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Personal comments made by David F. Reagan unless otherwise stated

 

FEBRUARY , 2005

 

 

 

 

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February 28, 2005

 

Practice, Practice, Practice – Concerning the ability of musicians, “studies have found a strong correlation between quality of performance and amount of practice. At one noted conservatory, the best violinists had practiced 7,400 hours prior to entry; the average, 5,300 hours; the worst, 3,400 hours. The best players practiced at the same time every day, practiced in the mornings, and took few or no days off. Studies of athletes have found similar trends, with the superstars typically practicing a quarter more than those an echelon below.” We should apply this to our spiritual lives. If we would live godly, we must exercise ourselves in godliness (1Timothy 4:7-8). Hebrews 5:14 especially applies: “But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” –from Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy by Robert Jourdain (p.233).

 

Noah, Daniel, and Job – Ezekiel 14:20 makes an reference to a time so bleak that even three of the most celebrated saints of the past could not keep Jerusalem from destruction: “Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.” These three men lived at different times and under different circumstances. “It is quite interesting that God would choose the three: Noah, Daniel and Job. It is evident that Noah faced the world; Daniel, the flesh; and Job, the Devil.” Careful studies of their life show that each of these men faced a particular battle with one of these enemies that we face. Their responses show us how to deal with each one of these—the world, the flesh, and the devil—and have the victory. May we learn from their examples. –from Soul-Winning: The Challenge of the Hour by Leon F. Maurer (p.93).

 

February 25, 2005

 

I Cannot Tell Why – Englishman Rowland Hill (1744-1833) was known as a great preacher and winner of souls. In his early years, he corresponded with George Whitefield and strengthened the evangelical branch of the Anglican Church. He a master in the craft of sermon-making, always drawing “his sermon fresh from a prayerful reading of the Bible.” He died in his eighty-ninth year. Shortly before he passed away, he was heard singing the following hymn as he walked through the chapel.

 

            And when I die…receive me, I’ll cry,

            For Jesus has loved me, I cannot tell why;

            But this I can find, We two are so joined,

            He’ll not be in heaven and leave me behind.

 

--from The Company of the Preachers by David L. Larsen (p.401).

 

 

Living by God’s Priorities – “Our stature as men and women, certainly our stature as Christians, will be determined exactly and entirely by our skill in selecting. If we give top priority to those pursuits which should have low priority, if we ‘major in minors,’ if we show a ‘first-rate dedication to second-rate causes,’ if we allow friends and impulse and the convenience of the moment to dictate our priorities, while we weakly drift with the tide of daily circumstances, we will be shabby, mediocre, and ineffective persons.” –from The Disciplined Life by Richard S. Taylor (p.36-37).

 

 

February 23, 2005

 

Importance of Good Counsel – “No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.” –by Ben Jonson (1573-1637).

 

Where It All Ends – “Man’s course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.” –from MacLaren’s 1024 Best Illustrations (p.4).

 

Balance in Child-Rearing – “We have found, through many years of experience and careful observation, that the real secret of successful training lies in the proper adjustment of firmness and tenderness… In a word, firmness and tenderness are the two essential ingredients in all sound education; a firmness which the child will not dare to question; a tenderness which takes account of the child’s every real want and right desire. It is sad indeed if the idea which a child forms of parental authority be that of arbitrary interference with, or a cold indifference to, his little wishes and wants. It is not thus our heavenly Father deals with us; and He is to be our model in this as in all beside. If it be written, and it is written, ‘Children obey your parents in all things’; it is also, in beautiful adjusting power, written, ‘Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged.’… In short, the child must be taught to obey; but the obedient child must be allowed to breathe an atmosphere of tenderness, and to walk up and down in the sunshine of parental affection. This is the spirit of Christian education.” –from Miscellaneous Writings by C. H. Mackintosh (p.181).

 

 

February 22, 2005

 

Bearing Affliction – “One in affliction, when asked how he bore it so well, replied, ‘It lightens the stroke to draw near to him who handles the rod.’ ” May we draw near to God in order to lessen the pain of chastisement. –from New Encyclopedia of Prose Illustrations (p.17).

