Aired on November 11, 1956, this episode of the popular CBS TV
game show, "What's My Line?" features a special guest panelist!
And it's not Uncle Walt either!
(He appears later as the "Mystery Guest".)
"And I, I don't want to leave a legacy,
I don't care of they remember me,
Only Jesus..."
"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in Him."
(Lamentations 3:24)
In this classic teaching, Dr. Charles Stanley explains how trying to
discern God's will in our lives is often like trying to find a needle in
a haystack-a near impossible task- fraught with frustration.
But God never intended it to be that way.
Special guests Loretta Lynn and Charley Pride join Buck Owens,
Roy Clark, and the whole talented Hee Haw gang for some folksy fun
and great country music in the very first episode of the show
which aired on June 15, 1969.
Learn the true dimensions of ancient Israel and how
King David conquered the evil nations surrounding it.
This Saturday Poetry Corner is a Birthday Salute to one of America's
greatest Founding Fathers, the irrepressible Mr. Benjamin Franklin!
In addition to drafting and signing the Declaration of Independence,
Ben wore many hats during his lifetime: writer, editor, statesman, printer,
publisher, first postmaster general of the United States, and of course, inventor.
He was an original poet too, wouldn't you know it!
While free from Force the Press remains
Virtue and Freedom chear our Plains,
And Learning Largesses bestows,
And keeps unlicens'd open House.
We to the Nation's publick Mart
Our Works of Wit, and Schemes of Art,
And philosophic Goods, this Way,
Like Water carriage, cheap convey.
This Tree which Knowledge so affords,
Inquisitors with flaming Swords
From Lay-Approach with Zeal defend,
Lest their own Paradise should end.
The Press from her fecundous Womb
Brought forth the Arts of Greece and Rome;
Her Offspring, skill'd in Logic War,
Truth's Banner wav'd in open Air;
The Monster Superstition fled,
And hid in Shades her Gorgon Head:
And lawless Pow'r the long kept Field,
By Reason quell'd was forc'd to yield.
This Nurse of Arts and Freedom's Fence,
To chain, is Treason against Sense:
And Liberty, thy thousand Tongues
None silence who design no Wrongs;
For those that use the Gag's Restraint,
First rob, before they stop Complaint.
"On The Freedom Of The Press"
(1737)
Benjamin Franklin
This poem is an excerpt from a longer essay entitled,
"On Freedom of Speech and the Press" published in
Franklin's newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette
on November 17, 1737
I was reminded of this song the other day when my son said to me that
the current problems in our nation today are the result of the negative
influences from my generation. I suppose there is some truth in
the words, "every generation blames the one before".
Released in December, 1988 the ballad, "The Living Years" by the rock band,
Mike + The Mechanics, reminds the listener, "it's too late when we die to
admit we don't see eye to eye" and resonates with many people living
in the present, who are struggling with painful issues from the past,
especially in relationships with their parents and family.
"The Living Years" which addresses a son's regret over unresolved conflict with
his now deceased father, was a worldwide hit, topping the US Billboard Hot 100
in March, 1989, the band's only number one and last top ten hit on that chart.
It won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically in 1989, and was
nominated for four Grammy awards in 1990, including Record and Song of the Year,
as well as Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best Video.
