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I'm going to Cedar Point this summer, have any of you ever been there? Disaster Transport seems interesting, but i've read that it's quite the rip-off of Space Mountain. :botox:
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Disaster Transport is a Mack Bobsled that has been totally enclosed. It was originally run in the open, but after a couple of seasons of lackluster ridership a building was built around it. The idea was that it would be a more thrilling ride in the dark. The ride was a dissapointment to the general public , especially those old enough to remember the Bartlett designed Flying Turns at Euclid Beach Park. Flying Turns was an intense ride, which the Mack Bobsleds are more a family ride.
Disaster Transport is a very fun ride, no where near Space mountain, but I like it. It's air conditioned too so there's always a long line when it's hot out (unless it's broke, then it can get very warm in there). I just would also like to point out it's an Intamin ride. Like Dutchman already mentioned, it was enclosed in 1990, the way they did it though, leads to some pitch black moments (like this one) making it more fun not knowing where your going. My tip for riding, wait until it's almost closing for the shortest lines, other wise be ready to wait an hour or so.
As for the rest of the park, I love it. This is going to be my fourth year working their, and I still love playing there on my days off. Make sure to come visit me on Paddlewheel Excursions (over by Camp Snoopy next to Dragster's massive tower) and and ride! It's fun and it gives you a chance to get off your feet for a few minutes.
The shows are a lot of fun, there are literally rides for everyone (you CAN ride most of the rides in Camp Snoopy without having a child, YAY Tilt-a-Whirl!) Frontier Trail is great for taking a relaxing stroll and there are a lot of little craft shops littered along. Stop and feed the ducks when you just need a break.
I'll stop there, otherwise I'll write a book. If you have any questions just ask, I'm try to answer my best, and I'm sure there are others on this board that know about the park. Above all though, Have a great time!"Tonight I wash my hands of you
You set the bar I could not live up to
Tonight the light is breaking through
So thank you very little and send me postcards from hell"
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Oh, thanks for the info, Disaster Transport dosen't look too safe to me haha. Oh and Hector i'll try to find you, even though that might be near impossible.
HAHAHA not at all, I think I may be the only Hector that works at the park!"Tonight I wash my hands of you
You set the bar I could not live up to
Tonight the light is breaking through
So thank you very little and send me postcards from hell"
Cedar Point rocks! It's truly one of my favorite parks, together with places like Disneyland Paris, Kennywood, Busch Gardens Williamsburg etc.
And it's not even the coasters that make it so great. Of course, the coasters are awesome, but the atmosphere, the lake nearby and the great employees all make it a wonderfull place!Ad luna in flamma gloria
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Disaster Transport sucks, every time I go on it there is NO AC, bumpy ride, and very boring. The themeing makes no sense after they got rid of most of it, and it's not a very good ride anyway.
Make sure to check out MaXair, I rode the origional at PKI and it's amazing.
You know the rest to hit, TTD, Millie, Magnum, Gemini, WT, etc....a vaguely celtic music fills the air...
*Waves to Hector* CP , I'll be going back for my third season this year, albeit no in ride operations ... Anywho, I love me some Disaster Transport. One of few Intamin Swiss bob coasters out there (Unfortunatly it's not a Mack Bobsled model, those coasters have inline seating and multiple cars similar to Matterhorn at Disneyland), and a very unique experience. I'm still straining to find the similarities between Space Mountain and DT, but then again I've seen/heard of the original ride manual with all of the show elements. Sounded like it was at least semi-entertaining when it first debuted, especially the first room. Apparently there used to be a ride host and audio-animatronic (nowhere near Disney quality) that would talk to each other and explain the different destinations and so forth that the Dispatch Master Transport agency sent you to... Alaska... :|... (Don't ask...)
The shows are AWESOME, like Hector said! I love Star Struck!! One of the best musical revues in a park, and I believe it won the Golden Ticket (Hector correct me if I'm wrong!!) either in 2003 or 2004. Snoopy Rocks! On Ice is breathtaking, especially the moves they pull of on such a SMALL rink. Literally!! I was really amazed at the professionalism of the show and it's definatly a repeat. Other than those two shows I haven't seen any others ... If you can, show up for Halloweekends. Definatly worth the time and some of the haunted houses are spectacular (Undertaker U), as is the Fright Zone. Wasn't much of a fan of Carn-Evil last year... but then again I am deathly afraid of clowns.
*Makes random jab at Paddlewheel's corny jokes, heehee!* Hector, two words: Arrow Dance !
The food is really different in terms of quality, depending on where you eat. You can get anything from the normal burger and fries, to some of the best food ever! I HIGHLY reccomend Famous Dave's that opened up last year and replaced the Boat House. Awesome barbeque, and it's actually decently priced believe it or not. Johnny Rockets is very good, but kind of pricy, as are both of the TGI Fridays (Yes, there are two! One in Hotel Breakers and on at the Castaway Bay Hotel and Waterpark). But my favorite is Midway Market, a "world" of a buffet, and at about $13 an adult it's actually the best deal you get for eats at the park.
There's currently four hotels to choose from at the park (do we call it a resort now Hector?!): Hotel Breakers, Sandcastle Suites (the two on-penninsula properties), Breakers Express (right next to employee housing!) and Castaway Bay (the two off-penninsula properties). There is also Lighthouse Point, which has private cabins of varying sizes, but is my favorite property that CP has. If you have a camper or RV, CP also has Camper Village, though it keeps getting smaller and smaller every year. If you like history, definatly check out Hotel Breakers and the Bon Aire section. The Rotunda is honestly one of the most beautiful structural works I've seen, albeit without AC.
There's also the mile-long beach on the Hotel Breakers side of the park, Soak City which is a huge waterpark and much fun (but seperate admission), and various water sports like jet skis and para-sailing (both are kind of expensive and by the half hour). Castaway Bay also has an indoor waterpark of the same name featuring a Master Blaster waterslide (hope to hit that one this summer!). Oh, almost forgot to add there's a marina next to Famous Daves for anyone that has a boat and wants to use that as their accomodations, though I believe the slips fill up fast and stay that way for most of the summer.
Darn, now THAT was a book!Last edited by darkincite; 03-20-2005, 12:23 AM. Reason: Not Super Star, it's Star Struck X-D!
:lol: My name was mentioned five times in all of that."Tonight I wash my hands of you
You set the bar I could not live up to
Tonight the light is breaking through
So thank you very little and send me postcards from hell"
Hector, at the time that DT was installed, Intamin was not building rides, only brokering them.They sold and installed rides built Schwarzkopf, Zier,Mack,Von Roll and others.They would put their name plate on the rides, to insure that the spare parts business went through them and not directly to the actual manufactuer. It's only been recently that Intamin has been designing rides. The steel coasters were built by Giavonola.
Your talking to one of the world's largest coaster geeks (I'm just not a creepy ACEr :shudder: ), yes I already knew that, but thank you anyway."Tonight I wash my hands of you
You set the bar I could not live up to
Tonight the light is breaking through
So thank you very little and send me postcards from hell"
Yes, Intamin AG did do a lot of brokerage deals for rides that were built at Cedar Point. However, they were installing and constructing their own rides before Avalanche Run ever opened. Junior Gemini in the Gemini Children's Area of Cedar Point was designed, constructed, and installed solely by Intamin AG in 1979. Six years before Avalanche Run premiered. Intamin AG is also accredited for the design and construction of (besides Avalanche Run and Junior Gemini) Demon Drop and Thunder Canyon, though other companies were obviously involved in the design and construction. We could say the Canadians are responsible for building Top Thrill Dragster, since Intamin AG had no direct hand in the construction what-so-ever But then again, I do like to thank Giavonola for one hell of a ride on Demon DropLast edited by darkincite; 03-20-2005, 12:38 PM.
