Tag Archives: Moral Stories

My father was the senior elder in our church for many years. When I was a boy, eleven years of age, an evangelist held a series of meetings in our church. One night he asked every Christian to come forward … Continue reading →

A strange dog came to a preacher’s house, and his three sons soon became quite fond of it. It so happened that there were three white hairs in the animal’s tail. One day an advertisement was seen in the newspaper … Continue reading →

Maybe some of you remember this story from awhile back. After six years of court battles, Kirby J. Hensley and his mail-order Universal Life Church were cleared of all charges in the State of California. A San Jose municipal judge … Continue reading →

“Sadie,” a Labrador retriever belonging to the Charles Thurber family in Terra Linda, California, was ordained as a minister of faith by the Hilltop House Church in San Rafael. The dog’s name and $15 were submitted by the Better Business … Continue reading →

In Evanston, Illinois, are the “Missionaries of the New Truth” who also advertise under the heading: “We want you to join our faith as an ORDAINED MINISTER with the rank of DOCTOR OF DIVINITY.” They state: “We are a fast-growing … Continue reading →

The following advertisement was clipped from a college newspaper based in Tucson, Arizona: WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A MINISTER? ORDINATION is without question and for life. LEGAL in all 50 states and most foreign countries. Perform legal marriages, ordinations … Continue reading →

It’s been estimated that during a very lucrative time for Fuller Brush Company, salesmen would get into 1 in every three homes by knocking on doors, and a sale is made in one of every six homes entered. By comparison, … Continue reading →

Years ago a wealthy lady from the east made many trips to Salt Lake City to be baptized for the dead. Over the years she was baptized 30,000 times! She did it for relatives and friends and former people like … Continue reading →

“The inhabitants of the Moon are more of a uniform size than the inhabitants of the earth, being about 6 feet in height.” “They dress very much like the Quaker style and . . . live to be very old; … Continue reading →

Who owns the largest printing press in the world? The New York Times? Look? No! It is the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They have one press that puts out 500 pieces of propaganda every second. From that one press alone, comes out … Continue reading →

September 1975 had been the date set for the world’s end, according to some zealots within the Jehovah’s Witnesses. However, it soon appeared that it was a slight miscalculation and had been corrected by the sect’s 81-year-old theologian, F. W. … Continue reading →

Dr. Joseph Parker of London said many years ago, “In the last thirty years I have seen enough dead theories and discarded hypotheses to fill a good-sized cemetery. They entered the world like an amateur band and coughed their way … Continue reading →

January had come and gone but the United States had not. Therein lies the need for some tall explaining by Moses David Berg, secluded founder of the controversial Children of God sect. Berg had ordered all his followers out of … Continue reading →

When northern California police arrested Chesta Arthur Mills, Jr., on charges of malicious mischief, he warned them: “I am to be addressed as Lord Chesta, for I am the second son of God and Lord over all churches.” The prisoner … Continue reading →

A woman who calls herself “Alice the Prophetess” issued “passports to heaven” to an estimated 100,000 Africans who joined her holy war of rebellion against the Rhodesian government. The forty-five-year-old woman claimed she died, went to heaven, met the big … Continue reading →

One afternoon in 1965, Daniel Waswa, a citizen of Kenya, struggled up a hill and was crucified by his wife at his own direction. As he hung on the cross, he told the gathered crowd, “I am dying for the … Continue reading →