DOGGED PERSISTENCEI
once heard W. A. Criswell, long time beloved pastor of the famous First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, tell a story about an evangelist who loved to hunt. As best I recall, the man bought two pups that were top notch bird dogs, two setters, I believe. He kept them in his large backyard, where he trained them. One morning, an ornery little vicious-looking bulldog came shuffling and snorting down the alley. He crawled under the fence into the backyard where the setters spent their days. It was easy to see he meant business. The evangelist’s first impulse was to take his setters and lock them in the basement so they wouldn’t tear up that little bulldog. But he decided he would just let the creature learn a lesson he would never forget. Naturally, they got into a scuffle in the backyard, and those two setters and that bulldog went round and round and round! There were growls and yipes as bulldog…
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