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Never leave a young man behind: Photo of marine who slowed down to help a nine-year-old boy finish a 5k race goes viral

• Marine encouraged nine-year-old boy all the way to the finish line
• Picture of them running already has 200,000 likes on Facebook

By OLIVIA WILLIAMS

PUBLISHED: 09:20, 1 August 2013 | UPDATED: 10:37, 1 August 2013

 
 
 

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A marine who gallantly dropped back in a race to help a nine-year-old boy finish has become an internet sensation. 

Lance Corporal Myles Kerr was competing in the annual run while home on leave in Charlevoix, Michigan when he spotted Boden Fuchs struggling to keep up. 

The boy reportedly asked 19-year-old Kerr: 'Sir, will you please run with me?', after losing the group he was running with.

Heartwarming: Lance Corporal Myles Kerr keeping nine-year-old Boden Fuchs motivated in the race

The race results show that after allowing his fellow marines to run off at full speed in the race along the shore of Lake Michigan, Kerr finished five seconds behind Fuchs at 34.53 minutes - and a long way behind his army friends.

 

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The picture of Kerr running with the boy in his army fatigues, encouraging him all the way to the finish line has already had 200,000 likes on Facebook and been shared 45,000 times. 

Facebook users were full of praise for the Lance Corporal, calling him 'a role model' and a 'hero'.

Becoming a local celebrity, Kerr was interview by local radio stations and newspapers. 

Hero: Myles Kerr, 19, seemed overwhelmed by the attention he received online after the race

After hearing about his act of kindness, Fuchs' parents bought him a $100 voucher for a local restaurant to thank him.  

Kerr seemed taken aback by all the attention on his Twitter feed, responding to one fan: 'I was just doing what any man would do, but thank you!'

According to his Twitter page, he will be returning to work this Sunday.

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Some thoughts on Missions & Evangelism, Some inspiration from CT Studd, Amy Carmichael and William Booth.

CT Studd.

Studd, C.T. – In 1884, C.T. Studd, one of the Cambridge Seven, felt convicted, “How could I spend the best hours of my life in working for myself and for the honour and pleasures of this world while thousands and thousands of souls are perishing every day without having heard of the Lord Jesus Christ, going down to Christless and hopeless graves?” (John Pollock. The Cambridge Seven, 2nd ed. Great Britain: Marshalls, 1985, 75.)

“Some want to live within the sound Of church or chapel bell;

I want to run a rescue shop, Within a yard of hell.”

Too long have we been waiting for one another to begin! The time of waiting is past! The hour of God has struck! War is declared! In God's Holy Name let us arise and build! 'The God of Heaven, He will fight for us', as we for Him. We will not build on the sand, but on the bedrock of the sayings of Christ, and the gates and minions of hell shall not prevail against us. Should such men as we fear? Before the world, aye, before the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, we will live and we will die for Him, and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only our God, than live trusting in man. And when we come to this position the battle is already won, and the end of the glorious campaign in sight. We will have the real Holiness of God, not the sickly stuff of talk and dainty words and pretty thoughts; we will have a Masculine Holiness, one of daring faith and works for Jesus Christ.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Should such men as we fear? Before the world, aye, before the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, we will live and we will die for Him, and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only our God, than live trusting in man. 

Amy Carmichael.

Does it not stir up our hearts to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?" - Amy Carmichael

William Booth.

Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world." William Booth.

“While women weep, as they do now,

I'll fight

While little children go hungry, as they do now,

I'll fight

While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now,

I'll fight

While there is a drunkard left,

While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets,

While there remains one dark soul without the light of God,

I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!”

― William Booth

QUOTE: ONLY ONE LIFE, TWILL SOON BE PAST – POEM BY C.T STUDD

 “Two little lines I heard one day,

Traveling along life’s busy way;

Bringing conviction to my heart,

And from my mind would not depart;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,

Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Only one life, yes only one,

Soon will its fleeting hours be done;

Then, in ‘that day’ my Lord to meet,

And stand before His Judgement seat;

Only one life,’twill soon be past,

Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Only one life, the still small voice,

Gently pleads for a better choice

Bidding me selfish aims to leave,

And to God’s holy will to cleave;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,

Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Only one life, a few brief years,

Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears;

Each with its clays I must fulfill,

living for self or in His will;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,

Only what’s done for Christ will last.

When this bright world would tempt me sore,

When Satan would a victory score;

When self would seek to have its way,

Then help me Lord with joy to say;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,

Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Give me Father, a purpose deep,

In joy or sorrow Thy word to keep;

Faithful and true what e’er the strife,

Pleasing Thee in my daily life;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,

Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Oh let my love with fervor burn,

And from the world now let me turn;

Living for Thee, and Thee alone,

Bringing Thee pleasure on Thy throne;

Only one life, “twill soon be past,

Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Only one life, yes only one,

Now let me say,”Thy will be done”;

And when at last I’ll hear the call,

I know I’ll say “twas worth it all”;

Only one life,’twill soon be past,

Only what’s done for Christ will last. ”

— extra stanza —

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,

Only what’s done for Christ will last.

