A New Post

Who knows and who can tell what is in the heart and soul of a person? Only God can know with a certainty. For example Horace Mann. Many people don't even know or remember who he was. He was born in 1796. From ten years of age to twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, yet at twenty years of age he enrolled at Brown University and in three years graduated as valedictorian. He attained many interesting positions. One of his most famous accomplishments was in establishing public education. Horace Mann began his 'education reform in 1837.

One may wonder was it his struggle for an education as a young person that spurred his interest and zeal in this area? What was it that prompted his oration "The Progressive Character of the Human Race (I assume as valedictorian). 
This oration may give a clue as to his thoughts and feelings. The direction he sent public education was revolutionary and to this day its tentacles reach everywhere.

 In 1848 Karl Marx wrote/published his Communist Manifesto. As is often the case what may sound like a good idea philosophically doesn't translate well into real life, or real world experience.  Socialism isn't a good answer to any question, unless it's a question something like, 'name something you should never try in real life'. 

In 1936 George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War. He became a life long anti-Stalinist. In 1945 he wrote 'Animal Farm', a novel about Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution. Toward the end of his life he wrote his famous '1984' which detailed a chilling account of what life would become under a totalitarian regime.  

  Charles Darwin published his Origin of the Species in1859. This work published as if there were actual evidence and a fossil record has been a great disservice to this nation and indeed to the entire world. In 1924, for instance, the horrendous murder committed by Leopold and Loeb in Chicago is termed the tragedy of three lost lives. The two murderers (Leopold and Loeb) were defended by Clarence Darrow. Part of Darrow's defense was that the two young men were not accountable because: 

'the infinite forces that conspired to form him [Richard Loeb in this instance], the infinite forces that were at work producing him ages before he was born, that because out of these infinite combinations he was born with out it? If he is, then there should be a new definition for justice. Is he to blame for what he did not have and never had? Is he to blame that his machine is imperfect?'

In other words—they couldn't help themselves because of their evolutionary journey, as Darrow says: 

'This weary old world goes on, begetting, with birth and with living and with death; and all of it is blind from the beginning to the end. I do not know what it was that made these boys do this mad act, but I do know there is a reason for it. I know they did not beget themselves.'

Many have lived and died honorably. In recent news articles have highlighted people who have received medals of honor for heroic deeds. None of us are chance evolutionary objects with no will, no sense of right or wrong—with no sense of choice.

"But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me." (Job 19:25-27 ASV)

Hallelujah! What a Savior!