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THE ENSIGN MESSAGE

CHAPLAIN’S PAGE – “LIGHT”

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We all know that light is the opposite to dark. Simple! Or is it? The Concise Oxford Dictionary takes a whole page to describe light, and somehow misses the essential definition. A definition that is short and profound, just seven words. Sadly, the world has missed the point altogether, and put artificial light before the…

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LUNACY

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Old – timers like me with some mileage on us know a phony when we hear one. We’ve heard it all before and they don’t change. The recent performances in the English parliament by British Prime Minister Theresa May and Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs are strong reminders…

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THE STORY OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDERS! – (2)

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Novelist Sir Walter Scott called them the ‘children of the mist.’ Little did he realize that the Clan MacGregor has a ROYAL background stretching through the mists of time to JUDAH THE SON OF JACOB. It is no accident the Highland clans of Scotland abhorred pork and exhibited many traits of the Israelites of old….

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ADAM WAS NOT THE FIRST MAN

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U.S.A. Many people have become agnostics because of the supposed conflict between the Bible and science. In truth, there is no conflict at all between a correct translation of the Bible and really proven science, not just unproved theories. One of these supposed conflicts is between the fact that science knows that human beings have…

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QUEEN VICTORIA’S FAVOURITE HYMN

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Augustus Montagu Toplady, author of this almost universal hymn, was born at Farnham, Surrey in 1740. He was educated at Westminister School and Trinity College, Dublin. It was in County Wexford, Ireland, he was converted to Christ at a service held in a barn. Of this experience he said: “Strange that I, who had so…

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