Rev. A.J. Ogden

Many seniors my age tell about going to our home town and finding more buggies and wagons parked along the avenue, while some people simply walked to town from four or five miles away. Every now and then a Tin Lizzy (nickname for a T-model Ford) would come by making plenty of noise but very low speed! Then we saw the model A-Ford which wasn’t much greater, but it was up to date for that time. You had to be kind of rich to buy one of those cars that sold for less than five hundred dollars. Now, that much won’t pay the tax on one!

In the twenties and thirties we complained about the price of gas, nineteen cents a gallon. We poor kids were fortunate to get a coke several times a year. They were a nickel, and if you wanted an R.C., orange, or other soft drinks, you got a 16 oz. bottle for five cents. When soft drinks finally went up to six cents, there was uproar all over America about high prices. Times really do change things. We have gone from the T-Model to the technology age. We are never satisfied and now we reach the moon and desire to go beyond. Some of our research and development is fine but we can’t even go five years without a war that destroys cities and kills millions. Someday we may even regret having all the weapons of mass destruction! Much of what we call progress is not progress at all.

Just as every train must have an engineer, every plane must have a pilot, every ship must have a captain, and America must have a Master. God is our Maker, Redeemer, Creator, and Friend who has given us the guide book called the Bible. In this book we have the instructions for living on this planet and without it we are like a ship without a sail. We do not have real happiness without God. We are only fooling ourselves when we expect abundant life without Him. He came that you may have life and have it more abundantly!

Yes, times are changing fast but there is one who never changes.