Friends,

I read this article today and I wanted to share it with you. May this motivate us even more to “pray as if it all depended upon our prayer, and work as if it all depeneded upon our work.” (quote by William Booth). Satan is killing people and we citizens of the Kingdom of God, empowered by the Holy Spirit are to take this Good News we have to our neighbors and the ends of the earth. As Charles Spurgeon once said, and I paraphrase, “May we allow no one to go to hell unwarned and unprayed for”.

Indian man “sacrifices” himself at Hindu temple
Wed 23 Aug 2006 10:15 AM ET
http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=DEL45168

LUCKNOW, India, Aug 23 (Reuters) - An Indian man “sacrificed” himself by slitting his throat in front of a Hindu deity at a temple in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, police said.

Natha Ram Pal, 45, a father of four, shocked devotees at the village temple when he picked up a knife and slashed his throat in the courtyard.

He was rushed to a hospital where he died, senior police officer Dawa Sherpa told Reuters.

“The temple has a history of people sacrificing their tongues on new moon nights to fulfil their desires,” Sherpa said. “But even that has not been heard of in recent times.”

Pal’s family described him as an “obsessively religious person”, who spent most of his time at local temples in the village, about 50 km (30 miles) north of the state capital, Lucknow.