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There is a little mischief in the village about Miss A or Mr. B, and Mrs. Tittle-tattle is up as early as possible, and calls on Mrs. Scandal, and says, “Have you heard the sad news? I hope it is not true.” “No, I have not heard it.” “Well, don’t mention it to anybody else. I hope it is not correct,…

The ostrich is reported to bury her head in the sand and then suppose herself safe, but she is captured all the more speedily. We may shut our eyes and say, “I do not have sin,” but in so doing, instead of securing eternal salvation, we shall as practically give ourselves up to the destroyer as the bird…

Do you not know that plain dealing is more precious than rubies? Would you not say to your physician, “Put me under the severest examination, and let me know the truth”? Would you pay him a fee so that he might deceive you? As to your soul, do you not desire to know the very worst of your case? If you…

If any man dares to tell me that he lives for a single day without a sinful deed, I will dare to tell him that he never knew himself. Only look at your own room. If you disturb it, I see only a little dust floating about in it, but if a stray sunbeam shall enter through the window I see millions upon…

Suppose you go to a surgeon because you have some deadly cancer growing upon you. You want to have it removed, and you know there are a great many physicians who will profess to cure such things, but in reality only give temporary ease. You keep clear from all these. You are well aware that if only a…

I remember hearing of a pious minister who was asked to speak one day upon the subject of joy in God. He stood up and said, “I am sorry that I have been requested to speak upon this topic; for the fact is, I am not walking in the light, but I am crying, ‘Restore to me the joy of your salvation’ (Psa…

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…

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,…

Many years ago a certain prince visited the Spanish galleys, where a large number of convicts were confined, chained to their oars to toil on without relief—I think nearly all of them condemned to a life sentence. Being a great prince, the King of Spain told him that he might in honor of his visit set…

For the past 20 years, Stuart Dunnings III has been the top prosecutor for Ingham County, Michigan and has built a reputation as “an outspoken advocate for ending human trafficking and prostitution.” According to the state attorney general’s office Dunnings took an aggressive approach to his job and…

Ashh Nicole posted a video to YouTube showing insects falling into the glaze as it poured onto to the pastries in a doughnut shop in North Carolina. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/10/28/Doughnut-shop-customer-films-bugs-falling-into-glaze/9151446053180/?spt=sec&or=on That video, coupled with the recent…

An unidentified Syrian refugee gave Police in Minden, Germany 150,000 Euros (over $166,000) that he found in a cupboard a charitable organization gave him. While we don’t know who he is, we do know what he is—a man of integrity. Imagine, a man with such great need, finding so much, but having the integrity…

A borrower returned a book to the library in Holland that he checked out 49 years earlier. The borrower, who was not identified, said he checked out a book about World War II from the library in 1967. He said, he had put it in a trunk and had only recently rediscovered it. The Library Director Diane…

Johnny Duckworth, a 50-year-old busboy who works at a Colorado diner, doesn’t have a full-time job, a working car, or a home of his own. But when he found an envelope stuffed with $3,000 in cash left by a customer he promptly gave it to his boss who returned it to its owner. The boss, Randy Emmons then…

Police in Connecticut say they were surprised when a man charged with stealing a television set twenty-seven years ago flew all the way from Florida and turned himself in. When 60-year-old Randy Iannacone heard that there was a warrant for his arrest, he immediately turned himself in. At the police station,…

Darrell Cox stopped for breakfast at a diner in his neighborhood for bacon and eggs. He paid for his meal, but did not realize he left something very important behind. After Cox left, Johnny, a worker at the restaurant found an envelope containing $3,000 in the bathroom. He gave it to the manager, who…

In his book, Making the Grass Greener on Your Side, Ken Melrose writes, “When we honestly walk our talk, we link our beliefs and our behaviors. There’s congruence between the two because why we do something is as important as what we do. Both beliefs and behaviors are integral parts of our character.…

In their book, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer write, “Studies show that well over half the population will readily cheat the system to get more for themselves if they think they won’t be caught.” —No Rules Rules, 58 2 Corinthians 8:21 (CSB) Indeed, we…

A Virginia sheriff’s department said a family who turned in two large mail bags filled with cash they found in the middle of the road deserved praise. The Schantz family said they were driving and ran over one of the bags. They thought it was full of trash and noticed another bag in a nearby ditch. They…

In “Life Beyond the Law,” Daryl Watts writes, “As my six-year-old daughter’s birthday party approached, I tried to coach her on how to be gracious about gifts. Even as a young child, she already had a reputation for brutal honesty. I asked her, “What do you say if you get a gift you don’t like?” She…

Just before Christmas in 2015, Stephen Roseman posted a picture on Facebook of a dog with the caption "badly burned and disfigured trying to save his family from a house fire. One like=one prayer, one share=ten prayers." Thousands of users responded. The good news is that the dog is OK, but it was not…

There remains a warm place in our hearts for truth. NBC Anchor Brian Williams has lost his position with NBC’s Nightly News. NBC relieved Williams when his viewers discovered that he was not truthful in personal anecdotes he told on air about adventures in Iraq and other stories. –--Jim L. Wilson and…

Three top contenders in the Bangalore Marathon were following their guide car when the car missed a turn and led the runners 2.5 miles in the wrong direction. “The runners discovered the mistake, which occurred about 9 miles into the 13.1-mile half marathon, only when the race crowd thinned and they…

Bruce Rylant was returning home from a trip and stopped to get gas in Georgia. When he reached his next stop, Ryland realized his wallet was gone. In a panic, he cancelled all of his credit cards and rushed to replace the lost insurance cards and his driver’s license. The one thing, Ryland was most upset…

At the Burger King drive through window in Rochester, N.H., Janelle Jones ordered a sandwich and drink. When she opened the bag there was no sandwich inside. Instead there was $2,631, mostly inside bank deposit bags. After talking with her husband Matthew, and thinking about it for a while, the pair…