BROKENNESS The following short paragraph by Vance Havner was
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IN AN EMERGENCY Itwas sent in by Stephen McCutchan, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. It seems that a mother mouse felt that the time had come to introduce her baby mice…
AUTHORITY Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously. Hubert Humphrey
ON TIME Cross a porcupine with an alarm clock and you get a stickler for punctuality.
THE WAY IT WORKS IN LIFE The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your actions. A. Kindsvater, Zurich, Switzerland, Reader's Digest
DIRT There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, attracted to light objects and the light kind, attracted to dark objects. Ely Slick, Reader's Digest
THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE PRACTICAL Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. John Ruskin.
SOCIALISM Managers planning production in socialist Sweden have to allow for about 20% absenteeism. In Japan they don't even have a word for absenteeism.
BLAME Some people find fault as if it were buried treasure.
EFFORT Remember, if everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
PRIORITIES G. K. Chesterton and several other literary figures were asked one evening what book they would prefer to have with them if stranded on a desert isle. One writer said without hesitation: The complete…
OLDIES BUT GOODIES As I have read all of the stories that have come in for our recent contest, I have been impressed with the many old chestnuts that are still going around that I…
JARGON Teachers never seem to put down kids anymore. A young lad had a notation on his report card that he was very adept in the creative use of visual aids for learning. His father…
A NOVEL PROGRAM FOR KIDS The Parent- Teacher group was involved in a serious discussion about what the school's students could do after dismissal each day. Among the many suggestions made were: playgrounds, youth huts,…
MORE NARROW VISION In the year 1870 the Methodists in Indiana were having their annual conference. At one point, the president of the college where they were meeting said, "I think we live in a…
CHANGE AND PERSPECTIVE At a college reunion, thirty years after graduation, one man said to another, "See that fellow over there? Well -- he's gotten so bald and so fat he didn't even recognize me!"
TOO BUSY? DISTRACTED When we attempt to do too many things at once we often get rattled and accomplish even less. The story is told of young Charles Darwin in Great Lives, Great Deeds that…
FLEXIBILITY A man stopped to chat with a farmer who was erecting a new building. He asked, "What are you putting up?" The farmer replied, "Well, if I can rent it, it's a rustic cottage.…
COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN A mature looking lady had an appointment with a marriage counsellor, and told him flat out: "I would like to divorce my husband." To this, the counselor replied, "Well, do you have any…
HASTE MAKES WASTE The man was desperately late for an important appointment as he drove into the basement parking garage of the large office building. He jumped out of his four door sedan, then opened…