I was in the employ of CP in the early 1970's. All of the European rides that were bought during that era came through Morgan Hughes. I have Intamin sales brouchures from the 1980's where they listed all of the rides and attractions that they sold. Under each one the actual manufactuer is listed. It wasn't until the demise of Schwarzkopf that Intamin was forced to look elsewhere for their major coaster builder. (The junior coasters were built by Joseph Zier). Werner Stengel, who worked for Schwarzkopf, designed coasters for Intamin on a contract basis, with actual fabricating done by various firms, with Giavonola winding up being the principal shop. It was about this time that Intamin started placing their name plates on rides. Legally this meant that they took total responsiblity for them. Yes they now have in house design teams, but twenty years ago, they did not.
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I went to Cedar Point, and honestly, I was very disappointed. Every roller coaster I rode, except Top Thrill Dragster, was extremely over-rated. There really isn't anything special to me about the coasters there. TTD, however, was incredible. One of the scariest things in my life though lol. The bad thing about it is we waited about 2 hours for a less than 30 second ride . The park is clean and the food is very very good (try an Oreo shake at Coasters Drive-In!) but to me the rest just sucked. You spend way too much money for service that in my opinion, sucked (guess I'm spoiled by Disney, eh?). The shows are also pretty bad, like Snoopy Rocks! On Ice and the "laser" show at night which was also disappointing. The park is huge so use the forms of transportation, too (railroad and skyway). All in all, the coasters are just okay and to me the rest didn't seem very worth it. I probably won't go back anytime soon (if ever) but I hope you have fun!!BLOCK - PARTY - BASH
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Had a wonderful dinner at Pur Tuesday night with the 6 course tasting menu for 100 Euros and the service like the rest of Park hyatt Vendome had been excellent.
Have stayed at the Park Hyatt several times over last few years and eaten at breakfast at L'Orchidees, champagne brunch at L'Orchidees, at the bar/near the seating area by the fireplace for tapas, and I think on the Terrace too but had not made it to PUR before. The favourite thing I had eaten at Park Hyatt Vendome before was a foie gras creme brulee on a japanese porcelin soup spoon on the brunch buffet I think. Yumm..
Had tried to go to PUR before for dinner on a previous trip and they were fully booked when I tried the day of but I think it was a weekend (Fri/Sat) when I tried vs Tues night on Oct 9 this time. I got a reservation same evening of and a table facing the kitchen with one of the best view of the house, probably only 2nd to the chefs table :D It is the photo on the Pur website which if you see the Chefs table, part of the open kitchen and 1.5 tables, I had the full table on the photo and frontal view of the open kitchen.. Full foodie haven!!! Hotel's head chef, Jean-François Rouquette and team had earned 1 Michelin star and I think it is well deserved.
I choose the 6 course tasting menu for 100 Euro since the 9 course one for 160 euro sounded as if I would totally stuff myself to the gills. Also I love lamb and the saddle of lamb was only on the 6 course menu. Declined the wine pairing which is 176 Euro if you have it with the 6 course tasting menu since I drank a bit the day before and just flown in that morning and was a little tired and jetlegged. Only intended to have 1 glasses of wine, maybe 2 if I found something I really liked.
not sure if the menu I had is here still..
Pur has an excellent wine list and you can droll over the wall of wine fridges on your way in.. Some absolutely beautiful wines there. Some prices were not cheap, like the the 1996 PETRUS for 3500 Euro cough or the 6500 Euro for the 1995 KRUG CLOS D'AMBONNAY cough cough, but there are affordible choices on the wine menu.
I was dining by myself so was first looking at the wine by the glass (15cl) and saw a glass of 2011 Chablis 1er cru from Vaillon for 24 Euros which is 89 Euro if you get the bottle. Chablis 1er cru was my favourite when I used to live and working in Paris many moons ago so ordered that. Nothing really grabbed me on the glass list to go with the lamb so started persuing the main part of wine list since there were some half bottles there too.
Looked through the bottle selection and saw a 2008 Savigny-les-Beaune 1er Cru - Les Marconnets - Domaine de la Vougeraie that looked very interesting for 38 Euro for the half bottle 37.5 CL. The 2008 or 2009 bottle from the same vineyard is 90 Euros. I love Beaune and remember fondly of a wine festival I went to many moons before where for 20 francs entrance you tasted some fantastic wines including Gevrey Chambertin and Nuit St. George. I tend to prefer red wines these days so if I had seen this before I ordered the glass of Chablis 1er Cru, probably would have just gone with the half bottle of red. They opened the half bottle to let it breath.
You get many surprise tasting samples / amuse bouches. First up this night was foie gras lollipop with a grape coating and nuts with 4 others on a plate. An aspic on a toothpick wrapped around something, a mini-slice of toasted brioche with a topping, a small slice of something I cannot remember and a cigarillo type lacy pastry with nut butter and what tasted like slices of almond? The foie gras lollipop was great but did not surpass what I remembered of the foie gras creme brulee on a japanese style porcelin spoon from a brunch buffet at L'Orchidees a few years ago.
I like that cigarillo thing too..
Then they came around with another amuse bounch of red snapper with red fruit and tomato and a smoked tomato coulis. The mix of flavours were excellent.
The first course was duck foie gras poached in hibiscus juice with enoki and soba noodles. Tasty and I liked the foie gras but I realized I prefer my foie gras seared and the enoki was fine but the soba noodle did not do it for me.
The 2nd course was chanterelle mushrooms (or girolle sp? from the french explaination they gave to the next table) bouton de culotte, sazelnut cruble, sweet and sour mulberries... This I liked but I always like mushrooms and the mulberries were tiny bits of flavour.. In France you can go pick mushrooms and take it to pharmacy to be identified before when i lived there.
Third course was Anglerfish (Lotte) with sea scented emulsion and young leeks. Nice fish and the taste was more delicate and subtle but with the memories of the bold and more complex flavours from the red snapper amuse bouche, I preferred that since I loved the smoked tomato coulis with the red snapper.
4th course was the stuffed saddle of lamb, browned eggplant & sweet onions with some white filling on the tiny layer of grilled onion and jus and I think pine nuts in the stuffing. The Savigny les Beaune 1er Cru went well with the lamb which are 2 slices probably about an inch thick each and size about same as the center from probably a 1lb rack of lamb.
5th course was comte, red onion and wine aspic which was probably the course I was not sure about. Comte I can take or leave and given the choice would have preferred brie de meaux. Wondered what was on the custom cheese cart on the 9 course menu which the table to my right was having.
I was suprised when they came with a little cup of chocolate mousse with ice cream but apparently dessert is served with pre-dessert and post dessert.
Nice touch.
The last or dessert course was a shortbreas tart with figs from Mr Baud lightly tangy with passion fruit juice, ice cream with sweet clover. It was a a small rectangle of sable pate with slices of figs and a small fig wrapped in a passion fruit juice and another small fig wrapped with grape juice. Loved the figs and especially the one in passion fruit juice.
Post dessert was 3 things plus some home made nouget which they bring in a large jar.. the small square of nouget was excellent. The 3 things was a small sheet of orange crystalized lacy patisserie style baked with nuts and flour and sugar. Couple of chocolate truffle dipped in dark chocolate served on top of what tasted /smelled like burnt or toasted chipped espresso. And the last was some white chocolate and nut domed cluster with some freezed dried berries (blueberries perhaps).
The bill came to 162 Euros service and tax compris. Since the service was excellent throughout the night, attentive and more than happy to answer any question I had, I added more than 10% additional tip to round up. When you exit the restaurant, you are given a small bag of a nut brittle covered one side by dark chocolate as a gift. I really do not want to know the sugar count of that meal with the wonderful desserts lol.
