Tag Archives: Parables

Perfect Yardstick in London After ten years of patient work, experts in London finished what is said to be the most perfect yardstick in the world. It is made of platinum and iridium, and was designed to be used as … Continue reading →

Those Range Marks St. Mary’s River, Michigan, between Lake Superior and Lake Huron is very crooked, and therefore very dangerous for ships passing up and down, yet there is an immense amount of shipping going thru it continually. In the … Continue reading →

Lining Up Three Lights “When I was crossing the Irish Channel one starless night, I stood on the deck by the captain and asked him, “How do you know Holyhead Harbor on so dark a night as this?” He said, … Continue reading →

Inertial Guidance of the “Nautilus” When the U.S.S. Nautilus made her epoch-making journey under the Arctic icecap, there were no guiding stars or radio beams to give her position. Instead, the world’s first nuclear-powered sub marine relied upon a new … Continue reading →

Steering by a Higher Compass Before the days of modern navigational aids a traveler made the Atlantic crossing in a boat equipped with two compasses. One was fixed to the deck where the man at the wheel could see it. … Continue reading →

God Told Me About The Peanut Testifying before the Senate Agriculture Committee on the value of the peanut, George Washington Carver, who as an infant was traded for a broken-down racehorse, said that he got his knowledge of peanuts from … Continue reading →

A Civil Engineer to India In 1864 during a crisis at the Telegu Mission in India, John E. Clough offered to go to the “Lone Star” field. But what did the American Baptist Missionary Union want a civil engineer for … Continue reading →

Ship Steered to “Uninhabited” Island Admiral Sir Thomas Williams, a straight-forward and excellent man, was in command of a ship crossing the Atlantic. His course brought him in sight of the island of Ascension, at that time uninhabited and never … Continue reading →

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 →