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Reaching the head of the staircase, he looked around with sad and solemn dignity, laid aside his staff, bared his hoary locks, and was evidently on the point of commencing a prayer.

"'Reverend sir,' said his attendant, who conceived this a very suitable prelude to their further search, "'would it not be well that the people join with us in prayer?' Well, a day, cried the old clergyman, staring strangely around him, art thou here with me and none other.

Verily past times were present to me, and I deemed that I was to make a funeral prayer, as many a time heretofore from the head of the staircase.

Of truth I saw the shades of many that are gone.

Although we are equal in our standing before God, we have not all been given identical gifts, abilities, responsibilities, and assignments.

Like Reverend Dr. Markwa would say that we are equal in grace, but we are not equal in the anointing.

We are equal in grace, we are not equal in spiritual power.

We are equal in grace, we are not equal in spiritual abilities.

Hallelujah.

And I want to start by requesting that we please rise and honor our father and our mother, Reverend Dr. Sam Aboeji.

God bless you, sir, and our precious mother.

Let's give them a big God bless you.

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First, it's time for Thought for the Day.

The speaker this morning is Reverend Dr. Sam Wells, Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

Good morning.

A year ago, the Labour MP, Sir Chris Bryant, spoke in my church's autumn lecture series.

But politics isn't about turning everyone into a version of ourselves.

If it's fair to say politics is about vision, policy and compromise, the mistake arises when we forget we need all three.

That was Thought for the Day with Reverend Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Exactly.

Reverend Paul.

Yeah.

Reverend, Reverend Paul, as we always introduce you at the start of the show.

That's me.

Yeah.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Fred Abood The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization by Monsignor George F. Dillon Chapter 1 The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization Monsignor Smith, Reverend Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen, It gives me, indeed, great pleasure to to find the Catholic body in this great city possessed of such a valuable and, I may add, magnificent block of buildings as that which forms this Catholic Institute, and to know that over 900 of the Catholic Young Men of Edinburgh are gathered together by its means for mutual improvement and for moral and religious aims.

I feel proud of it, as the work of my friend and fellow student Father Hannan, your respected pastor.

I am sure his energies, which have been in other directions, in the erection and sustenance of your extensive parochial schools, for instance, so well employed, could not be afterwards put to better purpose than informing and watching over such an institution.

Cause y'all got Raphael Warnock.

Reverend.

Yes.

He be cooking.

That's not right.

But I said, Reverend so-and-so, don't you know that the Bible says that the devil can disguise himself as an angel of light? And that guy looked at me and he said, that's not in the Bible.

He said, Dante said that in Dante's Inferno.

That is a misquote of Scripture.