Biblical richest folks who did not lose sight/faith in God: Job [akin to today's secular Bill Gates]/Lydia of the Purple Cloth/Abraham/Isaac & Jacob/Joseph/Ezra/Daniel. http://www.danielrevelationbiblestudies.com/Lesson_41_Daniel_A_Test_of_Loyalty.htm

Isaac Watts composed “Joy to the World,” and William Tyndale was martyred for translating the Bible into English.

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Truth floats, even out of human darkness
Posted by Steven Kalas

Here is a question that I often wrestle with regarding Martin Luther King (Jr.) and any “great” man. Assuming that the following is true: “(According to) the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, in his book, “ËœAnd the Wall Came Tumbling Down,’ King spent his last night in the motel having an immoral liaison with three women and then beat one of the women in the morning before he was shot. “¦ If these allegations are true, this man should never have been put forward as a national hero.”

Does the private, hypocritical practice of a preacher (or anyone who leads) pollute or denigrate that which he preaches? “ J.D., Hilo, Hawaii.

While you did not tell me what/who you are quoting here, I have seen similar quotes over the years. If I called it “insulting crap,” I would still be guilty of irony. It is despicable and malicious. In some ways more of a slap in the face of Ralph Abernathy than of Dr. King.

I’m quoting urbanlegends.about.com:

“False. Abernathy acknowledges in his autobiography that King had a “Ëœweakness for women’ and indulged in extramarital affairs, but makes no mention whatsoever of “Ëœdrunken sex parties’ or prostitutes, and explicitly denies that King had dalliances with white women. Furthermore, Abernathy writes, far from being physically abusive, King was “Ëœalways gracious and courteous to women.’ “

What we can know, J.D., is that King was unfaithful in his marriage. Serially unfaithful.

Your use of the word “hypocritical” provokes questions for me. It’s a Greek compound, and it literally means “to play-act.” Used literally, we could only describe King’s sexual behavior to have been hypocritical if indeed we remembered him saying, “I’ve never cheated on my wife,” or if we remember him harshly condemning that behavior in someone else.

In our modern day, most people use the term “hypocritical” to refer to any behavior that doesn’t exactly match our stated values. Used that way, everyone is a hypocrite, because no human being always and in every way lives their values. For example, condescending to people doesn’t fit my values; but I am sometimes condescending. That doesn’t make me a hypocrite, merely a garden variety sinner.

Choose either definition and you’re still stuck. Either it misapprehends the term or is an observation so banal as to be nearly meaningless.

To your question: Does bad behavior have the power to pollute or denigrate what he preaches? Strictly speaking, no. Bad behavior can and does ravage our integrity. certainly our credibility. It can make our words harder to hear and our good works harder to see. But truth floats. So do beauty, brilliance and inspiration. Even when those things float out of darkness.

And maybe that’s the most uncomfortable truth in this: Truth, beauty, brilliance and inspiration tend to flow most powerfully from the brokenness in human beings. Our darkness is a part of our light. It no longer surprises me, for example, that so many of our world’s most gifted people seem so often to flounder in excesses of appetite and instinct.

Not saying those excesses are OK; just observing the facts.

Henry Ward Beecher had an affair with a parishioner, and I still think he’s the greatest American preacher in Protestant history. Paul Tillich died in the arms of a prostitute, and I still think he ranks in the top two or three among American Protestant theologians. George Washington owned slaves, and Thomas Jefferson probably sired children with one of his slaves, and I’m not wanting to remove either visage from Mount Rushmore.

Here’s what I notice: When Americans raise questions like you have raised, it almost always regards sex. When a preacher, for example, is gluttonous, emotionally dishonest and manipulative, arrogant, spiteful, envious, mean “ nobody ever wonders aloud if these sins might pollute or denigrate what he/she preaches. But sex? Well, then the very doors of hell hath opened.

President Clinton had a sexual dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, and the larger part of his presidency will be forevermore the butt of jokes. President Reagan, er, sorry, some mystery folks in the Reagan administration, er, I mean Oliver North went behind Congress’ back to trade arms for hostages and to fund Contras, and we’re pretty much OK with that. He/they/Ollie were just being benevolent and paternal, doing what was best for us.

