Douglas High Alumni News Letter
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Publisher Ed Grensky Volume No. I
Labor Day is a United States federal
holiday observed on the first Monday in
September (September 7 in 2009).
The holiday originated in Canada out of
labor disputes ("Nine-Hour Movement")
first in Hamilton then Toronto, Ontario in
the 1870's, which resulted in a Trade Union
Act which legalized and protected union
activity in 1872. The parades held in support
of the Nine-Hour Movement and the
printers' strike led to an annual celebration
in Canada. In 1882, American labor leader
Peter J. McGuire witnessed one of these
labor festivals in Toronto. Inspired, he
returned to New York and organized the
first American "labor day" on September 5
of the same year.
Labor Day is celebrated September 5,1882
in the United States.[1] In the aftermath of
the deaths of a number of workers at the
hands of the US military and US Marshals
during the 1894 Pullman Strike, President
Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with
Labor as a top political priority. Fearing
further conflict, legislation making Labor
Day a national holiday was rushed through
Congress unanimously and signed into law a
mere six days after the end of the strike.[2]
Cleveland was also concerned that aligning
a US labor holiday with existing
international May Day celebrations would
stir up negative emotions linked to the
Haymarket Affair.[3] All 50 U.S. states have
made Labor Day a state holiday.
The form for the celebration of Labor Day
was outlined in the first proposal of the
holiday: A street parade to exhibit to the
public "the strength and esprit de corps of
the trade and labor organizations," followed
by a festival for the workers and their
families.
Issue No. 11 Date 9/05/09
This became the pattern for Labor Day
celebrations Speeches by prominent men
and women were introduced later, as more
emphasis was placed upon the economic and
civil significance of the holiday. Still later,
by a resolution of the American Federation
of Labor convention of 1909, the Sunday
preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor
Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and
educational aspects of the labor movement.
Poetry
Posted by: Jeanette Gardner (Harty)
Edgar Guest had two poems that come to my
mind as fitting for Labor Day. I fell in love with
his poetry when I was 18 and love it still.
My Creed
To live as Gently as I can;
To be, now matter where a man;
To take what comes of good or ill
And cling to faith and honor still;
To do my best, and let that stand
The record of my brain and hand;
And then should failure come to me,
Still work and hope for victory.
Life is a lot of work, it seems to me that work
ethics have been lost over the year. Once men
were proud to work and proud of the work they
did, I hope many of us still believe in that.
The other poem is it couldn’t be done and I just
wanted to share it to remind us never to give up
hope but just to keep going forward.
Someone said that it couldn’t be done,
But, he with chuckle replied
That “ maybe it couldn’t , but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he tried.
So he buckled right in with a trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tacked the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed : “ Oh you’ll never do that;
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At least no one has ever done it;”
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a life of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
That couldn’t be done and he did it,
The word quiddit was not a type O, it means
when work has meaning, so without doubt and
with meaning.
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When you’re on the web site don’t forget to
look at the message board for information
from classmates, also check the “family
news summary”, recipes, and more.

There is more to this poem but I felt that this

much gave us the jest of it; that throughout
life we can accomplish many things and we
are never too old to at least try. What a
blessing to us that we live in such a
wonderful country, where we have so many
great opportunities. If you would like to share your pictures
from the reunion, please send them to me at:
Newsletter Information Ed_tonya@msn.com. The most important
photo I’m looking for is a close up of the
As you can see within this newsletter, the group in the gym.
information is dwindling pertaining to
what’s going on with you and other Just For Laughs
classmates. As I mentioned in the first
couple of newsletters this would probably
Posted by: Anne Worthley (McKay)
happen. Instead of cutting back on the
newsletter from weekly to by weekly or
monthly, as I said I would, I want to
Little John the Baptist
continue the weekly newsletter for the sake Matt.?18:4-5
of those who have written stating they enjoy "Therefore, whoever humbles himself like
the Bible study and lessons. this child is the greatest in the kingdom of
I will continue to give you as much heaven.
information about your classmates as I And who ever welcomes a little child like
receive it. this in my name welcomes me. "

If anyone has Judy Swift Mendenhall’s

contact information, would you please
email it to me?
ed_tonya@msn.com

Web Site Information

Something new that’s been added to the web

site is the convenience of reading current,
and past newsletters. To find them go to the
main page of the web site, and scroll down
looking on the right side until you see
Johnny's Mother looked out the window
and noticed him "playing church" with

