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A missionary invented it to pump water for a small church. It ended up making half of Texas livable. 🌬️💧
The Eclipse windmill, patented in 1867, was actually designed decades earlier by a Presbyterian minister working among the Ojibwe on the shores of Lake Superior, built simply to pump water up from a ravine to his mission homestead. It took nearly twenty years before the wider world discovered what he'd built.
Once barbed wire began fencing off the open range in the 1880s, Texas ranchers suddenly needed a reliable way to water cattle that could no longer roam freely to creeks and rivers. Windmills like the Eclipse spread rapidly across the Panhandle and West Texas, with the massive XIT Ranch alone running 325 of them across three million acres by 1887. What do you think Texas ranching would look like today without that one invention?
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Dear friends and cowfolk,
We know the Glory of God through the face of Jesus Christ. His presence here on earth taught us how to live sinlessly and with purity of heart. The sacrifice He made on the cross to relieve us from sin sheds light on the truth of His mercy.
Renounce those hidden things of shame and walk with humility and love in order to reflect the truth of the Gospel of Christ. Make no excuse for, nor try to justify, those thoughts, words, and actions that make up our sin. Instead, admit them and remove them from our lives that we may walk in the Light of Christ before all mankind!
Jesus is Lord!
“Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, ...