Oh, It isn’t just the CoVid. America was messed up before that! Many of our churches stopped telling folks what was right and what was wrong. They did talk about Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit, and that is, of course, is the live or die message. However, the Bible tells us much more. It tells us killing babies is wrong, and now we have 60 million babies dead! It says homosexuality is wrong, as is killing anybody, stealing, using bad language. These things are all wrong. If we heard about them when we go to church, our country would be in better shape. We also need more instruction on what Sunday is all about. It means we, all who call ourselves Christian, should go to worship. The rest of the day is for rest. Jesus knows we work hard all week. Wouldn’t it be great if we read our Bibles or other books, and listen to good music or have a quiet picnic somewhere? We would be ready for the week. Instead, we have records broken on murders. You can’t go down the street without hearing very bad language. Schools are teaching crazy other things rather than things the children need. I could go on but you know what goes on in America these days
I would like to tell you what America was like when I was a little girl in the thirties. It was natural for every person in our little town to go to Sunday School and church. And church was sometimes quite noisy. Moms and Dads brought their little children to church with them. We never heard of such things as nurseries, or Sunday School at the same time as worship. The rest of the day was quiet. We kids were allowed to go outdoors and play hide and seek, kick the can, or marbles. Stores were all closed. You got everything you needed on Saturday. Our school day started with prayer and a Bible reading. Our Christmas or Easter plays were about Jesus and we sang Christmas or Easter carols and everyone in town came. We visited friends often and whenever a person had a problem, there was someone there to help, I realize that I lived in a rural area. The cities were much more advanced, if you call it that!
You probably know that all schools were started by Christians. The settlers decided they needed to have places for children to go to be together and learn their reading, writing and arithmetic. So they built all those little red schoolhouses you have seen in pictures. They were still using them when I was little, but we had a much bigger building because children came from all the little towns around us. They came in school buses pulled by horses. I thought it was quite a treat to ride one out to a friend’s house. It was very cold in winter so some buses had stoves in them but most just had curtains to pull down.
We didn’t have electricity, phones or running water. It was hard to get the news. I remember Dad going up to Carlsons Store to hear the news on a short wave instrument, but we had music. Practically every home had a piano and I remember many happy times standing around the piano singing with my friends. We also had a machine with a big horn on top which you had to pump to keep it going and the singer would sing slower and slower unless we pumped.
I never heard bad language or even heard of a murder in those days, but I do like many of the things that make life easier. I do know that we need more instruction on right or wrong, both in our churches and in our homes. How do you feel on this?
GramMa's Thoughts 