Overall a very enjoyable meal with superb service.
Highly recommend to go for dinner there and try to get a table with full view of the kitchen if you are a foodie. The price is highish but inline considering the quality of the food you get (especially with all the extra) and Pur is a 1 star michelin restaurant. The courses are not huge but you have more than enough to eat with the 6 courses and 4 additional surprise courses or amuse bouche.
The restaurant is open 8pm to 10pm every night but i got there just before 9pm and the meal took close to 3 hrs.


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As some of you may know, on my 30th birthday my boyfriend asked me to marry him. Although we had talked briefly about getting married at some point, it was a total surprise.
I didn't think I was that bothered about getting married, but it turns out that I am.
And as I am an organisation freak I have gone into list overdrive. WE HAVEN'T EVEN SET A DATE YET!!!! But I am 99.9% sure that I know what kind of dress I want, what colour my bridesmaids will be wearing, who they will be, approximate guest numbers, that we will be having a non-religious service and a possible venue. I have even thought of silly things such as what decorations to have and timings of the day. I swear I am not normally this crazy.
I am seriously driving the boy crazy. I am pretty sure that once we have decided on a date, I will become much more relaxed (hopefully!!) and once things can actually be put in motion I can take things in my stride and not think I am turning into Monica.
I am totally going to go overboard. I have never planned a wedding, so I am not sure what to expect or what I should be doing first and I expect that at more than one point I'll cry and suggest that we just run away somewhere and get married in secret.
I will love you all forever if you could recommend things like florist, MUA's etc, etc.
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Howard Kunreuther, Mark V. Pauly, Stacey McMorrow, Behavioral Economics and Insurance: Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry (2013).
Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Howard Kunreuther (2011), Redesigning Flood Insurance, Science Magazine, 333 (6041), 408 - 409.
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Gerry Harvey talks to The Business about light at the end of the retail tunnel
A fall of over 36 per cent to $82 million in net profit for the first half year, reflected a tough trading period for Harvey Norman with aggressive discounting and losses on property development. But it was an ebullient CEO Gerry Harvey who spoke with Ticky.
TICKY FULLERTON, PRESENTER: Here is a story about Harvey Norman's results.
A fall of over 36 per cent to $82 million in net profit for the first half-year reflecting a tough trading period of aggressive discounting and losses on property developments.
But it was an ebullient CEO, Gerry Harvey, who spoke with me a little earlier.
Gerry Harvey, welcome back to The Business.
GERRY HARVEY, CEO, HARVEY NORMAN: Oh, welcome back to The Business! We're finally, finally doing some business and we've got a turnaround. It feels good.
TICKY FULLERTON: I'm looking at - the bottom line result from the half was below market forecasts, but boy, the jump in your share price, and I presume that's precisely because of these recent sales figures.
GERRY HARVEY: Yes. I think so, I think so. I mean, the profit decrease is largely - or a big component of it is the property devaluation. And the spread we've got between the interest rate at the moment, 3 per cent, and the property yields of 8 to 9 per cent is probably greater than I've ever seen. So I expect that property prices will go up quite a lot over the next six to 12, 18 months, two years.
TICKY FULLERTON: So you feel really on the property side we've hit a low there too?
GERRY HARVEY: Yes, I think we've seen the bottom of the property price and I think we're now going to see property prices go up, particularly in the sort of property we've got, which is showing very high yields. At the very low end they're 8 per cent yields and at the top end they're 11, 12 and 13 per cent yields.
TICKY FULLERTON: Is that partly because you've got the retailing side of the business also looking as though it's tipping back up again?
GERRY HARVEY: Yes. Because what happened in January, the morale in Harvey Norman went up amongst all our people because we saw a sales increase. We haven't seen a sales increase for so long. And so not only did we get a sales increase in January, that has continued on into February. And even that'll be - we've got 28 days in February this year; last year we had 29, but really the point is that the daily, weekly sales in February are still showing an increase.
TICKY FULLERTON: So does that mean you feel that the sort of dark days of deep discounting from the last half are really falling away now, now that people are shopping with confidence, to use your new motto?
GERRY HARVEY: Well, it does look as if, with the figures that we've got in January-February, that we've turned the corner. We're now not seeing sales decrease every month, which has been going on for such a long time, they're actually increasing.
Now, I can't tell you that that will happen in April, May, June or through to December. I don't know. But I do know that they've increased in January and February and I do know that that's very encouraging.
TICKY FULLERTON: Gerry Harvey, your omni-channel strategy heads your presentation again, I see. Now, online has of course been challenging. What percentage at the moment is being sold online?
GERRY HARVEY: Well we're hoping this year that we'll get to about 2 per cent of our sales in computer and electrical online. As far as furniture, bedding and carpets and all those other categories, there's no online business being done to speak of. It's virtually non-existent.
But, again, it's only 2 per cent of our sales, so we have lot of people that click on and then just go into the shop and pick it up. And then we have people that click on, transact and half of them go into the shop and pick it up and the other half have it delivered.
So a big percentage of our internet business is actually still being picked up in the store, which is good because hopefully they might buy something else when they come to the shop.
TICKY FULLERTON: Now there speaks a good retailer. Now in February you said, "I think one day you'll find that Harvey Norman is the biggest online retailer in Australia, but it's not going to happen overnight." How long will it take to happen, do you think, and will there be a serious online market here?
GERRY HARVEY: Well I don't know what percentage of our sales or anyone else's sales will end up online, but it is a growth market, it is growing every year, it's growing overseas and different people have different opinions as to how big it will become.
TICKY FULLERTON: Some people, Gerry, say that you've actually had a number of opinions just yourself.
GERRY HARVEY: I have a number of opinions. I'm very proud of the fact that I've got a number of opinions. I'm very proud of the fact that some of my opinions differ from other people's.
TICKY FULLERTON: But what I'm saying is that you've had different opinions about online and I read one analysis that said you're actually walking quite a tightrope between two audiences, your investment analysts who want to hear the great that you've got with the program online, but also very importantly your franchises who might see online as a bit of a threat.
GERRY HARVEY: No, well - again, we've all got opinions, analysts have got opinions, the public, the media - we've all got opinions. But I can only deal with the facts. Now the facts are that online this year could end up being 2 per cent of our sales in computer and electrical and virtually zero in the other product categories.
I also believe that somewhere down the track, three, four, five, six years, Harvey Norman will be the biggest online retailer in Australia. I believe that to be true. Now people say, "Hang on, that's funny coming from a non-believer." But their opinion is that I'm a non-believer. I'm actually not a non-believer. So, again, we have opinions that vary quite - quite a lot.
TICKY FULLERTON: Gerry Harvey, I'm sure the market will enjoy digesting that. Thank you very much for talking to us.
GERRY HARVEY: Thanks very much.


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Lesson 4 -- second quarter 2007
March 25, 2007
© Copyright 2007
Do I really belong to God's family?
God is such a merciful heavenly Father! He knew millions of us would sooner or later struggle with assurance of sonship. So He gave us a complete record of infallible proofs, requirements, and character traits. I offer only eight for your consideration here
But what about those times when I get down and discouraged with my failures and shortcomings as one of God's sons? As much as I want to, I just don't appear to be His son all the time! The following verse encourages me; seize hold of it right now: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2).
Only faith in Christ
I do not believe there exists any significant difference between being saved and staying saved. Salvation is always by Jesus Christ. That truth remains unchanged regardless which side of the cross we live on. Only faith in Jesus will save us; only faith in Jesus will keep us. None of my works brought me into salvation, and none of my works will keep me in salvation. Christ, and Christ alone, is all I need.
Does this mean that all I need to do is believe? Yes!