And when I am dying, how happy I’ll be,

If the lamp of my life has been burned out for Thee.”

C.T Studd

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C.T. Studd

“Some want to live within the sound Of church or chapel bell;

I want to run a rescue shop, Within a yard of hell.”

£500m tax on drivers by greedy town halls: Parking charges soar as councils flout law

• Councils raked in £1.4billion revenue from tickets, permits and penalties
• Motoring group implores drivers to fight every charge tooth and nail 
• And there are more charges on the way, increasing motorist misery

By RAY MASSEY

PUBLISHED: 00:05, 1 August 2013 | UPDATED: 00:29, 1 August 2013

 
 
 

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Motorists were urged yesterday to go to war on councils who use parking fees as a massive moneyspinner.

The call came as it was revealed that town halls have boosted their annual profit from such charges to more than £500million, up by 10 per cent in a year. Motoring groups said residents should unleash ‘a flood of letters’ to councils in a campaign to have the legality of the fees tested in court.

Only a few days ago judges ruled that it is illegal for local authorities to use parking charges simply to raise revenue, rather than for genuine traffic management.

Councils have made more than half a billion pounds from drivers through tickets, permits and penalties. File picture

Now a study by the RAC Foundation reveals that councils raked in more than £1.4billion from parking tickets, permits and penalties in 2011-12, of which nearly £565million was pure profit. That is £54million, 10.5 per cent, more than the ‘surplus’ in the previous year.

 

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To rub salt into the wounds, even more rises are in the pipeline. Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said parking profits are on track to reach £635million in 2013-14.

Last week the High Court declared that Barnet Council in North London had acted illegally in setting parking charges for the sole purpose of making profit.

The RAC Foundation said councils must now ‘come clean’ about their parking charges and prove to motorists that they are not being used illegally to subsidise other services.

Mr Pickles said the figures showed ‘why we need to review and rein in unfair town hall parking rules’ and urged councils to stop treating drivers as a ‘cash cow’ to subsidise other services.

RAC Foundation director Professor Stephen Glaister said: ‘Local authorities should now expect a flood of letters from local residents wanting to know how parking charges are justified. If they can’t be defended in terms of managing traffic then there is likely to be a steady stream of cases heading for the courts.’

The RAC Foundation said its data, produced for it by transport consultant David Leibling, came from the annual returns that councils made to Mr Pickles’s Department for Communities and Local Government.

It shows that in 2011-12, English councils had a total current account surplus or ‘profit’ of £565million from their on-street and off-street parking operations.

Just one in seven – 52 of the 359 councils – reported a loss or ‘deficit’ on their parking operations in the year.

Even after so-called ‘capital charges’ are taken into account – money councils put in to replace infrastructure – the combined profit was still a hefty £412million.

The RAC Foundation said councils must now 'come clean' about their parking charges and prove to motorists that they are not being used illegally to subsidise other services

Top of the league table for parking profit is Westminster Council in London, which made a surplus of £41.6million in 2011-12.

Next came Kensington and Chelsea with £28.1million, followed by the North London borough of Camden with £25million. Only sixth-placed Brighton and Hove (£14.4million) and eighth-placed Cornwall (£7.9million) broke into a top ten dominated by London authorities.

How milking motorists is banned by law

Professor Glaister said: ‘For many local authorities, parking charges are a nice little earner, especially in London. The bottom line is that hundreds of millions of pounds are being contributed annually to council coffers through parking charges.

‘This level of profit will astound drivers. It is also likely to embolden them to take action.

‘Last week Barnet Council was ruled to have illegally set parking charges to shore up its budget and it seems implausible that no other council has been tempted to do the same thing.

‘The onus is on each local authority to come clean and explain why their charges are what they are. We have every sympathy with the financial predicament councils are in. We have no sympathy with any attempt to arbitrarily tax drivers. As the High Court has now judged, this is illegal.’

Mr Pickles said of his department’s parking profit projections for 2013–14: ‘This £635million municipal parking profit shows why we need to review and rein in unfair town hall parking rules.

‘This Government has scrapped the last administration’s Whitehall rules which told councils to hike up parking charges and adopt aggressive parking enforcement. But councils aren’t listening, and local shops and hard-working families are suffering as a result. The law is clear that parking is not a tax or cash cow for town hall officers.’

Earlier this week Mr Pickles said he was considering allowing drivers to park on double yellow lines for 15 minutes if they were making just a short visit to a shop.

The landmark test case judgment won by motorists and residents in Barnet was achieved by the Barnet CPZ Action group, led by father of two and solicitor David Attfield, 46, from East Finchley.

Councillor Peter Box, chairman of the Local Government Association’s economy and transport board, said: ‘Parking revenue is spent on paying for parking services.

'Any money left over goes towards transport services like filling potholes, concessionary travel, park and rides, street lights and road improvement projects. Many councils have to subsidise parking services as the cost is not covered by charges.

‘Parking charges and fines help councils keep traffic flowing and pedestrians and motorists safe. They also help keep the roads clear for emergency services and business deliveries, and ensure that people can park near their homes or local shops.’

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