 

English for the World – A recent New York Times article (February 15, 2005) tells of the decision of Mongolia to push English as the primary foreign language learned in the country. In order to make this happen, Mongolia is seeking 2,000 foreign English teachers. This matches a trend toward English as a second language throughout the world. In South Korea, “English villages” are being set up where Koreans can spend weeks with English speakers where even the architecture and road signs are Western. In Iraq, a growing movement exists to add English as one of the official languages. Chile has established a program to teach English in all elementary and high schools. English is becoming the dominant language in the European Union. The Netherlands and the countries of Scandinavia have already become proficient in English. This puts the English language in a position of prominence around the world exceeding any time since the Tower of Babel. This is a great time to be telling the world about Jesus Christ. So many can hear it today in one language—English.

 

 

February 21, 2005

 

Convict the Saints First – Evangelist Mordecai Ham served as a famous Baptist preacher in the southern United States during the first half of the 20th century. His meetings would often last for weeks and they operated according to a plan. “ ‘I started my meetings,’ Mr. Ham states, ‘With preaching intended to convict folk of their sins. First, I had to clean up all the backslidden church members; then, after I had them thoroughly convicted and in a praying disposition, I could start on the sinners and take the hide off them. In some of our longer meetings I had to preach several weeks before giving an invitation. I offered, at first, propositions that I knew my hearers would not accept so that the conviction in their hearts would be deepened. When we finally did give an invitation, it was like the opening of a mighty dam. We have had over a thousand respond in one service.’ ” –from A Biography of M. F. Ham by E. E. Ham (p.47).

 

Much of the World, Little of Christ – As men and women continually increase their activities in the world, even of things that seem innocent, they will find themselves more and more drawn away from Christ. As “men’s diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the world than they can well manage, they shall have more to do from Satan than they can well withstand. When men are made spiritually faint, by dealing in and with the world, Satan sets on them, as Amalek did on the faint and weak of the people that came out of Egypt.” –from Temptation and Sin by John Owen (p.296).

 

 

February 20, 2005

 

Changing Earthly Events into Spiritual Lessons – Jesus used the normal happenings and objects around Him to teach heavenly truths. “It was the practice of our Saviour, who left us a blessed pattern therein, to be always furthering godliness. When bread was mentioned to him, upon it he dissuaded his disciples from the leaven of the Pharisees (Matthew 16:5-6). When water was denied him by the Samaritan woman, he forgets his thirst, and seeks to draw her to the well-spring of happiness (John 4:10). When people came to him for bodily cures, how constantly doth he mind the safety of their souls: ‘Thou art made whole, go sin no more,’ or, ‘Thy sins are forgiven thee.’ –from The Works of George Swinnock (p.43).

 

A Candle Goes Out – “On the last evening of his life [in 1770] George Whitefield started to mount the stairs of the Presbyterian manse at Newburyport, Massachusetts. Though but fifty-five, he was tired and weak, utterly worn out from his lifetime of evangelistic labours, and for days had been so infirm that he ought not to have left his bed. But as he ascended the stairs people came pressing in at the door, begging to hear the Gospel from his lips once more. In response he paused on the landing and began to preach.

 

There he stood, candle in hand, and such was his zeal that he spoke on, heedless of the passing of time, till the candle finally flickered, burned itself out in its socket and died away. That candle was strikingly representative of Whitefield’s life – a life that in its holy burning had long given forth brilliant light and constant heat, but burned its last that night.” George Whitefield died early the next morning on a Sunday morning. May our lives too burn brightly for God until they burn out. –from George Whitefield: Volume 1 by Arnold Dallimore (p.37).

 

 

February 18, 2005

 

Alliteration Atrocities – Alliteration refers to the practice of many preachers to have their sermon points all begin with the same letter or sound. For example: the Person of Christ; the Presence of Christ; the Power of Christ. Author and pastor Martyn Lloyd-Jones “had no great affection for alliteration and could be quite critical of it, especially when it was contrived. ‘We not only have our points, our numbers, but we will insist on having alliteration as well, as we almost force the truth into our little system of five p’s and five s’s, or whatever it is.’ He went on to say that, though it might look neat, is might well be ‘the neatness of death’.” –from The Sacred Anointing by Tony Sargent (p.111).