"Then I can do whatever I want to! Yipee!" Ah, my friend, if that is our response to this, we have revealed the shallowness of our understanding, of our faith, and of our commitment. Saving faith is much more than just a disposition of the heart. Belief unto salvation far supersedes the mere acknowledging of something to be true.
Such faith and belief form the foundation of a relationship. And that relationship touches the entire being, not just the heart and the mind. In other words, genuine faith will change your life.
Let's put it another way. Saving faith is a living faith. If mine is a dead faith, it will not save me because it cannot. And what, I ask, is the primary difference between a living faith and a dead faith? Here, hear it from God Himself: "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also" (James 2:17,20,26).
When the Scripture says that our salvation is by faith alone, we need to understand what it teaches about faith! Whether you are a sinner needing that first work of redemptive grace, or whether you are a saint needing that ongoing work of grace, the only faith that will bring about your salvation is a living, working faith. If your faith is living, it is also working. If your faith is working, it is also living. And you are saved. But if your faith is works-free, it is also life-free; you are yet dead in your trespasses and sins.
My friend, how is your faith? Is it working?
What determines who is chosen?
God's will. This is God's choice. As the Sovereign over all, He has the incontestable right to do as He pleases. Therefore, He is free to chose whom He will and reject whom He will. We must believe and accept that His choices are always purely right and just, even if it doesn't all make sense to us.
We are just pawns! If that were true, would there be anything wrong with it? How could we demand to be anything else, we who had no control over our entry into life and have no control over its circumstances? But we are not mere pawns for some universal deity to toy with.
The Eternal One has always known the full life span of every being. To my finite mind, it makes sense that His choices are based on that omniscience. He chose those who would be holy and blameless before Him (Ephesians 1:4). He chose those who would show forth the praises of the Caller and Transformer (1 Peter 2:9). He chose those who would be faithful (Revelation 17:14). He chose those who would bear permanent fruit (John 15:16). In short, He chose those who would conform themselves to the image of His Son.
Unconditional assurance?
God has chosen us and sealed us. Does that make our niche in heaven secure? Does it guarantee our eternal security?
Unconditionally so? Well, what does God say? What do you think?
Can I live in deliberate disobedience and still be holy and blameless? Can I live in deliberate disobedience and still show forth the praises of He who called me from the darkness of disobedience? Can I live in deliberate disobedience and still remain faithful? Can I live in deliberate disobedience and still bear permanent fruit? Can I live in deliberate disobedience and still conform to the image of Jesus?
To presume that our lives need not measure up in obedience to the Word is to mock the truth.
God guarantees absolute permanence to those who live in daily no-holds-barred surrender to His Son.
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Legal Question in Family Law in California
what is resonable visitation
Is every other weekend from friday evening till sunday evening considered resonable visitation? The child is 2 years old. I have no criminal convictions, no drug use and no domestic violence issues. The mother has forced us into a court hearing. She has refused to let me see the child unless i let her dictate where and when and how long. Now she is using that against me saying i never tried to see the child. There was no agreement in mediation because she would not compromise. The most she would agree to was for me to have the child for 8 hours every saturday after three months. Even that was like trying to squeeze blood out of a turnip.
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Re: what is resonable visitation
It certainly sounds reasonable. Of course, we would need to know more about your situation to provide you with a better answer. I suggest that you consult a family law attorney about your matter.
Feel free to contact me.
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Re: what is resonable visitation
What is "reasonable" depends on each situation. If our situation is a typical situation, I would think reasonable would include one or two weeknight visits. Don't let her scare you. And don't let her lies win in court. You will need to stand strong and present evidence to refute her lies.


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MapBroad River and its tributaries, S.C. Scale ca. 1:230,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 368a.35 From Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress.-Report of the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1865). fol. p. 216. At head of title: U.S.C.S., A. D. Bache, Supt. Printed in...
- Contributor: Willenbücher, Eugene - Willenbucher, Eugene
- Date: 1864
MapBeaufort District, South Carolina Scale from Stephenson's Civil War Maps, 1989. "Approved, Chas. R. Suter, 1st Lt., U.S. Engrs., Chf. Engr., D.S." Pen and ink tracing of map in Robert Mills's Atlas of the State of South Carolina. LC imperfect: mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) S131 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.
- Contributor: Mills, Robert - Vignoles, Charles Blacker - Ravenel, Henry
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Sears Canada: 48 Hour Sale
There is a pretty good sale that started this morning at Sears Canada. Get up to 50% off (and sometimes a bit more) today and tomorrow.
It is really easy to find deals in this sale, in one glance I found the following:
- Save 55% - Arnold Palmer Leather Casual Twin-gore Slip-on Shoes - from $49.49
- Save 66% - Jessica 10K Round Emerald Stud Gold Earrings - were $89.99 | Now $29.99
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You can get a deal on almost anything during this sale.
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Assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede is one of the most-beloved residents in the small Texas town of Carthage. Sunday-school teacher, choir member and creator of spectacular funerals, Bernie is a friend to everyone, including Marjorie Nugent, a rich but nasty widow whom no one else likes. When Marjorie is found shot to death and stuffed in a freezer, Bernie is charged with the murder, and concerned Carthage citizens immediately spring to his defense.


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Church Identity
Elder Ira Turner
From the Primitive Monitor
Is modern missionism of true Bible or apostolic origin? or is it of men? Let Mr. Graves answer; Tennessee Baptist, September number, 1860: "Let it be borne in mind, that our Missionary organism originated with our English brethren." Now, reader, has not Elder Graves told you just what the Old School Baptists have ever been telling you? and I now tell you again. The first Missionary Society was formed in 1792; Cary was born 1751; Fuller in 1754.
Listen to the testimony of Mr. L. J. Crucher. He was a Missionary preacher of some note. He says, "I, with thousands of Missionary Baptists, believe that our present system of Missionary boards, Bible Union Tract societies, together with theological schools, Sunday-schools, and temperance societies, are all anti-christian, and that God intends to break them down and show Baptists a more Scriptural way; and if nothing short of an earthquake will suffice to accomplish the work, then I say, Lord, send the earthquake."
