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7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations."
6 Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people—
6 "Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—
7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations."
8 The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
"Yet I will gather to him
Others besides those who are gathered to him."
1 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the LORD's house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And peoples shall flow to it.
2 Many nations shall come and say,
"Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths."
For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,
Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?
10 Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.
1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry.
Although the work in foreign fields has not advanced as it should have advanced, yet that which has been accomplished affords reason for gratitude and ground for encouragement. Much less means has been spent in these fields than in the home fields, and the work has been done under the hardest pressure and without proper facilities. Yet, considering the help that has been sent to these fields, the result is indeed surprising. Our missionary suc-cess has been fully proportionate to our self-denying, self-sacrificing effort. God alone can estimate the work accomplished as the gospel message has been proclaimed in clear, straight lines. New fields have been entered, and aggressive work has been done. The seeds of truth have been sown, the light has flashed upon many minds, bringing enlarged views of God and a more correct estimate as to the character to be formed. Thousands have been brought to a knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus. They have been imbued with the faith that works by love and purifies the soul.
The value of these spiritual advantages is beyond our comprehension. What line can sound the depths of the word preached? What balances can correctly weigh the influence of those who are converted to the truth? In their turn they become missionaries to work for others. In many places houses of worship have been erected. The Bible, the precious Bible, is stud-ied. The tabernacle of God is with men, and He dwells with them.
Let us rejoice that a work which God can approve has been done in these fields. In the name of the Lord let us lift up our voices in praise and thanksgiving for the results of work abroad.
And still our General, who never makes a mistake, says to us: Advance. Enter new territory. Lift up the standard in every land. 'Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.'"
Our watchword is to be: Onward, ever onward. The angels of God will go before us to pre-pare the way. Our burden for the "regions beyond" can never be laid down until the whole earth shall be lightened with the glory of the Lord. The missionary spirit needs to be re-vived in our churches. Every member of the church should study how to help forward the work of God, both in home missions and in foreign countries. Scarcely a thousandth part of the work is being done that ought to be done in missionary fields. God calls upon His work-ers to annex new territory for Him. There are rich fields of toil waiting for the faithful work-er. And ministering angels will co-operate with every member of the church who will labor unselfishly for the Master.
The church of Christ on earth was organized for missionary purposes, and the Lord desires to see the entire church devising ways and means whereby high and low, rich and poor, may hear the message of truth. Not all are called to personal labor in foreign fields, but all can do something by their prayers and their gifts to aid the missionary work.
An American businessman who was an earnest Christian, in conversation with a fellow worker remarked that he himself worked for Christ twenty-four hours of the day. "In all my business relations," he said, I try to represent my Master. As I have opportunity, I try to win others to Him. All day I am working for Christ. And at night, while I sleep, I have a man work-ing for Him in China." Monday – Woe Unto Thee!
20 Then He began to rebuke the cities in which most of His mighty works had been done, because they did not repent: 21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24 But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you."
25 But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; 26 but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."
28 So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,29 and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. 30 Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.
11 Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. 12 Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. 13 And they lifted up their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"
14 So when He saw them, He said to them, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.
15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, 16 and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan.
17 So Jesus answered and said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?18 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?" 19 And He said to him, "Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well."
16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
20 Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.21 Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus.
23 But Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. 24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.
27 "Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify Your name."
Then a voice came from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it and will glorify it again."
29 Therefore the people who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to Him."
30 Jesus answered and said, "This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake.31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. 32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself."
25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
35 Then the Jews said among themselves, "Where does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
48 Then the Jews answered and said to Him, "Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?"
12 And again, Isaiah says:
"There shall be a root of Jesse;
And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles,
In Him the Gentiles shall hope."
7 And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
52 and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather
together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
53 Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: the same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus."
At this time Christ's work bore the appearance of cruel defeat. He had been victor in the controversy with the priests and Pharisees, but it was evident that He would never be received by them as the Messiah. The final separation had come. To His disciples the case seemed hopeless. But Christ was approaching the consummation of His work. The great event which concerned not only the Jewish nation, but the whole world, was about to take place. When Christ heard the eager request, "We would see Jesus," echoing the hungering cry of the world, His countenance lighted up, and He said, "The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified." In the request of the Greeks He saw an earnest of the results of His great sacrifice.
These men came from the West to find the Saviour at the close of His life, as the wise men had come from the East at the beginning. At the time of Christ's birth the Jewish people were so engrossed with their own ambitious plans that they knew not of His advent. The magi
from a heathen land came to the manger with their gifts, to worship the Saviour. So these Greeks, representing the nations, tribes, and peoples of the world, came to see Jesus. So the people of all lands and all ages would be drawn by the Saviour's cross. So shall many "come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven." Matt. 8:11.
The Greeks had heard of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Some supposed, and had circulated the report, that He had driven the priests and rulers from the temple, and that He was to take possession of David's throne, and reign as king of Israel. The Greeks longed to know the truth in regard to His mission. "We would see Jesus," they said. Their desire was granted. When the request was brought to Jesus, He was in that part of the temple from which all except Jews were excluded, but He went out to the Greeks in the outer court, and had a personal interview with them.
The hour of Christ's glorification had come. He was standing in the shadow of the cross, and the inquiry of the Greeks showed Him that the sacrifice He was about to make would bring many sons and daughters to God. He knew that the Greeks would soon see Him in a position they did not then dream of. They would see Him placed beside Barabbas, a robber and murderer, who would be chosen for release before the Son of God. They would hear the people, inspired by the priests and rulers, making their choice. And to the question, "What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?" the answer would be given, "Let Him be crucified." Matt. 27:22. By making this propitiation for the sins of men, Christ knew that His kingdom would be perfected, and would extend throughout the world. He would work as the Restorer, and His Spirit would prevail. For a moment He looked into futurity, and heard the voices proclaiming in all parts of the earth, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." John 1:29. In these strangers He saw the pledge of a great harvest, when the partition wall between Jew and Gentile should be broken down, and all nations, tongues, and peoples should hear the message of salvation. The anticipation of this, the consummation of His hopes, is expressed in the words, "The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified." But the way in which this glorification must take place was never absent from Christ's mind. The gathering in of the Gentiles was to follow His approaching death. Only by His death could the world be saved. Like a grain of wheat, theSon of man must be cast into the ground and die, and be buried out of sight; but He was to live again.
Christ presented His future, illustrating it by the things of nature, that the disciples might understand. The true result of His mission was to be reached by His death. "Verily, verily, I say unto you," He said, "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." When the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it springs up, and bears fruit. So the death of Christ would result in fruit for the kingdom of God. In accordance with the law of the vegetable kingdom, life was to be the result of His death.
Those who till the soil have the illustration ever before them. Year by year man preserves his supply of grain by apparently throwing away the choicest part. For a time it must be hidden under the furrow, to be watched over by the Lord. Then appears the blade, then the ear, and then the corn in the ear. But this development cannot take place unless the grain is buried out of sight, hidden, and to all appearance, lost.
The seed buried in the ground produces fruit, and in turn this is planted. Thus the harvest is multiplied. So the death of Christ on the cross of Calvary will bear fruit unto eternal life. The contemplation of this sacrifice will be the glory of those who, as the fruit of it, will live through the eternal ages.
