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Better to be poor and honest than rich and dishonest.

~Proverbs 19:1 (LB)~

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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2:10

Mike Benson, Editor

CHARLES COLSON, IN his book of essays Who Speaks for God?, tells of watching a segment of television’s 60 minutes in which host Mike Wallace interviewed Auschwitz survivor Yehiel Dinur, a principal witness at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials…

During the interview, a film clip from Adolf Eichmann’s 1961 trial was viewed that showed Dinur entering the courtroom and coming face to face with Eichmann for the first time since being sent to Auschwitz almost twenty years earlier.  Stopped cold, Dinur began to sob uncontrollably and then fainted while the presiding judge pounded his gavel for order.

“Was Dinur overcome by hatred?  Fear?  Horrid memories?” asks Colson, who then answers:

No; it was none of these.  Rather, as Dinur explained to Wallace, all at

once he realized Eichmann was not the godlike army officer who had sent

so many to their deaths.  This Eichmann was an ordinary man.  “I was

afraid about myself,” said Dinur.  “I saw that I am capable to do this.  I am

…exactly like he.”

Colson follows his pentrating observation with this question:  Why is it that today sin is so seldom written or preached about?  The answer is in Dinur’s dramatic collapse, for to truly confront our sins is a devastating experience.  If preachers talked about sin, says Colson, many people would flee their church pews never to return.  R. Kent Hughes, “The Comfort of Mourning,” The Sermon on The Mount — The Message of the Kingdom, 25-26

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

Romans 3:23; cf., v. 10

Evon Wilkinson Lindsey was born February 9, 1934 and passed away at 6:28 p.m., Friday, August 6, 2010 at the St. Helena Parish Hospital, Greensburg. She was a native of Amite and a resident of Greensburg. Ms. Evon was an avid cat lover, loved to read and retired after 25 years of service with the Tangipahoa Parish Library.

She is survived by numerous extended families.

Preceded in death by her husband, Winfred Lindsey and parents, WC and Ruby Allen Wilkinson.

Visitation at the McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, on Sunday, August 8, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. until Celebration of Life Services at 2:00 p.m. in the funeral home Chapel with Rev. Mike Foster officiating. Interment in the Day’s Cemetery, Greensburg.

Pallbearers will be Clint Allen, Stewart P. Cox, III, Stewart P. Cox, IV, Donald Langston, Sonny Cutrer, and Charles Allen

An on-line Guestbook is available at http://www.mckneelyvaughnfh.com

McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, is located at I-55N & Hwy 16W (Exit 46) next to Bill Hood Automotive and behind Mr. Tom’s Car Wash and Holiday Inn Express.

Many of you may remember Evon as the “puppet lady” at the Tangipahoa parish libraries for many years.

Have a wonderful Lord’s Day!

Anna Lee