Tag Archives: Moral Stories

According to Holiday magazine, the most popular numbers at Monte Carlo’s roulette tables are 17 and 29. What has this to do with the church? More than the churchmen would care to believe. For it is further reported that in … Continue reading →

It has been estimated that Australians part with $8.2 billion a year in legal and illegal gambling, a figure more than the gross national product of several Asian and African countries. According to Methodist minister Alan Walker, each person in … Continue reading →

In the US, gambling brings in $60 billion annually, largely to the underworld. In Great Britain, about $5.5 billion are bet each year, with the government taking around $450 million. In France, citizens wagered $2.6 billion yearly. In Monaco, the … Continue reading →

The animal inhabitant of the Pinna Marina is a blind slug or snail, which has many enemies, the worst of which is the cuttle-fish. No sooner does the pinna open his bivalve shell, than the cuttle-fish rushes in. How can … Continue reading →

On top of the Spanish Pyrenees may be found a magnificently beautiful but elusive mountain goat. It seems always to get away from shooting range. Why? It has a companion, a young goat, who follows and sounds the warning of … Continue reading →

The story of two human beings came to an end. A drama of blackness. Yes, the blackest of the black—blindness—the absence of all light. One of the world’s most renowned women was Helen Keller, that prodigy who lived and became … Continue reading →

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you; I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me; I … Continue reading →

An English publication offered a prize for the best definition of a friend, and among the thousands of answers received were the following: “One who multiplies joys, divides grief.” “One who understands our silence.” “A volume of sympathy bound in … Continue reading →

From childhood Albrecht Durer wanted to paint. Finally, he left home to study with a great artist. He met a friend who also had this same desire and the two became roommates. Both being poor, they found it difficult to … Continue reading →

Although the North American Indians had no written alphabet before they met the white man, their language was anything but primitive. The vocabulary of many Indian nations was as large as that of their French and English exploiters, and often … Continue reading →

Shortly before the Civil War a young lawyer came down from Vermont and settled in Adams County, Pennsylvania. There he saw fugitive slaves escaping from bondage, and as a conductor on the Underground Railroad he helped them to liberty. The … Continue reading →

On June 22, 1772, Lord Mansfield, chief justice of the King’s Bench, handed down his famous decision that effectively eliminated slavery on the soil of the British Isles. Although slavery had gradually died out in Europe after the introduction of … Continue reading →

High atop the United States Capitol dome in Washington stands the statue of the stately “Freedom Lady,” almost 20 feet high. Her face is framed by a crest of stars. A shield of stars and stripes is in her left … Continue reading →

One bleak day in February 1832, a young theological student sat in his room at Andover Seminary. Samuel Francis Smith was going over a sheaf of German songs for children, given him by a friend, the composer Lowell Mason. Sunset … Continue reading →

A global survey of political and civil liberty indicates that personal freedom diminished in the 1970s for eighty-five million people in seven countries. The assessment was made by Freedom House, a New York-based nonprofit organization that rates nations as free, … Continue reading →

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, also known as Lord Balfour, was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. He is noted as stating the following: The best thing … Continue reading →