The grain of wheat that preserves its own life can produce no fruit. It abides alone. Christ could, if He chose, save Himself from death. But should He do this, He must abide alone. He could bring no sons and daughters to God. Only by yielding up His life could He impart life to humanity. Only by falling into the ground to die could He become the seed of that vast harvest,--the great multitude that out of every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, are redeemed to God.
With this truth Christ connects the lesson of self-sacrifice that all should learn: "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal." All who would bring forth fruit as workers together with Christ must first fall into the ground and die. The life must be cast into the furrow of the world's need. Self-love, self-interest, must perish. And the law of self-sacrifice is the law of self-preservation. The husbandman preserves his grain by casting it away. So in human life. To give is to live. The life that will be preserved is the life that is freely given in service to God and man. Those who for Christ's sake sacrifice their life in this world will keep it unto life eternal.
The life spent on self is like the grain that is eaten. It disappears, but there is no increase. A man may gather all he can for self; he may live and think and plan for self; but his life passes away, and he has nothing. The law of self-serving is the law of self-destruction.
"If any man serve Me," said Jesus, "let him follow Me; and where I am, there shall also My servant be: if any man serve Me, him will My Father honor." All who have borne with Jesus the cross of sacrifice will be sharers with Him of His glory. It was the joy of Christ in His humiliation and pain that His disciples should be glorified with Him. They are the fruit of His self-sacrifice. The outworking in them of His own character and spirit is His reward, and will be His joy throughout eternity. This joy they share with Him as the fruit of their labor and sacrifice is seen in other hearts and lives. They are workers together with Christ, and the Father will honor them as He honors His Son.
The message of the Greeks, foreshadowing as it did the gathering in of the Gentiles, brought to the mind of Jesus His entire mission. The work of redemption passed before Him, from the time when in heaven the plan was laid, to the death that was now so near at hand. A mysterious cloud seemed to enshroud the Son of God. Its gloom was felt by those near Him. He sat rapt in thought. At last the silence was broken by His mournful voice, "Now is My soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour?" In anticipation Christ was already drinking the cup of bitterness. His humanity shrank from the hour of abandonment, when to all appearance He would be deserted even by God, when all would see Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. He shrank from public exposure, from being treated as the worst of criminals, from a shameful and dishonored death. A foreboding of His conflict with the powers of darkness, a sense of the awful burden of human transgression, and the Father's wrath because of sin caused the spirit of Jesus to faint, and the pallor of death to overspread His countenance.
Then came divine submission to His Father's will. "For this cause," He said, "came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy name." Only through the death of Christ could Satan's kingdom be overthrown. Only thus could man be redeemed, and God be glorified. Jesus consented to the agony, He accepted the sacrifice. The Majesty of heaven consented to suffer as the Sin Bearer. "Father, glorify Thy name," He said. As Christ spoke these words, a response came from the cloud which hovered above His head: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." Christ's whole life, from the manger to the time when these words were spoken, had glorified God; and in the coming trial His divine-human sufferings would indeed glorify His Father's name.
As the voice was heard, a light darted from the cloud, and encircled Christ, as if the arms of Infinite Power were thrown about Him like a wall of fire. The people beheld this scene with terror and amazement. No one dared to speak. With silent lips and bated breath all stood with eyes fixed upon Jesus. The testimony of the Father having been given, the cloud lifted, and scattered in the heavens. For the time the visible communion between the Father and the Son was ended.
"The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to Him." But the inquiring Greeks saw the cloud, heard the voice, comprehended its meaning, and discerned Christ indeed; to them He was revealed as the Sent of God.
The voice of God had been heard at the baptism of Jesus at the beginning of His ministry, and again at His transfiguration on the mount. Now at the close of His ministry it was heard for the third time, by a larger number of persons, and under peculiar circumstances. Jesus had just spoken the most solemn truth regarding the condition of the Jews. He had made His last appeal, and pronounced their doom. Now God again set His seal to the mission of His Son. He recognized the One whom Israel had rejected. "This voice came not because of Me," said Jesus, "but for your sakes." It was the crowning evidence of His Messiahship, the signal from the Father that Jesus had spoken the truth, and was the Son of God.
"Now is the judgment of this world," Christ continued; "now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all unto Me. This He said, signifying what death He should die." This is the crisis of the world. If I become the propitiation for the sins of men, the world will be lighted up. Satan's hold upon the souls of men will be broken. The defaced image of God will be restored in humanity, and a family of believing saints will finally inherit the heavenly home. This is the result of Christ's death. The Saviour is lost in contemplation of the scene of triumph called up before Him. He sees the cross, the cruel, ignominious cross, with all its attending horrors, blazing with glory.
But the work of human redemption is not all that is accomplished by the cross. The love of God is manifested to the universe. The prince of this world is cast out. The accusations which Satan has brought against God are refuted. The reproach which he has cast upon heaven is forever removed. Angels as well as men are drawn to the Redeemer. "I, if I be lifted up from the earth," He said, "will draw all unto Me."
Many people were round about Christ as He spoke these words, and one said, "We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth forever: and how sayest Thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light."
"But though He had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on Him." They had once asked the Saviour, "What sign showest Thou then, that we may see, and believe Thee?" John 6:30. Innumerable signs had been given; but they had closed their eyes and hardened their hearts. Now that the Father Himself had spoken, and they could ask for no further sign, they still refused to believe.
"Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue." They loved the praise of men rather than the approval of God. To save themselves from reproach and shame, they denied Christ, and rejected the offer of eternal life. And how many through all the centuries since have been doing the same thing! To them all the Saviour's warning words apply: "He that loveth his life shall lose it." "He that rejecteth Me," said Jesus, "and receiveth not My words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." John 12:48.
Alas for those who knew not the time of their visitation! Slowly and regretfully Christ left forever the precincts of the temple.
In the story of the good Samaritan, Christ illustrates the nature of true religion. He shows that it consists not in systems, creeds, or rites, but in the performance of loving deeds, in bringing the greatest good to others, in genuine goodness.
As Christ was teaching the people, "a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted Him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" With breathless attention the large congregation awaited the answer. The priests and rabbis had thought to entangle Christ by having the lawyer ask this question. But the Saviour entered into no controversy. He required the answer from the questioner himself. "What is written in the law?" He said; "how readest thou?" The Jews still accused Jesus of lightly regarding the law given from Sinai; but He turned the question of salvation upon the keeping of God's commandments.
The lawyer said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself." Jesus said, "Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live."
The lawyer was not satisfied with the position and works of the Pharisees. He had been studying the Scriptures with a desire to learn their real meaning. He had a vital interest in the matter, and had asked in sincerity, "What shall I do?" In his answer as to the requirements
of the law, he passed by all the mass of ceremonial and ritualistic precepts. For these he claimed no value, but presented the two great principles on which hang all the law and the prophets. This answer, being commended by Christ, placed the Saviour on vantage ground with the rabbis. They could not condemn Him for sanctioning that which had been advanced by an expositor of the law.
"This do, and thou shalt live," Jesus said. He presented the law as a divine unity, and in this lesson taught that it is not possible to keep one precept, and break another; for the same principle runs through them all. Man's destiny will be determined by his obedience to the whole law. Supreme love to God and impartial love to man are the principles to be wrought out in the life.