 

Flirting with Apostleship – In October of 1774, an associational meeting of Separate Baptists in Virginia resolved that all of the offices of Ephesians 4:11, including those of apostles and prophets, “are now in use in Christ’s church… It was further resolved that the said offices be immediately established, by the appointment of certain persons to fill them.” They proceeded to elect Elder Samuel Harriss as an apostle and ordained him to this office. At a later meeting, John Waller and Elijah Craig were also appointed as apostles. However, many opposed this decision and the Baptist churches did not accept the restoration of apostles. The report of the “apostles” at the next associational meeting was quite discouraging. In the end, “it was agreed that the office of apostles, like that of prophets, was the effect of miraculous inspiration and did not belong to ordinary times.” Thus, the flirtation of early American Baptist with the office of apostle ended. –taken from History of the Baptists in Virginia (p.80-82) by Robert Baylor Semple.

 

 

February 17, 2005

 

Stay Alert for the Next Attack – “When you have, through the strength of Christ, mortified one sin or resisted one temptation, do not sit down and think your work is done, but expect another combat. Your corruption will come afresh upon you again. The devil will still be plotting against you, and sending one temptation after another to foil you if he can. God suffers him to do this in a great deal of wisdom, to try us and humble us and let us see what continual cause we have of standing upon our guard and keeping a constant watch over our own hearts. As long as we live we shall stand in need of mortifying grace.” –from The Mortified Christian by Christopher Love (p.23).

 

Misuse of Scriptural Impressions – It is not God’s “work to make any new revelation to the soul of things not proveable from Scripture, which is the case when he is supposed to reveal to us that we are the children of God by suggesting some passage of Scripture to our minds…I have known many ill consequences arise from a dependence on such kind of impressions. Christians have been thereby led into error and misconduct. When they have been at a loss about the path of duty in any particular case, they have had such a passage as this suggested to them—‘This is the way, walk ye in it’ (Isaiah 30:21)—and have concluded that that way which they were thinking of at the time such a passage occurred to their minds, must be the way of duty, and so have followed it, but which has often proved to be the wrong way.” –from The Armies of the Lamb: The Spirituality of Andrew Fuller (p.121), a letter of January, 1792, from the Baptist pastor Andrew Fuller to a member of his church.

 

 

February 16, 2005

 

Fine Flour of the Meat Offering – The life of Jesus Christ is typified by the meat offering of Leviticus 2. This meat offering was to be made of “fine flour” (Leviticus 2:1). “In fine flour there is no unevenness, fit emblem of what Jesus was. In Him there was no unevenness. Perhaps in no one respect does He stand out more in contrast to His best and most beloved servants. Jesus was always even, always the same, unchanged by circumstances. In Him one day’s walk never contradicted another, one hour’s service never clashed with another. In Him every grace was in its perfectness, none in excess, none out of place, none wanting. Firm, unmoved, elevated, He was yet the meek, the gentle, the humble One. In Him firmness never degenerated into obstinacy, or calmness into stoical indifference. His gentleness never became a weakness, or His elevation of soul forgetfulness of others. With us our very graces are uneven, and clash and jostle with each other. Our very attempts to live and die for Him who loved us only shew how unlike Him we are.” –from The Law of the Offerings by Andrew Jukes (p.83). 

 

Brain-Damaged But Not Brain-Dead – In The New York Times article “New Signs of Awareness Seen in Some Brain-Injured Patients” (Tuesday, February 8, 2005), Benedict Carey reports that being brain-damaged and unable to respond to others does not mean that the patient is unable to hear and understand what is going on around them. The journal Neurology reports findings from a new brain-imaging study that demonstrates the awareness of many who are seriously brain-damaged. They have been treated as if they were not there, when all the while they may be acutely aware of what is going on around them. This study is relevant to euthanasia arguments in favor of starving patients like Terri Schiavo of Florida. Schiavo has been in the news recently because of Governor Jeb Bush’s attempts to spare her life. This study reminds us of the importance of allowing God to make such life and death decisions (Deuteronomy 32:29) instead of thinking that we can act as if we were gods.

