The Original Epitaph of Benjamin Franklin The Body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer Like the cover of an old book Its contents torn out And stripped of its lettering and gilding Lies here food for worms.…
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UKRAINIAN FOLK TALE One day a poor peddler went to the market place to sell a basket of eggs. He came upon a crowd mocking a man who staggered with a heavy cross on which…
PART-TIME TOMB Someone said to Joseph of Arimathaea, "That was such a beautiful, costly, hand hewn tomb - Why did you give it to someone else to be interred in? "Oh, said Joseph, "He only…
IN FRONT OF OURSELVES We are physically made so that we can walk more easily forward than backward. It is easier to manipulate our hands in front of us than behind us. A little girl…
CRITIQUE OF JESUS The following is an analogous critique of Jesus in the same style used today by the press to analyze Presidential speeches, etc: Pharisee - Well, what do you think of Christ's State…
YOU CAN'T HIDE, BUT YOU CAN WIN During the Civil War, a Union soldier from Ohio was shot in the arm during the battle of Shiloh. His captain saw he was wounded and barked out…
RESURRECTED SENSE Richard Vinson, Professor of Religion at Averett College, in Danville, VA., writes: In my first year at seminary, I took a course called the Resurrection Narratives, in which we studied all those stories.…
DON'T LET IT GO U NnoticeD Back in April of 1865, a mere 125 years ago, a telegraph office was thrown into consternation by hearing the paperboys outside the office crying out the news that…
DOES GOD BELIEVE IN US? After church one day a pastor overheard a little girl who was in a rather theological mood ask her mother, "Mommy, does God believe in us?" The first time I…
EASTER SUNDAY IS EVEN "GOODER" The 1990 Good Friday "FAMILY CIRCUS" by Bill Keane, shows Billy and his brother walking along through a store looking at all the Easter eggs and candy on the shelves.…
EVEN DEEPER It was Fridtjof (FRIT yawf) Nansen, the great Norwegian explorer, who went North to fathom the depths of the Arctic Ocean. After he found the place he was going to lower the lines,…
VIA DOLOROSA I walked the street of sorrows, Leading to Golgotha's hill- The Via Dolorosa, Echoing His footsteps still. The day was gray with sadness, The shades of grief were there, The echo of His…
THE GREAT ESCAPE One of the great escapes Houdini made took place in Moscow. It was from the Carette - a six foot square steel cube with only an eight inch square barred window and…
CATERPILLAR FUNERALS Arthur Brisbane once pictured a crowd of grieving caterpillars carrying the corpse of a cocoon to its final resting place. The poor, distressed caterpillars, clad in black raiment, were weeping, and all the…
AN EVEN EXCHANGE William Scott failed as a soldier. He was stationed to keep watch and he fell asleep. It was his second straight evening in which he had volunteered to replace a sick comrade…
Easter Verbs: "COME!" "SEE!" "GO!" "TELL!"
Take GOD out of GOOD, and you have exactly zero left.
JESUS DIED FOR OLD MAN KLINE Richard De Haan tells the story about a certain Mr. Kline. He was his little town's "Scrooge." No one really seemed to care for Mr. Kline. Even little children…
GOD'S LOVE IS JUST LIKE THAT In Jesus Christ I see a God who is somewhat like the father who told his son he would send him to sleep in the attic, with only bread…
ONLY THE TOUGH GROW OLD A group of senior citizens at a retirement home were having a high old time discussing their various aches, pains and ills. One had arthritis -- another indigestion -- maybe…