The lawyer found himself a lawbreaker. He was convicted under Christ's searching words. The righteousness of the law, which he claimed to understand, he had not practiced. He had not manifested love toward his fellow man. Repentance was demanded; but instead of repenting, he tried to justify himself. Rather than acknowledge the truth, he sought to show how difficult of fulfillment the commandment is. Thus he hoped both to parry conviction and to vindicate himself in the eyes of the people. The Saviour's words had shown that his question was needless, since he had been able to answer it himself. Yet he put another question, saying, "Who is my neighbor?"
Among the Jews this question caused endless dispute. They had no doubt as to the heathen and the Samaritans; these were strangers and enemies. But where should the distinction be made among the people of their own nation, and among the different classes of society? Whom should the priest, the rabbi, the elder, regard as neighbor? They spent their lives in a round of ceremonies to make themselves pure. Contact with the ignorant and careless multitude, they taught, would cause defilement that would require wearisome effort to remove. Were they to regard the "unclean" as neighbors?
Again Jesus refused to be drawn into controversy. He did not denounce the bigotry of those who were watching to condemn Him. But by a simple story He held up before His hearers such a picture of the outflowing of heaven-born love as touched all hearts, and drew from the lawyer a confession of the truth.
The way to dispel darkness is to admit light. The best way to deal with error is to present truth. It is the revelation of God's love that makes manifest the deformity and sin of the heart centered in self.
"A certain man," said Jesus, "was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho; and he fell among robbers, which both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And in like manner a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side." Luke 10:30-32, R. V. This was no imaginary scene, but an actual occurrence, which was known to be exactly as represented. The priest and the Levite who had passed by on the other side were in the company that listened to Christ's words.
In journeying from Jerusalem to Jericho, the traveler had to pass through a portion of the wilderness of Judea. The road led down a wild, rocky ravine, which was infested by robbers, and was often the scene of violence. It was here that the traveler was attacked, stripped of all that was valuable, wounded and bruised, and left half dead by the wayside. As he lay thus, the priest came that way; but he merely glanced toward the wounded man. Then the Levite appeared. Curious to know what had happened, he stopped and looked at the sufferer. He was convicted of what he ought to do; but it was not an agreeable duty. He wished that he had not come that way, so that he need not have seen the wounded man. He persuaded himself that the case was no concern of his.
Both these men were in sacred office, and professed to expound the Scriptures. They were of the class specially chosen to be representatives of God to the people. They were to "have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way" (Heb. 5:2), that they might lead
men to understand God's great love toward humanity. The work they were called to do was the same that Jesus had described as His own when He said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised." Luke 4:18.
The angels of heaven look upon the distress of God's family upon the earth, and they are prepared to co-operate with men in relieving oppression and suffering. God in His providence had brought the priest and the Levite along the road where the wounded sufferer lay, that they might see his need of mercy and help. All heaven watched to see if the hearts of these men would be touched with pity for human woe. The Saviour was the One who had instructed the Hebrews in the wilderness; from the pillar of cloud and of fire He had taught a very different lesson from that which the people were now receiving from their priests and teachers. The merciful provisions of the law extended even to the lower animals, which cannot express in words their want and suffering. Directions had been given to Moses for the children of Israel to this effect: "If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him." Ex. 23:4, 5. But in the man wounded by robbers, Jesus presented the case of a brother in suffering. How much more should their hearts have been moved with pity for him than for a beast of burden! The message had been given them through Moses that the Lord their God, "a great God, a mighty, and a terrible," "doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger." Wherefore He commanded, "Love ye therefore the stranger." "Thou shalt love him as thyself." Deut. 10:17-19; Lev. 19:34.
Job had said, "The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler." And when the two angels in the guise of men came to Sodom, Lot bowed himself with his face toward the ground, and said, "Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night." Job 31:32; Gen. 19:2. With all these lessons the priest and the Levite were familiar, but they had not brought them into practical life. Trained in the school of national bigotry, they had become selfish, narrow, and exclusive. When they looked upon the wounded man, they could not tell whether he was of their nation or not. They thought he might be of the Samaritans, and they turned away.
In their action, as Christ had described it, the lawyer saw nothing contrary to what he had been taught concerning the requirements of the law. But now another scene was presented:
A certain Samaritan, in his journey, came where the sufferer was, and when he saw him, he had compassion on him. He did not question whether the stranger was a Jew or a Gentile. If a Jew, the Samaritan well knew that, were their condition reversed, the man would spit in his face, and pass him by with contempt. But he did not hesitate on account of this. He did not consider that he himself might be in danger of violence by tarrying in the place. It was enough that there was before him a human being in need and suffering. He took off his own garment with which to cover him. The oil and wine provided for his own journey he used to heal and refresh the wounded man. He lifted him on his own beast, and moved slowly along with even pace, so that the stranger might not be jarred, and made to suffer increased pain. He brought him to an inn, and cared for him through the night, watching him tenderly. In the morning, as the sick man had improved, the Samaritan ventured to go on his way. But before doing this, he placed him in the care of the innkeeper, paid the charges, and left a deposit for his benefit; and not satisfied even with this, he made provision for any further need, saying to the host, "Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee."
The story ended, Jesus fixed His eyes upon the lawyer, in a glance that seemed to read his soul, and said, "Which of these three, thinkest thou, proved neighbor unto him that fell among the robbers?" Luke 10:36, R. V.
The lawyer would not, even now, take the name Samaritan upon his lips, and he made answer, "He that showed mercy on him." Jesus said, "Go, and do thou likewise."
Thus the question, "Who is my neighbor?" is forever answered. Christ has shown that our neighbor does not mean merely one of the church or faith to which we belong. It has no reference to race, color, or class distinction. Our neighbor is every person who needs our help. Our neighbor is every soul who is wounded and bruised by the adversary. Our neighbor is everyone who is the property of God.
In the story of the good Samaritan, Jesus gave a picture of Himself and His mission. Man had been deceived, bruised, robbed, and ruined by Satan, and left to perish; but the Saviour had compassion on our helpless condition. He left His glory, to come to our rescue. He found us ready to die, and He undertook our case. He healed our wounds. He covered us with His robe of righteousness. He opened to us a refuge of safety, and made complete provision for us at His own charges. He died to redeem us. Pointing to His own example, He says to His followers, "These things I command you, that ye love one another." "As I have loved you, that ye also love one another." John 15:17; 13:34.
The lawyer's question to Jesus had been, "What shall I do?" And Jesus, recognizing love to God and man as the sum of righteousness, had said, "This do, and thou shalt live." The Samaritan had obeyed the dictates of a kind and loving heart, and in this had proved himself a doer of the law. Christ bade the lawyer, "Go, and do thou likewise." Doing, and not saying merely, is expected of the children of God. "He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked." 1 John 2:6.
The lesson is no less needed in the world today than when it fell from the lips of Jesus. Selfishness and cold formality have well-nigh extinguished the fire of love, and dispelled the graces that should make fragrant the character. Many who profess His name have lost sight of the fact that Christians are to represent Christ. Unless there is practical self-sacrifice for the good of others, in the family circle, in the neighborhood, in the church, and wherever we may be, then whatever our profession, we are not Christians.
Christ has linked His interest with that of humanity, and He asks us to become one with Him for the saving of humanity. "Freely ye have received," He says, "freely give." Matt. 10:8. Sin is the greatest of all evils, and it is ours to pity and help the sinner. There are many who err, and who feel their shame and their folly. They are hungry for words of encouragement. They look upon their mistakes and errors, until they are driven almost to desperation. These souls we are not to neglect. If we are Christians, we shall not pass by on the other side, keeping as far as possible from the very ones who most need our help. When we see human beings in distress, whether through affliction or through sin, we shall never say, This does not concern me.
"Ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness." Gal. 6:1. By faith and prayer press back the power of the enemy. Speak words of faith and courage that will be as a healing balsam to the bruised and wounded one. Many, many, have fainted and become discouraged
in the great struggle of life, when one word of kindly cheer would have strengthened them to overcome. Never should we pass by one suffering soul without seeking to impart to him of the comfort wherewith we are comforted of God.
All this is but a fulfillment of the principle of the law,--the principle that is illustrated in the story of the good Samaritan, and made manifest in the life of Jesus. His character reveals the true significance of the law, and shows what is meant by loving our neighbor as ourselves. And when the children of God manifest mercy, kindness, and love toward all men, they also are witnessing to the character of the statutes of heaven. They are bearing testimony to the fact that "the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." Ps. 19:7. And whoever fails to manifest this love is breaking the law which he professes to revere. For the spirit we manifest toward our brethren declares what is our spirit toward God. The love of God in the heart is the only spring of love toward our neighbor. "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?" Beloved, "if we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us." 1 John 4:20, 12.
We are not to feel that the work of the gospel depends principally upon the minister. To every man God has given a work to do in connection with His kingdom. Everyone who professes the name of Christ is to be an earnest, disinterested worker, ready to defend the principles of righteousness. Every soul should take an active part in advancing the cause of God. Whatever our calling, as Christians we have a work to do in making Christ known to the world. We are to be missionaries, having for our chief aim the winning of souls to Christ.
To His church God has committed the work of diffusing light and bearing the message of His love. Our work is not to condemn, not to denounce, but to draw with Christ, beseeching men to be reconciled to God. We are to encourage souls, to attract them, and thus win them to the Saviour. If this is not our interest, if we withhold from God the service of heart and life, we are robbing Him of influence, of time, of money and effort. In failing to benefit our fellow men, we rob God of the glory that should flow to Him through the conversion of souls.
Some who have long professed to be Christians, and yet have felt no responsibility for souls perishing within the shadow of their own homes, may think they have a work to do in foreign lands; but where is the evidence of their fitness for such a work? Wherein have they manifested a burden for souls? These persons need first to be taught and disciplined at home. True faith and love for Christ would create in them a most earnest desire to save souls right at home. They would exert every spiritual energy to draw with Christ, learning His meekness and lowliness. Then if God should desire them to go to foreign countries, they would be prepared.
Let those who desire to work for God begin at home, in their own household, in their own neighbourhood, among their own friends. Here they will find a favorable missionary field. This home missionary work is a test, revealing their ability or inability for service in a wider field. The case of Philip and Nathanael is an example of true home missionary work. Philip had seen Jesus and was convinced that He was the Messiah. In his joy he wished his friends also to know the good news. He desired that the truth which had brought such comfort to him should be shared by Nathanael. True grace in the heart will always reveal its presence by diffusing itself. Philip
went in search of Nathanael, and as he called, Nathanael answered from his place of prayer under the fig tree. Nathanael had not had the privilege of listening to the words of Jesus, but he was being drawn to ward Him in spirit. He longed for light, and was at that moment sincerely praying for it. Philip with joy exclaimed: "We have found Him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth." John 1:45. At Philip's invitation Nathanael sought and found the Saviour, and in his turn joined in the work of winning souls for Christ.
One of the most effective ways in which light can be communicated is by private, personal effort. In the home circle, at your neighbor's fireside, at the bedside of the sick, in a quiet way you may read the Scriptures and speak a word for Jesus and the truth. Thus you may sow precious seed that will spring up and bring forth fruit. The Family a Missionary Field
Our work for Christ is to begin with the family in the home. The education of the youth should be of a different order from that which has been given in the past. Their welfare demands far more labor than has been given them. There is no missionary field more important than this. By precept and example parents are to teach their children to labor for the unconverted. The children should be so educated that they will sympathize with the aged and afflicted and will seek to alleviate the sufferings of the poor and distressed. They should be taught to be diligent in missionary work; and from their earliest years self-denial and sacrifice for the good of others and the advancement of Christ's cause should be inculcated, that they may be laborers together with God.
But if they ever learn to do genuine missionary work for others, they must first learn to labor for those at home, who have a natural right to their offices of love. Every child should be trained to bear his respective share of service in the home. He should never be ashamed to use his hands in lifting home burdens or his feet in running errands. While thus engaged, he will not go into paths of negligence and sin. How many hours are wasted by children and youth which might be spent in taking upon their strong young shoulders, and assisting to lift, the family responsibilities which someone must bear, thus showing a loving interest in father and mother. They are also to be rooted in the true principles of health reform and the care of their own bodies.
25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.


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Checking Your Child's Sore Throat
There are lots of places you can get a sore throat checked.
There are lots of places you can get a sore throat checked:
- you can go to your normal doctor or nurse - it's free for your child under 13
- your child's school may have a free sore throat checking clinic - contact the school to find out
- you can call Healthline on 0800 611 116 for advice (all calls are free, even from a cell phone if you are in New Zealand)
If your child has to take antibiotics it's important that they take the full 10-day course to stop them from developing rheumatic fever.
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Can after-the-event insurance substitute security for costs?
AUTHOR(S): Sharon Daly, April McClements
PRACTICE AREA GROUP: Insurance and Reinsurance
In the recent case of Greenclean Waste Management Limited v Maurice Leahy & Co Solicitors, the High Court had its first opportunity to consider whether after-the-event insurance policies could effectively substitute security for costs. The court concluded that the policy could provide adequate security to a defendant only in circumstances where the plaintiff's insurer gave an assurance that it would not rely on a "prospect of success" clause to deny cover.
As companies struggle to remain solvent during the economic downturn, security for costs is increasingly sought before the courts. Security for costs can be an effective tool for a defendant that is being sued by an insolvent plaintiff, where the defendant believes that the case against it is without merit and there is a risk that the plaintiff will not be in a position to pay the defendant's costs in the event that the litigation is unsuccessful. In such cases, the court orders the plaintiff to lodge money in court or take other appropriate steps to demonstrate its ability to pay costs. If ordered by the court, the requirement to provide security serves as a condition of being permitted to proceed with the litigation, while the inability to provide the required security can bring an abrupt end to the litigation. However, the courts are reluctant to order security for costs for fear that it will hinder the plaintiff's right of access to justice.
The present case concerned an application for security for costs by a firm of solicitors which was being sued for professional negligence by an insolvent company, Greenclean, which had recently entered voluntary liquidation. Greenclean argued that it would be able to discharge the defendant's costs by virtue of its after-the-event insurance policy and consequently security for costs was unnecessary. After-the-event insurance, a relatively new product on the Irish market, is taken out in the wake of a specific event and is often closely linked to 'no win, no fee' arrangements in litigation. In respect of such policies, the premium is generally high, but is payable only following successful costs recovery against another party.
The High Court was in no doubt that the existence of an insurance policy would generally be highly relevant to the question of whether Greenclean would be able to pay the defendant's legal costs in the event that its case was unsuccessful. The court accepted that the plaintiff was "hopelessly insolvent", and that the defendants were entitled to security for costs unless the plaintiff's after-the-event policy sufficiently mitigated the risk that the plaintiff would be unable to discharge the defendant's costs. However, the court noted that after-the-event policies were quite different from other insurance policies, and that the policy before the court, while clear and unambiguously drafted, contained wide-ranging avoidance provisions and was contingent on matters into which the court could not legitimately inquire.
