"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"Generally speaking, those that have the most grace and the greatest gifts, and are of the greatest usefulness, are the most humble , and think the most meanly of themselves.  So those boughs and branches of trees which are most richly laden with fruit bend downwards and hang lowest." -preacher John Gill (1697-1771 A.D.)

A Motto to Live By by D.G. Miles McKee   In the 1800s a man called William Miller became convinced that Christ would return in the year 1843. When Miller announced that April 3 was the actual day of the Lord´s return many of his followers went to mountaintops, hoping for a head start to Heaven. Others were in graveyards, planning to ascend in glorious reunion with their departed loved ones. In Philadelphia society ladies clustered together outside of town to avoid entering God's kingdom amid the common herd. When April 3 came and went the Millerites were understandably disillusioned and disappointed. However, their leader had predicted a range of dates for Christ's return. They still had until March 21, 1844. Although discouraged, the devout among them continued to make ready, but again they were disappointed. A third date, October 22, was set, but it also passed with out the promised event. These Millerites got it wrong, but they got one thing right and that is,

" The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son: for he should not stay long in the place of breaking forth of children." -Hosea 13:13 [KJV] "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him" (Proverbs of Solomon 22:15.) Though God’s children are made wise unto salvation, yet folly is bound up in their nature. Their conduct discovers it, and proves the necessity of the rod of correction to drive it from them. Here is a threatening—a charge—the reason for it— and a most precious promise from the Lord .  (1st.) The threatening. God loves His children too well, to spare the rod and spoil them. “For whom the Lord loveth He correcteth: even as a father the son in whom He delighteth ” (Proverbs 3:12.) Therefore painful sorrows, like those of a travailing woman, come upon them. Nature’s pains prove nature’s remedies. The painful visitations of love, prove spiritual remedies to