A WORD FROM BUSS ALDRIN - one of the first two men ever to walk on the Moon:

 I SURE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE CONTEXT OF THIS STATEMENT BY PUTIN:

SIMON BOLIVAR

 

Solzhenitsyn

 

THE FAMILY ALTAR 

September 23.

"Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant;

even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to

minister, and to give His life a ransom for many." Matthew 20:
26-28.

Sinful pride is deeply rooted in the heart of man, and, alas,

also in the heart of Christ's followers. Our Lord often had to

rebuke His disciples for quarreling among themselves which of

them was greater than the others. The sinful pride, claiming

superior rank and authority in the Church, has ever been the

fruitful cause of heresy and dissension. It gave rise to popery,

and is still the unholy mother of all the quarreling sects that tear

and rend Christendom. And, oh, what strife, what misery this

pride so often produces among members of the same congregation !

Let us all take the lesson in humility to heart which our Lord

so lovingly gives us in our text. Pride always goeth before a fall.

Pride caused Adam and Eve to fall away from God. Where pride

rules the heart, the lowly Savior cannot and will not dwell with

His saving grace. God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto

the humble. Only he who has made Jesus his own in humble faith

has the will and the power to curb the natural pride of his sinful

heart and to serve his fellow-men in self-sacrificing love. The

more he learns to love Jesus who died for him, the poor, unworthy

sinner, the nearer and dearer this blessed Savior grows to his heart,

the more unselfish does he become, the more does he strive to follow

the example of his Lord, who came not to be served, but to serve,

and even to give His life in order to save His poor, lost brethren

after the flesh. Such an unselfish, self-sacrificing Christian is ac-

counted great in the kingdom of God. Though the world know

nothing of him, his name shines in the honor roll of heaven, ex-

ceeding in glory the fame of all the proud and mighty potentates

of earth.