Tag Archives: Meditation

LeTourneau’s Bitter Experience R. G. LeTourneau, the Christian earth-moving machinery manufacturer who died in 1969, failed often in the earlier years of his career. Ironically, though, he made $35,000 profit one year in the middle of the depression. Puffed up … Continue reading →

The Colgate Story A lad of 16 years named William left home to seek his fortune, all his possessions tied in a bundle carried in his hand. He met an old canal-boat captain. William told him his father was too … Continue reading →

Rockefeller’s Testimony Yes, I tithe, and I would like to tell you how it all came about. I had to begin work as a small boy to help support my mother. My first wages amounted to $1.50 per week. The … Continue reading →

Quaker Oats Henry P. Crowell, affectionately called “The autocrat of the Breakfast Table,” contracted tuberculosis when a boy and couldn’t go to school. After hearing a sermon by Dwight L. Moody, young Crowell prayed, “I can’t be a preacher, but … Continue reading →

God Made . . . God made the sun—it gives. God made the moon—it gives. God made the stars—they give. God made the air—it gives. God made the clouds—they give. God made the earth—it gives. God made the sea—it gives. … Continue reading →

Thankful For Their Boy Alive The parents of a young man who was killed in the World War gave their church a check for two hundred dollars as a memorial to their loved one. When the presentation was made, another … Continue reading →

Thankful For What Did Not Happen Several years ago some German immigrants to America brought over this story of a woman living on a farm in Germany who brought to her minister an amount in German money equivalent to about … Continue reading →

A Windfall To Church What does a thriving debt-free church do with a windfall of $342,625? A 74-year-old widow left the sum to Bethel Baptist Church of Toronto with the provision that half be spent on the local church and … Continue reading →

Dish-Washing For God In the last year of his life, an elderly man in his seventies worked as a dish washer in the Life Line Mission, on the San Francisco waterfront. When he died, he bequeathed $150,000 to the mission … Continue reading →

A Church’s Two-Brick Start A large church needed a new building. They were all agreed about that, but whenever they began to plan to build, the members got into all sorts of disagreements about how and what to build. The … Continue reading →