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| Faith in the Hills Index • Smyrna Baptist • Faith In The Ozarks From the Baptist Hymnal • Amazing Grace • Whiter Than Snow • A Mighty Fortress • Green Hill Far Away • Lily of the Valley • Old Rugged Cross • Unclouded Day • Silent Night • Away In A Manger • Go Tell It On... • America The... • My Country 'Tis... • Star Spangled... Culture Index • Agriculture • Book Learning • Cooking • Craftsmanship • Faith in the Hills • History • Music • People of the Hills • Storytelling • Tourism |
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REMEMBER, not long ago, these hills were a war-zone with roaming bushwhackers, vigilantes, and very little peace or justice.
THESE DAYS, the Christian faith is ofen regarded as out of date and out of touch. It's important to remember just what that very faith can accomplish when given a chance.
THE RESULTS can be beautiful...
One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender, solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange, unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun — which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years.
One knows it then for a moment or two.
And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and under the branches seem to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries.
Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true;
And sometimes a look in someone's eyes.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden, Chapter 21, paragraph 1
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| The above art was created by Joe Benjamin, an extremely talented craftsman. More can be read about Joe (here) — the editor | |||