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SPIRITUAL SUICIDE
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Think how wonderful our nation
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And how peaceful it could be
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If each prayed, and searched the Scriptures
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As much as they tuned in T V.
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It's amazing and appalling,
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How the Lord is so denied.
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Many people have exchanged their Bibles
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For that so-called T V Guide.
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Murder pictures--children watching,
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Programs often base, obscene.
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Many juvenile delinquents
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Can be traced back to the screen.
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Pastors, many are bemoaning.
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Small attendance Sunday nights.
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Careless members, home and watching
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Special programs or the fights.
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Surely, this must grieve the Master:
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All this tendency to crime,
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As He notes "the wasted hours",
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How and what we do with our time.
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With this grip upon our nation,
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Midnight hour, so very nigh;
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Yet we lull to sleep our conscience,
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Mid a "Rock-Roll" lullaby.
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Spiritual suicide is certain
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If continued in this way
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How we need to search the Scriptures:
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More and more we ought to pray.
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There would be tremendous difference,
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(To this you may not agree)
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But our GREATEST Spiritual ROBBER
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Is none other than T V.
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Eva Gilbert Shaver.
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