I’m asking us to notice and examine that our acculturated hostility to sexual sin is curiously, even astoundingly disproportionate when measured against sins eminently more dangerous and destructive to the collective. I wonder why that is.

incredible reminiscences”
From John K. Wakamatsu born 1952
whose father Jack Wakamatsu 1918-2002
is among the greatest leaders humanity
has ever seen “ Jack is my alltime
442 hero “ Curtis

Curtis,

I heard war stories from my Father, Jack K. Wakamatsu, from the time I was in grammar school until he died in December 2002. I believe that I was only in the 3rd grade when my Father told me about his war time stories starting in January 1941 until he was released from Camp Carson Military Hospital located in Colorado at the end of August 1945. He said that the pain of the war was so great that he told us stories to relieve the pain. I had a conversation with Mas Miyamoto, Fox Company cook, at one of the Fox Company Reunions in Las Vegas about PTSD, and I agreed that my Father suffered in almost every part connected to PTSD. He always told me that he felt responsible for all of the men who died in Fox Company during WWII. He kept a running total of the KIA’s and said that 48 men died under his command. He also felt responsible for the hundreds of men wounded in action because of his orders during the war. I think that he had concern for his men after the war and would help any of them if they asked for his help. I heard of his concern about the men from Robert Katayama who stayed in the army and retired as a Lt. Col. I try to help the 100th/442nd Veterans because of their duty to country even if the country did not support their families.

John K. Wakamatsu

Curtis,

I thank you for publishing about my Father. He always told me that the Fox Company heroes were the ones who died on the battlefield. He also said that the medals were for the families of the dead soldiers. I have always heard from most Fox Company veterans that they did nothing in WWII, but I always said that the US Army did not give medals to the surviving soldiers for nothing. I think that the greater the deed the less has to be said.

John K. Wakamatsu

Nothing is black and white “ always twists/turns at every corner. Puritans were our greatest abolitionists, but as brilliant Pete Altomare invokes, Puritan “exceptionalism” bred the worst race bigotry [read, eugenics] sans/minus racism vs. Black people and bred the worst economic repression [read, American imperialism a la Teddy Roosevelt/Manifest Destiny antecedent] in the last 2 centuries. Paradox of fate ““

The 1925 Scopes trial capstone is that prosecutor Bryan railed vs. racial hegemony [white is
clean, black is dirty][social darwinism/master race]. Defense atty. Darrow extolled “progressive
enlightenment,” yet Bryan revoked the heresy that Negroes were monkeys, which is what “progressive
enlightenment” postulated.

Yes, our Maine Congregationalists are the Mayflower Pilgrims [fused w/later Boston Puritans], and our Maine gang created our Hawai’i Big 5 [Pilgrims C & C, A & B, AmFac--which cannibalized earlier German National Hackfeld via WWI seizure--Hackfeld the most beneficent of our cabal, and non-pilgrims C. Brewer/Theo Davies]. Our egregious negative exemplar of Pilgrim hubris is Lorrin A. Thurston, whose mantra is money is god, ergo, material wealth/hoarding are Divine Blessings. Paradox is that Lorrin also is our greatest conservationist/environmentalist, just as Teddy Roosevelt [whose intellectual roots emanate from Lorrin's Pilgrims] was both our worst imperialist and greatest ecologist. Paradox of Life “ we’re all Jekyll/Hyde. Scot Stevenson penned Jekyll/Hyde, Stevenson keen observer of Hawai’i history during Thurston/TRoosevelt era “ Stevenson greatest champion of Lepers/Beatified Sister Cope “ not to mention Stevenson’s most popular rendition of Ka’iulani.

Twist? Clarence Darrow is the popular protagonist for evolution [vs. prosecutor Bryan's antagonist Creationism] in the Scopes trial, but Darrow then handles despicable Massie in Hawai’i [2-tiered justice system][Darrow hard up for money, ruined via Great Depression]. Life is full of twists. Bryan always for the little joe/jane/Galilee fishermen, though Bryan himself progeny of Pilgrim pride. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan

Clarence Darrow direct descendant of Pilgrims. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Darrow

Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 ““ March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes Trial (1925), in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan (statesman, noted orator, and three time presidential candidate for the Democratic Party). Called a “sophisticated country lawyer”, he remains notable for his wit and agnosticism that marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians.

