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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;USS656, post: 276867, member: 6641&quot;]Lets start with this - it is very similar to this note:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Item number: 180157754376</p><p><a href="http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/Three-Shillings-Currency-1776-Revolutionary-War-Money_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ28272QQihZ008QQitemZ180157754376" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/Three-Shillings-Currency-1776-Revolutionary-War-Money_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ28272QQihZ008QQitemZ180157754376" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/Three-Shillings-Currency-1776-Revolutionary-War-Money_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ28272QQihZ008QQitemZ180157754376</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Jom Gallen appears to be a name?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The part about one feather might be similar to this tale?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>;;;Chapter Sixteen</p><p>Avoiding Pitfalls</p><p>Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.</p><p>--Matthew 26:41</p><p><br /></p><p>Paul speaks in these words about the need for raising positive, unequivocal voices in the cause of truth:</p><p>For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?</p><p>So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.</p><p>There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. (1 Cor. 14:8-10.)</p><p>Trumpets have sounded, warnings have been given, voices have been recorded in the chapters of this book. Pitfalls which beset youth and others, lurking dangers and forbidden paths for all have been pointed out. To know where the danger is and to be able to recognize it in all of its manifestations provides protection. The evil one is alert. He is always ready to deceive and claim as his victims every unwary one, every careless one, every rebellious one. Paul warned the Ephesians, &quot;For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.&quot; (Eph. 6:12.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Insidiousness of Sin</p><p>Whether or not one is repenting from grave sin, the true spirit of repentance which all should exhibit embraces a desire to stay away from sin. One cannot simultaneously be repentant and flirt with transgression.</p><p>Sin, like a journey, begins with the first step; and wisdom and experience teach that it is easier to resist the first temptation than later ones, when a pattern of transgression has begun to develop. This is demonstrated in the story of the lark. Sitting in the high branches of a tree safe from harm, he saw a traveler walking through the forest carrying a mysterious little black box. The lark flew down and perched on the traveler&#039;s shoulder. &quot;What do you have in the little black box?&quot; he asked.</p><p>&quot;Worms,&quot; the traveler replied.</p><p>&quot;Are they for sale?&quot;</p><p>&quot;Yes, and very cheaply, too. The price is only one feather for a worm.&quot;</p><p>The lark thought for a moment. &quot;I must have a million feathers. Surely, I&#039;ll never miss one of them. Here is an opportunity to get a good dinner for no work at all.&quot; So he told the man he would buy one. He searched carefully under his wing for a tiny feather. He winced a bit as he pulled it out, but the size and quality of the worm made him quickly forget the pain. High up in the tree again he began to sing as beautifully as before.</p><p>The next day he saw the same man and once again he exchanged a feather for a worm. What a wonderful, effortless way to get dinner!</p><p>Each day thereafter the lark surrendered a feather, and each loss seemed to hurt less and less. In the beginning he had many feathers, but as the days passed he found it more difficult to fly. Finally, after the loss of one of his primary feathers, he could no longer reach the top of the tree, let alone fly up into the sky. In fact he could do no more than flutter a few feet in the air, and was forced to seek his food with the quarrelsome, bickering sparrows.</p><p>The man with the worms came no more, for there were no feathers to pay for the meals. The lark no longer sang because he was so ashamed of his fallen state.</p><p>This is how unworthy habits possess us first painfully, then more easily, until at last we find ourselves stripped of all that lets us sing and soar. This is how freedom is lost. This is how we become enmeshed in sin.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the reverse the note has &quot;Amemen&quot; (I think) on top which apears to be religious.&nbsp; This is what led me down the path of the story above?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Good Luck and thanks for the contest.&nbsp; I will try and do more searching.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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