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Origin of Canned Food
Leon Lunden, research director of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local 56, tells us that when Napoleon’s armies invaded Europe, his general discovered that an “army marches on its stomach” and that foraging for food wastes time. But when the armies … Continue reading →
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Record of Increasing Earthquakes
In the 9th century, there was one major earthquake; in the 11th century, two; in the 13th century, three; in the 16th, two; 17th, two; 18th, five (including the Lisbon); and in the 19th century, nine major earthquakes. So far … Continue reading →
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Moving Six Directions At Once
The earth moves in at least SIX different ways, and yet we on earth are not dizzy. The movements are: The earth spins on its axis, like a top, at the speed of one-third mile per second or 1,000 miles … Continue reading →
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Fast-Moving Desert
The Sahara Desert in North Africa is the largest desert in the world. Its greatest length stretches 3,200 miles from east to west. The desert is on the move. Right across Africa the Sahara is creeping south at an average … Continue reading →
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Red Sea Parting a Mirage?
A Pennsylvania State University physicist suggested that the biblical story of the parting of the Red Sea may have been the result of a desert mirage. The physicist, Dr. Alistair Fraser, said Christ walking on water also could have been … Continue reading →
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Plagues In The Past
Between AD 250–262, a pestilence raged all over the Roman Empire, from Egypt to the Hebrides. In some Italian cities, up to four-fifths of the population were wiped out. Men died like flies. Gibbons says that statisticians of the succeeding … Continue reading →
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Thoughtfulness On The Elevated Train
A young man who rode the elevated train to work regularly noticed that in one place where the train moved slowly, he could see into a room where an elderly woman was apparently convalescing. For several weeks he had observed … Continue reading →
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One Last Try Did It
A discouraged minister once dreamed that he was standing on the top of a great granite rock, trying to break it with a pickaxe. Hour after hour he worked on with no result. At last he said; “It is useless; … Continue reading →
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He Inspires – We Perform
During the last war, a church in Strasbourg was destroyed. Nothing remained except a heap of rubble and broken glass, or so the people thought till they began clearing away the masonry. Then they found a statue of Christ still … Continue reading →
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Catastrophes In The US
According to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., there were 35 catastrophes—causing over 100 deaths each—in the US during 1941–75. The two greatest disasters were the Texas City fire and explosion in 1947 which took 561 lives, and the fire in … Continue reading →
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He Refuses To Starve To Live
The composer Brahms was a great devotee of culinary art, not from the creative but from the consuming standpoint. At one time his doctor ordered him on a reduced diet, and Brahms promised faithfully to follow his orders. The very … Continue reading →
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Majority Rule Is Dangerous
All the great injustices of history have been committed in the name of unchecked and unbridled “majority rule.” The late Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, in one of the most forceful speeches ever delivered before the Senate, observed with … Continue reading →
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Judson’s Call To Boston Church
When Adoniram Judson graduated from college and seminary he received a call from a fashionable church in Boston to become its assistant pastor. Everyone congratulated him. His mother and sister rejoiced that he could live at home with them and … Continue reading →
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TV Misrepresentations
It is pitiable how biased persons deceive the public via the mass communications media. During a CBS documentary, for instance, the camera focused on a pitiful Negro infant who was nothing more than skin and bones. It came out later … Continue reading →
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Birth of The Credit Union
Millions take their credit unions for granted until they need a low interest loan. But how many know that the credit union idea was born in the mind of a devoted Christian who established the first union as part of … Continue reading →
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D.L. Moody More Alive
Realizing that he would soon be gone from this world one day, Moody said to a friend, “Someday you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody of Northfield is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. “At … Continue reading →
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So, It’s True!
A newspaper article referred to a striking story in an anonymous book of memoirs published not long ago. The writer met the woman who nursed the great agnostic, Professor J. H. Huxley, through his last illness. She said that as … Continue reading →
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Total Deaths In The World
The number of deaths in the world may fluctuate widely from one year to the next. A rough estimate of annual deaths is 60,000,000 or about 2 every second. About two-thirds of these deaths are in Asia, a little less … Continue reading →
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The Atlantic Coast’s Premature Nightfall
At ten o’clock in the morning of May 19, 1780, people in the Eastern Seaboard noticed a strange haze spreading across the sky. Then a thick darkness settled over the eastern part of the US. By noon, schools were dismissed, … Continue reading →
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Learning About Nonsense
The Chicago Daily News reports of a lecture given which was pure and simple nonsense. The speaker was introduced as Dr. Myron L. Fox and given an ambiguous, high-sounding title to the audience. The master of ceremonies said that Dr. … Continue reading →
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