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In many newspapers "Church news" seldom makes front page. Some coming-event, a special program, or visiting clergy receives notice somewhere in the printed page but hardly any mention on television. (Unless there is church controversy that rates as hard-core news.) And this is understandable from news media's point of purpose.
Yet the church is the "keeper of the springs" of society s great ocean. Jesus called His followers "salt" and "leaven" and "light." One seldom comments on the salt but the steak; not the yeast but the hot rolls; not the lights but the ballgame being played at night.
The church, the great "keeper of the springs, has seasoned society by being the first in education. Many of the great universities were birthed by the church as well as hospitals, medical schools, orphanages, and homes for the aging. Jesus followers seasoned the U S. Constitution and outright wrote the Bill of Rights through the efforts of Rev. John Leland and James Madison (whom moved its adoption).
While the church is not front page news, it is nonetheless quietly going about its appointed mission in hamlet and city keeping the springs clean and purifying the water that flows into the mainstream of human existence.
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