![]() The family goats and other pets were a point of difference between the President and his wife, according to Mrs. Lincoln had news to report in an Aptelegram to his wife in New York: “Tell Tad the goats and father are very well - especially the goats.” 4 This is the last we know of poor ‘Nanny.” 3 Less than a year later, Mr. This was done, and the second day she had disappeared, and has not been heard of since. The gardener kept complaining that she destroyed the flowers, till it was concluded to bring her down to the White House. The day you left Nanny was found resting herself, and chewing her little cud, on the middle of Tad’s bed. Lincoln on Augthe President wrote of one of these goats that had evidently been staying at the Soldiers’ Home: “Tell dear Tad, poor ‘Nanny Goat,’ is lost and Mrs Cuthbert & I are in distress about it. In a uncharacteristically lengthy telegram to Mrs. These goats, Nanny and Nanko, were favorites of Tad’s who sometimes slept in his bed and otherwise disrupted the decorum of the White House. ![]() Tad’s cries ‘Get out of the way there!’ managed to break up the Boston-bred group. In his inimitable style, Tad once scattered a group of White House visitors in the East Room by driving a goat-pulled chair through the regal room. Seward in August 1861 and least two goats of whom Tad was fond. The White House became home to a much wider assortment of animals, including two kittens given to the family by Secretary of State William H. Lincoln’s dog and frequent lunch companion. In the White House, Fido was replaced by Jip, Mr. 1 The Lincolns’ dog, Fido, had been left in Springfield, much to the chagrin of young Tad. I have seen him fondle one for an hour,” wrote Treasury official Maunsell B. Lincoln “was fond of dumb animals, especially cats. 11 No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.Mr. I will be their God, and they will be my people. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. 9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.ġ0 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. “The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 8 But God found fault with the people and said : Let’s read quickly from Heb 8:7 to bring you up to speed …ħ For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. The writer in Chapter 8 has written that the Old Covenant which the Jewish people had been relying on was flawed. If you’ve got your bibles there, turn with me to Heb 9:1. Tonight, I want to pick up from where Des left off last week and I want to paint a picture about how people accessed God under the Old covenant and how we access God under the New Covenant. Now, that is through his Son, Jesus Christ. – In the OT days, that was the High Priest. To meet with God, we need an introduction by someone close to Him. To meet the president, we need an introduction by someone close to Him. No one can just walk in off the street and see the president – He is isolated. The Presidents sit in their lovely White House with all its luxuries. The President is an important person – in comparison to God he is a nobody, but relative to us, he is important. The US President is in some ways a bit like God. In a way, this is a bit of picture of what I want to talk about tonight. The soldier had gained an "introduction" (audience) with the President through the President’s son. He proceeded to the library where the President was resting and introduced the soldier to his father. ![]() When they approached the guarded entrance, the soldiers came to attention, stepped back, and opened the door for the boy. The boy motioned to the soldier to follow him. On each occasion, as he attempted to enter the White House, the guards crossed their bayoneted guns in front of the door and turned him away. ![]() The soldier related how he had repeatedly tried to see President Lincoln to tell him he was unjustly deprived of certain lands in the South following the war. A young boy approached him and inquired why he was so sad. You pray to him, but the prayers don’t even get past the ceiling?įollowing the Civil War, a dejected confederate soldier was sitting outside the grounds of the White House. Have you ever felt like God is so far away? So aloof. Accessing God – The Old and New Way - Heb 9:1-11
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