Dislocated a Shoulder While Directing<\/b><\/p>\n
Halford Lucock says, \u201cI was impressed several years ago when I read the Eugene Ormandy dislocated a shoulder while directing the Philadelphia Orchestra. I do not know what they were playing, but he was giving all of himself to it! And I have asked myself sadly, \u2018Did I ever dislocate anything, even a necktie?\u2019" <\/p>\n
Progress Magazine, December 31, 1992<\/p>\n
Are You Prepared to Meet Your God?<\/b><\/p>\n
When he pastored the Methodist church in Scarborough, William Sangster had an eccentric member who tried to be a zealous Christian. Unfortunately, the man was mentally deficient and usually did the wrong thing. While working as a barber the man lathered up a customer for a shave, came at him with the poised razor, and asked, \u201cAre you prepared to meet your God?\u201d The frightened man fled with the lather on his face! <\/p>\n
Wycliffe Handbook of Preaching & Preachers, W. Wiersbe, p. 215<\/p>\n
Zealous Men<\/b><\/p>\n
Zeal in religion is a burning desire to please God, to do His will, and to advance His glory in the world in every possible way. It is a desire which no man feels by nature-which the Spirit puts in the heart of every believer when he is converted-but which some believers feel so much more strongly than others that they alone deserve to be called \u2018zealous\u2019 men.<\/p>\n
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Characteristic of a Zealous Man<\/b><\/p>\n
A zealous man in religion is pre-eminently a man of one thing. It is not enough to say that he is earnest, hearty, uncompromising, thorough-going, whole-hearted, fervent in spirit. He only sees one thing, he cares for one thing, he lives for one thing, he is swallowed up in one thing; and that one thing is to please God. Whether he lives, or whether he dies\u2014whether he has health, or whether he has sickness\u2014whether he is rich, or whether he is poor\u2014whether he pleases man, or whether he gives offence\u2014whether he is thought wise, or whether he is thought foolish\u2014whether he gets blame, or whether he gets praise\u2014whether he get honor, or whether he gets shame\u2014for all this the zealous man cares nothing at all. <\/p>\n
He burns for one thing; and that one thing is to please God, and to advance God\u2019s glory. If he is consumed in the very burning, he cares not for it-he is content. He feels that, like a lamp, he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach, work, and give money, he will cry, and sigh, and pray…If he cannot fight in the valley with Joshua, he will do the work of Moses, Aaron, and Hur, on the hill (Exodus 17:9\u201313). If he is cut off from working himself, he will give the Lord no rest till help is raised up from another quarter, and the work is done. This is what I mean when I speak of \u2018zeal\u2019 in religion.<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
Resource<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 J. C. Ryle, in Practical Religion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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