Tag Archives: Spiritual Stories

Christian Colleges Needed

Posted on September 5, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

No parent would expect his young son or daughter to physically compete with a professional athlete on the athletic field, yet we ask our Christian youth to do exactly that in the intellectual arena. That is, during their formative, immature … Continue reading →

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Letting Children Free to Develop?

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Coleridge was once talking with a man who told him that he did not believe in giving little children any religious instruction whatsoever. His theory was that the child’s mind should not be prejudiced in any direction, but when he … Continue reading →

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The Purpose of Education

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

As 70-year-old philosophy professor Sidney Hook conducted his last class at New York University after 45 years of teaching there, he said he would break one of his rules and try to explain his own philosophy. “Though there is no … Continue reading →

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Wesley Changes The English Countryside

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

John Wesley rode up and down through the English countryside during the last half of the eighteenth century, his soul touched by the poverty, the drabness, and the ugliness of the village life. One day he hit upon the scheme … Continue reading →

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Origin of Canned Food

Posted on August 30, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Leon Lunden, research director of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local 56, tells us that when Napoleon’s armies invaded Europe, his general discovered that an “army marches on its stomach” and that foraging for food wastes time. But when the armies … Continue reading →

Record of Increasing Earthquakes

Posted on August 29, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

In the 9th century, there was one major earthquake; in the 11th century, two; in the 13th century, three; in the 16th, two; 17th, two; 18th, five (including the Lisbon); and in the 19th century, nine major earthquakes. So far … Continue reading →

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Moving Six Directions At Once

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

The earth moves in at least SIX different ways, and yet we on earth are not dizzy. The movements are: The earth spins on its axis, like a top, at the speed of one-third mile per second or 1,000 miles … Continue reading →

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Fast-Moving Desert

Posted on August 25, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

The Sahara Desert in North Africa is the largest desert in the world. Its greatest length stretches 3,200 miles from east to west. The desert is on the move. Right across Africa the Sahara is creeping south at an average … Continue reading →

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Red Sea Parting a Mirage?

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

A Pennsylvania State University physicist suggested that the biblical story of the parting of the Red Sea may have been the result of a desert mirage. The physicist, Dr. Alistair Fraser, said Christ walking on water also could have been … Continue reading →

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Plagues In The Past

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Between AD 250–262, a pestilence raged all over the Roman Empire, from Egypt to the Hebrides. In some Italian cities, up to four-fifths of the population were wiped out. Men died like flies. Gibbons says that statisticians of the succeeding … Continue reading →

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Thoughtfulness On The Elevated Train

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

A young man who rode the elevated train to work regularly noticed that in one place where the train moved slowly, he could see into a room where an elderly woman was apparently convalescing. For several weeks he had observed … Continue reading →

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One Last Try Did It

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

A discouraged minister once dreamed that he was standing on the top of a great granite rock, trying to break it with a pickaxe. Hour after hour he worked on with no result. At last he said; “It is useless; … Continue reading →

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He Inspires – We Perform

Posted on August 18, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

During the last war, a church in Strasbourg was destroyed. Nothing remained except a heap of rubble and broken glass, or so the people thought till they began clearing away the masonry. Then they found a statue of Christ still … Continue reading →

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Catastrophes In The US

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

According to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., there were 35 catastrophes—causing over 100 deaths each—in the US during 1941–75. The two greatest disasters were the Texas City fire and explosion in 1947 which took 561 lives, and the fire in … Continue reading →

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He Refuses To Starve To Live

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

The composer Brahms was a great devotee of culinary art, not from the creative but from the consuming standpoint. At one time his doctor ordered him on a reduced diet, and Brahms promised faithfully to follow his orders. The very … Continue reading →

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Majority Rule Is Dangerous

Posted on August 15, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

All the great injustices of history have been committed in the name of unchecked and unbridled “majority rule.” The late Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, in one of the most forceful speeches ever delivered before the Senate, observed with … Continue reading →

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Judson’s Call To Boston Church

Posted on August 12, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

When Adoniram Judson graduated from college and seminary he received a call from a fashionable church in Boston to become its assistant pastor. Everyone congratulated him. His mother and sister rejoiced that he could live at home with them and … Continue reading →

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TV Misrepresentations

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

It is pitiable how biased persons deceive the public via the mass communications media. During a CBS documentary, for instance, the camera focused on a pitiful Negro infant who was nothing more than skin and bones. It came out later … Continue reading →

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Birth of The Credit Union

Posted on August 10, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Millions take their credit unions for granted until they need a low interest loan. But how many know that the credit union idea was born in the mind of a devoted Christian who established the first union as part of … Continue reading →

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D.L. Moody More Alive

Posted on August 9, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Realizing that he would soon be gone from this world one day, Moody said to a friend, “Someday you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody of Northfield is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. “At … Continue reading →

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