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 ““ July 26, 1925) was an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States (1896, 1900 and 1908). He served in Congress briefly as a representative from Nebraska and was the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1916. Bryan was a devout Presbyterian, a supporter of popular democracy, an enemy of gold, banks and railroads, a leader of the silverite movement in the 1890s, a peace advocate, a prohibitionist, and an opponent of Darwinism on religious grounds. With his deep, commanding voice and wide travels, he was one of the best known orators and lecturers of the era. Because of his faith in the goodness and rightness of the common people, he was called “The Great Commoner.”

In the intensely fought 1896 and 1900 elections, he was defeated by William McKinley but retained control of the Democratic Party. With over 500 speeches in 1896, Bryan invented the national stumping tour, in an era when other presidential candidates stayed home. In his three presidential bids, he promoted Free Silver in 1896, anti-imperialism in 1900, and trust-busting in 1908, calling on Democrats to fight the trusts (big corporations) and big banks, and embrace anti-elitist ideals of republicanism. President Wilson appointed him Secretary of State in 1913, but Wilson’s strong demands on Germany after the Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915 caused Bryan to resign in protest.

After 1920 he was a strong supporter of Prohibition and energetically attacked Darwinism and evolution, most famously at the Scopes Trial in 1925. Five days after winning the case, he died in his sleep.

Angel on our shoulder

One cannot quantify the quality of mercy, so that it is wrong to suggest that Mormon disciple Brother Yogi has the most difficult task for forgiving his father for discarding him, vs. President Reagan who, not knowing his attempted assassin John Hinckley, immediately forgave Hinckley, which President Reagan’s daughter Patti Davis says is the most amazing/remarkable thing about her dad, inasmuch President Reagan, perhaps feeling he might not survive this injury, felt it crucial to his recovery to lift the weight of anger off his shoulder by forgiving his attempted assassin. I cannot place Brother Yogi’s task to forgive over and above President Reagan’s quick forgiveness of Hinckley.
On the catch phrase “the quality of mercy,” one sees that Portia in Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” says simply this: “Mercy does not come by compulsion; it comes of itself; it is spontaneous.” One cannot quantify the quality of mercy, period. Thank you, thank you, sagacious leader Malie. Malie has some kind of innate connection to Mother Nature, among other gifts/fey. For example, injured birds in the dead of nite plop down right in front of Malie, after which she heals them to fly off once again into the forest. Great storyline from movie “Avatar” “ colonizer engaged in cultural genocide vs. helpless backward people has its scout canvass the terrain, scout realizes scout is on the wrong side [when he falls in love w/a female of the "alien" race], & scout then turncoats vs. his outfit & fights for the underdog, so to speak. Reprise of scintillating theme from Tom Cruise’s “The Last Samurai”/Kevin Costner’s “Dances w/Wolves”/Val Kilmer’s “Thunderheart,” to name a few blockbusters from the recent past. Crucible of star-crossed lovers the basis for the “turnaround” to righteousness [metaphysically] “”From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross’d lovers, take their life.” Romeo & Juliet, destiny, baby. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-crossed Malie is real, no pretentiousness/unnecessary small talk, Malie lives in the moment. “Sublimation is the refocusing of energy away from negative outlets, toward positive ones. The individual distances him/herself and looks at one’s existence from an aesthetic point of view (e.g. writers, poets, painters).” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_crisis
This is Lala, this is John the Beloved [New Testament], this is Neytiri, the alien protagonist from the movie “Avatar.” Inspirational theme of transformation via idyllic manifestations of true love and finding meaning in one’s life. What Malie loves the most about the movie “Avatar” are the spirituality/soul inherent in both the creatures & jungle flora of mystical landform Pandora, whose creatures live in harmony with nature, worshipping a mother goddess called Eywa, who “takes no sides” [film's scriptwords] but maintains equilibrium/balance/harmony/”pono” via Her bio-botanical neural network to which Pandoran organisms are connected. Ironically, “Avatar” creator James Cameron’s promos do not accent the spiritual overlay evident in Malie’s recognition of the movie’s feature attraction, the connectedness of everything in nature/balance of nature/ecosystem. I am so lucky to have Lala express & share her heartfelt sentiments about “Avatar.” An amazing movie, an incredible experience to discuss it w/Malie. Indian Medicine Man spilled his heart to metaphysical Malie, evoking that “he wanted to tell me the truth” with no malice in his heart, about the massacre of Indians by the White Man. That the Indian Medicine Man did not want history to repeat itself with Indians & other subjugated people. As Malie intones, this old wise man had loving wisdom in his heart and soul. Lala says that exposure and experience count for everything, to put together what amounts to wisdom. Malie has rubbed shoulders w/Mother Teresa [Malie's been to India/Ganges 3 times] & Steven Spielberg, but such encounters do not inflate her via celebrity/renown. Malie’s crucible is her own mortality which stares her straight in her face, which she embraces w/no fear, that she will not succumb to feed fear. Power of positive thinking exemplified magnificently. Her meditation in a Himalayan cave w/a yogi [about yoga] is about Being, back to basics, breathe and be here, inner peace/tranquility. She is a prodigy of Kigong sensei Honda, of Ki/energy flow. Lala’s dad was psychic and spoke to her of Edgar Cayce, as Malie herself is blessed w/Providential Grace. Lala has tremendous cross-cultural wisdom, having been around the world. Lala is at peace w/herself and w/God. She is humblest Moses of Scripture. Measured/stoic/mellow. Mormon bishop Aldon Nako has such quiet composure, as does advisor Dan Straight, who is blessed w/a subtle-smoldering sense of humor, incredible heart & soul all [of Jesus' servants]. Malie was an M.D. assistant in the heart transplant field. She once saw an x-ray of a heart which was on the other side of the chest. Lala says that no life should go unrecognized/undefined/purposeless. That we all have broken hearts, that these are our human condition. And that finding a positive purpose to life makes all the difference between mending a broken heart and leaving it broken. Malie uplifts the spirit, she is our comfort and redeemer. Of the flesh leaves a broken heart with nearly no way to mend. But of the spirit endows us w/the power to heal emotionally via our deepest inner Voice.

