Wrongs that threaten our country's stability

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Proverbs 13:2 says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” A famous preacher once gave a fiery homily to a class of pre-schoolers. He extolled the virtues of heaven, painting a mental picture in stark relief against hell. “Heaven,” he said, “is paved with gold. There is no night there, only endless days of rapturous joy. Hell, on the other hand,” he thundered, “is composed of burning sulphur, brimstone and infinite darkness.”

After the sermon, he asked all the children who wanted to go to heaven to raise their hands. All did save for one little boy who sat arms folded. “Johnny,” the preacher asked, “don’t you want to go to heaven like all the other kids?” Johnny replied, “Yes I do, but my mother told me to go straight home after Sunday school.”