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Apropos of what some would call cynicism, I remember an anecdote the source of which I forget.
It concerns a small-town minister who staged an impressive object lesson by confining a lion and a lamb together in the same cage outside his church door.
Not only his parishioners, but the whole town and, ultimately, the whole county were enormously impressed by this object lesson.
One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.
`` How on earth do you manage it??
What is the trick ''??
`` Why '', he replied, `` it is perfectly simple ; ;
there is no trick involved.
All you have to do is put in a fresh lamb from time to time ''.
Cynical??
Blasphemous??
Not really, it seems to me.
The promise that the lion and the lamb will lie down together was given in the future tense.
It is not something that can be expected to happen now.
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