What sort of "week" (seven days is as 7,000 yrs if one day is as a 1,000 yrs) is the Salvation Army Week? It's a week (seven days) of "War" Crying, and troll tolling, and sacrificing of children, by parents and ministers, who force them to become child soldiers in a law -vs- grace war that's already won by one: Jesus Christ. He "is" our "peace" (not our war nor our peace + war), who hath abolished the law, and God did "rest", not war, on the seventh day.
Hence there remaineth a "rest" (peace) to the people of God, "of God" allegorically being of Grace, since that God is "the God of all grace" (no law at all) and such firstly "pure" wisdom from "above" (Grace unto you... from God our Father) is then peace-able (first of seven things pure grace is in James 3:17).
The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
One Christmas I took note of how much money the SA kettles raked in. It was over $100,000.
I also drove a street person to pick up his Christmas box from the SA, noted there was nothing in such that was not donated, including the labor, the food, the gifts. So where did the money go from the kettles?
The same 'used to' hold true with their Thrift Stores, getting all free, even the labor, and then selling it back to poor folk at nearly new wholesale prices, only freely giving to those who grovelled.