Legacy-established pillars/icons like Jimmy Yagi born 1935 don’t leave much time to think about subordinates for enshrinement.

I thank Harvey Tajiri born 1944 for having the empathy to prod me to nominate Dwight Sumida for enshrinement in our UH-Hilo Sports Hall of Fame. I don’t pay attention to jockdom at UH-Hilo. But I nominated Hamilton Manley posthumously last year for enshrinement, & I hope that the Hall of Fame selectors waive the 5 yr. waiting period after active participation in Hamilton’s matter. Hamilton was Biblical Andrew, our untold hero who was an essential pier to hoops head coach Jeff Law/Bibilical Peter before Peter’s conversion. Harvey started an overall UH-Hilo booster club [not just sports] called Hui Ka Ua [org of the nurturing rain] 4 yrs. ago, with Glen Kagamida born 1956 Kaimuki roots as an integral member. Glen is business mgr. at our UH-Hilo athletic dept. On Glen’s personal initiative, Glen re-started the “in hiatus” Hall of Fame a year ago. Congrats to Glen Kagamida, most certainly with encouragement from Harvey Tajiri!! Great!! All of the “usual suspects” long have been enshrined, such as original booster club genesis 1971 Harvey Tajiri & Jimmy Yagi [who incredulously asked Dwight, "I'll nominate you only if you want me to." How ridiculous is that -- I stopped Yagi's query in mid-breath, & told Dwight, "Look, Dwight, free country, if Yagi ain't gonna nominate you, I'll just have Tajiri do it!" To which ever-demure/reticent/bashful Dwight relented; Dwight born 1946, Mikado-handsome 6 footer, Ka'u High '64 multi-sport athlete, whose kin was my mom's boyfriend when my mom was a secretary out at Ka'u school, before my mom met my dad after WWII]. Wakaran, I tell you [cannot figure out how come these jocks don't take care one another]. I thank Harvey Tajiri for Harvey’s sensitivity/global foresight!! Harvey, no matter what people say [you're a tight okole mogul], I see the good side of you about Dwight Sumida. BTW, Dwight’s older brother Roy was an even better athlete than Dwight.

