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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2012 13:34:13 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2012 13:35:39 GMT -5
Does the grain of wheat represent sowing the seed of the kingdom? Or a grain of wheat must fall into the ground and die? A dying life that HM lived?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2012 14:21:18 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2012 14:32:01 GMT -5
You can find the graves of William Jamieson, Don Garland, May Sylvester, and others through Find a Grave. Seems like western US worker graves display the words "faithful servant" on them. Is this universal?
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Post by eh? on Jul 30, 2012 20:22:22 GMT -5
Here's a project for someone ... links to workers grave markers
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 8:33:18 GMT -5
Seems like they despise titles but the term "servant" is used on tombstones. It may sound picky but it is a title. What is the difference with brother, pastor or "Servant"?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 8:34:36 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 8:37:33 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 8:40:24 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 8:52:41 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 9:00:14 GMT -5
Seems like they despise titles but the term "servant" is used on tombstones. It may sound picky but it is a title. What is the difference with brother, pastor or "Servant"? The enormous worker presumtion within 2x2ism that service is something reserved for their organizational 'worker' grouping. (Being a servant in any other context than self-centered 2x2ism, is open to everyone!!) An hardly is their a religious grouping that expects to be 'waited on' in the same degree as workers do!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 9:05:50 GMT -5
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Post by dmmichgood on Jul 31, 2012 10:51:37 GMT -5
Seems like they despise titles but the term "servant" is used on tombstones. It may sound picky but it is a title. What is the difference with brother, pastor or "Servant"? Quite a lot of difference, actually, in those terms.
Some churches use the term "pastor" & there is some use the word "brother" in the person's lifetime.
Within those churches there is an understanding of their meaning.
If the workers have not used those titles in lifetime, why would one want to use them when they are dead?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 11:20:53 GMT -5
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Post by nadine on Jul 31, 2012 11:29:26 GMT -5
Howard Mooney was indeed a sweetheart. I can see him sitting on the platform at Didsbury Convention singing his heart out with the most beautiful countenance "Light after darkness, peace after storm..." (hymn from old hymn book).
Thanks for sharing this image.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 11:35:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 11:39:55 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 11:40:37 GMT -5
Nadine, I never understood why Light after darkness was taken out of the 1987 hymn book. I missed it.
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Post by Dubious Disciple (xdc) on Aug 1, 2012 18:02:02 GMT -5
Howard Mooney was indeed a sweetheart. I can see him sitting on the platform at Didsbury Convention singing his heart out with the most beautiful countenance "Light after darkness, peace after storm..." (hymn from old hymn book). Thanks for sharing this image. Hey, I remember this, too! Never been to Didsbury, though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2012 10:21:37 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2012 10:50:20 GMT -5
I have read some funeral notes of her funeral where George Walker sort of "spills the beans" about the early days of the Truth; British Isles circa 1900. I think her funeral was in Richmond Virginia.
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