw.
No one is above the law.

Murder for profit
is not on the docket.

Judgment is the purpose for reason.
Proof is the objective for judgment in season.

Reason rejects the fear of threat
as the justification for death
or destruction 
as time's only induction.

Invasion, genocide, murder and torture,
are agents of massively destructive misfortune.

Violence, cruelty and vice 
are not elements of immortal device.

The existence of threat
is grounds for preparing defense.

Defense is limited to the least force
for the protection of our course.

Induction and deduction are ways
to learn logic as instruction in what to pray or say.

Making use of words implies having general ideas.
Animal consciousness is more like ours than the asclepias'.

Perception with controlled experimentation
is for the selection of facts in truth's detection.

The property of value is from solid substance drawn.
Background provides contrast like the sky above the horizon at dawn.

Freedom is seen in the observation of the sky.
Release from tedium helps your spirit fly.

Providence for labor requires land for construction 
and machines for production.

The division of labor is an object for observation.
The labor is divided for ease in conservation.

The inference of prevalence
is to measure occurrence in relevance.

The rejection of false reason
helps us act in due season.

The salvation of hope for improvement
is the rock for political movement.

This formula for success
has gradual growth in the newness 
of the que's access to due process
in economic noblesse.
Storytelling for the protection of theft
is express disrespect for what is left
in the national chest to invest.

Fake news 
is not something to choose.

Truth in darkness and light
is present with or without sight.
It is the test of reason for right.

Reform for the code of law
began with that which the view from the mountain saw.

Jesus was transfigured by prayer on the mountain. 
His appearance changed with the prophets’ counsel counted.

The sound from the scarlet feathers of the phoenix
rose with joy above the ashes to redeem keenness for cleanness. 

The rule of law protects rights, not wrongs.
It is the bong that belongs with the gong.

Forgiveness allows for development
of the elements of the celebrant.

Restitution fosters retribution
for correction, not the institution 
of elocution for destruction.

Revel in the revelation of love for others.
Shine forth with light for your sisters and brothers,
fathers and mothers; for your family wonders.

Respect rights for life with liberty and justice.
Save the world from reduction to the augustus 
of just us. It will help others to trust us.

Save the world from a world full of hurt.
Then you'll laugh with Ernie and Burt.

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Transfiguration


The transfiguration of Jesus is an event reported in the New Testament when Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. The synoptic gospels, 2 Peter and the gospel of John refer to it. A number of monasteries on Mt. Tabor are dedicated to it.

Thomas Aquinas considered the transfiguration "the greatest miracle" in that it complemented baptism and showed the perfection of life in Heaven.

The event was anticipated by the revelations to Moses and Elijah on Mt. Sinai.

Exodus 33:17-22; 34:29-33

The LORD said to Moses, "I will do the thing that you have asked for you have found favor in my sight. I know you by name." Moses said, "Show me your glory, I pray."

He said, "I will let my goodness pass before you. I will proclaim the name, 'the LORD.' I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. I will show mercy to those whom I will show mercy, but you cannot see my face. No one will see me and live."

The LORD continued, "There is a place by me where you will stand on the rock. While my glory passes I will put you in a cleft of the rock. I will protect you with my hand until I have passed. You will see my back but my face will not be seen."

Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand. He did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw him they were afraid to go near him because of the shine.

Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him when he called to them. He spoke with them. All the Israelites came near afterwards. He gave them all the LORD had spoken to him on Mount Sinai in commandment.

Moses put a veil on his face when he was done speaking with them.

1 Kings 19:11-16

God said, "Go out and stand on the mountain." The LORD passed. A mighty wind tore into the mountain. Rocks were broken in pieces, but the LORD was not in the wind. An earthquake came after the wind, but He was not in the earthquake. A fire came after the earthquake, but He was not in the fire. A still small voice came after the fire.

When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle to stand in the entrance of the cave. A voice came to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

He said, "I have been zealous for the LORD God of hosts, because the childen of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and they seek to take my life."

Then the LORD said to him: "Go. Return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael as king of Syria. You will also anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king of Israel. Anoint Elisha son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah as prophet in your place."

Psalm 99:5-7

Extol the LORD our God.
Worship at his footstool
for he is holy.

Moses and Aaron were among his priests.
Samuel was also among those who called on his name.
They cried to the LORD and he answered them.

He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud.
They kept his decrees
and the statutes that he gave them.

