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Which Really Is The Bottom?

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

A jumbled, confusing directive was recently issued by the British Admiralty. It read: “It is necessary for technical reasons, that these warheads be stored bottom-side-up, that is, with the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top. That … Continue reading →

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Computerizing The Scriptures

Posted on July 19, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

This is already many years old, but Homer Duncan discussed a computer which can assimilate into permanent storage 5 million words per second. Since the Bible has 850 thousand words, this memory is capable of assimilating the entire Bible six … Continue reading →

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The Good Old Days?

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century; without coal fires until the 14th century; without battered bread until the 15th century; without potatoes until the 16th century; without coffee, tea, and soup until the 17th century; without pudding … Continue reading →

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Fastest Growing Movement

Posted on July 15, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Communism is the fastest growing movement in history. As late as 1903, Lenin had exactly seventeen followers. Fourteen years later he overthrew the Russian Government with only 40,000 Party members. Today the Communist Party controls over one billion people. In … Continue reading →

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The Intelsat

Posted on July 14, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Perhaps the best known satellite transmission set-up is the Intelsat, run by the privately-owned Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) of 91 individual nations. Inaugurated in 1965, it provides over 60 countries with everything from TV and phone calls to computer data … Continue reading →

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Why Rome Fell

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, completed in 1787, Edward Gibbon lists the following reasons for that fall: 1. The rapid increase of divorce; the undermining of dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis … Continue reading →

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Simple Preaching of Brainerd

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

David Brainerd, the famous missionary to the American Indians, proclaimed this truth throughout his ministry. He said, “I never got away from Jesus and Him crucified in my preaching. I found that once these people were gripped by the great … Continue reading →

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Obedient Child Recovers Better

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Years ago a famous children’s specialist said to me: “When it comes to a serious illness, the child who has been taught to obey stands four times the chance of recovery that the spoiled and undisciplined child does.” Those words … Continue reading →

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Just a Number For Everyone

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

In a recent comment published in Radar News, Willard Cantelon said that just as the barter system was superseded by money as a form of exchange, so money will be superseded by computer accounting. There is so much paperwork involved … Continue reading →

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The Guillotine

Posted on July 7, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Records show that the last person to be publicly guillotined in France was the murderer Weidmann in 1939. Bible revelation shows that this form of capital punishment will be revived when Antichrist sets up his world kingdom at the Great … Continue reading →

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Kroger Profits From Volume

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Seventy-five years ago a young grocery clerk had $372 and an idea. He founded a little store on the Cincinnati riverfront. Today that one store has grown into a system operating some 2,000 stores in 19 midwestern and southern states. … Continue reading →

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Not Built In a Day

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

It took years to build the Taj Mahal, the greatest mausoleum on earth. Twenty thousand men worked on it. It took seven-and-one-half years to build Solomon’s Temple. And one hundred and eighty-three thousand six hundred men worked on it. It … Continue reading →

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New Titles Down The Centuries

Posted on July 4, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

When Gutenberg invented the remarkable printing press, book prices dropped 80% overnight, and learning to read became a fad. About 520,000 titles were published in the 16th century, 1.25 million in the 17th, two million in the 18th, and eight … Continue reading →

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God Could Not Sink This Ship

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

“God Himself could not sink this ship,” boasted a deckhand aboard R. M. S. Titanic in 1912. The men who built the ship, the civilized world, the credulous public—all believed and boasted that the ship was unsinkable. But God was … Continue reading →

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Blood As Fertilizer

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Blood is a rare fertilizer. They tell me that the bit of ground over in Belgium called Waterloo bears each spring a crop of rare blue forget-me-nots. That bit of ground had very unusual gardening. Ploughed up by cannon and … Continue reading →

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Mankind’s Greatest Debt

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

Winston Churchill paid a great tribute to the young men in the Royal Air Force who guarded England during the war, saying, “Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few.” The Battle of … Continue reading →

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London’s “The Cross”

Posted on June 28, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

The geographical heart of London is Charing Cross. All distances are measured from it. This spot is referred to simply as “the cross.” A lost child was one day picked up by a London “bobby”. The child was unable to … Continue reading →

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Nothing But The Blood

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

At a great parliament of religions, held in Chicago many years ago, practically every known religion was represented. During one session, Dr. Joseph Cook, of Boston, suddenly rose and said: “Gentlemen, I beg to introduce to you a woman with … Continue reading →

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Bible Distribution Statistics

Posted on June 24, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

According to Guinness World Records, the Bible is still the world’s most distributed book. It has been translated into more than 1,659 languages. And between 1815 and 1975, some 2.5 billion Bibles were printed, of which 1.5 billion were handled … Continue reading →

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Oil From Moses’ Crib

Posted on June 23, 2022 by Roland Ledoux

The fact that the Standard Oil Company discovered oil and is operating wells in Egypt is generally known but the reason for its going to that ancient land to look for oil is probably not so well known. It is … Continue reading →

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