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The difference a hundred years can make!

THE YEAR 1907

This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!
The year is 1907.
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!
Here are some of the U.S. Statistics for the Year 1907:
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The average life expectancy in the U.S. Was 47 years old.

Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. Had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.

A three-minute call from Denver to New York City
Cost eleven dollars.

There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.

The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.

Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more
Heavily populated than California.

With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21s t
Most populous state in the Union.

The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!

The average wage in the U.S. Was 22 Cents per hour.

The average U.S Worker made between $200 and $400 per year . !

A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year,
A dentist made $2,500 per year,
A veterinarian $1,500 per year,
And a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. Took place at HOME.
Ninety percent of all U. S Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!
Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which
Were condemned in the press AND the government as "substandard."

Sugar cost four cents a pound.

Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.

Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.

Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used
Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.


Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from
Entering into their country for any reason.

Five leading causes of death in the U.S. Were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke

The American flag had 45 stars.
Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and
Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.

The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!!!!

Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea
Hadn't been invented yet.

There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.

Two out of every 10 U.S. Adults couldn't read or write.

Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over
the counter at the local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists Said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."

There were about 230 reported Murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A. !


Now I sent it to you and others all over the United States, Possibly the world, in a matter of just Seconds !!

PASS THIS ALONG!!!!!

Just Try to imagine..... what it may be like in another 100 years !! IT STAGGERS THE MIND !!

World Population Growth

Every twenty-four hours the world has a population net growth of 219,000 people.

Christians number 170,000 converts per day but find 91,000 defectors, so the net growth is 79,000 Christians each day.

Of the 2,113,199,000 "affiliated" Christians, 1,476,690,000 are "church attenders."

There were 175,000 Christian martyrs worldwide this year, which means 480 per day.

The International Bulletin of Missionary Research

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“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
- Vernon Law

Hang in there

I find nothing so singular in life as this, that everything opposing appears to lose its substance the moment one actually grapples with it. Hawthorne.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe.

From Martin Luther King

The following comes from "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" (April 16, 1963) by Martin Luther King! I pray to God that we will have the right attitude about all men and women of all races, nations, and social levels.

I pray that God will help us as a church to reach out to all people of all parts of the world with the gospel message. It is my heart's desire that God give us staff members of different races and nationalities. I pray for the day He will give us an African American on our pastoral staff.

Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging dart of segregation to say, "Wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six- year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"; when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness" then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience.

New blog

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If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough
- Mario Andretti

Sometimes I want to slow things down so that I can keep them under control but I think this race car driver might have it right! I am never going to be in charge! God is in charge and I need to hang on for the ride!

Visit us at Vision Baptist just off Highway 400 at exit 12 and keep up with what God is doing via the Vision News!

Astounding

I have seen this on several blog recently and I hope you will consider what it says! Let's be sure we are in the ministry for the right reason!

• 1500 Pastors a month leave the ministry due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention in the church.

• 4000 new churches start each year while 7,000 close.

• 50% of pastors marriages will end in divorce.

• Almost 40% of pastors have had an extra-marital affair.

• 70% of pastors continually fight depression.

• 80% of pastors feel unqualified and discouraged in their role and would leave the ministry if they had some other way of making a living.

• 95% of pastors do not pray regularly with their spouse.

• 80% of pastors kids have to seek profession help for depression.

• 70% say the only time they spend studying God’s word is when they are prepping for a sermon.

• 80% of pastors spouses wish their husbands would find another profession.

• After 3 years in ministry only 50% of pastors still felt “called.”

• The majority of pastors wives said that the most destructive even that occurred in their marriage and family was the day they entered ministry.

I don't want any of this to be true of Vision Baptist Church and neither do you!

Check out Vision News to see the latest that is happening at Vision Baptist Church

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“Making people mad was part of being a leader. As I had learned long ago…an individual’s hurt feelings run a distant second to the good of the service.” Colin Powell

Come to Vision Baptist Church this week for our revival with Lou Rossi! Check out Vision News to see what is coming up on Vision Night! God is working and you do not want to miss it!