Luke 9:28-36

Jesus took Peter, James and John with him on a mountain to pray about 8 days after he had spoken of his death and resurrection. The appearance of his face changed as he prayed. His clothes became a dazzling white.

Suddenly they saw Moses and Elijah talking to him. They appeared in glory and speaking of the departure he was to achieve in Jerusalem. Peter and his companions had been weighed down with sleep, but they saw his glory and the two men standing with him since they had stayed awake.

Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three dwellings, one for you; one for Moses and one for Elijah." He did not know what he had said. A cloud came and overshadowed them while he spoke. They were terrified as they entered the cloud.

A voice came from the cloud that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen. Listen to him." Jesus was found alone when the voice had spoken. They kept silent in those days. No one was told any of the things they had seen.

2 Peter 1:16-21

We did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We had been eyewitnesses of his majesty. He received honor and glory from God the Father when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory saying, "This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased."

We heard this voice come from heaven while we stood with him on the holy mountain. We have the prophetic message more fully confirmed. You will do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

You must understand this first of all. No prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation. No prophecy came by the human will. Men and women moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

John 1:14

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son who came from the Father full of grace and truth.

Transfiguration of Jesus

The Transfiguration is one of the five milestones in the gospel narrative of the life of Jesus. The others are Baptism, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension. Each event served as testimony to the divine royalty of the Son.

Origen's theology of the Transfiguration influenced the patristic tradition. It became the basis for theological writings by others. He commented that the glorified states of the Transfiguration and the Resurrection must be related given the instruction to the apostles to keep silent about what they had seen.

Maximus the Confessor said in the 7th century that the senses of the apostles were transfigured to enable them to perceive the true glory of Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:18

All of us are seeing the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces. We are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. This comes by the Spirit.

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Gregory Palamas cited 2 Corinthians 3:18 to define the apostolicity of the Church. He commented on the concept of the "transfiguration of the believer" by the end of the 13th century. True "knowledge" was to be transfiguration by the Spirit. The transformation of the believer continued to remain a theme for achieving closer union.

The setting on the mountain is presented as the point where human nature meets God. It was the meeting place for the temporal and the eternal. This meeting has been celebrated in the Feast for the event.

The churches that observe the date set for the Latin rite celebrate the feast on August 6. The date does not extend back to the Early Church. The celebration of the feast was present in various forms by the 9th century, but the date was set by Pope Callixtus III after the siege of Belgrade was lifted in 1456.

The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror had rallied his resources in order to subjugate the Kingdom of Hungary after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The siege lasted from July 4-22. John Hunyadi was the highest ranking official in Transylvania.

He had fought many battles against the Turks in the previous two decades. He prepared the fort of Belgrade for defense.

The siege escalated into a major battle. Hunyadi led a sudden counterattack that overran the Ottoman camp. He ultimately compelled the wounded Mehmed II to lift the siege and retreat.

The battle had significant consequences. It stabilized the southern frontiers of the Kingdom of Hungary for more than half a century. This considerably delayed the Ottoman advance in Europe.
The pope celebrated the event as a transfiguration of the status of the Church in the Holy Roman empire by placing it in the calendar for remembrance as close to the end of the siege as possible.

The celebration recounts the occasion recorded in the synoptic gospels (Matt. 17:1-8 = Mk. 9:2-8 = Lk. 9:28-36) on which Christ revealed Himself in shining splendor to Peter, James and John. Moses and Elijah were present. They are taken to signify that the Law and the Prophets testify that Jesus is the promised Messiah.

The event is Trinitarian insofar as the Father revealed the Son by the power of the Spirit.

The Festival of the Transfiguration has been celebrated since the late fourth century in the East. It is one of the twelve great festivals of the East Orthodox calendar.

There were some countries that felt that the feast was a "recent innovation" at the time of the Reformation.  It was not immediately taken over into most Reformation calendars.

The Lutherans only observed the feast as the last Sunday after the Epiphany until a change in the liturgical calendar in the 1970's. This is the Sunday immediately preceding Ash Wednesday at the start of the season of Lent.

The Sunday of the Transfiguration marks the last day of the Epiphany season on the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday in the Presbyterian and Reformed Calvinist Church.

The celebration is now found on most calendars that have been revised in the twentieth century.

The Synoptic texts agree that Jesus began to speak of his forthcoming death just before the time of the Transfiguration. It forms a fitting transition between the Epiphany season in which Christ makes himself known and the Lenten season in which he prepares the disciples for what lies ahead.