Now, I ask, when have you ever heard an Old School Baptist say more against this institution than Mr. Crucher, and he is a Missionary Baptist? Now, I want to know where is the man that has the audacity to contradict the word of such a man as J. H. Graves? the best man the Missionary Baptists ever had. There are but few who are his equals in learning and piety, too honest and God-fearing to tell a falsehood about the origin of their human institution. A better historian they have not, besides he lived when the division took place among the Baptists. Where are the men that will dispute his statements, together with Mr. Orchard, another one of their best men, with all European historians, either ancient or modern. Ah! here they are, not yet fifty years old, in the persons of Ray, Duncan, Wallace, and Throgmorton. who now profess to know more than their seniors, who lived when these things were hatched. Strange assumption that a child at fifteen will profess to know more than his father does at forty. Their next plea is, that the regular and separate Baptists once formed a union, and that all believed in the general spread of the gospel by the most efficient means that could be attained to, and after a time we, as Old School Baptists, broke the union and declared ourselves anti-mission. That would be a good plea had the union been a general one on the part of the Old School Baptists. See what their own historian, Mr. Benedict, says about that on page 652. He tells us that on the part of the Regular Baptists there was but one association, the Ketocton, that was connected with six other associations of the separate Baptists. Now, if that one association afterwards withdrew from them and their institutions, it only proves that she represented and came back to her old brotherhood; and were it possible for the Missionaries to do that today, we would gladly receive them. But in what condition do we find them? A mothy class of refugees. There is only one way for them to ever get into our fellowship, and that is to repent and be baptized, every one of them, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Now all Missionary Baptist historians admit that these Missionary societies were introduced among the Baptists about the closing of the eighteenth century, and others that Judson and Rice, when by a hay-stack, prayed the mission spirit down, which statements are an admission that they never were in the world before that time, and if so, is not the mission system an invention? and consequently of men. Have they not a missionary board? Where do they find authority in God's word for such boards? Have they not a president, vice-president, a secretary, a corresponding secretary, and a treasurer? Do they not sell a life membership in. that board for $100? Do they not sell a membership for $30? Do they not do all this regardless of the purchasers faith, or whether he has any faith at all concerning the gospel? Then have they not evil men in the directorship of their work? Now, if Paul be correct, that the spirit of the prophets are subject to the prophets, are they not subject to ungodly men, since those ungodly men that have bought this life directorship have just as much to say about where their preachers shall preach, and bow they shall preach, and what they shall preach, as the preachers themselves? Now, the Missionaries may come up with all human inventions, but they are all an unspeakable abomination before God. They have the D. D.'s, and the reverends, as higher degrees of the clergy than that known and acknowledged in their directory as Bishop or Elder. These are the highest offices in the church. In this they differ from the true church. Mr. Orchard, quoting from Mosheim, Jones, Robinson, and others, says of these Baptists, "They were called by the Catholic party acephali, (headless,) from having no distinct order of clergy or presiding person in their assembly, and were hooted in councils for calling the established church a worldly community, and for baptizing such as joined their churches." This, we know, the Missionary Baptists do not do. They receive any that come to them if they have been immersed, no matter by whom. Besides this, what is their general association but a headship to lay plans, to pass resolutions, to invent schemes for collecting money, subject to the next higher order—the board of directors, composed of men who have purchased a life membership therein, regardless of faith; and they may be ungodly men, yet they, as directors, are over them. They hold the reins. They appoint metes and bounds. They appoint a missionary or withhold him, as suits them. They are now dispensing one-half million dollars of Baptist money annually. Are not they the heads and lords of the whole Missionary Baptist fraternity? They cannot carry on their missionary work without them.
But how with the Old School Baptists? They own no establishment. They acknowledge no head but Christ Jesus. They claim the church is the highest ecclesiastical authority on earth. They call upon no higher authority for a preacher, in this world, but they depend upon, "Pray ye therefore the Lord of time harvest to give laborers." Each church attends to its own affairs, and also its own financial matters. We follow the old rule, Each one laboring with his own hands as much as he can for his own support, just like our own brethren. In the ninth and tenth centuries, Mr. Orchard informs us, page 147, that their preachers were mechanics, weavers, shoemakers, who maintained themselves by their own industry. Would not our reverends, and D. D.'s, feel little now to have to set down at the loom or shoemaker's bench to labor for their own support? I tell you, take away their stipulated support and they won't preach. How then can they claim connection with those Ancient Baptists, who preached that money was not the means of building, but rather of destroying the church? How is it with the Missionary Baptists? Where is the fellowship? Where is the purity of communion? Is not money the basis of all their work? Their preachers are hired, and, of course, they have to preach what the people want who hired them, or they will not pay them, and so the whole fraternity is corrupted. Naturally, men do not believe the truth, and they won't pay a man to preach to them something they don't believe; and that accounts for many of their preachers, who are conscientious, leaving them and coming to our communion.
But let us hear from those ancient Baptists again. In the twelfth century, Orchard, page 188—9; "They considered every Christian as in a certain measure qualified and authorized to instruct, exhort, and confirm the brethren in their Christian course. All orders of teachers were to resemble exactly the apostles of our Savior, and be like them, poor, and throw their possessions into a fund for the support of the sick; while the healthy were to pursue some trade to gain a daily subsistence. To effect the greater good, many of them led a wandering life throughout the various provinces of Europe, and such itinerants realized considerable success in gaining the affections of the multitude; while some, in their travels, were called to martyrdom." Let us contrast this old custom with the New School custom of today. Those old primitive preachers had to help labor for the support of the sick, and to feed the poor, but now these modern preachers live in affluence on a salary of a thousand or two thousand dollars a year, and let the sick die in poverty; they are not worthy the notice of the affluent clergy, because they have not been able to pay readily into the treasury for their support. How can such claim kin to those ancient Baptists?
We need not stop now to argue what the practice of the early churches was in
regard to receiving members from other communities by baptizing them, but desire
to notice that as early as the year 455 we find that their views on
predestination became a distinguishing mark, and up to this, time that doctrine
had never been disputed by any professing Christianity; hence it is observed by
Mr. Orchard that these Baptists did not differ from the Catholics on doctrine.
Page 164 he says, "The soundness of the Novatian creed was allowed at Rome, and
the same was seen in the council at Aries, and at Lyons, where, from their views
on predestination, they appear to have been distinguished." So, you see, that
the doctrine held by them, and they were nearly the same as those we now call
Calvinists, is a stench in the nostrils of the Arminian Missionaries, for they
now pompously glory in being Arminians, which appellation is in honor of James
Arminius, an opponent to John Calvin, who was the first to propagate a doctrine
in opposition to predestination; see Buck's theological dictionary—Note,
We will now go back to the year 250, about which time Novatian withdrew from Cornelius' jurisdiction, and from that time, through every century, show that they have practiced what we as Old School Baptists practice now, to-wit: The baptism of all that come to us, whether they are from other communions or not. Novatian began by baptizing all apostates, and while he maintained the severity of the gospel discipline, many observing that harmony and purity of religion prevailed among them, resorted hither to enjoy the sweets of Christianity, and them they baptized.
In the year 500 they held the Catholic community not to be the church of Christ; and, therefore, rebaptized such as had been baptized in that community before they admitted them to fellowship. In 524 it was decreed, that if such as had fallen into the errors of anabaptism, as the Novatianists, should return to the Catholic church, they would be received, provided they had been baptized in the name of the Trinity. But these Baptists made no such distinction; they baptized converts, and rebaptized others. Now, in regard to succession, it is recorded by Mosheim that the brethren beyond the Alps "received their teachers, or the confirmation of their officers to eldership, from the churches in Italy, in 660." So you see that up to that date we have the same people in Bulgaria and Italy who practiced rebaptism, and imparted the same practice to their brethren beyond the Alps, by appointing them to the eldership of their churches. Besides this, we find the Donatists flourishing in Africa; and they were in communion 'with the Novatianists and Montanists for about. 400 years; then it is supposed that the remnant of them fled under persecution to their brethren in the valleys. About the middle of the sixth century there was a new sect came into notice in the East. One day a stranger called upon Constantine, an obscure person, who lived in a little town called Mananalis, in Armenia. This stranger had been a prisoner among the Saracens, in Syria. He furnished Constantine with the four Gospels and the epistles of Paul. It is said of them, by Mr. Orchard, that they restored the New Testament order of Things in that country. These Paulicians, as they were called, were inclined to abolish all visible objects of worship but baptism and the communion of the faithful; Orch., page 129. They acknowledged no sacraments but baptism and the Lord's Supper. They baptized and rebaptized adults by immersion.
We afterwards find them mixed, and numbered in their communion the successors of the Novatianists and Donatists, now under different names, but more particularly that of Waldenses. It is said that the body of Christians in Armenia came over to the Paulicians and embraced their views, and their opinions were silently propagated in Rome, Milan, and in the kingdoms beyond the Alps. And though they were charged with some Manichean errors, Mr. Orchard says they were honorably freed from this reproach by respectable writers.
Now, we have seen that these people held to the doctrines of the gospel, while many thousands of them were put to death, and were reproached with being guilty of rebaptizing all that came to their communion. From these churches were sent colonies, and they were said to have inundated Europe, and some relics of these ancient communities were to be traced till the fifteenth century. Iii the ninth century we find these same people speaking and practicing the same thing, for which cause one hundred thousand of them had their property confiscated, and the owners thereof put to death.
