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Sir,

 

 

The polls have now closed, all the votes have been cast and the political landscape has, once again, changed. How true the words of the old hymn ‘change and decay in all around I see.’ Politicians find out, to their personal and woeful misery, that nothing in life remains the same – neither their high profile figure nor their high figure salary.

 

Voters in the Western Isles have, for good or ill, decided to vote in Mr Angus MacNeil again as their next MP in London. As Mr MacNeil prepares his bags and leaves for the big smoke - for another term - I would like to take this opportunity of leaving him, and every other politician, with 'one thing’ that doesn’t change. It is the word of God. ‘The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever' (Isaiah 40v8).

 

Lest Mr MacNeil forgets, may I remind him that the UK is a Christian country – its very foundation and fabric is based on the truths of God’s word, as recorded in the Bible. Those who think otherwise are only deluding themselves. Some politicians have recently pointed out that our country is underpinned, informed and infused by Christian values, Christian heritage, Christian history and a Christian culture. History confirms it and so does the truth.

 

Yes we have allowed, very sadly and to our shame, a worldly, ungodly, secular and humanistic spirit to creep in and we are now reaping, to our hurt, the dire consequences. Who would have thought, in 2015, that there would be so many food-banks at our doorsteps to feed the poor and relieve family poverty. Yes, even in Stornoway. This, however, is not surprising.

 

We are too quick to forget that, as a nation, we can never really escape the consequences of our actions. Yes, the cry goes out for compassion, but when one responds compassionately by advising a return to the moral standards and principles as taught in the Word of God he is soundly renounced. We, as a nation, have sown the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind.

 

There is no doubt that we need to recover quickly our Christian past for the good of our nation. We need to get back to God and we need to get back to the Bible. George Washington, the great statesman, wisely and discerningly said that ‘It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.’ And when we do recover our past, and start governing our nation with the right and proper protective armour, then blessing will certainly follow ‘Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD…and happy is that people, whose God is the LORD (Psalm 33v12 & 144v15).

 

Albert Einstein encapsulated the social good that Christianity can provide in society when he commented on the Church’s stand against Nazism. He said that ‘Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had a special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced now to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.’

 

We remind Mr MacNeil that he is accountable, not to his electorate, but ultimately to God for the way he votes and all the choices he makes in London. Having been chosen to serve his constituency, we hope and pray that he will vote wisely in Government so that all his choices and decisions on matters affecting all society – socially, morally and spiritually – will have changing and lasting consequences, for good, in a nation that is currently falling apart at the seams.

 

Not only are the eyes of everyone in Na h-Eileanan An Iar again on Mr Angus MacNeil so are the peering eyes of another. ‘The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good’ (Proverbs 15v3).

 

Mr Donald J Morrison

85 Old Edinburgh Road

Inverness,

Letter:  MP is accountable

11 May 2015