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BRING ME A SWORD......................................

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                 "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace" ST. LOUIS, MO.....I'm sure that many   - some -  of us are at least, slightly familiar, with the account in the Hebrew Bible about two young women who lived in the same house and who both had an infant son came to King Solomon for a judgment.  One of the women claimed that the other, after accidentally smothering her own son while sleeping, had exchanged the two children to make it appear that the living child was hers.  The other woman denied this and so both women claimed to be the mother of the living son and said that the dead boy belong to the other. After some deliberation, King Solomon called for a sword to be brought before him.  He declared that there was only one fair solution: the live son must be split in two, each woman receiving half of the child. Upon hearing this terrible verdict, the boy's true mother cried out, "Oh lord, give the baby to her, just don't ki