Tag Archives: Moral Stories

His Sheep Am I The Alberta Department of Agriculture’s Pest Control Branch is carrying out an experiment on a sheep neck collar designed to prevent coyotes from killing sheep. The collar is made of leather and covered with sheep skin … Continue reading →

Churchill Takes Wartime Chance At a meeting in London, Winston Churchill gave the story of his escape from a South African military prison in Pretoria. Churchill told how, after wandering in the region round Pretoria for two or three days, … Continue reading →

What England Did For One Subject The King of Abyssinia once took a British subject named Cameron prisoner and incarcerated him in the high fortress of Magdala. No cause was assigned for his confinement. When Great Britain found out, she … Continue reading →

David Brainerd’s Badge To Indians Tomahawks in hand, the Indians crept toward the strange tent. As they cautiously peered under the flap, their intention to kill was forgotten. There, in the center of the tent was a man on his … Continue reading →

Her Hiding Place In the best-selling book The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom tells of the tense times in Holland during the German invasion. One particular night she tossed restlessly in her bed while war planes growled overhead, shattering the … Continue reading →

Engine Was Neatly Balanced On the Southern road between Atlanta and Birmingham, an engine of a passenger train jumped the track just before it ran on to a high trestle. The engineer slapped on his emergency brakes and reversed his … Continue reading →

Engine Simply Stopped A sergeant-major, converted some time ago in a Salvation Army hut while on duty in the Middle East, had charge of the locomotive which ran between Cairo and Haifa. After his conversion he made it a practice, … Continue reading →

Strange Clouds Over Kokura Newscaster Paul Harvey told radio listeners the following remarkable story from World War II: From the island of Guam one of our mighty bombers took off for Kokura, Japan, with another deadly cargo. The sleek B-29 … Continue reading →

Lynx Did Not Spring Rev. Francis E. Clarke, founder of Christian Endeavor, told of a young man, out in the Maine woods with his camera for a pleasant outing, who stopped at the entrance of a cavern on a rocky … Continue reading →

Gun Didn’t Fire On Church Officials At the Vermont Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., the offering was taken and the dedicatory prayer was given, then a robber came forward and took it. The church officers followed him out and … Continue reading →

When Every Choir Member Was Late On March 1, 1950, in Beatrice, Nebraska, the pastor went to church that Saturday afternoon to prepare for the evening choir practice. Most choir members would arrive between 7:15 to 7:30 PM. He then … Continue reading →

The Lion Sermon There is a curious service held in an old church in the city of London. On October 16th, every year, is preached in St. Catherine Church, Leadenhall street, what is called the “Lion Sermon.” It has been … Continue reading →

A Touch On His Shoulder On February 26, 1844, occurred one of the major disasters in the history of our navy. The Princeton, the most powerful warship of that day, commanded by Captain Stockton, was taking members of Congress and … Continue reading →

King With Two Footmen When I was in England I visited Buckingham Palace. In going through the stables, we were shown a great coach which was used for state occasions. There was a great deal of gold on the coach … Continue reading →

Needing More Watching Over The Christ of the Andes statue, standing on the Chile-Argentine boundary line symbolizes a pledge made by the two countries. As long as the statue stands, it was agreed, there shall be peace and goodwill between … Continue reading →