The court considered the crucial question to be the extent to which an insurer can legitimately repudiate liability so as to deprive the insured, and by extension the defendant, of any real security in respect of costs. After-the-event insurance cannot be considered in the same way as a standard contract of insurance. The court held that if cover can be denied in such a range of circumstances it effectively leaves the insured with no security at all; this clearly provides insufficient comfort that the defendant's costs will be met.
When the court considered the cancellation provisions contained in the policy, it was particularly influenced by the 'prospects of success' clause, which provided that the insurer could deny cover at any stage of the litigation if it formed the opinion following discussion with the insured's legal advisers that the insured was likely to lose the case.
The court considered that this conferred considerable scope on the insurer to deny cover and noted that this could occur at a particularly inopportune time for a defendant (eg, following an expensive discovery or in the course of the trial itself). As such, the court felt that it had no means of determining the level of comfort available from the insurance policy. It held that unless a binding assurance was provided by Greenclean's insurers that it did not propose to exercise the right to deny cover based on the prospects clause (which it stressed was a matter entirely for the insurer), it would make an order for security for costs. The court adjourned the proceedings for approximately three months to allow Greenclean and its insurers to make a final decision regarding the prospects of the litigation.
The court commented that while it was not concerned with the underlying merits of after-the-event insurance or questions of its legality, this type of policy may possibly involve features of champerty (ie, sharing in the profits of litigation in which the party has no legitimate interest), although it acknowledged it may well secure access to justice for those who would not otherwise have ready access.
The ruling demonstrates that the courts will accept after-the-event insurance as an effective substitute for security for costs and will not award security for costs against a plaintiff that has taken out after-the-event cover, provided that such policies do not contain terms pursuant to which the insurer can avoid liability to pay the defendant's costs.


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By Peter Kennedy, Special ERISA Advisor, Vestwell
2018 continues to be a year of change – – on the regulatory and legislative fronts. From the now-abandoned DOL fiduciary rule to several other bills making their way through Congress, plan sponsors and advisors should understand how these legislative updates affect them and their qualified retirement plans.
The DOL Fiduciary Rule
Among all of the changes in the retirement industry this year, perhaps the most significant was the DOL's Fiduciary Advice Rule (A.K.A., "the Rule"). After much debate, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Rule in its entirety. And, at least for the time being, advisors are once again subject to the pre-existing rules as to what constitutes "investment advice" under ERISA.
What exactly are these pre-existing rules and what do they mean for advisors and their retirement business? We're glad you asked. Many advisors under the old 5-part test for investment advice regularly helped clients with 401(k) plan design, investment menus, plan education, and other matters – all without the assumption that they were fiduciaries to the plan. The Rule was meant to alter that assumption by characterizing most types of advice to retirement plans and IRAs as "fiduciary advice." That meant an advisor would have been subject to significant fiduciary liability, but since the Rule has been vacated, advisors are once again free to offer plan advice with less concern for legal ramifications.
Although not directly related to retirement plan assets like the Rule, the SEC recently proposed the Regulation Best Interest (a.k.a. "RBI") which would impose a higher standard of conduct for broker/dealers and their associated persons who give securities advice to "retail customers." RBI is not a replacement of the Rule and is generally considered less stringent. With the DOL's recently announced plan to re-propose its Fiduciary Advice Rule in 2019, there is more coming from the regulators that will likely affect how to advise retirement plans, their participants, and investors.
Other Legislative Matters
Several other bills could change various rules under the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA. Below are some highlights:
Retirement Enhancement and Security Act ("RESA")
Probably the most far-reaching – and recipient of the most media attention – RESA would make it easier for small employers to participate in Multiple Employer Plans (MEPs). Other features of the bill would affect rules pertaining to auto-enrollment, nonelective contributions, plan loans, certain nondiscrimination rules, and process for selecting lifetime income providers, all of which are intended to encourage small businesses to offer retirement plans to their employees.
Retirement Lost and Found Act
This act also minimizes the administrative burdens on plan sponsors by easing the requirements on them to locate former employees with small, unclaimed distributions. Locating these so-called "missing participants" can be a tedious and costly process for small businesses and the Act would require the government to create an online resource to find these individuals.
In addition to the legislative matters above, other bills have been proposed that cover a variety of topics including increasing the amount that could be distributed to a former participant without consent, simplifying the complex rules related to offering annuities in qualified retirement plans, and changing the default option for delivering plan information to electronic delivery. Stay tuned in 2019 as we continue to monitor new rules that will impact advisors and their firms…and navigate them together.


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The Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro is well known for his controversial phrases regarding women and other minorities.
In an interview to RedeTV in 2016, Bolsonaro said that he believed women should be paid less because they get pregnant. News portal G1 has reported on how he has also been condemned by the Supreme Court of Justice for telling a congresswoman that he would not rape her not because of the act itself but becauseshe was "too ugly".
During the presidential race, women took to the streets to manifest against the then-candidate, using the hashtag #EleNão (#NotHim) in what was considered to be the largest political manifestation of women in Brazil, as reported by BBC Brazil. The protests happened in 114 Brazilian cities, as well as all around the globe and had immense media repercussion.
But what does a Bolsonaro government actually mean for Brazilian women?
Public policy for women
Bolsonaro is one of the authors of a law project that revokes the current compulsory treatment of victims of sexual violence by hospitals and clinics, as discussed by revista Época. He believes it is part of a plan to legalize abortion in the country. The president-elect also opposes the anti-femicide law sanctioned by former president Dilma Roussef – according to The Atlantic, he has declared that women should "stop whining; stop with this story of femicide".
Bolsonaro's new Ministry for Women, Family and Human Rights could also represent a step back for women's rights and freedoms, especially for the appointment of Damares Alves as miniser. The lawyer and evangelical pastor has declared in a 2016 video published by her church: "It is time for the church to occupy the nation, to show the nation what the church stands for. It is time for the church to govern."
Alves is fiercely anti-abortion and against feminist movements as she believes that those manipulate data on women's deaths due to abortion to create a "culture of death", as stated in 2013. In this, she seems to be in line with the new president, who in October declared on Twitter that any proposals to legalise abortion in Brazil would be vetoed and any organisations that supported the cause would not receive federal funding.
A Bolsonaro-supportive congress
The 2018 elections have also yielded a good result for conservative politics beyond Bolsonaro's victory. According to the magazine Época, this congress is the most conservative of the last decade – including a growth in the evangelical caucus. In practice, this means that law projects that were previously unlikely to be approved have gained new life.
This is the case, for example, of the Statute of the Unborn, which grants the right to life from the moment of conception, making abortion illegal in any case. It is also the case of the Statute for the Family, which states that the only legally recognised family is the one formed by a heterosexual partnership and eventual children.
All these circumstances demonstrate that a Bolsonaro government will be damaging to the human rights of women, taking on positions considered to be anti-women's rights, especially on issues such as abortion and gender violence.
#NotHim: women's ongoing resistance
Words in the Bucket reported on Bolsonaro's unpopularity with women since before the electoral period begun. During the elections, a Facebook group "Women United Against Bolsonaro" reached over 2 million members (after the elections, the number has risen to 3.6 million). Along this line, the #NotHim manifestations showcase the large opposition of women towards the new president.
