A PACKAGED INHERITANCE The wealthy English Baron, Fitzgerald, had only one son. The son had left home and died while away from home. Fitzgerald never got over the loss of his son, his only heir.…
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I MUST TELL JESUS "It often happens that I wake at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and…
ONE LAST FLING A friend of mine was with a group of golfers watching a fellow who was having some difficulty on this particular course. The frustration became too much by the 13th hole, as…
CRASH-COURSE IN INTEGRATION Making a right turn off the main highway onto a narrow two-lane road, I skidded on the gravel and wound up just short of hitting a waiting car. I expected an angry…
AFFAIR WITH TOUPEE On the Phil Donahue Show on January 13, 1992 a number of the reporters and anchor persons from the twenty years of the Today Show were being interviewed by Phil Donahue. Brian…
SELF ACCEPTANCE "An inferiority complex," and its accompanying deterioration in performance, can be made to order in the psychological laboratory. All you need to do is to set up a "norm" or "average," then convince…
IGNORE THE ROBERTS BOYS In our church, we have a very large and active family by the name of Roberts. The family spans several generations. They are involved in almost every aspect of the Church,…
WEARY IN WELL-DOING I recently had an unexpected day off. My daughter Jessie and I decided to make the most of it and planned a mother daughter outing. We would go to a real restaurant…
GOD REMEMBERS A pupil once brought to the philosopher Hegel a passage of the philosopher's writings and asked for an interpretation. Hegel examined it and replied, "When that passage was written, there were two who…
A WORSE CASE SENARIO Climbing a hill on our moped at the end of a beautiful day in Bermuda we were suddenly slammed into the road by a car. It was going to pass us…
COMMITTEES While observing yet another huddle at another football game, writer George Will had this observation about the game: "It combines the two worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings."
ULTIMATE CONFUSION I heard about a man who wore a button on his lapel with the letters B.A.I.K. Someone asked him, "What does B.A.I.K. mean?" "It means, 'Boy, am I confused!'" "But you don't spell…
MAKING A FRIEND Go at this matter thoughtfully. Select persons you feel pretty sure could be the kind of friends you could prize in later years. Then start the gentle, gradual seasoning process. How? Ralph…
WRONG BIBLE A rare book collector met a guy who said he'd just thrown out an old Bible that had been packed away for generations. "Somebody named Guten-something had printed it," the man explained. "Not…
NO CONFESSION WITHOUT CONVICTION While my wife was shopping, I sat comfortably and calmly in my car, but suddenly my serene reverie was interrupted by a crash. Another car had attempted to park in the…
CABBAGE HEAD MOVEMENT Jessie David Roberts in "Bears, Bibles and a Boy" tells that when he was a young pastor in 1905 at Bolton Landing, New York on the banks of Lake George, he made…
THE GOSPEL FOR CROWS Our family keeps a stock of sugar beets and corn by the edge of the woods behind our house to feed the deer. We enjoy watching the deer feed every evening.…
THE LURKING FAILURE THAT LIES BEYOND SUCCESS Psychiatry is discovering truth in the old saying: "The gods reserve their biggest disappointment for those who get what they want." Psychiatrist Frederic F. Flach explains why the…
A TRUCKER'S INTERCESSION On the TV program "911" this story was told: This story took place in Nova Scotia where two long time friends who drove trucks met up and decided to travel together. The…
TRAGIC DELUSION In the murder mystery, entitled Rainbow Drive, the main character says, "Filth and corruption are in the human beast... People insulate themselves in any way that makes them happy, numb, or able to…
