Tag Archives: Parables

Total Giving Statistics And Average Individual Giving Annual religious contributions in 1970s were estimated at over $14 billion. That includes 9.5 billion from Protestants, 3.7 billion from Catholics, and 847 million from Jews. The total given to all charitable causes … Continue reading →

What Generation Did Christ Mean? What generation? Obviously, in context, the generation that would see the signs: chief among them the rebirth of Israel. A generation in the Bible is something like forty years. If this is a correct deduction, … Continue reading →

The X Generation “Jesus said there would be a future generation with certain characteristics to indicate that the end is near. In other words, there is an “X generation” at some point in history where all the signs converge . … Continue reading →

Death Row Gambling Refused Three bandits went to the electric chair in Illinois, but the singular thing was the grim scene before the execution. They were offered a chance to gamble to determine the order in which they would die: … Continue reading →

Shortly after the Crosby Opera House was erected in Chicago about 1865, its owner, Uranus H. Crosby, realized it was a financial failure and conceived an ingenious scheme to save his investment. Announcing that the theater was to be raffled … Continue reading →

City of London bankers were quite amazed at the high standard of living being enjoyed by one of their most trusted clerks. He was earning $25 a week and spending at least $75. With no private income he ran an … Continue reading →

Over 200 persons were badly injured and 60 lost their lives when the Hotel LaSalle burned during the early morning hours of June 5, 1947. Ten of those who were killed leaped to their deaths from the windows. Just before … Continue reading →

Radio station WOOK in Washington, D. C., regularly aired commercials in which listeners were told that a reading of certain Bible verses would bring “financial blessings.” A Federal Communications Commission hearing examiner, however, found that the three-digit references were designed … Continue reading →

Members of the American clergy are being solicited to participate in the old chain-letter racket that has been declared illegal by Post Office authorities. Ministers are promised a return of $8,000 if they send $1 to the person whose name … Continue reading →

According to Holiday magazine, the most popular numbers at Monte Carlo’s roulette tables are 17 and 29. What has this to do with the church? More than the churchmen would care to believe. For it is further reported that in … Continue reading →

It has been estimated that Australians part with $8.2 billion a year in legal and illegal gambling, a figure more than the gross national product of several Asian and African countries. According to Methodist minister Alan Walker, each person in … Continue reading →

In the US, gambling brings in $60 billion annually, largely to the underworld. In Great Britain, about $5.5 billion are bet each year, with the government taking around $450 million. In France, citizens wagered $2.6 billion yearly. In Monaco, the … Continue reading →

The animal inhabitant of the Pinna Marina is a blind slug or snail, which has many enemies, the worst of which is the cuttle-fish. No sooner does the pinna open his bivalve shell, than the cuttle-fish rushes in. How can … Continue reading →

On top of the Spanish Pyrenees may be found a magnificently beautiful but elusive mountain goat. It seems always to get away from shooting range. Why? It has a companion, a young goat, who follows and sounds the warning of … Continue reading →

The story of two human beings came to an end. A drama of blackness. Yes, the blackest of the black—blindness—the absence of all light. One of the world’s most renowned women was Helen Keller, that prodigy who lived and became … Continue reading →

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you; I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me; I … Continue reading →

An English publication offered a prize for the best definition of a friend, and among the thousands of answers received were the following: “One who multiplies joys, divides grief.” “One who understands our silence.” “A volume of sympathy bound in … Continue reading →

From childhood Albrecht Durer wanted to paint. Finally, he left home to study with a great artist. He met a friend who also had this same desire and the two became roommates. Both being poor, they found it difficult to … Continue reading →

Although the North American Indians had no written alphabet before they met the white man, their language was anything but primitive. The vocabulary of many Indian nations was as large as that of their French and English exploiters, and often … Continue reading →