Gems for Today

Orlando Bible Church

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

'This pledge is recited by school children in classrooms throughout the United States. It was originally printed (1892) in the magazine Youth's Companion; the question of its authorship was in dispute for many years and was resolved only in 1939 when authorship was officially attributed to Francis Bellamy, who had been on the staff of the magazine. The original text has been altered twice. In 1923, the words the flag of the United States of America were substituted for the words my flag, and in 1954 an act of Congress added the words under God.
The pledge was once an obligatory public school ritual, but state laws no longer require students to recite it. A 1943 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court (West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette) reversed a previous decision that had justified the expulsion of students who refused on religious grounds to pledge themselves to (in effect, to swear by or take an oath on) a flag. Nevertheless, the custom persists, usually as part of opening school exercises." - COPIED Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

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Be sure to read God's Word PRAYERFULLY (Psalm 25:4-5; Psalm 119:18), REGULARLY (Matthew 4:4; Job 23:12), SLOWLY (I Cor. 14:19), CAREFULLY (John 5:39), SYSTEMATICALLY (I Cor. 14:40), INQUISITIVELY (asking how the Word applies to you, ie.), LOVINGLY (Psalm 119:97), REVERENTLY (Isaiah 66:2), BELIEVINGLY (Heb. 4:2), OBEDIENTLY (Revelation 1:3; 22:7,14; James 1:22).

"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God". -Matt. 4:4
"Never let good books take the place of the Bible. Drink from the Well, not from the streams that flow from the Well." -Amy Carmichael
Martin Luther said that he studied the Bible as he gathered apples. First, he shook the whole tree, that the ripest might fall; then he climbed the tree and shook each limb; and then when he had shaken each limb, he shook every branch. After that he examined every twig, and looked under every leaf. In other words, search the Bible as a whole, study each book, then study each chapter, study each verse, and finally study each word! -Copied

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