Sanctified Prayer (3 of 5)
Series: The Rest of the Gospel
Steve Jones
Colossians 1:3
INTRODUCTION: Paul Harvey - The Rest of the Story regarding the Mayflower (Video available on YouTube)
Dr. Harris stood in the darkened doorway of the farmer's barn silent and staring as his eyes adjusted the shadows parted like curtains revealing the shapes and dimensions behind him. And there was something curious here, something anomalous to an English village in the outskirts of London. Whatever was out of place, Harris decided, had little to do with the age of the ancient structure, for if one had stood in that very doorway nearly three centuries previous, that is to say, when the barn was new, one might still have felt uneasy, as though the observer was far from the quaint Quaker settlement in Buckinghamshire, as if one were nowhere near anywhere at all. And then Harris looked up to the beams supporting the barn roof. As he kept looking he realized that his head was tilting to one side, as though his subconscious was struggling to envision the barn upside down. And all at once it struck him, the old barn was not exactly a barn at all, not exclusively at any rate. It was instead an old sailing ship whose materials had been reconfigured and reassembled to make a barn. The discovery by Dr. Harris, at least superficially, is not at all surprising, because the best wood was reserved in those days for the Royal navy. English farmers, wishing to build their barns out of sturdy stuff, would often by sailing vessels and use the wood. And that's exactly what farmer William Russel did to procure wood for his barn. He was obviously correct regarding the quality of the lumber for there the barn had stood for almost 300 years before Dr. Harris had laid eyes on it. Harris was a scholar and so from markings on the barn timbers he sought to identify the original vessel from which the timbers had been scavenged. On a beam taken from the ships stern Harris found the letters H A R. Ha ...
Series: The Rest of the Gospel
Steve Jones
Colossians 1:3
INTRODUCTION: Paul Harvey - The Rest of the Story regarding the Mayflower (Video available on YouTube)
Dr. Harris stood in the darkened doorway of the farmer's barn silent and staring as his eyes adjusted the shadows parted like curtains revealing the shapes and dimensions behind him. And there was something curious here, something anomalous to an English village in the outskirts of London. Whatever was out of place, Harris decided, had little to do with the age of the ancient structure, for if one had stood in that very doorway nearly three centuries previous, that is to say, when the barn was new, one might still have felt uneasy, as though the observer was far from the quaint Quaker settlement in Buckinghamshire, as if one were nowhere near anywhere at all. And then Harris looked up to the beams supporting the barn roof. As he kept looking he realized that his head was tilting to one side, as though his subconscious was struggling to envision the barn upside down. And all at once it struck him, the old barn was not exactly a barn at all, not exclusively at any rate. It was instead an old sailing ship whose materials had been reconfigured and reassembled to make a barn. The discovery by Dr. Harris, at least superficially, is not at all surprising, because the best wood was reserved in those days for the Royal navy. English farmers, wishing to build their barns out of sturdy stuff, would often by sailing vessels and use the wood. And that's exactly what farmer William Russel did to procure wood for his barn. He was obviously correct regarding the quality of the lumber for there the barn had stood for almost 300 years before Dr. Harris had laid eyes on it. Harris was a scholar and so from markings on the barn timbers he sought to identify the original vessel from which the timbers had been scavenged. On a beam taken from the ships stern Harris found the letters H A R. Ha ...
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