Over the next little while, I want to share some of the things that I have found in my Grandfather's papers. The box that I received contains much more than just sermons. There were, interspersed throughout the box, clippings of sayings, poems, etc. Some of which I desire to share with you. Many of them are not credited so I do not know who wrote them, if some of it is something that you can identify, please respond to these posts so that I can document and give full credit where credit is due. The first of these items is a poem. I found this poem typed on a three by five index card and it is entitled "Saints and Sinners"
Saints and Sinners
When some fellows yeidl to temptation
And break a conventional law.
We lookfor no good in his makeup,
Oh, Lord, how we look for the flaw!
No one asks, "Who did the tempting?"
Nor allows for the battles he's fought.
His name becomes food for the jackals,
The saints who have never been caught.
I'm a sinner, O Lord, and I know it.
I am weak and I blunder and fail,
I am tossed on life's stormy ocean
Like a ship that is caught in a gale
I am willing to trust in thy mercy
To keep the commandments thou'st taught
But deliever me, Lord, from the judgement
Of the saints who have never been caught.
My prayer is that you and I are not the like these saints who have never been caught. Jesus tells us to be sure that before we worry about removing the speck from our own eye, we should take care of the plank in our own eye. Just remember before you condemn or judge, are you "a saint who has never been caught?"
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