Transcribed from actual tape of sermon August 19, 1979 AM
A NEW BREED OF ROYALTY: THE REPAIRMAN Jeremiah 18:1-4
Conspicious among the many by-products in the machine age has been the rise to royalty of
the repairman. In fact, we ordinary folk, are really AT HIS MERCY! If you doubt this
have someone to come and fix your television or do some menial task in plumbing or work
a little bit on the air conditioning system and you'll understand when you receive your
bill - - what I mean by the word 'mercy'.
Because, you see, as we have moved from the manual to the mechanical in our day and age
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as we've gone the very simple and the very obvious to the automated and to the electronic
and to all the systems involved - suddenly we have in our land - over 2 million specialists ....
highly trained, highly skilled technicians - repairmen.
When I was a boy my dad was Mr. Fix-It around our home but this day has passed. When some-
thing went wrong with the electricity or something went wrong with the chimney - my dad
could make a light burn again. He could clean the chimney out. When something was wrong
with the old Ford, he could do something about it - if not - he could take it to any old
shade tree mechanic and he could take a pair of pliers and a screwdriver and a wrench or
two and maybe some bailing wire and make the old Lizzie run again. Mr. Fix-It. That was
20 or 30 years ago - not so today!
The repairMEN. Recently I had a telephone put in my home and it is now repairPERSONS because
a beautiful young lady went right along as a team member with that repairman.
This is a new breed of royalty in our society. A whole new ballgame of skill and ability
to fix things that use to be reather simple for the Mr. Fix It - the man around the house.
Frank Borham, my favorite Australian lecturer - because he i ...
A NEW BREED OF ROYALTY: THE REPAIRMAN Jeremiah 18:1-4
Conspicious among the many by-products in the machine age has been the rise to royalty of
the repairman. In fact, we ordinary folk, are really AT HIS MERCY! If you doubt this
have someone to come and fix your television or do some menial task in plumbing or work
a little bit on the air conditioning system and you'll understand when you receive your
bill - - what I mean by the word 'mercy'.
Because, you see, as we have moved from the manual to the mechanical in our day and age
AO
as we've gone the very simple and the very obvious to the automated and to the electronic
and to all the systems involved - suddenly we have in our land - over 2 million specialists ....
highly trained, highly skilled technicians - repairmen.
When I was a boy my dad was Mr. Fix-It around our home but this day has passed. When some-
thing went wrong with the electricity or something went wrong with the chimney - my dad
could make a light burn again. He could clean the chimney out. When something was wrong
with the old Ford, he could do something about it - if not - he could take it to any old
shade tree mechanic and he could take a pair of pliers and a screwdriver and a wrench or
two and maybe some bailing wire and make the old Lizzie run again. Mr. Fix-It. That was
20 or 30 years ago - not so today!
The repairMEN. Recently I had a telephone put in my home and it is now repairPERSONS because
a beautiful young lady went right along as a team member with that repairman.
This is a new breed of royalty in our society. A whole new ballgame of skill and ability
to fix things that use to be reather simple for the Mr. Fix It - the man around the house.
Frank Borham, my favorite Australian lecturer - because he i ...
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