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Weldone beta pikin! More bountiful harvest! Nice looking siblings.

Point here is good intentions can be abused. There's also a post on Alcohol , good or evil? That's what got me to post this.
[quote author=PastorOluT post=39575339]Is it just me or, I seem not to understand ur point madam [/quote

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Guinness lived at a time when no one. understood micro-organisms and how disease is spread. They routinely drank. from the same waters in which they dumped their garbage and their. sewage. Unknowingly, they polluted the rivers and lakes around their cities. People died as a result, and this made nearly everyone in Guinness’ day avoid. water entirely. Instead, they drank alcoholic beverages.

Usually, this was done in moderation and all was well. Occasionally, though, excess set in and drunkenness plagued the land. This is what happened in the years just before Guinness was born, in the period historians call “The Gin Craze.” Parliament had forbidden the importation of liquor in 1689, so the people of Ireland and Britain began making their own. It was too much. temptation. Drunkenness became the rage. Every sixth house in England was a “gin house,” many of which advertised, “Drunk for one penny, dead drunk for two pence, clean straw for. nothing.” It was a terrible, poverty-ridden, crime-infested time.

To help heal their tortured society, some turned to brewing beer. It was lower in alcohol, it was safe—the process of brewing and the alcohol that resulted killed the germs that made water dangerous—and it was nutritious in ways scientists are only now beginning to understand. Monks brewed it, evangelicals brewed it and aspiring young entrepreneurs like Guinness brewed it. And they were respected and honored for their good works.
The legacy of Guinness

If the Guinness story was only about Arthur Guinness, it would be a small footnote in the pages of history. But Arthur Guinness added to all his good works by teaching his children the values he learned. His children, then, built the Guinness corporation on the strength of their father’s vision and faith. This is what became the great legacy of the Guinness family.

The Guinnesses decided, first, that they could better society by bettering the lives of their employees. They started by paying better wages than any other employer in Ireland. Then they decided they should provide an entire slate of services to improve the lives of their workers. With the passing of decades, they became one of the most generous, life-changing employers the world had ever known.

At the start of World War II, Guinness promised every British soldier he would have a bottle of Guinness with his Christmas meal. There was a problem, though. Guinness’ manpower was depleted because so many of its workers were serving in the military abroad. Still, they were committed to giving the men and women in uniform a taste of home. The brewery operated around the clock, but there simply weren’t enough employees. Soon, though, retired workers showed up to volunteer their time. Then workers from competing breweries were sent to help. By Christmas, every soldier had his pint, but not until the unselfish efforts of the brewers of Ireland were celebrated throughout the British Isles.

Deeds like these fill the Guinness story and are almost as inspiring as the character of some of the Guinness family members themselves. One Guinness heir received 5 million pounds sterling for a wedding gift, but then moved his new bride into a poor neighborhood to draw attention to the blight of poverty in the land.
For the full story:
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/mission/features/20993-god-and-guinness

CC Lalasticlala

"How the faith of Art Guinness inspired the vision of his famous beer"

Picture a young man sitting in a large cathedral in Ireland with his wife and. small children. He lives around the time of our founding fathers and is a rising entrepreneur in Dublin. His name is. Arthur Guinness, and he is a brewer, and it is hard to exaggerate just how important beer was to the people of. Guinness’ day.

“Give all you can”

So as Arthur Guinness sat in church on the day we are imagining, he was a successful brewer in Dublin, selling a drink throughout the city that made people healthier and helped them avoid the excesses of the hard liquor that had done so much damage for so many decades.

What makes this Sunday in Guinness’ life so important is who he is about to hear, because on this day John Wesley is in town. Wesley is the founder of the Methodist church, the man who started a small group at Oxford University from which a great revival grew. And Arthur Guinness was there.
We do not know exactly what Wesley preached, but we can know a few things. Wesley would have called the congregation at St. Patrick’s to God, of course, but he also would have had a special message for men like Guinness. It was something he taught wherever he went. “Earn all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can,” he would have insisted. “Your wealth is evidence of a calling from God, so use your abundance for the good of mankind.”   

