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Persons Shaped by His Teachings Represent Dr. Munroe’s True Monument Says Prime Minister
By Gena Gibbs, BIS
Dec 5, 2014 - 12:10:32 PM
Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie, at the Memorial Service for Dr. Myles and Pastor Ruth Munroe. (BIS Photo/Gena Gibbs)
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NASSAU, The Bahamas – At the State-Recognized
Memorial Service for Dr. Myles and Pastor Ruth Munroe at the Thomas A. Robinson
National Stadium, December 3, Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie said
Dr. Myles and Pastor Ruth Munroe’s true monument is represented in the two
wonderful children they produced, and in many of the leading men and women of
our society who were shaped by their teachings and personal example.
The Prime Minister noted Dr. Munroe’s
testimony is witnessed in the leaders of our society he greatly influenced and
shaped, who will continue his work, and their children “will take the baton and
carry on the cause. And that is how
great nations are built, brick by brick, one family at a time; one person at a
time; one generation at a time, but all moving in the same direction, guided by
the same sense of purpose, guided by the same values. Yes, that is how great nations are built, and
how great nations endure.”
Before a large stadium crowd, and as
part of a comprehensive programme of speakers and cultural expression -- the
Prime Minister observed that we hear too little of those are doing good things “even
great things, day in day out, working by the sweat of their brow; raising good
families; helping out and doing good works in the community; leading lives of
high purpose that ennoble themselves and ennoble us as all as a society, as a
people, and as a nation under God. That’s the kind of people Dr. Myles leaves
behind as his monument.”
During his condolences, the Prime Minister
discussed his last meeting with Dr. Munroe and his last conversation, noting in
retrospect it seemed there was a lot on his mind, “much more than normal” and
that he had a sense of urgency that “the challenges of our time summoned us all
to leadership in one form or another so that the problems of contemporary
Bahamian society that so troubled him could be more aggressively addressed and
remediated.”
He said: “I don’t have to tell you that
Dr. Munroe really loved his country, this beloved Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
Yes, he would go forth into the world, crisscrossing continents, flying across
the great oceans of the planet but he would always come back home to play his
part, a leading part, in helping to build up his country,” said Prime Minister Christie.
Liturgical dancer. (BIS Photo/Gena Gibbs)
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“This kind of outreach was
central to his sense of purpose and central to his work as an evangelist for
Christ because it was clear to me that religion for Myles Munroe was not about
locking oneself up in some remote ivory tower of private contemplation. Rather,
it was about rolling up your sleeves and getting down into the trenches to deal
with the real problems of real people living in the real world.”
Prime Minister Christie said
while Dr. Myles Munroe was unquestionably a globalist, an internationalist, in
the scope of his Christian ministry and in the reach of his teachings and
travels, he was, at the same time, a profoundly committed nationalist; a Bain
Town-bred Bahamian through and through; a man who never forgot his roots; a man
who was passionately involved in Bahamian nation-building and who played an
important part in that process over the course of more than three decades.
“And so my brothers and sisters,
as Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, I therefore stand at attention
today and salute Dr. Myles Egbert Munroe as a Bahamian patriot of the first
order. And on behalf of all my compatriots, I offer the thanks of a grateful
nation for the life and work, and for the shining example, of this great son of
our soil,” said the Prime Minister.
The large crowd. (BIS Photo/Gena Gibbs)
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