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Love you so much. I was writing checks for renewals—Eternity 10.00, Moody Monthly 10.00, and I think your paper is worth that much to me also. Just moved into a new home. Praise the Lord! - Mac LeDoux, Weatherford, TX

(If everyone did this, I’d put Guida on a salary! But we really do not want this and we are determined to keep our sub rate at 4.00, inflation or no. You can see that Mac is prospering. That is a story of trust and hard work. Having spent years training Vietnamese to fly helicopters in this country and eventually going to Vietnam as a missionary, he finally came upon difficult times. His bank financed his first copter and he began hiring out for joy rides all over this part of Texas, including Denton and Ouida and me, except I think ours was for free. His company has continued to grow and they now offer all sorts of copter services. And now a new home. Should you hear him tell about his life in Vietnam, you too would Praise the Lord.—Ed.)

At age 83 I have earnestly contended for two decades that the sins of the fathers over “methods and things” need not be visited upon our children through the third and fourth generation and beyond. This is providing that we are moved by the Holy Spirit to show proper honor and respect for the prayer which Jesus poured out to the Father that His disciples be one, as he knelt almost in the shadow of his own cross.—Stewart Hanson, Sr., Long Beach, CA

I feel the Holy Spirit is calling all Christians to be as one, also, to break away our stiff-necked differences and let Jesus Christ fill us up with Himself so that brotherhood and love will unite all believers.—Brenda Hawbaker, Decatur, IL

For years I was a staunch believer in the doctrine of the Church of Christ until some eleven years ago when God began showing my wife and me the truth, Jesus Christ, and slowly led us out of the religion which had us in bondage into a new relationship with Him and His son, as well as the Holy Spirit. The Lord has led us back into the Church of Christ but now with the understanding of what it is to be in the Church of Christ . . . I have found that in having to give up many brothers in Christ that I have gained so many more, and now I am slowly and joyfully gaining the former ones back. My prayer is that we will never go back under law.—Denton Gillen, Garden Grove, CA

I have a question. You have started using the feminine for the generic personal references, such as “If one works hard, she can get a lot done.” What’s the idea? Is it humor or are you saying something profound that escapes me. Why not answer this in your paper since there must be others who wonder about this?—Rod Cameron, Converse, IN

(Prof. Bruce Metzger of Princeton set me to thinking on this gender thing when he told me that the committee of the Revised Standard Version, of which he is a member, was to meet to see what could be done about the continual use of the masculine gender in that version of the Bible. Eventually linguists may come up with a hybrid term, something better than the cumbersome he/she which I frequently see. My occasional use of she as well as the usual he is not intended as humor, and there is certainly nothing profound about it, but simply my small contribution to what will eventually be common: some way of de-sexing our language. Why should the Bible read “He who believes on the son has life”?—Ed.)