These are the ones that Gibbon, Robinson, Jones, and. others, say bore
evident marks of apostolic spirit. They went without any funds or public society
to countenance or support them in their arduous undertaking; but they went
single-handed and single-eyed to the conflict with every grade of society. So
you see they were not Missionaries of the modern type.
In 1160 Peter Waldo arose, and he, with his followers, renounced all worldly property and interest, making common stock with the poor of the church. From this circumstance their enemies termed them, "The poor of Lyons;" hence they were named Lionists. They mixed with the Waldenses, their sentiment being the same, and were known in general by that name. All historians know that these Waldenses, who, we have already seen, received their appointment to eldership from the Novatianists, always practiced baptizing all that came to their church before admitting them to fellowship, though they might have been baptized elsewhere; and these are the ones that French historians say were almost, in their opinions, the same as those we call Calvinists. In 1179 Alexander III called a council, in which these anti-PedoBaptists were anathematized for disregarding the baptism of infants, who afterwards came to them from the Catholic party. It is evident that it was from the fact that these Baptists ever disregarded the Catholic rights and ceremonies, rejecting their baptism by baptizing all that came to their communion, which the curses and persecutions from the Catholics were brought upon them. In the year 1207 there was an army raised consisting of 500,000 men, and in 1210 they were directed by Alice, Simon de Montford's wife, and all the inhabitants found were hung on gibbets. A hundred of the inhabitants of Brom had their eyes plucked out and their noses cut off.
"All Bohemian writers," says Orchard, "state that the Picards, or Waldenses,
settled early in this kingdom, and that these people baptized and rebaptized
such persons as joined their churches, and that they had ALWAYS done so. In the
fourteenth century they numbered 80,000 in this kingdom." Now, if they settled
early in this kingdom, and did then and always had practiced rebaptism, then we
have 1300 years of a standing practice from the apostles; and the apostle Paul
himself disregarded the baptism of those whom Apollus had baptized before he
understood the nature and purpose of baptism.
We have now shown, through every century down to the sixteenth, that the church always practiced the baptism of adults by immersion upon a profession of their faith, and administered it to all that came to their churches, before admitting them to fellowship. And since, from 1120 on down to the Reformation, and even till now, we have the confession of faith as given us by Jones, Orchard, Coffee, Owen, and others, let it suffice now to give a little quotation from Mr. Orchard of foreign Baptists, page 226: "The purity of their lives, and inoffensiveness in character and conduct of these witnesses of the truth, with the soundness of their religious creed, through the domination of the man of sin, has occasioned almost every class of modem Christians to claim them as their predecessors, but proofs are required to support such claims, and these only will satisfy the impartial inquirer." And so it is now, though the author quoted is claimed to be a Missionary Baptist, we call upon that Class of Baptists for proofs of their claims to this predecessorship. Can they give it?
But now a claim is made by Protestants that the ancient sect of Waldenses and their brethren quit rebaptizing, and. left off the practice of baptizing only adults upon a profession of their faith. We admit that at that time there were large numbers who had declared for liberty, and. had adopted the practices of the Waldenses, just before the reformation; and very many of these joined Luther in the Reformation, and submitted to his general jurisdiction, and adopted his practices, and left off baptizing adults upon a profession of their possession of faith; but Mr. Orchard says it can not be positively decided that they all did this. In this he is only speaking of the Waldenses, and not of the Picards and. others in different dominions. He then continues by saying that the Baptists were a scattered community, and were now named Anabaptists, (Rebaptizers,) and Picard—Calvinists; Picards, from their practice; and Calvinists from their doctrine.
Allow me to insert here a note concerning these Baptists in the valleys in the north of Spain and south of France: "The antiquity of the Valdenses," says Mr. Orchard, "is asserted by their friends, and corroborated by their enemies. Dr. Maclaine, in Mosheim's history, says, 'We may affirm, with the learned Beza, that these people derived their name from the valleys they inhabited; and hence Peter, of Lyons, was called in Latin, Valdus, because he had adopted their doctrine.' Reiner Sacco speaks of the Lionists as a sect that flourished for above five hundred years; (back to 750;) while he mentions authors of note among them, who make their antiquity remount to the apostolic age. Theodore Belvedre, a popish monk, says that the heresy, (meaning the Baptists,) had always been in the valleys. In the preface to the French Bible the translators say that they, (the Valdenses,) have always had the full enjoyment of the heavenly truth contained in the holy Scriptures ever since they were enriched with the same by the apostles, having, in fair MSS, preserved the entire Bible in their native tongue, from generation to generation." "Eckbertus and Emericus, two avowedly open and bitter enemies of the Waldenses, do assert that the new Puritans, (Waldenses,) do conform to the doctrines and manners of the old Puritans, i. e., Novatianists. Beza affirms * * the Waldenses were the relics of the pure primitive Christian churches." In the sixteenth century these people claimed, "A person is first rightly baptized when lie is received into our society" That is just what the Old School Baptists of today claim.
We now turn our attention to the account of the spread of the Baptists in
European provinces, as given, principally, by Mr. Orchard. They are spoken of,
however by Dr. Affix, and Collier, in 1050, to have come from France, Germany,
and Holland, and are spoken of in England as far back as 1003. In 1140 Mr.
Orchard gives us another account of their being in England. In 1150 they spread
themselves and their doctrines all over Europe. Among other provinces, England
is named as being visited in 1150. Being apprehended and interrogated, Gerard
answered, that they were Christians, and believed in the doctrine of the
apostles; so they were branded with a hot iron and driven into the field.
Moreland asserts, That Walter Lollard, a great preacher on the Rhine, was in
great reputation among his people, for having successfully planted their
doctrines in England in 1318. He was called a Waldensian heretic. It is said of
these people that they supported themselves by manual labor, while the sick were
supported by the contributions of the healthy. They were called Bible men,
because they confined themselves to the Scriptures in every thing they said or
did. Collier says, that in 1531 the sentiments of the Baptists in England were
the same, and in perfect agreement with those maintained by Waldo and the
Waldenses. In this same century they held that there be no distinction among
preachers, and they believed immersion, or Anabaptism, to be true baptism, and
they were so numerous their numbers could scarcely be reckoned. Mr. Fuller says
they were branded with the term Anabaptist, (Rebaptizers,) which in the main
were but the Donatists new-dipped. Again Mr. Orchard proves fatal to the whole
Missionary fraternity—he says, "Every pious and consistent man, from Novatian,
(A. D. 251) to the Bohemian brethren, (A. D. 1459) disowning this, (Catholic)
church and her rites, have renounced those who came from her fellowship to
theirs." Do the Missionaries do that? If not, they can not claim akin to those
English Baptists. "In 1589," Burnett says, "there were many Anabaptists in
different parts of England. They held that Romish baptism was no baptism at
all." In this century Beacon Cramer cried out sadly against those men he calls
gospelers. He says, "Their tongues are tipped with the Scriptures; they can
dispute very copiously for justification by faith, talk with great assurance of
forgiveness by the blood of Christ, and boast of their being entered upon the
list of the predestinated to glory." They were not Arminians, like the modern
Missionaries are. We read of these Anabaptists, in different parts during
persecution, having fled into Holland and Flanders in shoals; that they were
very numerous. Now, in the latter part of the sixteenth century we read of one
David George, who came from Delpt, in Holland, probably a Mennonite; but Mr.
Brandt thinks he was a member of foreign Baptists in London, as there were some
congregations of low country exiles there. George was quite an eminent man, and
was strictly an Anabaptist. About this time there began to be much controversy
in public preaching on free-will and predestination, and Mr. Orchard allows Mr.