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their cat.
He had the cat sitting quietly and he was
preaching to it. She smiled and went
about her work. A while later she heard
loud meowing and hissing and ran back
to the open window to see Johnny
baptizing the cat in a tub of water.
She called out, "Johnny, stop that! The
cat is afraid of water!"
Johnny looked up at her and said, "He
should have thought about that before he
joined my church."
Books
I’m starting this New addition to our
newsletter on books; the idea here is to list
books that you have read, that were so good
you couldn’t put them down. When you
email me with the information, please
follow the example below; I will take care of
the books picture.
Suggested reading by: Ed Grensky
The Silence is Broken
Ezekiel’s Gog & Magog
By: Douglas Berner
Non-Fiction/ Christian
If you left click on the book’s picture, you
will be taken to Amazon’s page where the
book is listed for, from there you can read
some in depth critiques on the book.
If you’re interested in end time Prophecy,
this is the best book I have read on Ezekiel
38-39. Key questions relevant to
understanding Gog & Magog, who’s who,
Gog’s Role in Gog & Magog, Israel’s roll,
the World’s roll, God’s roll, the aftermath,
parallel passage, timing and much more.
So if you have read a book that has stirred
you, please share it with us and add some
information about or critique the book.
Waldenbooks shrinking
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Amid a "bleak book environment," Borders is
planning on closing most of its Waldenbooks
locations to cut its corporate costs. The
company, which had been stratetgically closing
Waldenbooks stores since 2007, is now moving
toward a drastic reduction--as much as 80
percent of the current total.
Waldenbooks will have 50 to 60 doors when the
closings are complete, down from 300 today,
and 564 as recently as 2007. Borders stores are
concentrating on high-volume areas, like
children's and health and wellness books, while
aggressively cutting costs.
Posted by: Ed Grensky
For those who buy books on-line:
The following is a comparison of prices
from three major on-line bookstores. I show
you this because of today’s economic
environment.
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Borders/Walden Books, BetterWorldBooks, You might be wondering by this time why I
and Amazon Books. talk about the shadowy things of the Bible,
in my opinion some people need the scary
These prices run across the board for these facts to move them from being Luke Warm
sites, which you can check out for yourself. to Hot, for me it took the book “The Late
I’m going to list the name’s of the books I Great Planet Earth” by Hal Lindsey and
have bought, and right under it the store, and C.C. Carlson. The book was printed in 1970,
under that the price for each book from that I was at a friends house and picked it up
store. from the end table, I opened the book and
started to read it and couldn’t put it down, I
Signature of the Cell: DNA Evidence For ended up taking it home to finish.
Intelligent Design by: Stephen Meyer From that day many, many, years ago, I
Borders Better World Amazon started growing spiritually, what will it take
$28.99 $21.98 $19.13 to move you? Below is a link to a sermon
outline on “Spiritual Growth,” if you are
Because The Time Is Near serious about growing as a Christian, study
By: John MacArthur Jr. the outline by clicking on the link below.
Borders Better World Amazon http://executableoutlines.com/grow/grow_01
$15.99 $13.48 $10.87 .htm
Disbelief
It’s the end of the World, as we know it. So! You just can’t bring yourself to take all
By: Jim Fletcher. this mumbo jumbo seriously, or you may
Borders Better World Amazon simply not care enough to think about it,
$14.99 $13.48 $11.24 don’t feel alone, you are among many.
I don’t want to get into a debate on Theism
Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way. vs. Atheism, better men than I have tried.
By: Francis Mallmann. I’m simply going to deliver the Word of
Borders Better World Amazon God on the subject; my job is to see that you
$35.00 $25.98 $23.10 receive His message.

This is an apple to apple comparison, there John 3: 16

all new, same binding, printed the same
year, and other than Better World Books
which has free shipping anywhere in the
United States, the other two charge shipping,
unless it’s over $25 per order.
For God so loved the world, which He gave
His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish, but have
eternal life.

