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Taken from CH Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 27 September, Morning 

Believer Encouragements:

“Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!” - Deuteronomy 33:29

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons of God. Suppose you that God will give all the happiness to his enemies, and reserve all the mourning for his own family? Shall his foes have mirth and joy, and shall his home-born children inherit sorrow and wretchedness? Shall the sinner, who has no part in Christ, call himself rich in happiness, and shall we go mourning as if we were penniless beggars? No, we will rejoice in the Lord always, and glory in our inheritance, for we “have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” The rod of chastisement must rest upon us in our measure, but it worketh for us the comfortable fruits of righteousness; and therefore by the aid of the divine Comforter, we, the “people saved of the Lord,” will joy in the God of our salvation. We are married unto Christ; and shall our great Bridegroom permit his spouse to linger in constant grief? Our hearts are knit unto him: we are his members, and though for awhile we may suffer as our Head once suffered, yet we are even now blessed with heavenly blessings in him. We have the earnest of our inheritance in the comforts of the Spirit, which are neither few nor small. Inheritors of joy for ever, we have foretastes of our portion. There are streaks of the light of joy to herald our eternal sunrising. Our riches are beyond the sea; our city with firm foundations lies on the other side the river; gleams of glory from the spirit-world cheer our hearts, and urge us onward. Truly is it said of us, “Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord?”

Taken from Charles H Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 27 September, Morning

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Short article or devotional from God's Words from the book of Zechariah

Taken from CH Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 26 September, Evening

Believer Encouragements:

“Howl, fir tree, for the cedar is fallen.” - Zechariah 11:2

When in the forest there is heard the crash of a falling oak, it is a sign that the woodman is abroad, and every tree in the whole company may tremble lest to-morrow the sharp edge of the axe should find it out. We are all like trees marked for the axe, and the fall of one should remind us that for every one, whether great as the cedar, or humble as the fir, the appointed hour is stealing on apace. I trust we do not, by often hearing of death, become callous to it. May we never be like the birds in the steeple, which build their nests when the bells are tolling, and sleep quietly when the solemn funeral peals are startling the air. May we regard death as the most weighty of all events, and be sobered by its approach. It ill behoves us to sport while our eternal destiny hangs on a thread. The sword is out of its scabbard-let us not trifle; it is furbished, and the edge is sharp-let us not play with it. He who does not prepare for death is more than an ordinary fool, he is a madman. When the voice of God is heard among the trees of the garden, let fig tree and sycamore, and elm and cedar, alike hear the sound thereof.

Be ready, servant of Christ, for thy Master comes on a sudden, when an ungodly world least expects him. See to it that thou be faithful in his work, for the grave shall soon be digged for thee. Be ready, parents, see that your children are brought up in the fear of God, for they must soon be orphans; be ready, men of business, take care that your affairs are correct, and that you serve God with all your hearts, for the days of your terrestrial service will soon be ended, and you will be called to give account for the deeds done in the body, whether they be good or whether they be evil. May we all prepare for the tribunal of the great King with a care which shall be rewarded with the gracious commendation, “Well done, good and faithful servant”


Taken from Charles H Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 26 September, Evening

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ARGENTINA: Fighting to Save Glaciers as They Retreat

Argentina's glaciers, along with Chile's the most extensive of South America, manifest the damage caused by climate change, while they also face threats from mining and major transportation infrastructure projects.

A law to protect them has been postponed yet again. Glaciers are vast reserves of freshwater, vital for feeding rivers, lakes and underground water tables. But rising global temperatures are shrinking their ability to serve that function.

"Climate change is the main cause of glacier retraction, but also affecting them are the petroleum industry, large-scale mining, high-impact tourism and infrastructure projects," glaciologist Ricardo Villalba, director of the Argentine Institute of Snow and Glacier Research and Environmental Sciences (IANIGLA), stated.

From 1984 to 2004, glacier decline in eight areas studied averaged between 10 and 15 percent, he said. In some cases, the loss was greater, such as the Upsala glacier (right), in the southern province of Santa Cruz, which is shrinking rapidly. It is the second largest glacier in South America, with an area of approximately 870 square kilometers.

Other glaciers are more stable, and some are even growing, like Perito Moreno. Both feed Lake Argentino.

Experts from IANIGLA and environmental organisations are promoting a law to preserve these ice masses, which the Argentine Congress passed in 2008. But President Cristina Fernández vetoed it, saying the law was "excessive" in banning economic activities on or around the glaciers.

After that failure, the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, voted in August on a new text, which was to come up for debate in the Senate on Sep. 8, but the Senators decided to put it off until the end of the month.

