John M. Buchanan

Good Friday Meditation

1961-01-01·Sermon

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GOOD FRIDAY MSbITATION

A FSV SHORT MONTHS AGO WS CEL EBRATID THE COMING OF THE

YHERE WAS DARKNESS ALL ABOUT, MN HATED AND FOUGHT AND WALL

IGNORANCE: AND IN THEIR MIDST A LIGHT, IN THS FORM OF A Nim

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JOY AND WARMNESS WE EACH LIT OUR OWN TINY CANDLE AND AS IT

AGAINST THE DARKNESS WE FELT THAT HE HAD THULY BEEN BORN A

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THEMSELVES INTO THE HEARTS OF MM,

BUT NOW WE. HAVE WIT NSSS3D THE LIGHT GO OUT.

TO LOVE HS OF FERED HIS LOVES AND He WAS D

HS TAUGHT Mai

GREW THROUGH THE YZARS, ITS GLOW WAS PIRE Al

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LIGHT INTO THE WORLD.
OWED IN THEIR Ow! SIN AND

BORN BABY, WAS LIT. WITH

SPU?P TERRE: STRUGGLEO
WEW THAT NIGHT.

D BRIGHT, ITS RAYS CAST

}ADORS OF LOVE AND PEACE.

HE SAID WSLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL" AND WAS ANSWERED WITH BESTIAL ChUELTY™™

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HE PRESENTED WITH THS GIFT OF ETERNAL LIVE AND PAL

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MEN HAVE NOT CHANGED, TWO THOUSAND YHAiS

SQUABBLING, ARGUING, SPITEFUL, HATING “HUMANITY. MEN ARE §

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WE ARE A PART OF THAT HUMANITY.

CENTURIES AGO, SNUFFED OUT THS LIGHT. THEIR GUILT IS OUR

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BY OUR HUMANESS WE ANE LINKED TT:

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GUILT ALSO, ONE HUNDRED TIMES

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