John Wesley’s Advice on How to Vote in an Election
October 6, 1774
I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them…
1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy
2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and
3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.”
― John Wesley, The Journal of John Wesley
** encourage all of you to vote but in the spirit of John Wesley’s words
The Way It Was: When workers began remodeling a school room at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City, they found beneath the current black-boards rested another set of chalkboards -untouched for nearly 100 years. Protected and totally undisturbed, the century-old writings and drawings looked like they were made just yesterday. Here is one of several discovered…
Oklahoma City school officials aren’t just shocked by what is written, but how it is written. Penmanship like this is a lost art. This board reads, “I give my head, my heart, and my life to my God and One nation indivisible with justice for all.”
Prayer Focus This Week…
- The mid-term elections
- Civility between the winners and losers
- For peacemakers to emerge in both parties
- Prayer for our leaders after the election, including the President, Congress, House
- For a reversal of the accusations, mean-spiritedness, exaggerations, and vitriol, that has characterized so much of the political climate, coming from both sides.
Verse of the Week: “And it is God who changes the times and the seasons, who removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men and knowledge to men of understanding.” Daniel 2:21
Finally: “Every day it becomes better to live in Christ and more perilous to live outside of Him.” J. Rufus Moseley
P Jay