 

 

February 15, 2005

 

Lesson of the Scrambled Eggs – Evangelist Gipsy Smith (1860-1947) grew up in a Gypsy family in England. He told this story from his youth. "One day I found a hen camping out in the ditch, and there was like a nest full of eggs there.  I was very indignant with that hen for straying so far from the farmyard.  I considered that her proceedings were irregular and unauthorized.  As to the eggs, the position to meet was quite clear.  I had found them.  I had not gone into the farmyard and pilfered them.  On the other hand, they had put themselves in my way, and I naturally thought they were mine, and so I filled my pockets with them.  I was sorry that I had to leave some of these eggs, but I could not help it.  The capacity of my pockets in my new trousers was less generous than in the old ones.  My next difficulty was how to get out of the ditch without breaking any of the eggs. But I was a youngster of resource and managed it.  And now I had to take my way across a plowed field.  This meant some very delicate pedestrian work.  Then I heard a man shout, and I thought that he wanted me, but I did not desire to give him an interview.  So I ran, and as I ran I fell; and when I fell the eggs all cracked.  I got up, and, looking around, saw nobody.  The man who I thought was pursuing me was only shouting to a man in another field.  It is truly written, 'The wicked it flee when no man pursueth.'  I thought I had found these eggs, but my conscience found me.  I have never found eggs again from that day to this." –from Gipsy Smith: An Autobiography (p.44-45).

 

February 14, 2005

 

Overusing Titles for God in Prayer - "Many, perhaps most people who pray in public, have some favorite word or expression, which recurs too often in their prayers, and is frequently used as a mere expletive, having no necessary connection with the sense of what they're speaking.  The most disagreeable of these is, when the name of the blessed God, with the addition of perhaps one or more epithets, as, Great, Glorious, Holy, Almighty, etc. is introduced so often, and without necessity, as seems neither to indicate a due reference in the person who uses it, nor suited to excite reverence in those who hear.  I will not say, that this is taking the name of God in vain, in the usual sense of the phrase: it is, however, a great impropriety, and should be guarded against.  It would be well if they who use redundant expressions had a friend to give them a caution, as they might with a little care be retrenched; and hardly any person can be sensible of the little peculiarities he may inadvertently adopt, unless he is told of it." –from The Works of John Newton: Volume 1 (p.264-265).

 

This Is Not Made Up – According to the book Pioneer Baptist Church Records of South-Central Kentucky: 1799-1899 (p.145), two Baptist churches located near Difficult Creek in the Barren River area of Kentucky were called Lower Difficult Church and Upper Difficult Church. In 1803, a petition from Upper Difficult sought “for helps in her distress with Lower Difficult Church.” A minute from 1804 reads, “the brethren sent to Upper Difficult Church, report that a reconciliation between the two churches at odds has happily taken place.” This is the last record anyone has of Lower Difficult Church. We would like to think that the churches dissolved all their difficulties and united as one.

 

 

February 13, 2005

 

Judgment Comes to All Men – Some “Scriptures lie neglected for this offence: they reveal the severity of God which is distasteful to the flabby ‘believeism’ of this hour. Judgment comes under this classification of rejected or neglected truth. If the modernists reiterate that the love of God cannot be overstated, they need to be reminded that the justice of God cannot be understated. The fact that all men are judgment-bound is the most sobering thought I know.” –from Meat for Men by Leonard Ravenhill (p.15-16).

 

Frank Talk About Frankness – “Some people pride themselves on their frankness. ‘I say what I think,’ they boast. So does the fool, according to the Bible: ‘A fool uttereth all his mind.’ Frankness is indeed a virtue when coupled with intelligent, loving tact and discretion. But it becomes a sadistic vice when it is merely the unbridled eruptings of opinions without regard to times and places or human feelings. ‘There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health’ (Proverbs 12:18). It often takes a far higher display of discipline to refrain from speaking than it does to speak. Forbearance is a Christian virtue, even as is frankness.” –from The Disciplined Life by Richard S. Taylor (p.35).

