THE FAUX AND THE REAL
Don Harp, pastor of First Un. Methodist Church, Gainesville, GA, did a great memorial sermon at our Annual Conference in 1986. He spoke of the deceased as the “salt of the earth” referring to Matthew 5, and the colloquial description of fine people. He concluded the sermon with the point that these Salt of the Earth people were Real people, and then he shared the following excerpt from The Velveteen Rabbit: The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces. He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and would never turn into anything else.…
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