[Granville-Hough] 6 Jun 2009 - Almost Persuaded

[Trustees for Granville W. Hough]

Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:05:45 -0700
From: Granville W Hough <gwhough at oakapple.net>
Subject: Almost Persuaded - 6 June 2009

Let us remember and pray for those who fought and who fell on D-Day 
sixty five years ago. 

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Almost Persuaded. 

The Bible contains 5,566,480 letters, 733,746 words, 
51163 verses, 1189 chapters and 66 books. The longest chapter is the 
119th Psalm; shortest, the middle chapter, the 117th Psalm. The middle 
verse is the 8th of the 118th Psalm. The longest is in the 8th chapter 
of Isaiah. The word ôandö occurs 46,227 times; the word Jehovah 6,855 
times. The thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah and the 19th chapter of the 
2nd book of Kings are alike. The longest verse is the 9th of the 8th 
chapter of Esther; the shortest verse is the 35th of the 11th chapter of 
John. In the 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra is the alphabet. The 
finest piece of reading is the 26th chapter of Acts. The name of God is 
not mentioned in the book of Esther. The bible contains two testaments. 
The Old is Law, the New is Love. The old is the Bud, the New is the 
Bloom. In the Old, man is reaching up for God, In the New, God is 
reaching down for man. In the Old, man is in the valley but can see the 
sun shining on the mountain tops. In the New he is on the mountain top 
basking in the sunlight of GodÆs infinite love.
We can say that some of these Bible facts are trivia. We can also say 
that some of the thoughts are so profound that we cannot improve on them.
I especially like the statement about the fine reading of the 26th 
chapter of Acts. PaulÆs statement is so direct, simple, and elegant that 
King Agrippi is ôAlmost Persuaded,ö (King James version) and that phrase 
is recognizable to anyone who ever attended a SullivanÆs Hollow Church 
Protracted Meeting. It was the name of a song generally used in the last 
two evenings of church services. It was a prayer and a supplication, and 
it is in the memory bank of many of us who accepted Jesus Christ and 
turned our sins over to him.