A student active in the #NotHim protests told Words in the Bucket: "It is hard to say what the new government will mean to women, but the first word that crosses my mind is 'setback'". She also said that while she feels anguished, she has never wanted to fight back this much. "It is my hope that other women feel like me, and that we are all committed to resist and fight", she concludes.
After Bolsonaro's election, women remain active on social media to discuss ways of keeping up such strong political action. The future of women's rights in Brazil seems to be hanging in the balance. But although both the Executive and the Legislative seem to be moving against liberation movements, there is still a lot of resistance from the population.
As reported in The Guardian, marches organised on the 30th of October to reiterate the messages of women and other minorities in the country were attended by thousands of people. On social media, the hashtag #EleNão remains active and has been used to criticise decisions made by the president elect and his future cabinet.
While much remains uncertain, Bolsonaro's reputation among women does not seem to have changed. Furthermore, it is clear that they will keep on resisting his government in the same way they resisted his election.


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1. Transportation Costs. This activity, suitable for intermediate students, directs them to investigate the cost of owning and operating a new car.
calculating transportation costs
2. Students will write checks and fill out deposit slips. They will be able to record
withdrawals and deposits in check registers. Students will review adding and subtracting
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Running back Demetrius McCray (foot injury) could see his first action in seven games Saturday at Northwestern. McCray is making the trip – which he wouldn't if they didn't think he could play – and is considered "questionable" to play according to IU staff.
It will be a game-time decision on whether defensive tackle Joe Kremer (knee) will play.
Ben Wyss, despite his broken foot, is listed No. 2 at center. IU is expected to start the same revamped offensive line it did last wee with John Sandberg at center, Charlie Emerson at right guard and Mike Stark at right tackle.


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Hi everyone,
I was checking the Meraki MS120-8 Switches and I'm a little bit confused about the MS120-8/8LP versus the MS-120-8P, according to the Datasheet in the What's Included? Section, the MS120-8/8LP comes with 1 x External Power Supply which in turn is composed by 1 x Power Adapter plus 1 x Power Cord, right? but, then I checked out the MS120 Hardware installation guide and in the section MS120-8/LP Series Back Panel I found the following info:
So it's a little bit confusing, 'cause the hardware installation guide doesn't really specifies if the power cord has to be ordered in spare for those MS120 models
My question here is, Do i have to include the Power Cord in Spare?, or it really comes within the MS120-8/8LP models?
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I believe the Power Cord needs to be ordered separately.
However I shall recommend please wait for some more suggestions.
I believe the power cord is included for when the shipping destination is in the US, and isn't for everyone else in the world.
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I believe the power cord is included for when the shipping destination is in the US, and isn't for everyone else in the world.
US doesn't include the power cable anymore either across all products. MA-PWR-CORD-US is the part for the US.


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Supreme Court Rejects Climate Change Suit
Based in Federal Common Law of Nuisance
Those in the finishing industry will recall how recently the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was snubbed in its effort to impose new rules on companies that use 'burn-off' ovens in their daily operations.
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Now the U.S. Supreme Court has weighed in on an issue involving lawsuits over greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power companies and whether they cause a public nuisance.
In June, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to parties suing power companies over GHG emissions, finding that the Clean Air Act and EPA's authority displace federal common law nuisance claims over the emissions. However, the narrow opinion likely will not end these climate change nuisance cases. (American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, U.S., No. 10-174, 6/20/11).
Although federal common law has been used to settle interstate air pollution disputes in the past, when Congress decides to weigh in, "the need for such an unusual exercise of law-making by federal courts disappears," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explained.
The court pointed out that its ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007) confirmed that Congress gave the U.S. EPA the power to regulate emissions of GHGs under the CAA. This took the issue out of the hands of federal judges who are ill-equipped to deal with such a highly technical and policy-laden subject.
The suit was brought by several states and the City of New York against four private power companies and the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally-owned corporation that operates power plants in several states. The plaintiffs claimed that these companies account for 25 percent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from U.S. utilities. By contributing to climate change, these emissions created a "substantial and unreasonable interference with public rights," in violation of the federal common law of interstate nuisance. In other words, the emissions contributed to climate change, which in turn contributed to changed weather patterns, that caused nuisance damages., The Plaintiffs sought injunctive relief requiring each company to cap its CO2 emissions and then reduce them by a certain percentage each year.
Additionally, the Court dismissed the idea that federal common law is not displaced until the EPA actually issues rules governing emissions from the defendants' plants. It is not the act of regulating something that displaces federal common law, the court said. Rather, it is the delegation of the authority that matters, and in this case that delegation was to an expert agency equipped to handle these issues. In this instance, the EPA gets the first shot at regulating GHG emissions, the court pointed out. The EPA is tasked with balancing an array of important policy decisions ranging from economic considerations, to energy needs, to foreign relations, things the courts can't really do according to the decision..
One key issue is whether public nuisance claims can proceed under state law or if they are trumped by federal laws and regulations. It is likely many state courts faced with these cases will immediately look to the Supreme Court decision for guidance, although the court did not address any state law claims. Thus, the next battleground for climate change tort litigation likely will be in state courts. Whether the CAA preempts all common law causes of action will be a critical issue.
So what does this mean for all of us in the trenches? Well first, you would expect that this decision will spur EPA on to some action to further regulate GHG emissions. At present, all they have done is establish a reporting mechanism for the largest emitters, and ensure GHG emissions are considered in Best Available Control Technology (BACT) determinations for large emitters constructing new or modified facilities. They will likely see this case as a reinforcement, or mandate, to continue on with regulations. Depending on the size of your facility, those regulations may or may not directly impact you. Indirectly, you can expect to see higher power and transportation costs with such regulation.
Citizen groups will look to a strategy of filing suit under the citizen suit provisions of the CAA, as they have done with other issues in the past. Depending on your facility size or industry group, you could be a target.
You will also potentially see an influx of cases in state court based on nuisance alleging that industries' GHG emissions are causing climate change. In theory, one could point to any facility that emits CO or other GHGs. These cases could target an industry group (i.e., foundries) or a region of the state (i.e., all CO emitters in Boston). So a facility that has been watching from the sidelines could potentially be pulled into a suit. What is interesting about these cases (or frustrating might be a better word), is that climate change is a global phenomenon; one cannot simply point at one source and say "you're it." Motor vehicle emissions, natural emissions (think volcanoes) natural warming and cooling trends, they all contribute to climate change. To attempt to control climate change in a piecemeal fashion one facility at a time only benefits lawyers, not the environment.
Attorney Bill Hayes is a partner at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease in Cincinnati and is a member of the energy, environment and utilities practice group. His work focuses on air quality issues. Hayes provides strategic advice to manufacturing clients regarding plant expansions and processing changes. He also provides enforcement defense in matters brought by local, state and federal environmental agencies and advises clients on TSCA compliance matters, including nanotechnology regulatory developments. He can be reached at 513-723-4000, or email@example.com.
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Didn't we have enough showers in March? I think we did!
I am ready for some sun-shining days, and some fun creating with my friends. There are so many fun things around me, I don't know where to start! With the new Lawn Fawn release? The cute toads and ducks, or the farm animals? Elizabeth Craft's balloons and fun words? Taylored Expressions blooms and graduation products? And shhhh, don't tell anyone, but soon we will have a new line of products or two in the store!