 

 

February 10, 2005

 

Motives for Advice – “Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.” –by Francois Rochefoucauld (1630-1680).

 

Five-Letter Word – “There is a wide-spread unwillingness to say the word ‘Death.’ It falls on men’s hearts like clods on a coffin—so all people and languages have adopted euphemisms for it, fair names which wrap silk round his dart and somewhat hides his face.” –from MacLaren’s 1024 Best Illustrations (p.4).

 

 

February 8, 2005

 

Proper Use of Parental Authority – “Are we then to be continually chucking the reins and brandishing the rod? By no means. This would be to break the spirit of the child, instead of subduing his will. Where parental authority is thoroughly established, the reins may lie gently on the neck, and the rod be allowed to stand in the corner. The child should be taught, from his earliest hour, that the parent only wills his good, but the parent’s will must be supreme. Nothing is simpler. A look is enough for a properly trained child. There is no need whatever to be continually hawking our authority; indeed nothing is more contemptible whether in a husband, a father, or a master. There is a quiet dignity about one who really possesses authority; whereas the spasmodic efforts of weakness only draw out contempt.” –from Miscellaneous Writings by C. H. Mackintosh (p.181).

 

Forgiving But Not Clearing the Guilty – “There seems to be a difficulty in Exodus 34:6-7, where we read of a God pardoning iniquity, transgression, and sin, and yet a God who will by no means clear the guilty. A perplexing riddle indeed. If God will by no means clear the guilty, how does He pardon transgression? But His justice is as peremptory [absolute] as His mercy is free. He will no more pardon transgression without due compensation to His justice than He will condemn the sinner who by faith lays hold on that compensation which His wisdom has provided, and His grace offered in the gospel. Here then, mercy and truth are met together. And all the attributes of God sweetly embrace and harmoniously agree when the satisfaction of one makes way for the exerting and exercising of the other (Psalm 85:10).” –from Practical Godliness: The Ornament of All Religion by Vincent Alsop (p.15).

 

 

February 7, 2005

 

Keep Control of the Horse of your Emotions – “He that rideth a fierce horse, let the horse keep what pace he will, so long as the rider commands him by the bridle, we say he rides strongly; but if the horse get the bit in his mouth, and run away, the faster his pace, the weaker the rider, because he cannot check him. Our affections are just like that fierce horse, and our reason should be as a strong bridle, stir they never so much: if reason command, we are strong; but if reason have not power, and our affections run loose, then, certainly, the more violent we are, the more weak we are.” –by Spencer from New Encyclopedia of Prose Illustrations (p.17).

 

Attack Sin in Its First Motions – “Take heed of suffering sin to remain long in your heart without control, but labor to mortify it in its very first motions. When your nature first begins to close with a sin, then labor to root it out; for it’s easier to keep sin out of our souls than it is to drive out sin once it has gotten into our hearts. Sin is like a serpent, which, if he can but get his head into any place, he will soon wind in his whole body. If we cherish and give entertainment to the first motions and inclinations of sin, it will quickly insinuate itself unto us. Sin is like the overflowing of a mighty river: once the water has made a breach in the bank, if it is not presently stopped, it will soon overflow the while meadow. If we let sin alone in its first motions, it will quickly overrun the whole man.” –from The Mortified Christian by Christopher Love (p.23).

 

 

February 6, 2005

 

Missing Evidence for the Missing Link - Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) “was one of the first to compose the familiar phylogenetic tree, showing different groups of living beings related to each other like branches and limbs coming from a central trunk. At the top of Haeckel’s tree is found Homo sapiens. His immediate predecessor was Homo stupidus, ‘true but ignorant man.’ And before him came Pithecanthropus alalus, the ‘apeman without speech’—the missing link. Haeckel scored another first by commissioning a highly realistic painting of Pithecanthropus alalus, thus starting the longstanding tradition of presenting hypothetical human ancestors to the general public through the medium of lifelike pictures and statutes.” –from Forbidden Archeology (p.8).

