Lynn Thompson
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669 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lynn Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As a consequence, some of the most ignorant and vicious men are at the top, and some of the most virtuous and intelligent at the bottom.
During the late war we suddenly saw men hurled up into the highest social positions, and
Had they suddenly reformed their evil habits, or graduated in a science?
Or achieved some good work for society?
No, they simply had obtained a government contract.
This accounts for the utter chagrin which men feel at the treatment they receive when they lose their property.
Hold up your head amid financial disaster like a Christian.
fifty thousand subtracted from a good man leaves how much?
Honor, truth, faith in God, triumphant hope, and a kingdom of ineffable glory over which He is to reign for ever and ever.
If a millionaire should lose a penny out of his pocket, would he sit down on a kerbstone and cry?
And shall a man possessed of everlasting fortunes wear himself out with grief because he has lost worldly treasure?
You have only lost that in which hundreds of wretched misers surpassed you.
And you have saved that which the Caesars and the Pharaohs
And the Alexanders could never afford.
And yet society thinks differently, and you see the most intimate friendships broken up as the consequence of financial embarrassments.
You say to someone How is your friend?
The man looks bewildered and says I do not know.
You reply, Why you used to be intimate, and
Well, says the man, our friendship has been dropped, the man has failed.
Proclamation has gone forth.
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