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The story of the painting, The Last Supper, is >> > > > > > extremely interesting and instructive. The two >> > > > > > incidents connected with it afford a most convincing >> > > > > > lesson on the effects of right thinking or wrong >> > > > > > thinking in the life of a boy or girl, or of a man >>…

It is said to have been the distinguishing mark of Caesar as a soldier that he never said to his followers “Go!” but he always said “Come!” Of Alexander, also, it was noted that in weary marches he was sure to be on foot with his warriors, and in fierce attacks he always was in the vanguard. The most…

An owl is a fine bird to look at, but he is a very small bird when he is plucked. He is nearly all feathers, and I think that a great many professing Christians are very like owls. They are fine birds to look at, but it is mostly feathers. Just see whether it is mostly feathers with you. Spurgeon, C.…

People can tell lies when they hold their tongues. There was a little girl at school who always held her hand up when the boys and girls were asked to show that they knew the answer to any question that had been put to them. One afternoon she held her hand up when she did not know the answer, and a classmate…

You know how a judge will stop a witness when he begins to say what others have told him: “No, no,” he says, “what did you see yourself? What do you know about this business on your own account? I do not want to know what others said to you about it.” So is it with the message delivered from the pulpit.…

We read in olden times of many of the most eminent servants of God being dressed in the poorest manner. When good Bishop Hooper was led out to be burnt, he had been long in prison, and his clothes were so gone from him that he borrowed an old scholar’s gown, full of rags and holes, that he might put…

You say that he is “a rewarder of those who seek him”; do you despise the reward? Are you content with having made a profession of religion? Some professing Christians remind me of the reply of the child who was asked at the Sunday school about her father, who never went to any place of worship. “Is…

What strength holy living in his people gives to the preacher of the word of God! Imagine a man comes before you and says, “There is, somewhere about here, an invisible lake, containing the purest, coolest, and most refreshing water that you ever drank. You never saw water so pure and delicious.” We…

A person asked me one day, “Is not such-and-such a person a Baptist?” I replied, “I do not know him.” He said, “He is a fellow who says a very long grace before his dinner, and he goes to such-and-such a chapel.” “Well,” I answered, “If he goes there, he certainly attends a Baptist chapel.” Then he said,…

A “richly supplied” entrance has sometimes been illustrated in this way. You see yonder ship. After a long voyage, it has neared the haven, but is much injured; the sails are rent to ribbons, and it is in such a forlorn condition that it cannot come up to the harbor: a steam-tug is pulling it in with…

In an article in Relevant magazine, Debra Fileta, a licensed Counselor, lists five ways couples can invest in their marriage. She says, couples need to connect spiritually, and the best way to do that is to pray with each other about the concerns of the day. The second is to communicate meaningfully…

A Pennsylvania man pled guilty to burglarizing his neighbor’s home by cutting a hole in the wall between his basement and the neighbor’s. The man’s lawyer, Anthony Rybak told a judge that he did not see how anyone could think he would get away with such a crime. He said the obvious lack of wisdom exhibited…

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…

When Time Magazine asked Nathan Collier if Monogamy was Obsolete he responded with a definite, “Yes.” He said, “We need to legalize polygamy.” In his defense of polygamy Collier gives many of the same arguments we have repeatedly heard over the last few years. “I’ve always been a polygamist. Those of…

Massachusetts resident Chris Robarge was surprised when a former landlord contacted him asking for his current address. He was even more surprised when he received a letter from his former landlord with a check for $2500 inside. His former landlord told Robarge he had sold the house and explained that…

Waste collection workers in Ohio were able to find and return $25,000 cash that a family accidentally threw away while helping their grandmother clean her home. Officials said they got a call from the family when they realized the money had accidentally been thrown in the trash just before the truck…

The owners of a Michigan butcher shop were horrified when they realized they had misplaced an envelope containing all the day’s receipts. Tim Sobie, owner of Sobie Meats said he and his wife were frantically searching for the misplaced deposit bag after they dropped it somewhere inside or outside the…

Luke Maye, whose game-winning shot propelled the Tar Heels into the 2017 Final Four doesn’t just excel on the court. In 2018, Coach Hubert Davis said this about him, “[he] really is an example on the court and off the court and you always want to be an example of Christ in the way that you walk and everything…

A woman suspected of stealing someone’s cell phone called 911 to report that the person whom the phone belonged to would not leave her alone. When police responded they found a man and woman waiting for them at a gas station. The woman told police that the man had been napping on a Metro bus and when…

Police Chief Joshua Potvin lost his law enforcement license after the Main Criminal Justice discovered that he had an officer text him while he was in a meeting. He created a cover story by entering a false entry about a suspicious person at the Fryeburg fairgrounds, using a fairgrounds employee’s license…

Michael O’Brien is a Canadian Author and painter. He leaned toward atheism as a teenager and became a Catholic at age 21. In answer to an interview question about his novels concerning the development of totalitarian government he gave this answer. “Totalitarian systems have three things in common: the…

Don Shula was arguably the greatest coach in the history of the NFL. He took his teams to the Super Bowl six times and over his career won a record 347 games. He is still the only coach to have a team record a perfect season, the 17-0 Miami Dolphins in 1972. In an interview just before he died at age…

Spanish runner Ivan Fernandez Anaya was trailing Kenyan runner Abel Mutai in a cross-country race at an event in Burlada, Navarre. 32 feet from the finish line Mutai mistakenly thought he had crossed the finish line. Anaya had the opportunity to win the race, but he did not. Instead, he caught up to…