Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
– Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Day: May 29, 2012
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On This Day: May 29
Updated May 28, 2012, 2:28 pm
On May 29, 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit.
On May 29, 1917, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, American 35th president, was born. Following his death on Nov. 22, 1963, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1660 England’s King Charles II was restored to the monarchy after an interregnum of 11 years. 1765 Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses, saying, “If this be treason, make the most of it!” 1790 Rhode Island became the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the United States Constitution. 1848 Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union. 1917 John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was born in Brookline, Mass. 1942 Bing Crosby recorded Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” in Los Angeles for Decca Records. 1988 President Ronald Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrived in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. 1990 Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament. 1999 Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station. 2001 Four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted in New York of a global conspiracy to murder Americans, including the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people. (All were sentenced to life in prison.) 2004 A memorial to America’s World War II veterans was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. 2005 French voters soundly rejected the European Union’s proposed constitution. 2009 Jay Leno ended his first stint as host of “The Tonight Show.” (Following a short-lived prime-time show, Leno was back on NBC’s late night mainstay in February 2010.) 2010 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay threw the 20th perfect game in major league history, beating the Florida Marlins 1-0. Current Birthdays
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Actress Annette Bening turns 54 years old today.
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New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony turns 28 years old today.
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1938 Fay Vincent, Former baseball commissioner, turns 74 1939 Al Unser Sr., Race car driver, turns 73 1941 Bob Simon, Broadcast journalist, turns 71 1945 Gary Brooker, Rock singer (Procol Harum), turns 67 1947 Anthony Geary, Actor (“General Hospital”), turns 65 1954 Jerry Moran, U.S. senator, R-Kan., turns 58 1956 LaToya Jackson, Singer, turns 56 1959 Rupert Everett, Actor, turns 53 1961 Melissa Etheridge, Rock musician, turns 51 1963 Lisa Whelchel, Actress (“The Facts of Life”), turns 49 1967 Noel Gallagher, Rock musician (Oasis), turns 45 1975 Melanie Brown, Singer (Spice Girls), turns 37
Historic Birthdays
John Fitzgerald Kennedy 5/29/1917 – 11/22/1963 American 35th president (1961-3)Go to obituary »
84 Sarah Jennings Marlborough 5/29/1660 – 10/18/1744
English wife of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough; active in Queen Anne’s court83 Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton 5/29/1716 – 1/1/1800
French naturalist63 Patrick Henry 5/29/1736 – 6/6/1799
American orator and patriot of the American Revolution76 Ebenezer Butterick 5/29/1826 – 3/31/1903
American manufacturer; developed use of paper patterns for clothing62 G. K. Chesterton 5/29/1874 – 6/14/1936
English critic, poet, essayist, novelist and writer of short-stories94 Beatrice Lillie 5/29/1894 – 1/20/1989
English comedienne; starred in British and American revues65 Junzo Sakakura 5/29/1904 – 9/1/1969
Japanese architect44 Gregg Toland 5/29/1904 – 9/28/1948
American motion-picture cinematographer57 T. H. White 5/29/1906 – 1/17/1964
English novelist and historian
May 29
MORNING
“Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines.”
Song of Solomon 2:15A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable. Jesus will not walk with his people unless they drive out every known sin. He says, “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.” Some Christians very seldom enjoy their Saviour’s presence. How is this? Surely it must be an affliction for a tender child to be separated from his father. Art thou a child of God, and yet satisfied to go on without seeing thy Father’s face? What! thou the spouse of Christ, and yet content without his company! Surely, thou hast fallen into a sad state, for the chaste spouse of Christ mourns like a dove without her mate, when he has left her. Ask, then, the question, what has driven Christ from thee? He hides his face behind the wall of thy sins. That wall may be built up of little pebbles, as easily as of great stones. The sea is made of drops; the rocks are made of grains: and the sea which divides thee from Christ may be filled with the drops of thy little sins; and the rock which has well nigh wrecked thy barque, may have been made by the daily working of the coral insects of thy little sins. If thou wouldst live with Christ, and walk with Christ, and see Christ, and have fellowship with Christ, take heed of “the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes.” Jesus invites you to go with him and take them. He will surely, like Samson, take the foxes at once and easily. Go with him to the hunting.
EVENING
“That henceforth we should not serve sin.”
Romans 6:6Christian, what hast thou to do with sin? Hath it not cost thee enough already? Burnt child, wilt thou play with the fire? What! when thou hast already been between the jaws of the lion, wilt thou step a second time into his den? Hast thou not had enough of the old serpent? Did he not poison all thy veins once, and wilt thou play upon the hole of the asp, and put thy hand upon the cockatrice’s den a second time? Oh, be not so mad! so foolish! Did sin ever yield thee real pleasure? Didst thou find solid satisfaction in it? If so, go back to thine old drudgery, and wear the chain again, if it delight thee. But inasmuch as sin did never give thee what it promised to bestow, but deluded thee with lies, be not a second time snared by the old fowler–be free, and let the remembrance of thy ancient bondage forbid thee to enter the net again! It is contrary to the designs of eternal love, which all have an eye to thy purity and holiness; therefore run not counter to the purposes of thy Lord. Another thought should restrain thee from sin. Christians can never sin cheaply; they pay a heavy price for iniquity. Transgression destroys peace of mind, obscures fellowship with Jesus, hinders prayer, brings darkness over the soul; therefore be not the serf and bondman of sin. There is yet a higher argument: each time you “serve sin” you have “Crucified the Lord afresh, and put him to an open shame.” Can you bear that thought? Oh! if you have fallen into any special sin during this day, it may be my Master has sent this admonition this evening, to bring you back before you have backslidden very far. Turn thee to Jesus anew; he has not forgotten his love to thee; his grace is still the same. With weeping and repentance, come thou to his footstool, and thou shalt be once more received into his heart; thou shalt be set upon a rock again, and thy goings shall be established.