Posted by: Ed Grensky
Well! Last weeks lesson should have been
an eye opener for some, if you missed it you
can go to the web site and read it, you will
find it listed under “Featured Links”.
John 3: 36
He who believes in the Son has eternal life;
but he who does not obey the Son will not
see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.
John 5: 24
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My
word, and believes Him who sent Me, has
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judgment, but has passed out of death into
life.
John 5: 37-40
Witness of the Father
37 And the Father Himself, who sent Me,
has testified of Me. You have neither heard
His voice at any time, nnor seen His form.
38 But you do not have His word abiding in
you, because whom He sent, Him you do not
believe.
Witness of the Scriptures 39 You
search the Scriptures, for in them you think
you have eternal life; and these are they
which testify of Me. 40 But you are not
willing to come to Me that you may have
life.
The point here is the Word alone does not
save, you can be script ally smart, and yet
spiritually dead.
Romans 2: 5-8
5. But because of your stubbornness and
repentant heart you are storing up wrath for
yourself in the day of wrath and revelation
of the righteous judgment of God, 6. who
will RENDER TO EACH PERSON
ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS: 7. to those
who by perseverance in doing good seek for
glory and honor and immortality, eternal
life; 8. but to those who are selfishly
ambitious and do not obey the truth, but
obey unrighteousness, wrath and
indignation.
Rev. 21: 8
But for the cowardly and unbelieving and
abominable and murderers and immoral
persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all
liars, their part will be in the lake that burns
with fire and brimstone, which is the second
death.
Mark 16: 16
He who has believed and has been baptized
shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved
shall be condemned.
Barns Notes on Mark 16: 16 below.
This is the whole of faith, Man is a sinner.
He should act on the belief of this truth, and
repent. There is a God. Man should believe
it, and fear and love him, and seek his favor.
The Lord Jesus died to save him. To have
faith in him, is to believe this is true, AND
TO ACT ACCORDINGLY; i,e,. To trust
him, to rely on him, to love him, to feel that
we have no merit, and to cast our all upon
him. There is a heaven and hell. To believe
this, is to credit the account, and act as if it
were true; to seek the one, and avoid the
other. We are to die. To believe this, is to act
as if this were so; to be in readiness for it,
and to expect it daily and hourly. In one
world, faith is feeling and acting as if there
were a God, a Saviour, a heaven, a hell; as if
we were sinners, and must die; as if we
deserved eternal death, and were in danger
of it; and, in view of all, casting our eternal
interests on the mercy of God in Christ
Jesus. To do this is to be a Christian; not to
do it, is to be an infidel. Is Baptized. Is
initiated into the church by the application
of water, as significant that he is a sinner,
and needs the purifying influences of the
Holy Ghost. It is worthy of remark, that
Jesus has made baptism of so much
importance. He did not say, indeed, that a
man could not be saved without baptism, but
he has strongly implied that where this is
neglected, knowing it is to be a command of
the Saviour, it endangers the salvation of the
soul. Faith and baptism are the beginnings of
a Christian life: the one the beginning of
piety in the soul, the other of its
manifestation before men, or of a profession
of religion. And every man endangers his
eternal interest by being ashamed of Christ
before men.
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It may be asked how it can be just in God to
condemn men forever for not believing the
gospel. I answer; (1.) God has the right to
appoint his own terms of mercy. (2.) Man
has no claim on him for heaven. (3.) The
sinner rejects the terms of salvation
knowingly, deliberately, and perseveringly.
(4.) He has a special disregard and contempt
for the gospel. (5.) His unbelief is produced
by the love of sin. (6.) He shows by this that
he has no love for God, and his law, and for
eternity. (7.) He slights the objects dearest to
God, and most like him; and, (8.) he must be
miserable. A creature who has no
confidence in God, who does not believe
that he is true or worthy of his regard, and
who never seeks his favour, must be
wretched. He rejects God, and he must go
into eternity without a Father and without a
God. And he has no source of comfort in
God that can make man happy; and without
his favour the sinner must be wretched.
Conclusion
The condition of the man who will not
believe is fearfully awful. The Son of God
has solemnly declared that he shall be
damned. No excuse will be allowed for not
believing. Every man is to be offered eternal
life; and he rejects it at his peril.
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked
should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that
he should return from his ways, and live?
Ezekiel 18:23 KJV
sure what you are being taught is the truth
from the Word of God.
It’s not easy to discern the difference
between a true teacher of the Word, and a
false teacher. Please don’t miss this lesson,
which you can follow along with in your
Bible.
An elderly woman died last
month. Having never
married, she requested no
male pallbearers. In her
handwritten instructions for
her memorial service, she
wrote, 'They wouldn't take
me out while I was alive, I
don't want them to take me
out when I'm dead..'
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Ed’s email below.
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RC Sproul
Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We
fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much
Next Weeks Lesson because it is difficult to understand, not so much
because it is dull and boring, but because it is work.
Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of
I wanted to do this before now because it is passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.
so very important for you to know, that is,
your need to know about false prophet’s and
teachers with us today, and how to discern
the difference. For all you know I could be a
false teacher, that’s why I want you to know
how to verify the differences, and know for