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[Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

"...In transitu, two things seem not unworthy of our consideration, viz.

(1) that God's people are sometimes called by him to remove from the places of their nativity info a country afar off. This call of God's is not now immediate, as Abraham's was, but mediate; namely, when they cannot live comfortably where they are and have a plain prospect of mending themselves in another land. Or when they cannot enjoy the ordinances of God with peace and purity: this latter was the case of our pious predecessors, the first planters of this land: many of which had fair accommodations and very considerable estates; who yet for the satisfaction of their consciences accounted it far more eligible to turn their backs upon all the good things in their own native country and expose themselves and their families to great hazards and difficulties by sea and land, than to abide where they were. Surely it was not to gain great estates but for the promotion of religion and the advancement of their own and their posterities' spiritual good, that was in their eyes which made them to come from a fruitful land into this Jeshimon and uncultivated wilderness..."

--ABRAHAM THE PASSENGER, HIS PRIVILEGE AND DUTY, described in an election-sermon at Boston N.E. May 30, 1705, by Joseph Estabrook, A.M., and pastor of the Church of Christ at Concord.

[Note: in 17th century English, "passenger" = emigrant; cf. passenger pigeon (ectopistes migratorius)...]

On Dec 16, 2014, at 5:20 PM, E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> More correctly --
> "I read it through twice, 
> just to make sure I had it right. 
> Then I leaped to the steering wheel, 
> stepped down hard on the accelerator, 
> and got the hell out of Ohio. "
> 
> On 12/17/2014 07:07 AM, E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss wrote:
>> "I got the hell out of Ohio."  
>> 
>> -Lo, the Former Egyptian, 
>> H. Allen Smith, 1947.
>> 
>> On 12/17/2014 06:36 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
>>> Supreme Court Lets Cops Stop People Based on Ignorance of Law
>>>  
>>> The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled police officers can conduct illegal traffic stops based on wrongful interpretations of the law. The case involved a man who was pulled over in North Carolina for having a broken tail light, even though a single broken tail light is not a violation in North Carolina. Police searched the man’s car and found cocaine, resulting in a cocaine-trafficking conviction. In an 8-to-1 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction, saying the officer’s mistake was "reasonable." In a lone dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, "One wonders how a citizen seeking to be law-abiding and to structure his or her behavior to avoid these invasive, frightening, and humiliating encounters could do so."