Tag Archives: Moral Stories

Fast-Moving Desert

Posted on August 25, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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?

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 18, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 15, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 12, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 10, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 9, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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!

Posted on August 8, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 4, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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

Posted on August 3, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

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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Who Should Be Caged?

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Detroit’s zoo director hired four new security guards—to protect the animals from man. In the past two years there, a baby Australian wallaby left the protection of its mother’s pouch and was stoned to death; a duck died with a … Continue reading →

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Christ’s Forgotten Mark

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

It is said that there was once a monk who prayed much that he might have the marks of the Lord upon his hands and feet. A vision was given him in which he was shown a mark on the … Continue reading →

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Solomon As The Better Judge

Posted on July 29, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

When William Jennings Bryan went to call on the father of his prospective wife and seek the hand of his daughter in marriage, knowing the strong religious feeling of the father, he thought to strengthen his case by a quotation … Continue reading →

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