Pro-lifers in the past two years have made immense gains as CBS ruefully noted yesterday:
In the past two years alone, 32 states have adopted some form of abortion restriction.
I have been involved in this struggle since 1973. It has been a long fight and a bitter one, and all too often it has been easy to become discouraged. However, I have always known that we were arrayed against powerful forces in our society and that this fight would ultimately be won through prayer, persistence and hard work. We are winning, too slowly true, but we are winning.
SAY not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke conceal’d,
Your comrades chase e’en now the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the field.
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright!
Arthur Hugh Clough
Ephesians 6:12 – For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.
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