Brandt to have been correct. Some of them were persons professing only a change
in name. We find again, in 1594, that there was an investigation on the
distinction of Calvinism and Arminian views. Neal, Burnett, Collier, Fuller,
Orchard, and others, give an account of their plurality in the sixteenth
century. Suffice it to say, that in 1649, the Baptists increased greatly, and
their opinions spread themselves into some of the regiments of the horse and
foot armies; and in 1670 many of them left their parochial charges, not
approving of the baptism of infants, and collected congregations of such as
agreed with them in this doctrine of baptism, which, by a succession of ordained
ministers in the places of them that are dead, remain till this day.
We desire to give a fair statement of Mr. Smith's ease, as England was not dependent on him for the existence of Baptists there. Mr. Smith did go to Holland, and was at Amsterdam, but did not join the Baptists there: and, consequently, did not receive baptism and ordination at their hands, but went to Leye, where, it is said, he baptized himself. Why did he not join at Amsterdam, where there were Baptists, and be baptized? Mr. Orchard thinks it was because he was an Arminian. Then it is to be supposed that those Baptists at Amsterdam were Calvinistic.
I now propose to show that from these sound Baptists in Holland, England was again blessed with the right of administering the ordinances. Mr. Kiffin says, "Several sober and pious persons, belonging to the congregation of Dissenters, in London, were convinced that believers were the only proper subjects of baptism; and that it ought to be done by immersion, or dipping the whole body in water, in resemblance of a burial and resurrection, according to Rom. vi, 4; and Col. ii, 12. That they often met together to pray and confer about this matter, and consult what methods they should take to enjoy this ordinance"—baptism in its primitive purity. "Not being certain as to the validity of this administration, they agreed to send over to Holland one Mr. Blount, who understood the Dutch language. He went, carrying with him letters of recommendation, and was kindly received by the church at Amsterdam, and Mr. John Batte, their teacher, who baptized him. On his return he baptized Mr. Samuel Blacklock, a minister, and these two baptized the rest of the company, fifty-three in number."—Irving's Hist., vol. 1 p. 143. See Orchard's Hist, p. 375.
Now there are two points in particular that I desire to notice. (1.) That England had a regular order of succession from the original Baptists that were not Arminians, and the same succession comes down to us. (2.) That these Amsterdam Baptists were not Missionaries of the modern type, but that those English brethren had to send to them, and recommend a man to be set apart to administer the ordinances; so you see that England does not owe her thanks to the Missionary labor of the modern type, for the blessings of the gospel she now enjoys. Now, remember these things occurred in the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, while America was being rapidly settled with emigrants from the different nationalities, and especially from England.
And now for the remainder of their history we are indebted to American historians, and mostly to Missionary Baptists; though we have some authentic historians of our own, whose testimony is undeniable. The first Baptist church founded in America was at Newport, Rhode Island. This church was constituted by Dr. John Clark, in 1638, and is still in existence. The late Elder Coffee, with whom I was personally acquainted, in his history gives the following inscription, as engraved on his tomb:
One of the original purchasers of this, (Rhode Island,) and one of the founders of the first Baptist church in Newport; its first pastor, and munificent benefactor. He was a native of Bedfordshire, England, and a practitioner of physic in London. He, with his associates came to this island from Massachusetts in March 1638 O. S., and on the 24th of the same month obtained a deed thereof from the Indians. He shortly after gathered the church aforesaid and became its pastor. In 1651, he, with Roger Williams, was sent to England by the people of Rhode Island Colony to regulate the business of the colony with the British ministry. Mr. Clark was instrumental in obtaining the charter of 1663 from Charles II, which secured to the people of the States free and full enjoyment of judgment of conscience in matters of religion. He remained in England, to watch over the interests of the colony, until 1664, and then returned to Newport and resumed the pastoral care of his church. Mr. Clark and Mr. Williams, two fathers of the colony, strenuously and fearlessly maintained that none but Jesus Christ had authority over the affairs of conscience. He died April 20. 1676, in the 66th year of his age, and is here interred."
I need not fear that the Missionary Baptists will charge that we are indebted to Roger Williams for American Baptists, as their own historian, Ray, of Kentucky, has successfully denied that. Suffice it to say, that Roger Williams not only renounced that church very soon, but also all church organization, and joined the Seekers. The date given in which Dr. Clark gathered his church, is one year in advance of the one gotten up by Roger Williams. But we are not dependent upon either of these, says Elder Coffee, for our line of succession. We had a number of ministers who came over from Europe and established churches in this country. The Welsh Tract church was organized in Wales in 1701, and emigrated there from in church capacity and settled in Pennsylvania, where it remained two years; it then finally settled at Welsh Tract, Delaware, in 1703. This church was organized with sixteen members, and with Thomas Griffith, its pastor, sailed from Wales to America on the ship James and Mary, in 1701, the same year it was constituted, and kept up her church meetings while on board the vessel. Said organization still exists, and still maintains the doctrines and practices of the Regular Baptists. Mr. Ray would insinuate that this church had taken sides with the Anti-mission Baptists, and thereby impaired its usefulness. Now, before going any farther, I want to give the direct line of this Welsh succession. In the reign of the Welsh king, Cassibellan, and fifty years before the birth of our Savior, the Romans invaded the British Isles, but having failed in consequence of more important wars, they made peace with them and dwelt among them many years. During this period many Welsh families visited Rome, and among them there was a woman named Claudia, and she was married to a man named Pudens. At the same time Paul was sent a prisoner to Rome, and preached there in his own hired house for the space of two years, about the year of our Lord 63, Pudens and Claudia, his wife, who belonged to Caesar's household, through the blessing of God received Paul's preaching and made a profession of the Christian religion. These, together with other Welshmen who had made like profession, exerted themselves on their countrymen in Wales, who were at that time vile idolaters. The gospel was extensively spread in Britain during this period. We learn from Tertulian and Origen, that in 130 there were two eminent ministers among them—Tagannus and Dannanus. During this year Lucius, the Welsh king, was baptized. In the year 469 the Saxons invaded Britain, and burnt the meeting-houses in Cambria— Wales. During this century these Christians suffered greatly at the hands of their Saxon foes, yet they had several eminent and able ministers among them, among whom was Gildas, a man of learning, and Dyfrig, Dynaut, Trelo, Padara, Pawlin, and Daniel. Now, up to the year 600, the rites of the Romish church were not known among the Welsh Baptists; but about this time Austin was sent by Gregory, Bishop of Rome, to convert the Saxons. In this he was measurably successful. He sought and obtained a conference with the Welsh Baptists near the border of Wales, at a place ever afterwards known as Austin's Oak, and there tried to impose the rites of the Catholic church upon them; but they utterly refused. Then he brought the behest down to three things, and one of them was, that they preach unto the Saxons the word of God. This they refused to do. Wasn't that curious? Wouldn't preach to the poor, perishing Saxons! I reckon they did not believe in preaching to sinners, did they? Ah! They were too sound as Baptists to accept a missionary agency from Mr. Austin. No wonder that Mr. Ray thinks that the Welsh Tract church took sides with the Anti-mission Baptists. That is the way she was constituted in Wales, and that is the way all Old Baptists were, up to near the close of the eighteenth century.