On this Sunday and on other occasions when he heard Wesley speak, Arthur Guinness got the message. He also got to work. Inspired by Wesley’s charge, Guinness poured himself in founding the first Sunday schools in Ireland. He gave vast amounts of money to the poor, sat on the board of a hospital designed to serve the needy and bravely challenged the material excesses of his own social class. He was nearly a one man army of reform.
Perhaps, though, the greatest lesson to be learned from the Guinness tale of faith is found in a truth that one of the great Guinnesses borrowed from Prince Albert of England. “Gentleman,” he instructed, “find out the will of God for your day and generation, and then, as quickly as possible, get into line.”
This is what Arthur Guinness did when he claimed the highest purpose for his wealth and his beer. It is what Guinness heirs did as they built on their legacy of good and achieved astonishing prosperity through their craft while also doing massive good through their generosity. And it is what is possible today for those who are willing to go outside the four walls of the church and apply a fiery Christian faith to the needs of their times.

The Guinness tale is not primarily about beer. It is not even primarily about the Guinnesses. It is about what God can do with a person who is willing and with a corporation committed to something noble and good in the world.

Stephen Mansfield is the author of The Search for God and Guinness.
For the whole story http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/mission/features/20993-god-and-guinness

CC Lalasticlala

@Op. Weldone! Beautifully written, colorful pictures, rich culture. God bless Nigeria!!!
Nigeria, we hail thee,
Our own dear native land,
Though TRIBE and TONGUE may differ,
In brotherhood WE STAND,
Nigerians all are proud to serve
Our sovereign Motherland.
Our flag shall be a symbol
That truth and justice reign,
In peace or battle honour'd,
And this we count as gain,
To hand on to our children
A banner without stain.
O God of all creation,
Grant this our one request,
Help us to build a nation
Where NO MAN is OPPRESSED,
And so with peace and plenty
Nigeria may be blessed.

Congrats for ur upcoming white wedn, thank God for the trad, n for u two. Marriage is al abt trust so is our rshp with God Himself. So for 7nhalf yrs u cant tk her word for wot it is? U trust each other n stil seek a OB/GYN? Ques- wot r u happy about, dt u both abstained frm sex - wc is very wonderful d rit tin to do. Or dt she is a virgin- wc is wonderful too. Or dt u dont trust her? Cos aside d glory to God part, dts wot u av come to tell d whole world. If u dnt believe wot she has bn sayn for ds past 7yrs n half, how wd u believe her in yrs to come concerning wuheva? #noexitinmarriage. I wish u both well! U love her, u trust her, u av married her (white wedn- oyibo style- necessary tho as a christian), pls go ahead and enjoy ur wife come ur wedn nyt n beyond. Dont suspect. I av two kids alrdy for my husband, going to c a OB/Gyn means one tin, usu. Poking of down there, leave dt til ur first child. In truth b d first n nt a doc. Thanks

Emmm, hw d person tk knw doz kind talk? Tins said der no b wetin supos reach public bfor. All na mockery to christianity, smtn wey person don get license to do. Y were we nt told to avoid such during marriage counselling? If una knw wetin our pastor tel me n my hubby den #edo man, chai dt man was raaaw! Carry go tins #hypocrites. Nonsense!

Op. U 4got to mention that #Angeegift dint mk the top 5 yet dy were awarded the winner. N dt she also works for d pageant (a staf) / make up artiste. Evenif the team #RubyRee that were meant to win lost to any of the other 4teams amongst d top 5, i wd say perhaps another criteria was used as against the voting where #RubyRee got abt 3000 votes as against 300 of #Angeegift. www.stv.ojoro.com

Imagine calling up a team not part of the first 5 and saying they the winner. Then y narrow it down to top 5. . #TeamRubyRee was cheated imagine 3000 votes online against less than 300 the so called winner got. Why then was there any voting in the first place? . It's ano STV scam since they already have their winner before the event. #kudos to Gov Ben Ayade for saving the day and giving each participant one million naira each. Even him could see the through the lies.