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White Pine
Proclaimer
No. 17
10/9/2016
With God
Sunday School
10:30AM
9:30AM
Worship
Vol.13
Worship
6:00PM
Wed. Bible
Study
7:00PM
Spank a General?
Gods little Devotional Book for Couples tells the
story of a ten-year-old boy who lived in Abilene,
Kansas at the turn of the century. On Halloween, his
older brothers were heading out to go trick-ortreating, but he was not permitted to go. Youre too
young to go out, his father told him. The boy burst
into tears, ran into the yard, & began punching the
trunk of an apple tree.
Moments later, his dad had him by the collar &
he got a good tanning. Afterward, he was sent to bed.
As he lay sobbing in his room, his mother came in to
offer this advice from the Bible: He that ruleth his
spirit is better than he that taketh a city (Prov. 16:32).
Those words, coupled with the spanking, stuck
with the boy. Sixty-six years later, General &
President Dwight Eisenhower wrote of that childhood
talk with his mother, Ike said, I have always looked