The greatest resistance comes from lawmakers representing Argentina's western mining provinces, including San Juan and La Rioja.

The text of this new bill "is better" than the previous, in the opinion of activist Hernán Giardini, of Greenpeace Argentina, because it establishes "glaciers as a public good."

The proposed legislation "protects the resource, restricts activities that threaten the glaciers and requires an inventory with the information necessary for appropriate protection and monitoring" of the ice masses, Giardini said.

It also prohibits any activity that implies the "destruction or relocation" of glaciers, and particularly activities that involve the use of contaminating substances or which generate waste. And it establishes strict sanctions for violators.

The proposed legislation calls for the creation of a national glacier inventory, an essential tool that would be entrusted to the experts at IANIGLA. If the law is passed, the Institute would be given the authority to decide on every mining or infrastructure project.

Controversial projects like Pascua Lama -- an open-pit gold mine extending into both Chile and Argentina, run by the Canadian company Barrick Gold -- would be subject to audit by the Institute, and could be suspended if preservation of the glaciers is not guaranteed.

Pascua Lama (map at right) is located in the northern Chilean region of Atacama and the western Argentine province of San Juan.

With an estimated investment of 2 to 3 billion dollars, the company says it would exploit the mine for about 21 years. The company's website says the mine has proven reserves of 17.8 million ounces of gold and 718 million ounces of silver.

Construction has already begun at the mining site, and production is slated to begin in 2013. The approval process faced sharp resistance from farmers on the Chilean side.

On the Argentine side, environmentalists and farmers from the valley below are also opposed. They say the mine could accelerate the melting of the glaciers, and the cyanide used in processing the gold ore could contaminate the water that flows down to them.

Another initiative that has caused controversy is the proposed Agua Negra tunnel, in the Andean mountain pass of the same name. The tunnel will replace the existing Agua Negra pass (right), which crosses the Andes at an average altitude of 4,780 meters above sea level and is impassable because of snow during winter months. The tunnel will shave 44 km off the existing route and has been widely supported by road-freight companies.

The tunnel project was endorsed earlier this year by President Bachelet and her Argentine counterpart, Christina Fernandez de Kirchner. It will be fifth longest road tunnel in the world and will take 10 years to build. The tunnel would complete an inter-ocean route between the Chilean port of Coquimbo, on the Pacific, and the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, near the Atlantic.

The tunnel would be located in the central-western region of Cuyo, where the glacier decline is more critical than in the Patagonian Andes. Freshwater is already a scarce resource, states the study, "Climate Change: Dark Future for Glaciers," published in August 2009 by Greenpeace Argentina.

Farming and hydroelectric energy plants in that area depend on the water supplied by the glaciers.

Over the past decades, global warming and, in some areas, less-than-normal precipitation have caused nearly all glaciers of the Patagonian Andes (left) to shrink, according to the report.

Villalba said the glaciers are also crucial for protecting the high altitude ecosystems, providing electricity, and serving as tourist attractions.

One example is Los Glaciares National Park, (right) declared a Natural Heritage of Humanity site in 1981 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).

The Patagonian Ice Field is located in the park, feeding 47 large glaciers, and more than 200 smaller, independent glaciers.

The park is also home to the Upsala glacier and the majestic Perito Moreno, which in the first half of this year received more than 290,000 tourists. Visitors to the site provide 44 percent of all admission revenues to Argentina's national parks.

Source:
AlertNet,"ARGENTINA: Fighting to Save Glaciers as They Retreat", accessed September 21, 2010

Short article / devotional / sermon from God's Words from the book of Zechariah

Taken from CH Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 26 September, Morning

Believer Encouragements:

“The myrtle trees that were in the bottom.” - Zechariah 1:8

The vision in this chapter describes the condition of Israel in Zechariah’s day; but being interpreted in its aspect towards us, it describes the Church of God as we find it now in the world. The Church is compared to a myrtle grove flourishing in a valley. It is hidden, unobserved, secreted; courting no honour and attracting no observation from the careless gazer. The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come. The idea of tranquil security is also suggested to us: for the myrtle grove in the valley is still and calm, while the storm sweeps over the mountain summits. Tempests spend their force upon the craggy peaks of the Alps, but down yonder where flows the stream which maketh glad the city of our God, the myrtles flourish by the still waters, all unshaken by the impetuous wind. How great is the inward tranquility of God’s Church! Even when opposed and persecuted, she has a peace which the world gives not, and which, therefore, it cannot take away: the peace of God which passeth all understanding keeps the hearts and minds of God’s people. Does not the metaphor forcibly picture the peaceful, perpetual growth of the saints? The myrtle sheds not her leaves, she is always green; and the Church in her worst time still hath a blessed verdure of grace about her; nay, she has sometimes exhibited most verdure when her winter has been sharpest. She has prospered most when her adversities have been most severe. Hence the text hints at victory. The myrtle is the emblem of peace, and a significant token of triumph. The brows of conquerors were bound with myrtle and with laurel; and is not the Church ever victorious? Is not every Christian more than a conqueror through him that loved him? Living in peace, do not the saints fall asleep in the arms of victory?


