>Jan Farmer (jfarmer@lepton.startext.net)
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>Date: Thu, 26 Dec 96 10:27 EST
>To: exegesis@vais.net
>From: exegesis@vais.net (Steve Myers - Exegesis)
>Subject: An Exegesis Update From Washington
>
>Exegesis Update                     A Forum Encouraging Moral Excellence
>Friday, December 27, 1996      Published Worldwide from Washington
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>                A Happy New Year To All Our Readers
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>          "God Will Hold You To Account, Mr. President."
>
>        Just last week, Matthew Schenck, the teenage son of our good
>friend, Reverend Robert Schenck, General Secretary to the National Clergy
>Council, was lamenting that nothing exciting ever seemed to happen.  That
>was then.  This is now.  On Christmas Eve, your editor invited a small
>group of friends, including the Schenck family, to a service at
>Washington's National Cathedral, which was also attended by the President
>and his family.  The service provided a rare opportunity to share a few
>words with the Churchgoer-in-Chief, and as we made our way up to communion,
>several people offered him Christmas greetings.  Concerned for the
>President's spiritual well-being, Reverend Schenck's Christmas gift was in
>the form of eight well-chosen words.  In a scriptural admonition referring
>to the President's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban, he said quietly
>and respectfully:  "God will hold you to account, Mr. President."
>
>        The President appeared shocked at hearing this truth and activated
>his eager Secret Service.  As the choir made their way down the center
>aisle singing "What Child Is This", the Reverend was accosted and prevented
>from leaving the Cathedral.  One Secret Service agent reached inside the
>minister's jacket, pulled out his wallet and started rifling through it in
>a 15-minute spectacle which left eyewitnesses, including your editor,
>wondering whether they had been suddenly transported not to Bethlehem but
>to Beijing.  The Secret Service apparently observe no boundaries once they
>decide, in their own unique interpretation of reality, that the President's
>life is threatened.  By the time we left the Cathedral, the Reverend's
>Drivers License had not been returned, and out on Wisconsin Avenue, eight
>members of the Secret Service, having taken a shortcut, blocked the
>sidewalk in a tactic your editor had not seen since a 1981 visit to Moscow.
>
>        This was neither Beijing nor Moscow but Washington, Capital of the
>Free World, yet these actions were those of a paranoid regime in an
>advanced stage of terminal decay, reminiscent of the final days of the
>Soviet Union.  If the President feels threatened by God's word, it is not
>because his life is under threat, but because his Eternal Life is under
>threat, and that is beyond the jurisdiction even of the Secret Service.
>
>        The White House refused to acknowledge that these events had taken
>place.  Would they say that planting three rows of black people immediately
>behind the President was a coincidence?  It is an insult to anyone to be
>used as a stage prop.  It has often been reported that President Clinton is
>a showman who lacks substance.  These events witnessed with our own eyes
>support that theory and also illustrate his ruthlessness.   If this was his
>reaction to a scripture, can one imagine what he does to someone who really
>threatens his political or physical life?   The Reverend was right:  in His
>own perfect time, God will hold Bill Clinton, and all of us, to account for
>what we do and for what we fail to do.  Steve Myers - Editor
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>The National Clergy Council and The Global Opportunity Foundation
> invite you to The National Memorial For The Pre-Born And Their Mothers and
>Fathers
>A service in solemn remembrance of the 35 million children lost to abortion
>since Roe v Wade and the injury to their parents
>
>Sponsored by WAVA 105.1 FM and Exegesis
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>Hylton Chapel, Potomac Mills Road, Woodbridge Virginia
>Sunday, January 19, 1997 at 3:00 pm
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>Guests include Alan Keyes, Margaret Heckler, Phil Keaggy, Armstrong
>Williams, Norma McCorvey (aka Jane Roe), Members of Congress, The National
>Christian Choir and the presentation of the Exegesis Man of the Year Award
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