Just a thought – 74 years ago I was 5/6 years old and went
to the Baptise Church Sunday School in Church Road Teddington. After singing hymns and a prayer we
walked round for the collection singing –
“Dropping, dropping, dropping
hear the pennies fall, every one for Jesus, he shall have them all”
Story time came. We were told a missionary would take our pennies
to Africa for the poor undernourished orphans. We were shown pictures of
natives in grass skirts and loin cloths, carrying shields and spears in war paint
and told how the tribes kill each other.
Now in 2014 we are bombarded by Television advertisements to
give £2 or £3 a month to help the poor undernourished orphans left by the ‘Warring
factions’ (Tribes?) using combat gear and weapons sold to them by the ‘Civilised
Countries’ to feed the greedy arms salesmen, wealth makers and bankers.
Another song “…when will they ever learn, when will they
e-ver learn….”