Taken from Charles H Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 26 September, Morning

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Taken from CH Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 25 September, Evening

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“Who of God is made unto us wisdom.” - 1 Corinthians 1:30

Man’s intellect seeks after rest, and by nature seeks it apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. Men of education are apt, even when converted, to look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too little reverent and loving. They are snared in the old net in which the Grecians were taken, and have a hankering to mix philosophy with revelation. The temptation with a man of refined thought and high education is to depart from the simple truth of Christ crucified, and to invent, as the term is, a more intellectual doctrine. This led the early Christian churches into Gnosticism, and bewitched them with all sorts of heresies. This is the root of Neology, and the other fine things which in days gone by were so fashionable in Germany, and are now so ensnaring to certain classes of divines. Whoever you are, good reader, and whatever your education may be, if you be the Lord’s, be assured you will find no rest in philosophizing divinity. You may receive this dogma of one great thinker, or that dream of another profound reasoner, but what the chaff is to the wheat, that will these be to the pure word of God. All that reason, when best guided, can find out is but the A B C of truth, and even that lacks certainty, while in Christ Jesus there is treasured up all the fulness of wisdom and knowledge. All attempts on the part of Christians to be content with systems such as Unitarian and Broad-church thinkers would approve of, must fail; true heirs of heaven must come back to the grandly simple reality which makes the ploughboy’s eye flash with joy, and gladens the pious pauper’s heart-”Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.” Jesus satisfies the most elevated intellect when he is believingly received, but apart from him the mind of the regenerate discovers no rest. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” “A good understanding have all they that do his commandments.”


Taken from Charles H Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 25 September, Evening 

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Pacific Walruses Continue to Wait for ice in Point Lay

Tens of thousands of walruses have beached themselves near a remote village in northern Alaska. Some biologists think it's because the sea ice melted early -- leaving them no place to rest.

It's the end of summer along the North Slope of Alaska and in the tiny Inupiat village of Point Lay they wait for the ice to return.

The tundra is usually already frozen by now - with snow on the ground and slush ice forming along the Chukchi Sea, but instead, children are playing in the lagoon barefoot.

"We always thought the Arctic would be cold, but scientists are telling us there's global warming going on and… I believe them,” said Leo Ferreira, Point Lay Village Tribal president.

Ferreira doesn't mind that the bone-chilling 80 below winter temperatures are taking their time getting here, but he's worried about the village's most recent residents who need the ice to survive.

The pacific walrus, who normally rest on ice sheets out in the sea, have instead hauled out by the thousands in Point Lay (see map at right) to nap. The walruses are unable to find refuge even on a small piece of sea ice, because scientists say, most of it has melted early.

"What this is telling us is that there's a continuing pattern of sea ice loss in the Arctic. We may be looking at summers with no sea ice at all or little to speak of in 20 or perhaps 30 years," said Mark Serreze, National Snow Ice Data Center.

In fact, a new report shows it's the third lowest Arctic ice level in over 30 years.

Walruses need that ice to rest on in between feeding. Much like the polar bear they can't swim forever.

"We suspect that this is going to cost the walrus more to make a living when they have to commute from a coastal resting spot out to the foraging grounds, than what it would cost them to simply roll off the ice and feed directly beneath them," said wildlife biologist Anthony Fischbach.

That's not the only worry. With upwards of 20,000 walruses crammed so tightly together, a stampede of mothers and their newborn calves could be devastating to the walrus population.

"Anything can spook 'em from a polar bear, a brown bear, a dog, a man, boat going by, an airplane going over," said Point Lay Fire Chief Bill Tracey.

Last year, Tracy says, not far away, more than a hundred walruses trampled each other to death trying to flee back into the water. So until the ice comes back, strict limits are now in place regarding how close people can get to the walruses. There's even a no fly zone over the beach, something Point Lay residents are happy to see.

"What we have now, we have to protect what's there because maybe in the next 10 years we won't have any,” said resident Sophie Henry.

This comes at the same time the U.S. Fish and Wildlife is considering extending some type of protection to the pacific walrus, which scientists think are on the path to extinction by the end of the century

Source:
KTUU News,"Pacific Walruses Continue to Wait for ice in Point Lay", accessed September 21, 2010