First Annual Heritage Arts Campout!
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What’s the weekly mettle maker? Training tips and educational information in support of our free programs, that’s what! What’s mettle? According the American Heritage Dictionary, mettle is, “The ability to meet a challenge or persevere under demanding circumstances; determination or resolve.”
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Self-Defense: How’s your neck? Yours truly has taken a deep dive into the life and work of Martin “Farmer” Burns, the "Father of American Wrestling.” If you want to have a neck that rivals the neck of a bull, use the Farmer Burns method. Watch the video on the left for the low-down. And if like this sort of thing, you might consider joining the Heritage Self-Defense club in Richmond, VA. Or, if distance learning is your thing, click here to enroll in the Heritage Arts Self-Defense distance learning program!
Fitness: Dumbbells anyone? When old-timers talked about “lifting weights” they were referring to light dumbbells weighting between 2 and 5 lbs (1 or 2 kilos), often made of wood. These light dumbbells were just as often held by the ball as they were by the connecting bar. Reps were high, and the variety of exercises was great. Although there were exceptions (Farmer Burns, for example, recommended “snap” in most dumbbell movements), the watchwords of the old-timers were 1. slow pace, 2. total control throughout every movement, 3. full range of motion, 4. no bouncing or ballistics, and 5. a deep breath on every rep. Try out some of the movements in the photo set on the right.
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Wildwood: Know your spring edibles: dead-nettle. This is Lamium purpureum, a.k.a. '“purple deadnettle” or '“purple archangel.” It has a pleasant taste. Just take off the entire top of this extremely common weed and eat as a cooked green. Want to learn more wild edibles, as well as other fun nature appreciation and survival skills? Click here and sign up for the 100% free Heritage Wildwood distance learning program!
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Brothers and sisters, today I’m delivering a beautiful homily that I found in an old book entitled “Homilies Preached at Alsbury” printed for private circulation by C. Goodwin Nortion of London in 1890. The author’s name is not given, may God thank and bless him. I hope you enjoy it.
“My Beloved spake unto me and said, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away, for lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.”
This is the description, from the Song of Solomon, of the spring time, and of the joyousness which the flowers, and the singing of birds, and the coo of the turtle dove, and the bursting forth of the fruit-buds, produce in the hearts of those, who have passed through the winter, when all nature seems dead, and are able to rejoice at the return of spring, the foreshadowing in the natural kingdom of that time of joy and singing, when in the spiritual all things shall be made new, and all things shall be of God, when out of death life shall spring up, when light shall drive away the darkness, and the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
Do not our hearts respond to this appeal, “Arise, and come away”? Do we not hear in it a call to those, the blessed holy departed saints, who are gone into the land of forgetfulness, to prepare themselves to take again their bodies, and to burst through their cerements, to leave behind the grave-clothes, and to come forth arrayed in garments of glory and beauty, even the glory and beauty of Him, who appeared on the mount of transfiguration to the chosen disciples, His face shining as the sun, and His garment white as the light; and is it not at the same time a call to us to make ourselves ready?
The lilies, as we read, toil not neither do they spin, and the fowls of the air sow not, neither do they reap, yet our heavenly Father feedeth the fowls, and clotheth the lilies of the field, so that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these, though they are as the grass, which grows up to-day and to-morrow is cut down and withered ; and shall He not much more clothe and feed you? We, according to these figures, are taught to give up caring for this life what we eat, and for this body what we put on in the hope of being clothed with a body of glory, and being fed with the food of eternal life, and inheriting the kingdom and glory of Christ.
We wait, in common with those of our brethren, who have fallen asleep, for the call, “Arise and come away”; we wait and embody in our daily cry to the Lord the petition for our deliverance from the bondage of corruption into liberty and glory; and in this our cry we give expression to the longing desire of those, who have gone down into silence, who have fallen asleep, who have died in the faith, not having received the promises, who wait for the time of being made perfect not without us in the glory of the resurrection.
“Christ is risen,” is the song of our hearts. This day our mouth is filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing, because our captivity is at an end. If such is our experience of that salvation by hope, which we are now able to realize, what will be the joy unspeakable and full of glory which awaits us, when the day of the resurrection, to which Jesus Christ has attained, shall have come for us also? Then will be fulfilled the promise of the acceptable year of the Lord, when He shall appear again to give to them that mourn in Zion beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
God who is rich in mercy, when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus. If we then be risen with Christ, set your affections on things above. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear again, then shall we also appear with Him in glory.