Every once in a while you will run across something in a secular magazine that feeds your spirit.  There was an item in a recent Smithsonian magazine that speaks to our lesson for today. It was a story on the history of that legendary town of the Old West, Tombstone, Arizona. 

In the late 1870s, miners discovered silver in the DragoonMountains of Arizona.  An area that had once been desert wasteland became the bustling mining town of Tombstone---so named because the first miner to explore the site had been warned that all he would find was his own tombstone.  Like any place primarily populated by men, it was a rough community.  In the 1880s, the streets of downtown Tombstone were lined with saloons and gambling halls.  But one newcomer to Tombstone wrote these encouraging words, “Still th…