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A House Divided

If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.– Mark 3:25 On this day in 1858, Abraham Lincoln delivered his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. The most remembered portion of that speech was this:   A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and …

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Monday Mourning

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. English author and poet Dorothy L. Sayers was born on this day in 1893 (died 1957). With all due respect to Ms. Sayers, getting older isn’t for sissies. Or maybe that’s what she was …

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