ATTITUDE IMPACT
A number of years ago a man picked up the morning paper, and, to his horror, read his own obituary. The newspaper had reported the death of the wrong man. The caption read: “Dynamite king dies.” The story identified him as a “merchant of death.” He was the inventor of dynamite and he had amassed a great fortune from the manufacture of weapons of destruction. Moved by this disturbing experience, he radically changed his commitment to life. A healing power greater than the destructive force of dynamite came over him. It was his hour of Pentecost. Thereafter, he devoted his full energy and money to works of peace and human betterment. Today he is best remembered as the founder of the Nobel Peace Prize — Alfred Nobel. As told by James Colaianni, Sunday Sermons Treasury of Illustrations, Vol. 2, page 430 (Voicings Publications, Pleasantville, NJ).
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