At Craft Inn, we have received lots of new shipments with fun, cute, elegant stamps, dies and other paper crafting supplies. You will want to stop in and see what our instructors have coming up this month.


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Canongate on White Oak Golf Course, Old Course Course
- 141 Clubview Dr, Newnan, GA 30265
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The Old Course Course at Canongate on White Oak Golf Course is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Newnan, Georgia. This medium-length layout features 4 sets of teeboxes for the enjoyment of golfers of all skill levels. There is another course on this same property, the Seminole Course. Online tee times may be available at Canongate on White Oak Golf Course or at nearby golf courses, usually offered at a discount from the normal rate.
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For use in inkjet printers, Karnak plotter paper allows for regular stretching and excellent colour rendering. Made of natural paper, the absence of dust on the smooth surface helps to limit the consumption of ink, thus keeping costs down. Supplied on a firm plastic roll, the paper has a 160 CIE whiteness and a thickness of 80gsm.
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An efficient and fully functioning VMware infrastructure is dependent on shared virtual resources that include server, network, and storage - but the glue that holds the virtual infrastructure together is virtual network resources. IT departments strive for a virtual infrastructure that is resilient to failure, secure, and performs optimally. None of these goals can be achieved without a properly designed and maintained virtual network infrastructure.
Ensure Resilience: Configure a proper network topology
Building resilience into a virtual network means setting up a configuration that can maintain an acceptable level of service even if there are hardware and software failures.
Ultimately resiliency is dependent on two ground rules:
- Building a network physical infrastructure that has no single point of failure.
- Configuring VMware to effectively leverage that physical infrastructure.
NIC teaming can be used to address both these guidelines. NIC teaming is the grouping of multiple physical network interface cards (NICs) on a host into one logical NIC. This has the advantage of providing resiliency in the event of a NIC failure, and, if the NICs are connected to different physical switches, the configuration will be resistant to a switch failing as well. With NIC Teaming you can specify a network failure detection policy (link status or beacon probing) that will configure a VMware ESXI host to failover to another NIC.
Best practices for critical traffic flow are to create a virtual switch (vSwitch), which consists of two or more physical NICs attached to two or more separate physical switches. The virtual machines (VMs) and VMware hosts interact with the vSwitch, which manages network traffic over the physical NICs and switches. If a physical device fails, the vSwitch automatically adjusts traffic to work around the failure.
Secure: Isolate the Virtual Machine and VMkernel traffic
The VMware infrastructure produces different forms of network data based on function.
VMware network data is broken down into 2 categories:
- Virtual machine traffic – this is the traffic between the VMs and the physical network. This traffic should always be isolated from VMkernel traffic, ideally on its own dedicated vSwitch or dedicated VLAN within the vSwitch. The vSwitch can partition traffic on VLANs and control whether or not VMs can communicate with each other.
- VMkernel traffic - this is the standard infrastructure or "system" traffic between the VMkernel services and the physical network. This traffic can be isolated by configuring additional VMKernel Adapters on the vSwitch that map to VMkernel services. These services include:
- Management traffic, aka service console traffic, is communication between the VMware hypervisor and management systems such as vCenter, as well as communication between ESXi hosts for high availability (HA). Management traffic should be isolated in a network that only network and security administrators are able to access.
- vMotion traffic is used for the live migration of a running VM from one host to another. Since vMotion traffic has a high network utilization, and was not encrypted (until vSphere 6.5), it should be isolated in its own VLAN.
- Fault tolerance traffic – Fault Tolerance creates a secondary VM on a separate host that is a mirror of the primary VM, so that the VM will be available without the need for a reboot if one of the hosts fails. Fault tolerance traffic is the (unencrypted) traffic that synchronizes the primary and secondary VMs.
- vSphere replication traffic is the result of replication of VMs to recovery sites. Isolating replication traffic is a good practice as it ensures sensitive information is routed only to the appropriate destination.
- vSphere replication NFC traffic is the traffic for incoming replication data at the target site. Isolating NFC traffic helps security and manageability.
- Virtual SAN – is the virtual SAN traffic on the host. This traffic should be isolated for both performance and security reasons, especially if replication is taking place.
Performance: Optimize based on workload type
There are a myriad of options available to optimize network performance in a VMware infrastructure. Let's see if we can break things down a bit…
We'll use an automobile traffic analogy:
- Drivers determine traffic lane choice
- Commuters control which highway lanes to use based on current lane volume
- ESXi selects the NICs that the VMs will pass their network traffic through based on predefined traffic algorithms.
- Toll booths determine both whether drivers get on the highway and their lane.
- Criteria include type of vehicle (emergency vehicle, car, truck, etc.) and the number and types vehicles on the highway.
- IT administrators determine how network traffic flows based on their application's attributes and characteristics and on the supporting virtual infrastructure.
The characteristics of network traffic differ for every VMware infrastructure, so there is no one size fits all way to implement network performance optimization.
In terms of our car analogy, if we let drivers determine their lane, they will pick the lane that will get them to their destination the fastest. At 5:00 o'clock on a Friday, with everyone heading out for the weekend, all lanes will be in use. If a fire breaks out across town, then a fire engine needs to get across the congested lanes in the least amount of time possible. The options to allow the high priority fire engine traffic are to block other vehicles from entering the highway, or to open up a dedicated lane for emergency vehicles.
When it is all said and done the ideal method of network optimization will be dependent on how the hosts and VMs are being used and what the priorities are for the organization.
VMware built-in policies determine network optimization:
We discussed NIC Teaming earlier a mechanism for establishing network redundancy, but NIC Teaming can also be used to implement load balancing policies that can maximize outbound traffic on the teamed NICs. Using our earlier highway analogy, VMware optimizes traffic by determining lane choice using a fixed number of toll booths.
Load balancing configuration does not have prerequisites, and applies to outbound traffic only. The policy settings determine the criteria used to balance traffic, with the default set to use the originating virtual port ID. Although the default setting is usually sufficient, the other available options are:
- Originating Virtual Port ID
The virtual switch selects uplinks (links from the virtual to the physical network) based on the virtual machine port IDs on the vSphere Standard Switch or vSphere Distributed vSwitch. Note: A Distributed vSwitch provides additional capabilities, and can operate across multiple hosts within the same host cluster.
- Source MAC Address
The virtual switch selects an uplink for a virtual machine based on the virtual machine MAC address.
- IP Hash
The virtual switch selects uplinks for virtual machines based on the source and destination IP address of each packet.
- Physical NIC Load
Route Based on Originating Virtual Port, where the virtual switch checks the load on the uplinks and takes steps to reduce the load on overloaded uplinks. Available only for vSphere Distributed vSwitch.
- Explicit Failover Order
No load balancing is available with this policy.
Fig 1. Configuring Load Balancing as part of NIC Teaming
IT determines network optimization:
Going back to our highway analogy earlier, IT administrators can determine lane choice for the traffic based criteria such as vehicle type, color, make, and the number of vehicles. IT can also set up the number of toll booths, and whether vehicles can bypass the toll booths altogether.
