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Expository Files 2.8
Aug. 1995
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THE FRONT PAGE
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Jon Quinn
Welcome to the August issue of Expository Files. Have
you taken your children to see the Disney movie
"Pocahontas" yet? My wife took our youngest. She said it
was better than she thought it would be, with less "nature
worship" than what might have been.
But it was only a movie, and everything I hear is
that the writers took great liberties with the facts.
There were several reasons for the establishment of
Jamestown as a colony. The not so politically correct
charter stated that one of the goals was that of
propagating the Christian "religion to such people, as yet
live in darkness and true knowlege and worship of God."
Unfortunately, many of the settlers had little room
for GHod in their own lives. While some of their number
were very devout, we find squabbles breaking out because
their greed and arrogance. Probably most of them would
have claimed to be Christian, but as always, the claim is
often made by people with little or no commitment to truly
exalting Christ in their lives. It takes more than loving
in word; we must love in deed and in truth.
Several times it looked as if the first permanent
colony in North America was not going to be so permanent.
Nine out of ten early colonists died from a variety of
causes. Help and a new supply of colonists arrived during
the third year of the colony's existence, and one of the
first thing that the new govenor did was to organize
worship services and call the people to remember Biblical
principles of industry and sacrifice. Among these new
colonists was John Rolfe, who would later marry
Pocahontas. Concerning the indians, he stated that "...on
whose faces a good Christian cannot look, without sorrow,
pity and commiseration; seeing that they bear the image of
our heavenly Creator, and we and they come from one and
the same mold..."
Most of the above information was gleaned from an
article entitled "Christianity in Jamestown" in the August
issue of Pulpit Helps; page 20. The thought occurs to me
that perhaps more of the indians would have been impressed
with the God these people claimed to represent if more of
the settlers had truly trusted Him in obedience to His
word. Think about how just a few unrighteous and
hypocritical men could overturn the hard work and good
examples of the truly faithful. Certainly the same is true
today, for I fear that many in our nation are just as
estranged from God as the indians were. Like the early
settlers, many of our problems stem, at least in part,
from a lack of respect for spiritual, moral and Biblical
principals. How much better it could be if all men truly
lived by faith.
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