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A Case Of Human Error
The deaths of three infants in a
New England hospital was blamed on
the mistaken use of boric acid solu-
tion instead of distilled water in
their feeding formulas.
The state health commissioner
termed the mixup "a case of human
error."
Boric acid and distilled water were
kept in a central supply room. Dis-
tilled water is used because it is con-
sidered purer than tap water.
The liquids are similar in appear-
ance and both were properly labeled.
But, in addition to being labeled
"Boric Acid," the receptacle contain-
ing it should also be labeled - a
potential poison!
It cannot be repeated too often
that sincerity is not enough. Unless
certainty and sincerity are combined,
danger is always present.
One of the most outstanding Bible
characters embraced the traditionsof his fathers so sincerely that he
persecuted, imprisoned, and con-
sented to the deaths of all persons
calling on the Name of the Lord
Jesus. And he did it with a pure
conscience. He justified his madness
against them, as righteous indig-
nation.
He forcefully caused the true be-
lievers in Christ to blaspheme. But
one day he was stricken down in
judgment by the Lord. He acknowl-
edged Jesus as Lord (Acts 9), and
made the amazing discovery that he
was the blasphemer, persecutor, and
injurious one (1 Timothy 1:13).
Referring to his conversion, he
said: "The grace of our Lord was
exceeding abundant with faith and
love which is in Christ Jesus. This
is a faithful saying and worthy of
all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners;of whom I am chief" (1 Timothy
1:14-15).
Saul, the persecutor, became Paul,
the apostle and defender of the
faith he once destroyed.
You may feel that what you are
drinking religiously is the truth of
the gospel, when in reality it may be
human error and can prove more
deadly spiritually, than boric acid
is physically.
The One who said, "I am the Way,
the Truth and the Life: no man com-
eth unto the Father, but by me," is
the same One who died for our sins
and rose for our justification.
You cannot make a mistake plac-
ing personal faith in Him as Lord
and Savior; for there is "none other
name under heaven given among
men, whereby we must be saved"
(Acts 4:12).
Accept divine revelation instead
of human tradition. Combine cer-
tainty with sincerity by taking God
at His word!A ]Needless Suicide
A 40 year old Oakland woman, a
factory worker, told her friends she
was weary of life, then killed herself
by driving her sports car smashingly
into a guard rail of the Nimitz Free-
way, at 1 a. m. It somersaulted for
about 250 yards into the north bound
lane near 66th Ave.
After passing motorists lifted the
car off the woman's dead body, a
note was found in the wreckage
saying: "Tonight I will die for a life
of degradation. I owe it to this."
Could it be that no one ever told
that woman that "Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners"? Her
life of degradation gave her a claim
on that Savior. Why did she not exer-
cise it?
Could it be that she never heard
the good news that "Christ died forour sins"? Regardless of the nature
and number of sins that filled her
life, she would have been forgiven
had she believed that gospel of
Christ, for it is "the power of God
unto salvation to every one that
believeth" (Romans 1:16).
Could it be that she never heard
the gracious invitation: "Come now,
and let us reason together, saith the
Lord; though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool"? (Isaiah 1:18).
She could have reasoned with the
Lord about her "life of degradation,"
and could have been cleansed "as
white as snow!"
Could it be she never realized that
the Word says: "Let the wicked for-
sake his way, and the unrighteous
man his thoughts: and let him return
unto the Lord, and He will havePays $250 For Calling A Man A Liar
A Stockton, California, attorney and ask yourself if you are, or are
was fined $250 for contempt of court not, guilty of such a crime:
for calling the prosecutor a liar, in "If we receive the witness of men,
an embezzlement case. the witness of God is greater: for
Superior Judge M. G. Woodward this is the witness of God which He
imposed the fine after the attorney hath testified of His Son. He that
told Deputy District Attorney John believeth on the Son hath the witness
Kappos: "I don't like to call you a in himself: he that believeth not God
liar, Mr. Kappos, but that is exactly hath made him a liar; because he
what you are." believeth not the record that God
Since it is a serious thing to call gave of His Son. And this is the
a man a liar; think how much more record, that God hath given to us
serious it is to call God one! eternal life, and this life is in His
Consider this passage of Scripture Son. He that hath the Son hath life;mercy upon him; and to our God for
He will abundantly pardon"? (Isaiah
55:7). She too could have been
abundantly pardoned - or better
than that, she could have been "justi-
fied from all things" by faith in
Christ (Acts 13:39).
A man who had lived a life of
degradation hung on a cross beside
the Savior at Calvary. He became
penitent, and put in his plea to the
suffering Savior and heard Him say:
"Verily, I say unto thee, Today shalt
thou be with me in paradise!" (Luke
23:32).
Suicide is not the necessary nor
the satisfactory answer to a "life of
degradation."
"The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;
And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away!"
and he that hath not the Son hath
not life.
"These things have I written unto
you that believe on the name of the
Son of God; that ye may know that
ye have eternal life, and that ye
may believe on the name of the Son
of God" (I John 5:9-13).
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