This was the liturgical innovation as the observation of the feast. August 6 was identified as the date by the pope when the Church was unified in Holy Roman empire in the 15th century.

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Sunday School and Transfiguration

The Sunday School Movement produced the public school system in England and the US. It is based on the non-sectarian study of the bible. The bible has to be read in relation to sources that share knowledge about the time, the culture and the geography of the Middle East.

Knowledge of the history of the Roman republic is critically important with respect for the re-construction of classical consciousness for citizens in a constitutional republic or monarchy.

Time and the Sunday School Movement

Henry Clay Trumbull
b. 6.8.1830 Stonington, Connecticut
d. 12.8.1903 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Henry Clay Trumbull was an American clergyman and author. He became a world-famous editor, author and pioneer of the Sunday School Movement.

He was born in Connecticut in the first half of the 19th century.

Stonington

Stonington is located in the southeastern corner of the state. It includes the villages of Pawcatuck, Lords Point and Wequetequock. The eastern halves of the villages of Mystic and Old Mystic are part of town. The other halves are in the town of Groton.

The present territory of Stonington was part of lands that had belonged to the Pequot people. The Pequot referred to the areas making up Stonington as Pawcatuck and Mistack. Pawcatuck was between the Stony Brook and the Pawcatuck River. Mistack was between the Mystic River and Stony Brook.

The first European colonists established a trading house in the Pawcatuck section of town in 1649. It was named Souther Towne by Massachusetts in 1658. It officially became part of Connecticut in 1662 when the colony received its official charter. Souther Towne was renamed "Mistick" in 1665. It was finally renamed as Stonington in 1666.

Stonington first gained wealth in the 1790's when its harbor was home to a fleet engaged in the profitable seal hunting trade. Seals were hunted on islands off the Chilean and Patagonian coasts. Their skins were sold as fur in China.

Stonington repulsed two British naval bombardments. One was a desultory bombardment during the American Revolution by Sir James Wallace in the frigate HMS Rose on August 30, 1775. The other was a more damaging three-day affair between August 9 and 12, 1814 during the War of 1812.

The Stonington Harbor Light is a low stone building erected in 1823. It was the first lighthouse established by the federal government. Stonington supported a small fishing, whaling and sealing fleet in the 19th century. There was some direct trade with the West Indies.
Henry Clay Trumbull

Henry Clay Trumbull was born on June 8, 1830, at Stonington, Connecticut. He was educated at Williston Northampton School in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

It was said that poor health kept him from formal education past the age of 14, but Yale College was located within 34 miles of where he worked as a young man.

Yale was established by clergy to prepare Congregationalist ministers for ministry. The curriculum was originally restricted to theology and sacred languages, but it expanded to include science and the humanities by the Revolutionary War. He was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale, Lafayette College and the New York University.

Trumbull had a religious conversion experience at the age of 21 in 1851. He found employment as a clerk in Hartford, Connecticut with the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad.

He  joined the Congregationalist church in 1852.  He became the superintendent of a mission Sunday-school under the Connecticut State Sunday School Association while continuing to work for the railroad.

 He married Alice Cogswell Gallaudet in 1854.

He became the Sunday-school missionary for Connecticut in 1858 after trying a few different jobs.
He was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1862. He served as chaplain of the 10th Connecticut Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.

Trumbull was captured at the battle of Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina on July 19, 1863. He was held in several Confederate prisons as a prisoner of war.

He rejoined the 10th Connecticut after being exchanged on November 24, 1863. He served with that regiment until it was mustered out of service in August 1865
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He became the New England secretary for the American Sunday-school Union after his military service. He and his family moved to Philadelphia where he became editor of the Sunday School Times in 1875. He held the position until his death in 1903.

Sunday School Movement

A Sunday school is usually a Christian educational institution.

William King started a Sunday school in 1751 in Dursley, Gloucestershire in southern England. He suggested that Robert Raikes start a similar one in Gloucester.

Raikes was editor of the Gloucester Journal. He wrote an article in his journal. Many clergymen supported the schools as a result. The education aimed to teach the youngsters reading, writing, cyphering (doing arithmetic) and a knowledge of the Bible.

The idea became a movement in the 1780's. There were  250,000 English children were attending Sunday school in 1785. The Society for the Establishment and Promotion of Sunday Schools had distributed 91,915 spelling books, 24,232 Testaments and 5,360 Bibles by 1835.