For men to rise up with all the shackles of Roman traditions, such as missionism, and Sunday-schools, to catechize their children, with all the other institutions devised by human policy, and then claim that they are the original Baptist church, established by Christ and his apostles, is entirely too late. The Philadelphia Association seems to be a great rallying fort for the Missionaries. I have not the means at hand of knowing just what they are now, nor does it matter, as many churches and associations have apostatized from their original faith on which they were constituted, and have gone into missionism and other heresies. The church at Rome was once an orderly body, but apostatized into that rugged beast of ten horns. So may the Philadelphia Association now be a Missionary body, but our object is to show what she was when constituted, and then all can see that she was not a Missionary body at that time. Now, if you will turn to Benedict's history, page 606, you will find that in 1775 an application was made for the association to ordain an itinerant minister to officiate among them, but so cautious were they of doing any thing which could be construed into an assumption of power, that they declined. So you see this is the first introduction of any thing from the missionary spirit into that association. If it was introduced at that time, 1775, where was it before? It was not among the Baptists of the Philadelphia Association. She was the same in practice and doctrine that the Regular Baptists ever have been, and are to this day. Now we have what is known as the London confession of faith, adopted by over one hundred congregations at London, England, in 1689; and, in 1742, the Philadelphia Association adopted them, and as there are twenty-four of them, we can't here insert them all, but that our readers may know of her soundness, we insert the third article:
"ARTICLE 8. Those of mankind that were predestinated to life before the
foundation of the world was laid, according to God's eternal and immutable
purpose, in the secret council of his will, he hath chosen in Christ unto
everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any other thing
in the creature as a condition moving him thereunto. As God has appointed the
elect unto glory, so he hath by the eternal and most free purpose of his will
foreordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore, they who are elected, being
fallen in Adam, are redeemed in Christ; are effectually called unto faith in
Christ by his Spirit working in due season; are justified, adopted, sanctified,
and kept by his power through faith unto salvation."
The ninth article reads, "Those whom God has predestinated unto life, he is pleased in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by his word and Spirit out of the state of sin and death in which they are by nature to grace of salvation by Jesus Christ." How would a conscientious preacher feel to adopt that article in his Confession of faith, and then find himself in a congregation of sinners, straining his lungs at the top of his voice, crying, "Oh, sinners, I am here to call you to Christ? Will you let conviction reach your hearts tonight, while the Lord, by his Spirit, is wooing and beseeching you? Oh, sinner, Jesus is ready and willing to save you. Come, just now, and fall in with the overtures of offered mercy and he saved before it is everlastingly and eternally too late." Then just let his mind drop back to his confession, which says, "Those that are predestinated unto life, God will effectually call by his Spirit, in his appointed time." Would he not feel that he had been acting very inconsistent? Now here you can see the non-identity of the one and the identity of the other, and it's so to this day. We as Old School Baptists, hold just what the Philadelphia Association did in 1775, before the modem mission spirit was born in America.


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2012 Annual Report: The race for people and jobs
BEMIDJI - The word "change" has virtually become a buzzword.
Not just for Bemidji and Beltrami County.
It's on the tip of the tongue for everyone who talks about virtually any substantial subject matter: politics, government, health care, business, economics and communications, including who and how we do it.
And with change comes a new set of challenges.
Dave Hengel, executive director for Greater Bemidji, knows the challenges well.
Greater Bemidji, the organization focused on economic development in the area, is faced with branding issues and getting the word out about Bemidji's strengths.
"It's an easy story to tell if you have the money to tell it," Hengel said.
A recent grant application, if approved, will make telling Bemidji's story easier, he said.
Never has telling the story been so important.
The Bemidji area, Hengel said, exports its talents. The community, through organizations like Greater Bemidji, must find ways to retain talent while recruiting new businesses and expanding the job pool.
He cites a change in people's priorities, spelled out in "The Coming Jobs War," a recent book penned by Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton.
"Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else," Clifton wrote in the book, which was profiled in a Gallup Business Journal article. "The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job."
Hengel said that's why Bemidji needs to place top priority on job creation, growing its services and amenities, and attracting new people while retaining its youth.
He said economic development teeters between the race for people and the race for jobs.
"Once people have a job, good things happen," said Hengel, adding that economics drive quality of life investments. "Jobs and people are intertwined... Companies will go where there are people."
Inside today's Pioneer, a special section has been devoted to business and people. "Industries of Impact" is the focus of the newspaper's traditional Annual Report.
In it, the newspaper looks at industries - both traditional and emerging - that make up the Bemidji and Beltrami County economy, and the people who work behind the scenes.
One of the challenges facing Bemidji is providing potential employers with hard and fast data reflective of the community and its demographics.
The Village at South Shore, along the banks of Lake Bemidji, uses research from ESRI, which compiles market information based on historical data and projections for future growth.
Bemidji's market profile includes population numbers within 30-, 40- and 50-mile radiuses. In 2010, there were 100,245 people living within a 50-mile radius of Bemidji.
In terms of economic development, Hengel said Bemidji relies on providing the right type of market data to potential employers - both to show workforce numbers and enough people to support those jobs.
Further, the ESRI profile shows slow, sustained growth for the area, and consumer spending by household.
The numbers help support Hengel's goal of rebranding Bemidji as more than a tourist destination.
"Until people are here, they don't have the perception we need," he said. "People think of us as a small, rural center for tourists."
Tourism plays a large role in Bemidji's economy. But today's special section also shows there are other industries - including education, health care services, retail and manufacturing - employing thousands of area workers.
And while tourism provides a traditional backbone to the region's economy, many of those other industries have driven changes in Bemidji. Educational and workforce experts said changes will continue with globalization of markets and the economy.
Two recent additions to Bemidji's higher education institutions can attest to the changes locally.
From 2000-03, John Centko was dean of manufacturing, information technology and transportation at Northwest Technical College when it had five campuses in Bemidji, East Grand Forks, Moorhead, Detroit Lakes and Wadena.
In June, Centko took over duties as provost at NTC in Bemidji.
"I see a significant change in the feel and look of the community," said Centko, adding he plans to focus on growing local talent and fostering the partnerships between education and employment.
Martin Tadlock arrived in June as provost and vice president for academic affairs for Bemidji State University.
Tadlock also has prior ties to BSU, where he was dean of the College of Professional Studies and School of Graduate Studies from 2001-06.
One of the immediate changes Tadlock noticed upon his return was "the growth of the city."
He expects changes at BSU and within the city to help position the area for major change.
As those changes play out, Hengel said he is committed to telling the Bemidji story and reshaping the perception of those who don't live here.
"It's our biggest challenge right now," Hengel said.


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DL senior is candidate for 2008 Presidential Scholars list
Grant Remmen, a graduating senior at Detroit Lakes High School, has been named as one of more than 2,600 candidates in the 2008 Presidential Scholars Program.
Grant is the son of Larry and Kellie Remmen of Detroit Lakes.
The candidates were selected from nearly 2.8 million students expected to graduate from U.S. high schools in 2008.
Inclusion in the Presidential Scholars Program, now in its 44th year, is one of the highest honors bestowed upon graduating high school seniors.
Scholars are selected on the basis of superior academic and artistic achievements, leadership qualities, strong character and involvement in community and school activities.
The 2,600 candidates were selected for their exceptional performance on either the College Board SAT or the ACT Assessment.
Further consideration is based on students' essays, self-assessments, descriptions of activities, school recommendations and school transcripts.
A distinguished panel of educators will review these submissions and select 500 semifinalists in early April.
The Commission on Presidential Scholars, a group of some 32 eminent citizens appointed by the President, will make final selection of the Scholars.
They will select one young man and one young woman from each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and U.S. students living abroad; 15 students at-large; and up to 20 students from the creative and performing arts.
The U.S. Department of Education will announce the Scholars in May.
Scholars will be invited to Washington, D.C., for several days in June to receive the Presidential Scholars medallion at a recognition ceremony and to participate in events and activities with their elected representatives, educators and other leading individuals in public life.
The United States Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964, by executive order of the President, to recognize and honor some of our nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors.
In 1979, the program was extended to recognize students who demonstrate exceptional talent in the visual, creative and performing arts.
Each year, up to 141 students are named as Presidential Scholars. They represent excellence in education and the promise of greatness in young people.
In honoring the Presidential Scholars, the President of the United States symbolically honors all graduating high school seniors of high potential.


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