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Finishing Well - A Life Well Lived at Mammertine Prison

Reflecting on memories of duty, honor, and country, a soldier bids farewell from West Point, cherishing the beauty in sacrifices made. Despite the shadows closing in, the legacy of a faithful servant remains through the echoes of past battles. In the final roll call, the soldier embraces the completion of his course with unwavering faith, anticipating the future reward awaiting him, a crown of righteousness. Through the poignant lens of Mammertine Prison, where a departure holds various meanings, the narrative of a life well lived unfolds, contrasting the impact of a humble servant like Paul with the grand but fleeting empires of conquerors. Discover the enduring significance of a noble existence beyond worldly acclaim.

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Finishing Well - A Life Well Lived at Mammertine Prison

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  1. Finishing Well!

  2. The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished, tone and tint; they have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange mournful mutter of the battlefield. But in the evening of my memory, I always come back to West Point. Today marks my final roll call with you. … I bid you farewell. I listen vainly, but with thirsty ear, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. Always there echoes and re-echoes in my ears--Duty, Honor, Country.

  3. Mammertine Prison

  4. Final Release (4:6) • 6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

  5. A “departure” was a …. • Sailor’s word • Sacrificial word • Soldier’s word

  6. A Philosopher’s Word The Gordian Knot

  7. A “departure” was a …. • Sailor’s word • Sacrificial word • Soldier’s word • Philosopher’s word • Prisoner's word

  8. Finished Course (4:7) • 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; The Fighting Soldier The Focused Athlete The Faithful Servant

  9. Future Reward (4:8) 8 in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.

  10. Mammertine Prison

  11. Mammertine Prison

  12. A Life Well Lived! • “Paul had passed through life as an insignificant player on Rome's pretentious stage. He died unnoticed by the mighty and wise of his age. Yet how infinitely more noble, beneficial and enduring was his life and work than the dazzling march of military conquerors like Alexander and Napoleon, who prompted by ambition, absorbed millions of treasure and a myriad of lives only to die at last in a drunken fit at Babylon, or of a broken heart on the rocks of St. Helena. Their empires have long since crumbled to dust.” • Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, 8 vols. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1910), 1:331. • Yet, that lonely old man had launched a movement which would change the course of history. Rome is no more!

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