Joel Engelsma

 Wilfred was going to be a doctor it appealed to his sense of adventure. Most doctors took rounds on horse rounds where they were stationed so they traveled quite a bit. So he started to study in college to be a doctor. Still, he didn't like looking so he decided to pay a crammer to do his work for him with this wife started an intense course of bodybuilding and even got onto the rowing and boxing team he was known around the campus as an excellent athlete. 

 Wilfred was depressed because he couldn't be a tiger hunter in India he thought maybe a clergyman but he would be bored very quickly a friend said go visit his friend about becoming a doctor so that is what he did the next day he came in and after a while, f talking the doctor took down a jar and placed it in front of Wilfred do you know what this is he said Wilfred said no and the doctor said this a brain we cannot fathom what goes on in it after talking a while Wilfred decided he would be a doctor.

So I just did my second tip test in karate and this is the test with a  lot of the official things in it like when to bow what the code of martial arts is how to fold your gi which type of gi fold you like more when to bow wait to be excused and things like that.

When Wilfred mulled over his idea of what to do for work. He wanted to go outside and do work outside so he planned on becoming a tiger hunter in India he was extremely excited about this so he went to see the wife of a missionary that had lived in India. When he asked her about tiger hunting she explained that tiger hunting cost a lot of money just to get the proper replies and people.

 One day William was told to come to his father's office so he went and his father hit him with a bombshell. I and my mother are moving to a church where I will reach and I am having a superintendent take care of the school until your brother can come ad run it and now what are you going to do you are of age to start making your own living.

 For sermon Sunday, I am going to talk about elders because elders have an extraordinary role in the church. They are the leaders of the church they have the power to make decisions and do things they are also in charge of visiting and other things. A lot of people think that the elders are there to be your servant kind of but they are and they really arent.

 There were a few special things that were nice about going to college every once in a while he could sneak out into the woods and catch moths and butterflys. Wich where a poor substitute compared to te stuff he fought back home after a year or so he went back home to his family and joined the fishermen back on the sea.

 Wilfred had been enrolled din college it was a more strict place then he was used to but the best day was Sunday he said after the service which almost put him to sleep they got to sing the entire handles Messiah and he sang with gusto even though everybody sid he was utterly tone deaf.

 Wilfred dreamed about the boat he was to build all the time and wondered what type of adventures he would have in it. They finished the book it looked more like a floating coffin than anything but William knew it was most likely one of the most seaworthy vessels on this part of the river. His brother and he stayed up all night sometimes catching fish with the fisherman.

 William was the younger brother of the two brothers they had another brother but he had issues with his brain working and could easily hurt himself so he always needed supervision. This summer was special for William because he and his brother were going to build a boat. William went over the stuff the boat needed in his head it would need a square prow but built sturdily so it could go into the tumbling waters of the river dee. But it also needs to be more flat-bottomed so they could also travel into the marshes.

 I will talk about Wilfred Grenfell and read the entire book and tell you about this man because he has a more accessible name to spell than savanorla. Wilfred Grenfell lived in the land of dee or thts where he lived the village dee it was by a river named dee that was extremely dangerous and his father and mother both worked at the school he went to.

 The day came they were put off for trial ad found guilty of some random things so savanorla and his monk the monk that was going to do the ideal and we're going to the gallows and the monk was standing tall and proud as he came to the gallows and as savanorla walked past a city commissioner the commissioner said " I separate you from the church militant and the church triumphant" and savanorla turned and said " You can separate me from the church militant, but you cannot separate me from the church triumphant" and that is the story of savanorla

  The battle of Saratoga resulted in a British defeat at the hands of General Horatio Gates. This defeat powered The entire company for freedom and raised morale. our company and the whole army built defenses on Bemis heights just south of Saratoga. General Burgoyne the general of the British attacked. We engaged on Freemans farm we fought and we fought and eventually general Burgoyne did withdraw and decided to wait for reinforcements because there where many casualties. General Burgoyne decided to try one more time o he attacked a second time and was defeated at Bemis heights on October 7 With no means of escape he surrendered. This victory not only re-fired the hopes of the Americans but it did something also that would change the war in a massive way. The French now seeing that they just weren't spending money to lose it but two things a treaty with a new country and also giving the British a massive bloody nose which might be helpful in later engagements. 

 For some reason svorla is smeared somehow I do not exactly remember but somehow a story got out that it was Savonarola's fault that there wasn't the ideal and remember this is a great thing that would happen if there were many people here to watch this spectacle but they where all let down because it never happened. So they decide they where going to burn Savonarola at the stake after they hung him for some reason they where also going to hang his follower monk that was going to also go through the ideal.

 Of course, as soon as this rival monk heard he actually had to more or less walk through the fire he instantly backed out and got one o his other monks to do it for him. After a while of arguing a date was set and savanorlas man was there to walk through the fire but the other mon never showed up they even sent messengers to where he lived he still didn't show.

 so This one proposed this ideal savanorla but savanorla wouldn't do it because he said you shouldn't try to force God's hand in doing miracles one of savanorla followers who was an ardent follower of savanorla. He didn't want savanrolas name blemished so he took the ideal fr savonorla against savonrls wishes.

 Now what is an ideal well back then an ideal was kid of like a duel between churches and the way it worked usually was you lit a fire or something and you had to walk by it in a way so there is one hundred percent no way you arent burned extremely badly in this case it was to fires with a little path in between the two fires. what is was for is that it more or less forced God to make a miracle but he never did because that is how you won the ideal is you by the fire without being burned and that showed God was on your side.

 The king died without his sins so-called forgiven by savanorla. After this savanorla actually reidi the entire war government was done in Florence and he kept preaching death and damnation but it wouldn't last. a rival mon you could say from a different monastery challenged Savonarola to an ideal.

When savanorla came to the persons besides the king's bedside when he was dying Savonarola said he must do three things. The first to things where he should have were believers in Jesus Christ and I think that last admit his wrongs or something like that but the third one didn't make a lot of sense because remember savanorla is a catholic and a very ardent monk and preacher so he said free the people from this dictatorship but the king wouldn't do it so Savonarola didn't forgive his sins.

 So Savonarola is preaching in the city of Florence and one day the ruler or king more or less of this city is going to die. Of course, he needed a priest to give him rest from ll his sins so he would go to heaven and he chose savanorla the issue with this is that savanorla was hated by most people but the king knew that Savonarola would give him the truthful answer to what e needed to do to go to heaven.

 Today because it is the new year I am going to talk about someone that helped the shape the reformation as it was back then it this is a good seventy maybe a hundred years before the reformation. There was a monk named Savanorala and he was a catholic and he was sent to minister to people in Florence Italy and this city was extremely worldly on every front. Savanoroa saw this and started preaching death and damnation and hellfire to these people these but the people didn't even listen to him they where seemingly drawn to him somehow just like people where drawn to Jesus but didn't even listen to his teachings like the pharisees for example.