Mark Lovelace is second to Jim DeGroot as our greatest Vulcan point guard. Lovelace should’ve been enshrined in our Vulcan Sports Hall of Fame eons ago!! Jockdoms like the Vulcan gang don’t take care of each other. Why did it take a former booster icon Harvey Tajiri born 1944, instead of a Yagi born 1935, to acknowledge/recognize long-suffering unpaid asst. coach Dwight Sumida for enshrinement into the Vulcan Sports Hall of Fame, something/a venue which I have no involvement in or even care about??!! Answer: Everyone sickeningly is too self-attentive to his own legacy buildup!! I bump into Clyde Nekoba last year, so-called Winter League Baseball go-to guy for Hakalau’s Duane Kurisu. Clyde says that no way should Pete Rose be a Cooperstown Hall of Famer [moral turpitude]. Mark Lovelace never gambled on Vulcan games. Mark Lovelace has never been guilty of moral turpitude. Never!! But, as is so prevalent among us bladid J_ps, we’re a race of stinkin’ social climbers/status trippers [Hiroshima/Yamaguchi--Honshu mentality -- money is god/so are a few Uchinanchu-Okinawans, just as there are in every ethnic group/social class]. So that down & out Lovelace, for all of his basketball greatness, is persona non grata among us bladid J_ps. Do you know that our Vulcan Fab 5 over 3 decades ago actually were misfits among each other?? Meaning in a beautifully weird way “ Jay the Bird was a proud prima donna, the squad was not close-knit at all “ but each had the unifying/coalescing obsession to win, & win they did!! Amazing symbiosis of objectives among disparate personalities. BTW, Clyde Call Me Mr. Big Shot Nekoba epitomizes the materialism of our Age/Culture. So sad.

Strange as it sounds, Yagi’s erudite role models are Bobby Knight [not Knight's arrested development/anger mgmt. issues] & New Jersey product Hubie Brown. Hugh Clark & I disagree on Yagi’s core character. I pushed for Dwight Sumida’s enshrinement in our Vulcan sports hall of fame, Dwight born 1946 utterly deserving, being Yagi’s disciplinarian chief 2nd, so to speak, thruout our Vulcan glory era. Without Sumida, there would be no Vulcan Fab Five era. So I get Yagi to nominate Sumida [Yagi/Vulcan hoops-sports genesis Ramon Goya born 1941 deservedly enshrined at the HoF outset], and what does Yagi do?? Yagi asks Sumida, “Dwight, I’ll nominate you only if you want me to, okay?” WTM??!! Of course Dwight declined!! Dwight has no ego!! I ripped into Yagi, telling Yagi, “Don’t leave it up to Dwight!! You take charge, you were there to see Dwight thru the lean toughest years, Jimmy!!” So Jimmy went ahead & nominated Dwight. Sheez, so much for our legends/mythics/fantasy role models, emphasis on fantasy. Rhetorically, why didn’t Jimmy nominate Dwight amid the halcyon times that got Jimmy/Ramon/O’Rear into the Vulcan sports HoF???!! I’m no jock, I’m no Vulcan fan. I credit solely Harvey Tajiri born 1944, UH-Hilo biggest booster via his Hui Ka Ua [org of the falling rain], for prodding me to nominate the fella whose name fell thru the cracks, so to speak, Dwight Sumida. When I told Harvey how Yagi addressed the issue of Sumida, all Harvey could do was shake Harvey’s head side to side in utter shock/sadness. Emphasis on sadness.

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http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Poetry/Elegy.htm

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melacholy marked him for her own.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,
Heaven did a recompense as largely send:
He gave to Misery all he had, a tear,
He gained from Heaven (’twas all he wish’d) a friend.

No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.

By Thomas Gray (1716-71).

Gray was also known as one of the “Graveyard poets” of the late 18th century, along with Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, and Christopher Smart. Gray most likely knew these men, sharing ideas about death, mortality, and the finality and sublimity of death.

“Elegy” masterpiece
It is believed that Gray wrote his masterpiece, the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, in the graveyard of the church in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire in 1750. The poem was a literary sensation when published by Robert Dodsley in February 1751 (see 1751 in poetry) and has made a lasting contribution to English literature. Its reflective, calm and stoic tone was greatly admired, and it was pirated, imitated, quoted and translated into Latin and Greek. It is still one of the most popular and most frequently quoted poems in the English language. In 1759 during the Seven Years War, before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, British General James Wolfe is said to have recited it to his officers, adding: “Gentlemen, I would rather have written that poem than take Quebec tomorrow”. The poem’s famous depiction of an “ivy-mantled tow’r” could be a reference to the early-mideval St. Laurence’s Church in Upton, Slough.

