Hello, this is pastor gary from first baptist church of laplata. Today’s “Throwback Thursday” is from Monday, August 10, 2020. Mount Rushmore is an iconic American monument created in 1927 to increase tourism in South Dakota. Mount Rushmore is periodically in the news over adding another presidential face to the four Presidents already carved there. Barrack Obama and Donald Trump are the most recent addition suggestions. President Trump has stated that it is his dream to be added to the faces. The problem with adding any new face is that engineers and sculptors alike say it is not possible: the rock faces on either side of the exiting sculpture will not support any further sculpting. Why did sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, choose the Presidents that he did? George Washington is the father of our country; Thomas Jefferson is the writer of the Declaration of Independence; Abraham Lincoln is the great emancipator; and Teddy Roosevelt? He was a strong proponent of nature and national parks, but he was also the sculptor’s good friend. The carved rock that should be of most importance to us are the tablets of the ten commandments. These tablets, originally written by the finger of God, not only instruct us in divine and personal relationships, but show us our need for a Savior. While the ten commandments have been under attack in our culture for more than a half century, they are still as true and applicable as they ever have been. The ten commandments are the Word of God deserving and demanding our reverence and obedience.
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