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I have heard of a fine gentleman in London, dressed in all his best, walking out in the park. He had a poor old father who lived in the country, and who came up dressed in his rustic clothes to see his son. As the son was not at home when the father reached the house, he went into the park to find him.…

The servant in your house, however diligent, is not your heir; for a servant to claim to be the heir would not be tolerated for a moment in a court of law. The servant may be able truthfully to say, “I have been in my master’s house these many years, neither have I transgressed at any time his commandments;…

In the dark and dreadful night, the destroying angel is let loose, with noiseless wings, and with a sharp sword that never misses its mark. He is speeding from house to house throughout all the land of Egypt, and from the firstborn of Pharaoh upon the throne to the firstborn of the slave woman behind…

If I am a child of God, I learn to trust my Father. I do not know a more delightful act of childhood than trustfulness in a parent. And how often if we trust God we shall be rewarded! Yesterday, I received a note from one of the trustees of the orphanage to say that the running account was so low that,…

I know an old friend who used to tell me that for 60 years he had never known a day’s illness. A splendid healthy old man he was, but about three months ago he took typhoid fever. I went to see him, and when he got better he came to see me. He said, “Well, sir, you see I am not the man I was, but I have…

Russell Moore and his wife adopted two sons from Russia and when the legal process was finally over and they went to pick them up from the orphanage the transition proved to be harder than they had expected. Their new sons had never been outside. They had never even ridden in a car. As they pulled away…

Some families pass down jewelry, watches, and riches of many kinds. A Michigan family has a unique heirloom that is handed down through the generations. It is a 141-year-old fruitcake. Fidelia Ford baked the cake in 1878. Her tradition was baking a fruit cake and letting it age for a year before serving…

A 13-year-old boy who was abandoned by his previous adoptive family found a new forever home with a very understanding parent. Tony Mutabazi had been in the foster care system since the age of two, and was adopted the first time at the age of 4. Seven years later he was left at a hospital and his parents…

It just looked like a mutt wandering the streets. Further research found that it was a rare South African Mastiff stolen from his yard in Beaverdam, Virginia. What looked like a lonely mutt was actually a pure bred dog worth over $10,000. His owner was ecstatic to get him back. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

When a person dies there are laws covering how their property is passed on to relatives. The growing use of social media has made some issues of inheritance more confusing. Companies like Google and Facebook contend laws approved decades ago that prevent them from releasing electronic memories unless…

While record rainfall totals fell in the midsection of the United States in May 2015, other parts of the country were dry. Overall, of the 1,445 months since weather records began in January 1895, May was the single wettest month across the country. 20 states reported wetter than average weather. It…

Diane Van Deren was committed. Every evening she said good night to her husband and kids and left her home to run. She ran toward the mountains of the Pike National Forest while towing a 50-pound sandbag on a sled. She ran for 10-12 hours. Diane Van Deren was training to run the Yukon Artic Ultra, a…

For years a priceless vase sat in a French family’s attic, hidden in a shoebox. The family had received the heirloom as part of an inheritance, but stashed the boxes in the attic planning to deal with them later. When the owner opened the box, they were stunned by the shades of green, blue, yellow, and…

When Chelsey Haley finished school and began teaching, she joined the Teach for America program to make a difference in a low-income school. She never expected to encounter a boy named Jerome, who made her question her motives and future as a teacher. She went to an elementary school in Louisiana, where…

In “Adopted for Life,” Russell Moore writes, “As soon as you peer into the truth of the one aspect, you fall headlong into the truth of the other, and vice versa. That’s because it’s the way the gospel is. Jesus reconciles us to God and to each other. As we love our God, we love our neighbor; as we love…

Rick Deschamps, general manager of an electronics-processing firm in Ontario tells about a female employee who came running up to him with a cashbox. “I found $10,000.00,” the employee said. They opened the cashbox and found bundles of $50 bills that amounted to more than $75,000 American dollars. Don’t…

Orlando was an 11-year-old Arizona boy who had spent years in a Mexican orphanage before winding up in foster care in Phoenix, AZ. When he joined Jodi Kacz’s reading intervention class the teacher took a shine to Orlando. Kacz had a heart problem that kept her from having her own children but when she…

Donnie Davis was Tristan Jacobson’s guardian. She wanted to adopt the 9-year-old was by his birth mother. She could not afford the $10,000 in legal fees so Tristan took matters into his own hands. He began selling lemonade on the street. His little stand began to attract hundreds of generous customers…

Michael B. Jordon shares a name with one of the most famous basketball players of all time. Living with a famous name is not easy. “I hated my name. I wanted to change it,” Jordan, who is an accomplished actor says. “But it gave me a healthy chip on my shoulder. One of my goals is when people hear ‘Michael…

In 1931, a young mother died suddenly. Her two children, ages seven and four, were sent to separate homes and raised apart. After 80 years, Doris Petre discovered that her older brother was alive and well, living in Brunswick, Maine. 80 years after the separation, Doris and Richard Watrous met each other…

In a 60 minutes interview on CBS, Walter Isaacson, the author of the biography Steve Jobs, shares this early event in Jobs’ life as related by Jobs. “I was, I remember right here on the lawn, telling Lisa McMoylar from across the street that I was adopted. And she said, ‘So does that mean your real parents…

In 2014, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline received reports of 5,042 potential human trafficking cases. Almost one-third of the cases involved minors. The department of justice believes about 300,000 children in the United States are trafficking victims. Shannon Forsythe is the founder…

Author G. K. Chesterson wrote, “All theology has two simple principles: that we matter and that everyone else matters.” That restates the Apostle Paul’s instruction that we are to regard others as more important than ourselves. In this day of Black Lives Matter, white lives matter, or all lives matter,…

A study of the nighttime illumination during the holidays shows that in many cities are up to 50 percent brighter than other times of the year. NASA scientists decided to investigate after discovering a major increase of the lights of Cairo Egypt during certain times of year. They found that throughout…

New Jersey police are reinforcing good behavior by giving out tickets. They say normally when a person gets a ticket, it’s a bad thing. But with the new policy, it is sometimes a good thing. Two bicyclists were some of the first people to learn about the new policy. Sgt. Ostermueller of the Cherry Hills…