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Who Should Be Caged?
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
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
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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Unruffled By Bandit
Foster Walker accidentally strolled into the scene of a holdup at a store in Memphis, Tenn., and heard the gunman order him to surrender his money or “I’ll shoot you.” “You just go ahead and shoot,” Walker said. “I just … Continue reading →
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Origin of “Ben Hur”
Two infidels once sat on a railroad train, discussing the life of Christ. One of them said, “I think an interesting romance could be written about him.” The other replied, “And you are just the man to write it. Tear … Continue reading →
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Hard To Dominate One’s Self
A college president not long ago made this arresting statement to a class of graduating seniors: “It gets easier and easier for man to dominate his universe … and harder for him to dominate himself.” He went on to say, … Continue reading →
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Correct Use of The Eyes
A bishop of the early church, who was a remarkable example of the virtue of contentment, was asked his secret. The venerable old man replied: “It consists in nothing more than making a right use of my eyes. In whatever … Continue reading →
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Take All The Keys, Lord
Dr. F. B. Meyer came to a crucial, transitional time in his ministry. He sat dejectedly in his study. “My ministry is unfruitful, and I lack spiritual power,” he said to himself. Suddenly Christ seemed to stand beside him. “Let … Continue reading →
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Migrating Birds In a Cage . . .
When the birds are migrating in flocks to other lands, and the instinct is strong upon them, if you catch one and imprison it in a cage, it will beat its breast against the bars and pant back and forth. … Continue reading →
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Which Really Is The Bottom?
A jumbled, confusing directive was recently issued by the British Admiralty. It read: “It is necessary for technical reasons, that these warheads be stored bottom-side-up, that is, with the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top. That … Continue reading →
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Computerizing The Scriptures
This is already many years old, but Homer Duncan discussed a computer which can assimilate into permanent storage 5 million words per second. Since the Bible has 850 thousand words, this memory is capable of assimilating the entire Bible six … Continue reading →
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The Good Old Days?
Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century; without coal fires until the 14th century; without battered bread until the 15th century; without potatoes until the 16th century; without coffee, tea, and soup until the 17th century; without pudding … Continue reading →
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Fastest Growing Movement
Communism is the fastest growing movement in history. As late as 1903, Lenin had exactly seventeen followers. Fourteen years later he overthrew the Russian Government with only 40,000 Party members. Today the Communist Party controls over one billion people. In … Continue reading →
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The Intelsat
Perhaps the best known satellite transmission set-up is the Intelsat, run by the privately-owned Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) of 91 individual nations. Inaugurated in 1965, it provides over 60 countries with everything from TV and phone calls to computer data … Continue reading →
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Why Rome Fell
In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, completed in 1787, Edward Gibbon lists the following reasons for that fall: 1. The rapid increase of divorce; the undermining of dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis … Continue reading →
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Simple Preaching of Brainerd
David Brainerd, the famous missionary to the American Indians, proclaimed this truth throughout his ministry. He said, “I never got away from Jesus and Him crucified in my preaching. I found that once these people were gripped by the great … Continue reading →
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Obedient Child Recovers Better
Years ago a famous children’s specialist said to me: “When it comes to a serious illness, the child who has been taught to obey stands four times the chance of recovery that the spoiled and undisciplined child does.” Those words … Continue reading →
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Just a Number For Everyone
In a recent comment published in Radar News, Willard Cantelon said that just as the barter system was superseded by money as a form of exchange, so money will be superseded by computer accounting. There is so much paperwork involved … Continue reading →
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The Guillotine
Records show that the last person to be publicly guillotined in France was the murderer Weidmann in 1939. Bible revelation shows that this form of capital punishment will be revived when Antichrist sets up his world kingdom at the Great … Continue reading →
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Kroger Profits From Volume
Seventy-five years ago a young grocery clerk had $372 and an idea. He founded a little store on the Cincinnati riverfront. Today that one store has grown into a system operating some 2,000 stores in 19 midwestern and southern states. … Continue reading →
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