"Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance" (II Peter 1:13).

It is apparently rather easy, in this day of football games, rock concerts, and race riots, to get the emotions of a crowd all stirred up. The stirring of emotions can be either good or bad, of course, depending on the cause.

"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit" (Galatians 5:25).

"And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and He shall speak peace unto the heathen: and His dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth" (Zechariah 9:10).

"Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain" (Proverbs 25:14).

"Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn" (Deuteronomy 25:4).