AMOS 8:4-7

AMOS 8:4-7

⁴ Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor of the land,

⁵ saying,

“When will the New Moon be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market wheat?”—

skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating with dishonest scales,

⁶ buying the poor with silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals,

    selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

⁷ The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.

ARE THE WORDS OF THE BIBLE TO BE BELIEVED

OR THEY JUST HAPPY TALK

LISTENED TO BE EARS THAT DO NOT HEAR

UNABLE TO PENETRATE OUR HEARTS

THE WORDS OF AMOS

WRITTEN OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO

TRANSCRIBED INTO MODERN TIMES

WOULD READ LIKE TODAY’S HEADLINES

WHILE THOSE WHO DO IT

PRATE PIOUS PLATITUDES

THE LORD HAS SAID

HE WILL NOT FORGET THEIR ACTIONS

LORD WE HAVE WANDERED FAR

FROM OUR FATHER’S HOUSE

WITH A RIGHT SPIRIT RENEW US

AND MELT OUR HEARTS TO HEAR

FRANK A VOLLMER

OLD DAYS

OLD DAYS

 

 

I  HEARD A SPEAKER

WAX ELOQUENTLY

ABOUT HOW GOOD

THE OLD DAYS WERE

 

IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER

THAT DURING THOSE IDYLLIC TIMES

WE HAD RACE HATRED

AND RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY

.LABOR STRIFE AS WORKERS

FOUGHT FOR A LIVING WAGE

AND SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS

 MANY WERE HUNGRY

 AND ARE STILL HUNGRY

SIX MILLION JEWS SLAUGHTERED

 AND THE CHURCHES WERE SILENT

 

THERE MAY HAVE BEEN GOOD TIMES

 FOR A FEW

 BUT CHRISTIANITY

IS A COMMUNITY RELIGION

AND IF ONE IS HUNGRY

ALL ARE HUNGRY

 

FRAN A VOLLMER