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Europe’s Call For a Leader

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Several years ago, Belgium’s Premier, P. H. Spock made a statement in the newspaper: “The truth is that the method of international committees has failed. What we need is a person, someone of the highest order of great energy. “Let … Continue reading →

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An Old Dividing Line

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

The Euphrates River is about 1,800 miles long, one thousand feet to one mile at some points wide, and is on the average 57 feet deep, For a long time, this river was a formidable barrier to East-West communication and … Continue reading →

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The Only Importance

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Over the triple doorways of the Cathedral of Milan there are three inscriptions spanning the splendid arches. Over one is carved a beautiful wreath of roses, and underneath is the legend. “All that which pleases is but for a moment.” … Continue reading →

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The Googol

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

No matter how large a number is, it is finite: it is always possible to mention a number that is larger. Scientists speak of the “googol.” It is a one, followed by 100 zeros. The googol is inconceivably large. But … Continue reading →

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A Comparison

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

The great projectiles which we fire in warfare, from the coast artillery, travel at a speed of about one mile per second. As the earth moves around the sun, it travels at a speed of about eighteen and one-half miles … Continue reading →

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Power From The Sun

Posted on September 7, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

French scientists have built high in the Pyrenees the world’s largest solar furnace. This amazing furnace, with its complex of nearly 20,000 mirrors, can concentrate enough sunlight to create temperature in excess of 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit. According to Time, “Anchored … Continue reading →

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Egypt’s Importance

Posted on September 6, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Egypt is located at the southern end of the “land bridge” connecting the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. The value of this piece of real estate in the Middle East has been proved by centuries of fighting. Egypt was … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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