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j g bellettThe Moral Glories of Our Lord -  A devotion regarding the Moral Glory in the character of the Lord Jesus.  All of his life went up to God as a sacrifice of sweet savour. Every expression of Himself in every measure, however small, and in whatever relationship it was rendered, was incense to his father.  Whatever Adam lacked, the Lord fulfilled completely in his perfect life.  J G Bellett was a brother from the United Kingdeom who wrote his works in the 1800's. 
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Themes: "Value of a Soul, Gospel's Importance

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He sacrificed and sold everything to make his idea come true. He was almost obsessed with his invention.

He was born way back in 1800. By 1829 he was in debtor's prison for the first of many times. Then in 1834 he began tinkering with the elastic gum extracted from the rubber tree. Rubber in its natural form quickly becomes a hard solid when it is extracted from the tree. But Charles Goodyear was determined to discover how to make rubber more usable.

The thirty four year old inventor quickly decided that his fortune would be made if he could invent a way to make rubber firm yet resilient. He began doing everything he could imagine to the rubber: he would boil it, try to dissolve it with solvents, steam it, mix it with other chemicals.

While he was doing all this, his family was steaming and boiling. They often went hungry. They all knew the inside of pawn shops throughout New York City. At times the family had to beg for bread.

In 1839, Goodyear moved to Woburn Massachusetts and entered into a business partnership to help discover ways of using rubber. He failed again and debt continued to mount. But one day later on that year, through an accident of spilling some of a concoction he had made with sulfur onto a stove, Goodyear finally came upon his discovery.

Elated at the prospects, he rushed for a patent on his find. He pawned his children's school books to pay for more experiments. One of his sons, weak and ill, died because they had no money for his care. But still Goodyear plodded ahead.

He had to fight many battles for the rights to his discovery. Others tried to claim they had discovered it. All this legal battling cost money. When Goodyear received honors at a Paris exhibition in 1855, his son brought them to Goodyear who was in debtor's prison again.

When Goodyear died in 1860, all he had was a mountain of debts. He had lost almost everything in his effort to perfect the use of rubber.

Charles Goodyear was not the first man nor the last who has lost family, health, and money, in the pursuit of something which was wanted. At times, the world has profited greatly from the sacrifices which men have made. At other times, people have suffered greatly by the ambition of ruthless men.

Men and women, boys and girls, are all confronted with the Gospel. The Lord Jesus told about a young man who spent all that he had satisfying his sin (Luke 15:14). It left him hungry, lonely, sad, and in disgrace. If he had not changed, it would have cost him his soul as well.

But the Bible also tells about the Lord Jesus who sold all that He had in order to save us (Matt 13:46). He gave Himself to save us and to enrich us. He bore the loss all alone. No one else lost because of His sacrifice.


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