Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of First Presbyterian Church, Belmont, North Carolina, 1890-1990
T HE poet tells of an incident which occurred in his travels. Wad ing through the desert, he came upon a statue, fallen and half buried in the sand. The lips of the statue were drawn in a sneer, the expression one of cruelty. On the base of the statue were these words I am Ozymandias, king of kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. And all around that statue stretched only sand - to the hori zon. Ozymandias, a kingdom-builder, lost in the legendary mists of time.
Two thousand years ago Jesus Christ walked by the sea of Galilee. He had no mighty army, no political organization, no vast sums of money; yet he, too, was a kingdom-builder, a builder of the Kingdom of Love in the hearts of men. He gathered them around Him and said I am the light of the world. I am the way, the truth, and the life. And because His was not a kingdom of might but a kingdom founded on eternal truths, it has continued to grow since that humble beginning in Galilee.
We read the first chapters of that story in our Bibles, read it with a thrill of admiration and pride for the courage of those early Chris tians. The hiss of burning oil, the roar of the hungry lion, the ?ash of the sword - all these were met and conquered by those early members of the kingdom. Truly the blood of the martyrs became the seed of the church, and that Kingdom continued to grow.
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