Someone asked an elderly Christian lady, “Does the devil
ever trouble you about your past sins?” She answered, “Yes.” When the inquirer asked what she did
then, she replied, “Oh, I just tell him to go east.”
In 1818, Ignaz Philip Semmelweis was born into a world of
dying women. The finest hospitals lost one out of six mothers to the scourge of
“childbed fever.” A doctor’s daily routine began in the dissecting room where
he performed autopsies. From...
There was a king who had suffered much
from his rebellious subjects. But one day they surrendered their arms, threw
themselves at his feet, and begged for mercy. He pardoned them all. One of his
friends said to him, “Did you not say that every...
A Sunday School teacher had just
concluded her lesson and wanted to make sure she had made her point. She said, “Can
anyone tell me what you must do before you can obtain forgiveness of sin?”
A young boy in Korea was a houseboy
for some American soldiers. Sometimes they thought it was funny to play harmless jokes on him. They would tease him. They would tie his shoe strings together.
They would lock him out of the house.
Dr. John R. Rice, a great
evangelist now with the Lord, was asked to conduct a revival meeting at a
Baptist church in Woodbine, Texas. Divisions and strife had broken the heart of
the pastor until he had resigned and left. The county missionary,...
Corrie
Ten Boom and her family resisted the Nazis by hiding Jews in
their home. They were ultimately discovered and sent to a concentration camp.
Corrie barely survived until the end of the war; her family members died in
captivity. Seared by...
President Lincoln had an early political rival named Edwin Stanton. He
called Lincoln the original gorilla. When Lincoln was elected President
he chose Stanton to be his secretary of war because he believed he was the best man for the
job. At...
Elizabeth Barrett’s father disapproved of her
marriage to Robert browning so strongly that he never forgave her. She wrote
letters to her father seeking reconciliation, but he returned them unopened.
Had he opened them, and read the beautiful...
“In one of my assignments as a young infantry officer, I was
sent to the 48th Infantry near Frankfort, Germany. In those days our prize
weapon was a huge 280-mm atomic cannon. Guarded by infantry platoons, these
guns were hauled around the...