LOOKING BACK

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO The Milam County Inter-scholastic Meet held at Rockdale on March 19-20 was a big success despite the heavy rains that hell intermittently on both days.

ORGANIZATIONS

Trail Life meets at 6:30 p.m. every second and fourth Monday at Meadowbrook Baptist Church in the fellowship hall. All boys and their dads are welcome. For more information, contact Stephen Ammons 512-446-3367.

Life as art

“And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.” (1 Corinthians 6:14) Iwas on social media the other day and ran across a project of the Brooklyn Art Library. They call it the, “Artist Sketchbook” project, for $30.

We built a fence that took him in

In the frenzy of battle during World War II, it wasn’t always possible to return fallen soldiers to their homeland for burial. Many lay where they fell and died and are only remembered today by anonymous graves. Fearing this fate for one of their own, a U.S.

LOOKING BACK

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO Guy Clymore, mine superintendent of the Big Lump & Texas Coal Company, was killed yesterday morning when he fell under the wheels of a coal car while the “mine turn” local was switching at t he Texas C oal C ompany mine, two miles east of Rockdale.

ORGANIZATIONS

Trail Life meetings Trail Life meets at 6:30 p.m. every second and fourth Monday at Meadowbrook Baptist Church in the fellowship hall. All boys and their dads are welcome. For more information, contact Stephen Ammons 512-- 446-3367.

Deep water

Most of ten when Christians experience any kind of suffering, it’s suffering that gets the win. What I’m saying is we don’t do very well when it comes to what James calls, “trials of various kinds” (James 1:2).

God won’t forget his promises

In 1660, a Baptist preacher named John Bunyan was sentenced to twelve years in prison for preaching the Gospel without a license. It was during those years that Bunyan wrote the famous Christian allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress.

Stop grumbling

“And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) Iremember discussing communion crackers with someone not too long ago. A pastor's life is very exciting. The church I was at had been using the soft crackers that taste a lot like Styrofoam that melts in your mouth.

For this is the whole duty of everyone

He had gone to visit a home where they had recently adopted a greyhound dog. It had been a racing dog; the race where a pack of greyhounds chase a mechanical rabbit around a track. When those dogs can’t race anymore, the owners simply put the dog up for adoption.