Tag Archives: Morality Tales

A Word Fitly Spoken Some time ago in Schenectady, N. Y., before an audience which included many young engineers from General Electric, I spoke of feeding upon Christ, pointing out that the physical action of today was the result of … Continue reading →

God’s Way is Best Adoniram Judson clearly was appointed by the Holy Ghost to the ministry among the heathen. He reached Calcutta in the summer of 1812 full of ardor for preaching the Gospel, only to receive peremptory orders from … Continue reading →

Wherever He Leads I’ll Go Livingstone planned to go to China, but God led him to Africa, to be its missionary-statesman, general and explorer. Alexander Mackay prepared for work in Madagascar, but was directed to Uganda, to aid in founding … Continue reading →

The Spirit Led Differently The story of missions in more modern times tells of missionaries whose plans have been changed by the Holy Spirit. Judson wanted to go to India, but his course was changed and he went to Burma … Continue reading →

God Upholds All Things A human mechanic may leave the machine he has constructed to work without his further personal superintendent, because, when he leaves it, God’s laws take it up; and, by their aid, the materials of which the … Continue reading →

The Greeks Had the Greeks been placed in Scandinavia or Iceland, or even Spain, would not their genius have been wholly wasted? Had their isles and peninsulas been occupied by people of Roman type, where would have been the delicate … Continue reading →

The Chance World There used to be a children’s book which bore the fascinating title The Chance World. It described a world in which everything happened by chance. The sun might rise or it might not; or it might appear … Continue reading →

Same Amount of Oxygen The Technical News Bulletin, November 1970, carries the report of a study by the National Bureau of Standards which indicates that the abundance of oxygen in clean air during the period 1967 to 1970 is the … Continue reading →

Garfield Calms the Crowd On the morning of Lincoln’s death, a crowd of fifty thousand people gathered before the Exchange Building in New York. Feelings ran high, natural enough in the circumstances, and there was danger of its finding expression … Continue reading →

Lincoln’s View of God William J. Wolfe has called Abraham Lincoln “one of the greatest theologians of America.” He added that Lincoln’s theology was profound, “not in the technical meaning of producing a system of doctrine, certainly not as the … Continue reading →

Unchanging “A” Note Author Lloyd C. Douglas used to tell how he loved to visit an old man who gave violin lessons because the teacher had a kind of homely wisdom that refreshed him. One morning Douglas walked in and … Continue reading →

God Sues the U.S. Donald Glen Sneed of Dallas, Texas, has sued the United States government on behalf of “all God’s children,” naming God as a co-plaintiff. Sneed filed his suit to determine if the U. S. Government is subject … Continue reading →

God Is Again Sued God is in trouble in Santa Rosa, California. It all began when folk singer Lou Gottlieb deeded his thirty-one-acre ranch, a controversial hippie haven, to God. The controversy came when taxes were due. The reluctant county … Continue reading →

God Is Sued George Albrecht, 35, an electrician, filed a $25,000 damage suit against “God and Company,” listing about 30 houses of worship and their clergymen as co-defendants, after he had lost an earlier damage suit against the city and … Continue reading →

Two Different Brands of Astronauts Recently a Sunday supplement in our Nation’s capital carried excerpts from a sermon entitled, “Why I Know There Is A God.” The sermon had been delivered on Laymen’s Sunday last year in an Arlington, Virginia, … Continue reading →

Light a Candle to See the Sun? The public has a deep respect for the amazing scientific advances made within our lifetime. There is admiration for the scientific process of observation, experimentation of testing every concept to measure its validity. … Continue reading →

Lindbergh’s Musings in the Air When his trusted plane, Spirit of St. Louis, was midway on its transatlantic flight between New York and Paris, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh began to think of the smallness of man and the deficiency of … Continue reading →

Astronaut’s Observation Astronaut James A. McDivitt, who orbited the earth 62 times with Edward H. White II aboard Gemini 4, said in a talk at the Foreign Press Club in Rome: “I did not see God looking into my space-cabin … Continue reading →

God Seen Even in the Straws Galileo, the most profound philosopher of his age, when questioned by the Roman Inquisition as to his belief in the existence of God, replied, pointing to a straw on the floor of his dungeon, … Continue reading →

The Big Engineer Above Thomas Edison said: “No one can study chemistry and see the wonderful way in which certain elements combine with the nicety of the most delicate machine ever invented, and not come to the inevitable conclusion that … Continue reading →