I finished reading Pride & Prejudice yesterday. Yay! It was very good. Very similar to the A&E movie, but more expanded. Or something.
Oh, my sisters and I went to a used book sale at the fairgrounds yesterday, and I bought three books for a total of six bucks: Persuasion, by Jane Austen; The Last Sin-Eater, by Francine Rivers; and The Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner.
My younger sister found this little book, called Dottie Dimple Stays Home. Anyway, it was published in 1869, and on the first page, there's this beautifully written inscription dated January, 1870--oh my goodness, the script is gorgeous! It looks like it was printed, it's so pristine. Compare it to the handwriting of today's people and...well, one would have to vote in favor of the past.
And yet we're so much better "educated" nowadays...
That's one thing that makes me doubt very much (my firm belief in creationism aside) the idea of evolution. Things don't improve with age. They deteriorate. Look at genetic mutations in humans--they don't produce a better person, they produce horrible syndromes, mental retardation, physical defects...
But enough about that. I started reading A.W. Tozer's, The Pursuit of God, today--I only read the preface, actually--but this one paragraph summed up my dissatisfaction with the church today:
"I trust I speak in charity, but the lack in our pulpits is real. Milton's terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to his: 'The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.' It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table."
Oh, my sisters and I went to a used book sale at the fairgrounds yesterday, and I bought three books for a total of six bucks: Persuasion, by Jane Austen; The Last Sin-Eater, by Francine Rivers; and The Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner.
My younger sister found this little book, called Dottie Dimple Stays Home. Anyway, it was published in 1869, and on the first page, there's this beautifully written inscription dated January, 1870--oh my goodness, the script is gorgeous! It looks like it was printed, it's so pristine. Compare it to the handwriting of today's people and...well, one would have to vote in favor of the past.
And yet we're so much better "educated" nowadays...
That's one thing that makes me doubt very much (my firm belief in creationism aside) the idea of evolution. Things don't improve with age. They deteriorate. Look at genetic mutations in humans--they don't produce a better person, they produce horrible syndromes, mental retardation, physical defects...
But enough about that. I started reading A.W. Tozer's, The Pursuit of God, today--I only read the preface, actually--but this one paragraph summed up my dissatisfaction with the church today:
"I trust I speak in charity, but the lack in our pulpits is real. Milton's terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to his: 'The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.' It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table."
