In 1995 the nation was stunned when news broke that an elderly woman
named Oseola McCarty had donated $150,000 to the University of Southern
Mississippi for their scholarship fund. This eighty-seven-year-old woman
had been forced to drop out...
A mother took her
young son shopping. After a day in the stores, a clerk handed the little boy a
lollipop. “What do you say?” the mother said to the boy, to which he replied, “Charge
it!”
A woman who traveled
abroad without her husband got to Paris and found a fabulous bracelet she’d
been looking for. So she sent a wire back home saying, “I have found this
beautiful bracelet, one I’ve been looking for all my life. It only costs
$7...
Roger Babson, an American historian, was visiting
the president of Argentina about one hundred years ago when the president said
to him: “You are a student of history, Will you please tell me why it is that
South America, with her unlimited...
The Baptist preacher Dr. George W. Truett accepted an
invitation from a church to preach the dedication sermon for their new
building. He arrived at the church about ten minutes before the service started,
and was told that the church needed to...
Suppose someone were to offer you a thousand
dollars for every soul you would earnestly try to lead to Christ, would you
endeavor to lead any more souls to Him than you are endeavoring to do now? Is it
possible that you would attempt to do for...
Robert Arthington lived in
a single room, cooked his own meals, and shared his friendship with students
who were in need. Yet he gave tremendous amounts of money during his
lifetime to Christian missions. When he died, his estate was worth about...
Fortune magazine
reported that the nation’s top twenty-five philanthropists gave away more than
$1.5 billion in 1996. The most generous was George Soros, president of Soros
Fund Management, who donated $350 million last year.