The Elegy was recognised immediately for its beauty and skill. It contains many outstanding phrases which have entered the common English lexicon, either on their own or as referenced in other works. A few of these include:

“The paths of glory”
“Celestial fire”
“Some mute inglorious Milton”
“Far from the madding crowd”
“The unlettered muse”
“Kindred spirit”
Gray also wrote light verse, such as Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, a mock elegy concerning Horace Walpole’s cat. After setting the scene with the couplet “What female heart can gold despise? What cat’s averse to fish?”, the poem moves to its multiple proverbial conclusion: “a fav’rite has no friend”, “[k]now one false step is ne’er retrieved” and “nor all that glisters, gold”. (Walpole later displayed the fatal china vase on a pedestal at his house in Strawberry Hill.) Gray’s surviving letters also show his sharp observation and playful sense of humour. He is also well known for his phrase,

“where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise,”
This is from his 1742 (see 1742 in poetry) Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

http://www.bartleby.com/248/504.html

T’is but a Little Faded Flower

By Ellen Clementine Howarth

‘T IS but a little faded flower,
But oh, how fondly dear!
‘T will bring me back one golden hour,
Through many a weary year.
I may not to the world impart
The secret of its power,
But treasured in my inmost heart,
I keep my faded flower.

Where is the heart that doth not keep,
Within its inmost core,
Some fond remembrance, hidden deep,
Of days that are no more?
Who hath not saved some trifling thing
More prized than jewels rare”
A faded flower, a broken ring,
A tress of golden hair?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Clementine_Howarth

Ellen Clementine Howarth (born Ellen Clementine Doran in Cooperstown, New York, May 17, 1827 ““ 1899), was an American poet.

The daughter of a calico-printer, and employed in factory-work at the age of seven, she married Joseph Howarth, in the same occupation. She lived at Trenton, New Jersey, in extremely reduced circumstances until friends secured her a comfortable subsistence. She authored a volume of poems in 1867, edited by Richard Watson Gilder, and also a song “”ËœTis but a Little Faded Flower.’”

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Castle & Cooke boss Joseph Ballard Atherton 1837-1903 started Springfield MA’s YMCA here, expanded by his son Frank Atherton 1877-1945, who integrated our YMCA/is messiah to Asian immigrant progeny/was Merchant St. godfather WWI-WWII eras. Frank had Lloyd R. Killam 1885-1981 integrate our YMCA starting in 1912, Lloyd had Leigh Hooley 1898-1982 & Scot John Young 1902-1990 replace Lloyd in 1924. Curtis Iaukea, 30 yrs. Lloyd’s senior, was our walking Jesus among the teeming masses & a remarkable inspiration to us all. Leigh Hooley quipped once about Maui’s Harry Baldwin [A&B founder Henry's son], 27 yrs. Leigh’s senior, cutting in line at the plantation barber shop to cut his hair, pissing off all the plantation laborers waiting in line to cut their hair. Leigh vowed to help the powerless brown-yellow complexioned laborers attain some semblance of dignity, & brusquely called Harry to the mat on it. Harry, a Jesus-fearer at heart [missionary roots], promised that Harry would be more sensitive to the plight of the powerless. Leigh used some vim/vigor “afflict the comfortable/comfort the afflicted” Old Testament ingredients to reform Harry Baldwin.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston
The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony are sometimes confused with the Pilgrims, who founded Plymouth Colony ten years earlier in what is today Bristol County, Plymouth County, and Barnstable County, Massachusetts. The two groups, which differed in religious practice, are historically distinct. The separate colonies were not united until the formation of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_(theologian)

After a time, Roger Williams felt disappointed that the Plymouth church was not sufficiently separated from the Church of England, and his study of the Native Americans had caused him to doubt the validity of the colonial charters. Governor Bradford later wrote that Williams fell “into some strange opinions which caused some controversy between the church and him.” In December 1632 he wrote a lengthy tract which openly condemned the King’s charters and questioned the right of Plymouth (or Massachusetts) to the land without first buying it from the Indians. He charged that King James had uttered a “solemn lie” when he asserted that he was the first Christian monarch to have discovered the land.

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From esteemed man of Scripture Dean Edmoundson born 1945 — the answer is that we don’t listen. God’s unction of the Holy Spirit is not audible, but metaphysical! That’s why we
miscue the signal!! No kidding!

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