IT can use the following options to prioritize network traffic based on the unique characteristics and workload of their virtual infrastructure:
- Traffic Shaping – allows the limiting of outbound traffic on a vSwitch and within port groups based on a combination of:
- Average bandwidth (Kbps)
- Peak bandwidth (Kbps)
- Burst Size(KB)
Traffic shaping is quite granular as it provides the ability to not only control the traffic on the vSwitch but can also use port groups to segment the traffic for a group of VMs. However, Network I/O control is a better solution to segment traffic for one specific VM.
Fig 2. Configuring a vSwitch to control outbound traffic via traffic shaping
- Network I/O Control – provides the flexibility to isolate traffic flows from each other by setting reservations, shares, and limits (just like memory or CPU resource pools), helping to prevent one traffic flow from dominating the others. Isolation is based on the following types of traffic:
- Fault Tolerance Traffic
- Management Traffic
- NFS Traffic
- Virtual SAN Traffic
- iSCSI Traffic
- vMotion Traffic
- vSphere Data Protection
- Backup Traffic
- vSphere Replication (VR) traffic
- Virtual Machine Traffic
- User-defined resources
Network I/O Control provides more granularity than Traffic Shaping in that is allows for enforced traffic isolation and can be configured right down to a specific VM if necessary.
- DirectPath I/O – a VM is given direct access to the physical PCI and PCIe network devices connected to a host, bypassing the vmkernel. Because the VM is directly accessing the network device, the CPU overhead on the host is reduced as it isn't tasked with controlling the network traffic for the VM. DirectPath I/O is useful for VMs that have high priority, high volume network traffic or if a host needs to squeeze out more CPU cycles.
Depending on the hardware platform, features such as vMotion, Fault Tolerance, and Snapshots may be unavailable with DirectPath I/O, which may negate the benefit of direct access to a NIC.
- Single Root I/O Virtualization – similar to DirectPath I/O, this provides the same advantages and in general has the same limitations. SR-IOV's main advantage over DirectPath I/O is that multiple VMs can connect physically to a compliant network device, giving more flexibility than DirectPath I/O.
- Receive Side Scaling - allows multiple CPU's to process in parallel the network packets for a single NIC. Ultimately, RSS distributes the handling of VM network traffic across multiple processors. There are basic prerequisites for hardware version and the VM's guest OS, and the VMXNET3 network adapter is required. RSS can dramatically increase network throughput for VMs and is one of the more compelling reasons to default to the VMXNET3 network adapter.
Fig 3. Adding VMXNET3 virtual network adapter to a VM
- SplitRX Mode – introduced in vSphere 5.0, this provides network optimization for multicast traffic. It is enabled in by default in vSphere 5.1 and only on the VMXNET3 network adapter. Multicasting is an efficient way of sending the same packet data to multiple receivers, in this case VMs. When multiple VMs on a single host are receiving multicast data from a given source, the hypervisor takes care of the packet replication. Because all the VMs are on the same host, the physical network need not handle the data, and the hypervisor processes a single network queue. Note that, by default, the multicast traffic has to be sent over a physical NIC.
Building out a VMware environment with virtual network resources that are resilient, secure, and optimized means not only having a thorough understanding of how the VM's are being used, the traffic they generate, and the resources available to process network traffic, but it also means asking the right questions:
- How much network redundancy and performance is needed?
Network isolation, whether via dedicated vSwitches or within a VLAN, is as much about performance as it is about redundancy. Proper planning requires a close evaluation and assessment of the physical network topology and ensuring it will work hand in hand with the virtual infrastructure.
At a minimum, the physical network should support redundancy for critical virtual machine traffic and VMkernel traffic supporting failover. In addition, VMkernel traffic flows that can be substantial (i.e. vMotion) may mandate dedicated network resources.
- How well isolated are the traffics flows?
It is essential to keep VM traffic on its own vSwitch or VLAN and separated from VMkernel traffic. Traffic volume and security concerns may also require that individual VMkernel traffic flows are also separated.
- How well is application network usage understood?
Optimizing the virtual network resources means matching the needs and requirements of the VMs with the resources available on the Host(s) and network:
- Understand the network throughput generated by individual VMs
- Identify workloads that are sensitive to network latency
- Recognize and balance the impact applications have on hosts and the physical network
- Select network optimization options based application requirements and infrastructure.
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One single herb can do everything: Marshmallow Root!
Isn't just lovely how one single ingredient or herb can do everything: Marshmallow Root!
We can use Million ways for homemade medicine or food. This herb is heaven which gives incredible gifts to the earth. It may seem like marshmallow is a specific plant. Marshmallow is moistening and cooling, bringing relief to dry and hot conditions. It's been used for centuries.
The name for marshmallow means to cure and that gives us a strong indication of how highly regarded marshmallow was in ancient times.
Most often, We use Marshmallow root as a tea usually prepared using cold water. Marshmallow roots are high in starches and polysaccharides. By using a cold infusion you can extract mainly the mucilaginous polysaccharides.
Here we will learn how to make a cold infusion out of marshmallow roots.
To make a cold infusion you will need:
- a jar and lid
- marshmallow root
- lukewarm water
- time
Fill a jar 1/4 of the way with marshmallow root. Then fill the jar with lukewarm water and cover with a lid. Let sit for a minimum of 4 hours or overnight. The water should change color to a soft yellow. Strain off the roots. The resulting liquid should be thick and viscous. Now that we see how easy it is to prepare this root let's look at the many ways we can use it!
Mouth Wash: Marshmallow makes incredible fresh mouth breath and wonderful mouth wash for painful mouth conditions. Mouth ulcers, cuts, canker sores on the inside of the inflamed gums, cheeks and even sore throats can be soothed with a marshmallow rinse. To coat the affected tissues, simply swish the cold infused tea around in your mouth.
Marshmallow root for Skin Wash
It is an incredible topical treatment for burns and wounds. People called it in the past a mortification root because of its great ability to prevent gangrene! Externally, marshmallow root is very useful in the form of poultice, to discuss inflammatory, painful tumors, and every kind of swellings, whether the consequence of scalds, bruise, burns, wounds or poisons.
Heartburn home remedy: Use this cold infusion to find relief from inflamed intestines, heartburn and peptic ulcers. Besides being able to soothe inflammation, marshmallow root is also a vulnerary, healing wounds within the digestive tract. Addressing the root cause of these issues is recommended for long term care. It's a great heartburn home remedy.
Colds and Flu: For the cold and flu season, marshmallow is actually wonderful plant. It can surly soothe an inflamed sore throat. Stimulates phagocytosis which is an important part of the immune system and it's even used to moisten the lungs in cases of dry hot conditions, such as hot coughs. We recommend it for post infection coughs – these are those keeping you awake all night long after the illness has passed.
Urinary infections: Herbalists frequently use marshmallow for urinary problems such as kidney stones, cystitis and bladder infections. It is also a diuretic, which can be of further aide in many urinary problems. We consider safe to use it for everyone to use although it is recommended to be taken several hours after taking prescription medications as it may inhibit the absorption.
Marshmallow plant has a complexity that makes it useful for million problems. We hope you enjoy learning about marshmallow and are able to create a variety of herbal remedies from this versatile plant for the well-being of your family.
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Exaltation of the Holy Cross - Feast Day September 14
"How splendid the cross of Christ!
It brings life, not death; light, not darkness;
Paradise, not its loss.
It is the wood on which the Lord, like a great warrior,
was wounded in hands and feet and side,
but healed thereby our wounds.
A tree has destroyed us, a tree now brought us life"