Tag Archives: Thoughts

“The inhabitants of the Moon are more of a uniform size than the inhabitants of the earth, being about 6 feet in height.” “They dress very much like the Quaker style and . . . live to be very old; … Continue reading →

Who owns the largest printing press in the world? The New York Times? Look? No! It is the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They have one press that puts out 500 pieces of propaganda every second. From that one press alone, comes out … Continue reading →

September 1975 had been the date set for the world’s end, according to some zealots within the Jehovah’s Witnesses. However, it soon appeared that it was a slight miscalculation and had been corrected by the sect’s 81-year-old theologian, F. W. … Continue reading →

Dr. Joseph Parker of London said many years ago, “In the last thirty years I have seen enough dead theories and discarded hypotheses to fill a good-sized cemetery. They entered the world like an amateur band and coughed their way … Continue reading →

January had come and gone but the United States had not. Therein lies the need for some tall explaining by Moses David Berg, secluded founder of the controversial Children of God sect. Berg had ordered all his followers out of … Continue reading →

When northern California police arrested Chesta Arthur Mills, Jr., on charges of malicious mischief, he warned them: “I am to be addressed as Lord Chesta, for I am the second son of God and Lord over all churches.” The prisoner … Continue reading →

A woman who calls herself “Alice the Prophetess” issued “passports to heaven” to an estimated 100,000 Africans who joined her holy war of rebellion against the Rhodesian government. The forty-five-year-old woman claimed she died, went to heaven, met the big … Continue reading →

One afternoon in 1965, Daniel Waswa, a citizen of Kenya, struggled up a hill and was crucified by his wife at his own direction. As he hung on the cross, he told the gathered crowd, “I am dying for the … Continue reading →

An old Scotsman operated a little rowboat for transporting passengers. One day a passenger noticed that the good old man had carved on one oar the word “Faith,” and on the other oar the word “Works.” Curiosity led him to … Continue reading →

In the Life of Robert and Mary Moffat, edited by their son, we are reminded that for ten years the early mission in Bechuanaland was carried on without encouragement for the faithful workers. No convert was made. The directors at … Continue reading →

Billy Graham once stated this interesting fact: There is an inscription in the dome of our Capitol in Washington which few people know about. It says: “One far-off divine event toward which the whole creation moves.” A visitor saw this … Continue reading →

Dean Farrar was a privileged personal friend of Queen Victoria, though he seldom referred to the distinction. But on the first anniversary of the accession of Edward VII to the throne of England, during the service in Canterbury Cathedral, he … Continue reading →