JONAH.

Jonah!

The air is close, and Jonah gasps.

It was good for old Jonah

last verse of the first chapter of Jonah

Jonah. But the sea rebels he will not bear the wicked burden.

But mark now, my shipmates, the behavior of poor Jonah.

For sinful as he is, Jonah does not weep and wail for direct deliverance.

But WHAT is this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches?

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The lot is Jonah's that discovered, then how furiously they mob him with their questions.

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Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.

And now behold Jonah taken up as an anchor and dropped into the sea when instantly an oily calmness floats out from the east, and the sea is still, as Jonah carries down the gale with him, leaving smooth water behind.

Shipmates, I do not place Jonah before you to be copied for his sin but I do place him before you as a model for repentance.

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'Point out my state room, Sir,' says Jonah now, 'I'm travel weary I need sleep.'

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See ye not then, shipmates, that Jonah sought to flee world wide from God?

And how pleasing to God was this conduct in Jonah, is shown in the eventual deliverance of him from the sea and the whale.

Sin not but if you do, take heed to repent of it like Jonah.

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Then the Captain knows that Jonah is a fugitive but at the same time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with gold.

All dressed and dusty as he is, Jonah throws himself into his berth, and finds the little state room ceiling almost resting on his forehead.

Startled from his lethargy by that direful cry, Jonah staggers to his feet, and stumbling to the deck, grasps a shroud, to look out upon the sea.

But all in vain the indignant gale howls louder then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.

Near Gona stone tools were uncovered in 1992 that were 2.52 million years old, these are the oldest such tools ever discovered anywhere in the world.

Mr. Jonah drew attention to cooperation between the two organizations in facilitating and monitoring democratic change in Africa as a new and expanding area of cooperation.

He reads, and looks from Jonah to the bill while all his sympathetic shipmates now crowd round Jonah, prepared to lay their hands upon him.

Then God spake unto the fish and from the shuddering cold and blackness of the sea, the whale came breeching up towards the warm and pleasant sun, and all the delights of air and earth and 'vomited out Jonah upon the dry land ' when the word of the Lord came a second time and Jonah, bruised and beaten his ears, like two sea shells, still multitudinously murmuring of the ocean Jonah did the Almighty's bidding.

The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah as lying in his berth his tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance.

Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters, bottles, flasks and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death.

So disordered, self condemning is his look, that had there been policemen in those days, Jonah, on the mere suspicion of something wrong, had been arrested ere he touched a deck.

For when Jonah, not yet supplicating God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts, when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him forth into the sea, for he knew that for HlS sake this great tempest was upon them they mercifully turn from him, and seek by other means to save the ship.

Then, in that contracted hole, sunk, too, beneath the ship's water line, Jonah feels the heralding presentiment of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of his bowels' wards.

Thus far the busy Captain had not looked up to Jonah, though the man now stands before him but no sooner does he hear that hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinizing glance.

Lord to sound those unwelcome truths in the ears of a wicked Nineveh, Jonah, appalled at the hostility he should raise, fled from his mission, and sought to escape his duty and his God by taking ship at Joppa.

And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the steep gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah sees the rearing bowsprit pointing high upward, but soon beat downward again towards the tormented deep.

One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice island.

9. The Agreement was signed on 25 July 1993 in Cotonou in the presence of President Nicephore Soglo, the current Chairman of ECOWAS the Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, James O. C. Jonah, on my behalf and Professor Canaan Banana, Eminent Person of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).