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acclaimed One Man Dramas ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN CHARLES WESLEY, MARTIN LUTHER (NBC Special) click on the link
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Below
the thoughts below read a quote from Rev. Wyrick's applauded 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ARAHAM LINCOLN
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"I hate preachers." and the look on his face was one of utter disdain infused with anger and saturated with disgust.
Our paths had
crossed a number of times and we had no political differences or any arguments
over anything really.
We were two ships often passing each
other because of mutual interest...
..but...
...on his
part there was a definite antagonism toward me.
Curt would be a kind word to define how
he spoke to me if he spoke to me at all.
My curiosity
finally led me to one day ask him what the problem was. Had I done something or said something that I
was unaware had hurt or bothered him.
I'll never forget
the reply, "No. You haven't done
anything to me or said anything that has angered me. I just hate preachers."
And I'll
never forget that reply because it explains the great reason why we do not have
the brotherhood in this old world we should have.
People carrying around all that animosity
toward other people because they are of a different race or religion or...
And the object of the dislike not being
able to do anything about it even though they have done nothing to earn it. (I was a preacher.
I am a preacher. I will continue
to be a preacher so helplessly and hopelessly there was nothing I could do
about that)
I never was able to find out why he hated
preachers. Something in his past. Something he had been taught as a child and
carried into his adulthood. But
obviously I was unable to convince him I should be the first preacher he didn't
hate.
Laurens Van der Post, a
South African novelist, once wrote a story about two brothers. The
elder brother was strong, intelligent, athletic and a natural leader.
Sent away to a private boarding school, he quickly made a name for
himself.
His brother, six years younger, had no athletic ability, no engaging
personality.
A large protrusion on his back made him what the world viciously
calls a hunchback.
But he had one great gift, a beautiful voice. He could sing like an angel.
In time he joined his elder brother at the same private school.
And soon it happened - a group of boys, practicing cruelty as only boys
can sometimes do, surrounded the young man, tore off his shirt and ridiculed
the massive growth rising from his shoulders.
From an open window the older brother saw it all happen, but did
nothing to stop it. He was a leader and
could have brought it to a halt immediately, but he refused to practice
brotherhood, to cry out, “This is my brother.
Cease and desist!”
Instead, embarrassed, self protecting, he turned away from what was
happening and let the obscenity continue.
He saw it only as an act of self-preservation.
There would be a price
to pay if he intervened and he was not willing to pay that price.
It was actually an act of
betrayal for he had been as much a part of the attack as if he had done it
himself. He knew that but it not change his response.
No fatality took place. The
younger one survived physically, but emotionally he was never again the
same. He no longer sang. He isolated himself.
Years passed, the elder brother went off to fight in WWII and was
stationed in Palestine.
One night, lying outdoors under the stars, the enormity of what he
had done those many years before struck to the center of his soul.
Hit him hard and he did not sleep well for many nights.
He realized that he would never have peace in his heart until he
asked for his younger brother's forgiveness.
When he was finally given leave time, he managed to makes the long
and dangerous wartime trip back to South Africa.
He and his brother stayed up most of the night talking and he
confessed his betrayal to his brother.
They cried together and embraced.
Something
else happened that night.
As the elder brother was falling asleep, he heard a beautiful,
clear, angelic voice caressing the night
His brother was singing again.
He had heard his brother cry and now he heard him sing.
If you do hate an individual or dislike an individual not because
they are bad but because they are part of a certain group...are you
therefore...a sower of disunity in a world that will never find peace this way?
In short, by what you say...by how you act...do you prove you
believe you are your brother's keeper?
Or do you prove
otherwise?
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QUOTES ON BTOTHERHOOD
We hope that the world will not
narrow into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Remember
upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~Alexander the Great
I
look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a
brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each
morning. ~Daniel D. Mich
We
have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have
not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. ~Martin Luther King,
Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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Below is a quote from Rev. Wyrick's 9th book
THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
It is little wonder that once the war was over, wretched
memories fed anger loud and long.
Neither side could be proud of some things that happened during the war
or at their many prison camps. The
meanness in some men had multiplied.
They felt their uniforms allowed it.
Andersonville, or Camp
Sumter as it was officially known, in
southwest Georgia
is remembered as one of the worst.
By the end of the war, it had held 50,000
prisoners on a piece of land no larger than twenty-six acres.
Some men had called pits in the ground
their home. During its short
fourteen-month existence, 13,000 soldiers who had survived in battle died in
captivity under the most terrible conditions.
When the war was over the superintendent
was hanged.
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK
"Positive,
powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation
of Lincoln
while revealing the Divine source of his strength."
Lt.
Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.) Asbury
College (Professor Ret.)
"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is
an extremely well written book that investigates what might be
termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very
readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and
with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'
William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and
Wild Thorn
"Wyrick has authored a wonderful
examination of the spirituality of one of American history's most devoutly
religious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of
information."
Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian
minister
"When it comes to invoking religion in
support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of
Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why
so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works
of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantle of humility
easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than
with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis,
was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both
human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed
that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human
proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his
careful study of Lincoln's
career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when
piety transcends politics."
Dr.
Donald W. Shriver
Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Author of An
Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics
"V. Neil Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham
Lincoln's Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history.
Should have a wide readership."
James
H. Smylie Professor
of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
"Neil
Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln should be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably
the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United States.
Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often expressed
in Lincoln's
writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a Deity, but rather
expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this faith that provided
the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in full measure as he led the United States through the Civil
War. Dr. Wyrick's clear and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in
keeping with the character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his
point very well that Lincoln,
his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004
as they were in 1863."
Daniel Allen Butler, author
of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The Lusitania and The
Age o f Cunard
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Neil also writes for go60.us to check out his writings...
click on
"Voice" on the home page and then on the list of authors click
on Neil Wyrick
Recent articles Rev. Wyrick has written for this web site are: REFLECTIONS
·
Here Comes Summer (July 2012)
·
Spring
(May 2012)
·
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)
·
Wayward and Windy (April 2012)
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Some of the sermon titles
posted recently on Wyrick's Writings
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BELOW ARE MORE QUOTES FROM NEIL'S RECENTLY POSTED SERMONS
on Wyrick's Writings
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A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY
OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED
Two stores faced each other across a very
busy street. Their owners were in constant competition
with each other. One day, the owner of
one store put out a sign that read – If
you want it, we have it!
Almost immediately the other owner put out a
sign –If we don’t have it, you don’t
need it!
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HIS WORLD FAMOUS ONE MAN DRAMATIZATIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN, CHARLES WESLEY AND MARTIN LUTHER
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SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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