 

Changing Moods – “With the changed mood may come strange impulses which we dare not heed—maybe to take a trip, or make an unwise purchase, or neglect some duty—impulses which will not pass one’s common sense in sober moments. With the changed mood also may come the temptation to let our mood show. There is danger of appearing suddenly altered in our relationships with the people around us…One day we may be optimistic, the next day pessimistic. Because our personalities cannot be relied upon for consistency, our friends do not know what to expect next. At first people are puzzled. Then they learn to say, ‘Just one of his moods’—with a hint of scorn. And they learn to be wary and apprehensive in all relationships with us, for they never quite know what mood they will find us in, or how soon our mood will change. Such a tendency to exhibit moodiness is a grave weakness. The mature person learns to apply himself to the regular tasks of life with a consistent ‘face’ in spite of varying moods.” –from The Disciplined Life by Richard S. Taylor (p.33).

 

 

February 3, 2005

 

Advice Like Snow – “Advice is like snow; the softer it falls—the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” –by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1850).

 

Work to a Great End – “All work that contributes to a great end is great; as the old rhyme has it, ‘for the want of a nail a kingdom was lost.’ ” –from MacLaren’s 1024 Best Illustrations (p.4).

 

Made by Mom and Dad – “God has put into the parents’ hands the reins of government, and the rod of authority, but if parents, through indolence, suffer the reins to drop from their hands; and if through false tenderness or moral weakness, the rod of authority is not applied, need we marvel if the children grow up in utter lawlessness? How could it be otherwise? Children are, as a rule, very much what we make them. If they are made to be obedient, they will be so; and if they are allowed to have their own way, the result will be accordingly.” –from Miscellaneous Writings by C. H. Mackintosh (p.181).

 

 

February 2, 2005

 

Mercy or Justice? – The mercy of God cannot be exalted to the point that it diminishes the justice of God. Both mercy and justice must be satisfied in the salvation of the sinner. “The minds of men are strangely deluded in this matter for, looking only upon mercy, they forget the severity of His justice; and if an imaginary mercy would but answer the ends of their presumptions, they take no further thought what becomes of the essential holiness of God. But infinite wisdom has secured and sweetly adjusted the interests of these two great attributes. Romans 3:26: ‘That He may be just, and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.’ God will justify (there’s mercy), but He will be just in justifying (there’s provision made for His justice). The justice of God is satisfied in Christ. The mercy of God is magnified on the believing sinner. Thus God will not lose His glory, and the believing sinner shall not lose his soul.” –from Practical Godliness: The Ornament of All Religion by Vincent Alsop (d.1703).

 

Would America Succeed? – In September of 1776, shortly after the American colonies had declared independence from Britain, future U. S. President John Adams and the physician/patriot Benjamin Rush sat together in Congress in Philadelphia. “Rush asked Adams in a whisper if he thought America would succeed in the struggle. ‘Yes,’ Adams replied, ‘if we fear God and repent our sins.’ ” –from John Adams by David McCullough (p.160)

 

 

February 1, 2005

 

Pope Dethroned - While reading the book, God's Secretaries -The Making of the King James Bible, I came across a most interesting quote.  With the publishing of the King James Bible it was said that "The Reformers dethroned the Pope and enthroned the Bible."  If you study the events around the year 1611 you will find that to be true.  What a great work God has done through the King James Bible.  Just a thought to leave you with....is it possible that with the new versions we have dethroned the Bible and enthroned the Scholar?  Time and time again when someone corrects the King James Bible they tell me how many languages they know.  What do you say as individuals we keep the Bible on the throne.

 

The Humanity of Christ - "We must know Jesus as once tabernacling in the flesh, and dwelling among men as man,- hallowing earthly spots with His presence- entering the dwellings of men- sitting with them at their tables- noticing and blessing their children- mingling in the scenes of domestic life- smiling upon our loves- sanctioning our marriage-feasts- healing our diseases- pitying our infirmities- weeping at our tombs- consecrating our loneliness and solitude; in a word, unvailing a bosom the perfect reflection of our own in all but its sinfulness."  The Sympathy of Christ by Octavius Winslow

 

 

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