The last paragraph of Patrick Henry’s will says, “I have now
disposed of all my property for my...
The thief had nails through both
hands, so that he could not work; and a nail through
each foot, so...
At the end of World War II a young Bible college
student in Illinois met Ira Hayes on the streets...
During an edition of the news program 60 Minutes, Dan Rather
interviewed Jack Welch, the outspoken...
“Saving faith may thus be defined as voluntary
turning from all hope and grounds based on self...
John Newton’s epitaph reads:
John Newton, clerk, once an infidel and libertine, a servant
of...
A lady arranged the cremation of a body she believed
was her son. He turned up alive the next day....
There is an old story of a king and his
clown or “jester” who sometimes said very foolish things....
Money
will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite;
finery but not...
Tom Brady,
quarterback who led the New England Patriots to victory in three Super Bowls,
told 60...
Normally the flight from Nassau to Miami took
Walter Wyatt, Jr., only sixty-five minutes. But on...
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator; If our greatest need...
A marshal in Napoleon’s army who was devotedly and enthusiastically
attached to him was mortally...
Just before the death of actor W. C. Fields, a friend visited Fields’ hospital room and was...
A lady once came to Governor Nash and said, “Governor Nash, I have
come to speak to you on behalf...
A
young student once asked the discoverer of the anesthetic property of
chloroform, Sir James...
In 1982, ABC Evening News reported about a new
invention—a chair affixed to a shotgun. It was to be...
In 1997 Chinese
firefighters succeeded in putting out a 400 year old fire. The fire in the...
D. L. Moody visited a
prison called “The Tombs” to preach to the inmates. After he had finished...
Mysophobia is
fear of dirt. Hydrophobia is fear of water. Nyclophobia is the fear of darkness....
