Finishing Well!

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Finishing Well!
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The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight
is here.
My days of old have vanished, tone and tint they
have gone glimmering through the dreams of things
that were.
Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered
by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles
of yesterday.
I listen vainly, but with thirsty ear, for the
witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille,
of far drums beating the long roll.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the
rattle of musketry, the strange mournful mutter
of the battlefield.
But in the evening of my memory, I always come
back to West Point.
Today marks my final roll call with you. I
bid you farewell.
Always there echoes and re-echoes in my
ears--Duty, Honor, Country.
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Mammertine Prison
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Final Release (46)

• 6 For I am already being poured out as a drink
  offering, and the time of my departure has come.

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A departure was a .

• Sailors word
• Sacrificial word
• Soldiers word

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A Philosophers Word
The Gordian Knot
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A departure was a .

• Sailors word
• Sacrificial word
• Soldiers word
• Philosophers word
• Prisoner's word

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Finished Course (47)

• 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished
  the course, I have kept the faith

The Fighting Soldier
The Focused Athlete
The Faithful Servant
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Future Reward (48)
8 in the future there is laid up for me the
crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, will award to me on that day
and not only to me, but also to all who have
loved His appearing.
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Mammertine Prison
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Mammertine Prison
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A Life Well Lived!
Paul had passed through life as an insignificant
player on Rome's pretentious stage. He died
unnoticed by the mighty and wise of his age. Yet
how infinitely more noble, beneficial and
enduring was his life and work than the dazzling
march of military conquerors like Alexander and
Napoleon, who prompted by ambition, absorbed
millions of treasure and a myriad of lives only
to die at last in a drunken fit at Babylon, or of
a broken heart on the rocks of St. Helena.
Their empires have long since crumbled to dust.
Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church,
8 vols. (Grand Rapids Eerdmans, 1910),
1331. Yet, that lonely old man had launched a
movement which would change the course of
history. Rome is no more!