The Sunday school movement was cross-denominational. It was financed by subscription. Large buildings were constructed that could host public lectures and provide classrooms. Different ages would attend the same class. Learning to read and write the language was a prime value. Public education had yet to be established.

The Methodists withdrew from the large Sunday school and built their own in some towns. The Anglicans set up their own National schools that would act as Sunday schools. Day schools followed. These were the precursors to a national system of education.

The role of the Sunday school changed with the Education Act 1870 which provided universal elementary education in England and Wales.

The American Sunday school system was first begun by Samuel Slater in his textile mills in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in the 1790's. Henry Clay Trumbull noted that the investment in study of things outside of the bible was usually limited to the different languages used in the translation.

Trumbull added sources of interest that helped the modern reader to understand the cultural and geographical context in which the bible was developed.

A large extent of the transfiguration for English speaking Christianity was established by the Sunday school movement as a reflected development of the instruction that was provided by synagogues from the time after the Exile. 

Henry Clay Trumbull

wiki Sunday School Movement

Kadesh Barnea by Henry Clay Trumbull

The Blood Covenant by HCT

Reflection on Transfiguration

Transfiguration is the goal for belief in resurrection. This is not however just about personal conversion. It is a societal goal. This is directed towards conversion at every level of society; not just the leadership; not just the people; not just the wealthy; not just the poor.

Law is the transcendent function for government. It is supposed to be for the people. It is for employment. It is against murder and discrimination. It had started as an instrument for punishment wherein crimes lesser in severity than murder were punished by death.

Modern republic has assisted in limiting the use of the death penalty to convictions for murder. Society is however faced with the difficulty of discriminatory judgment. Even scientific judgment that is not rigorous enough in seeking proof for the charge in a court is not sufficient for imposing death as a penalty.

Anyone who is not guilty of murder, but is put to death based on a false conviction is murdered. This is not an area where it is legitimate to say it's okay if you were wrong. You did your best. There has to be a higher standard for proof.

I believe that Jesus of Nazareth was someone who proclaimed love as good news for life. Even if the reference in Josephus was added, there is testimony from the community that listened to him teach.

He taught about love in a time when war and cruelty in punishment were viewed as a norm for the expansion of empire. This love was not limited to Christianity or any particular state. It is for the fullness of humanity with grace through the law for society.

Classical Consciousness

Josephus and Vespasian set up a debate between polytheism and monotheism from the Judean monotheistic position.

Some have argued that monotheism is just imperialism or it has just shifted the sword of Damocles to a genocidal threat against those who won't join the alliance.

Polytheism was imperial. The polytheistic empire used the threat of genocide to quell rebellion. There was a significant amount of aggression against monotheism as the cause of threat to the sanctity of security.

Science has often taken a position against religion of any kind, but when a position for religiosity as a social norm is expressed polytheism is the default. This was the case with Darwin. He simply tried to make belief in the monkey king the predominant monotheistic expression.

Freedom of religion takes a position where you can argue against that which is wrong about polytheism or monotheism.

Religion as a social organization can't promote revolution without being seditious towards the peace and security of a country.

Religion is a force for social organization insofar as it promotes petition as a means to participate in government. Protest is allowed as a deterrent to belief in rebellion.

The monotheistic position as framed by Josephus in terms of core values is for the social contract. Government has been instituted to represent legal rights for citizens, future citizens or temporary alien residents.

Illegal immigration doesn't fit into this picture. Legal immigration does. The wall makes sense as a deterrent to illegals crossing the border. Immigration reform is necessary to encourage immigrants to choose the legal path to citizenship.

Moses represents the law. Elijah embodies the prophets. Jesus is the transfiguration of humanity.

Cyrus was named Christ for having set free the captives.

Las Casas used the fullness of human nature in the Son to argue against slavery.

William Wilberforce argued against the inhumanity of the slave trade and slavery to persuade the British parliament to outlaw both.

The English Bill of Rights promoted the ownership of private property. It also defended the right to bear arms. It prohibited cruel punishment. While it was too particular to the Puritans, the bill served as a model for the US Constitution in the representation of constitutional law and authority.

Russia and China adopted constitutional republic as the form of government, but they have maintained a policy for cooperation with other nations for trade. Their position for conservative expenditure has helped them to maintain their policy.

The British and the Japanese chose constitutional monarchy. The Japanese outlawed war to deter expansion by military force. Gradual economic expansion with conservative expenditure promises to protect alliance with cooperation.