There is a story of a frontier settlement in the West whose people were engaged in the lumbering business. The town wanted a church, so they built one and called a minister. The preacher was well received until one day he happened to see some of his parishioners clawing onto the bank some logs that had been floating down the river from another village upstream. Each log was marked with the owner\u2019s stamp on one end. To his great distress the pastor saw his members pulling in the logs and sawing off the end where the telltale stamp appeared.<\/p>\n
The next Sunday he prepared a forceful sermon on the text \u201cThou shalt not steal.\u201d At the close of the service, his people lined up and congratulated him: \u201cWonderful message, mighty fine preaching.\u201d However, as the preacher watched the river that week he saw his parishioners continuing to steal logs. This bothered him a great deal. So he went home and worked on a sermon for the following week. The topic was \u201cThou shalt not cut off the end of thy neighbor\u2019s logs.\u201d When he got through, the church membership ran him out of town.51<\/p>\n
The hardest person to put under the correction of God\u2019s Word is yourself.52<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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