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TOMORROW’S HOPE Psychologist William Marston asked three thousand people, “What have you to live for?” He was shocked to discover that ninety-four percent were simply enduring the present while they waited for the future, waited for something to happen, waited for “next year,” waited for a “better time,” waited for “someone to die,” waited “for …

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DEATH AS TRIUMPH “Sir Edward Jones attended the funeral of Robert Browning in Westminster Abbey, but he didn’t like it. He knew this great poet, the virtues of his character, the abiding faith in his soul, the influence of his life, and he said the funeral was too sad and sombre. ‘I would have given …

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PRACTICAL TO THE END In Winston Churchill’s early years he often found assignments to travel as a soldier on special assignment and doubled as a journalist to various war- spots around the world. After having landed an assignment to visit a troubled spot in the Egyptian Sudan he was approached by a funereal-looking stringbean of …

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I SHALL MEET YOU THERE Some years ago, radio evangelist Charles E. Fuller annunced that he would speak the following Sunday on “Heaven.” It was to be broadcast on radio. During that week he received a letter from an old man who was very ill. Here’s a part of his letter: Next Sunday you are …

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GOING HOME There is the delightful story of a priest’s mother, 91 years old, who was taken to the hospital with a number of physical problems. Her son visited her and tried to cheer her up by saying, “Now, Mom, don’t worry — you are going to be home in a few days.” She replied …

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THE LAST WORD The simplest meaning of Easter is that we are living in a world in which God has the last word. On Friday night it appeared as if evil were the master of life. The holiest and most lovable One who had ever lived was dead and in His tomb . . . …

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A GLORIOUS SEND-OFF A boy was playing with his pet turtle when all at once the turtle turned blue, fell over on his back and lay motionless. Upset, the boy ran in to tell his father. The father, an award-winning salesman, sized up the situation put the turtle in a little box and proceeded to …

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WHAT MUST IT BE LIKE? DEATH “What must it be to step on shore, and find it — heaven; To take hold of a hand, and find it — God’s hand; To breathe a new air, and find it — Celestial air; To feel invigorated, and find it — Immortality; To rise from the care, …

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RETURN THE JEWELS A rabbi lost both of his sons at once. It was on Sabbath afternoon, when he was in the House of Learning. His wife did not on his return break the news to him, in order not to sadden his Sabbath joy. She waited till the evening, and then timidly approaching her …

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DEATH I dreamed Death came the other night, And Heaven’s gate swung wide, With kindly grace an Angel came, And ushered me inside. And there to my astonishment, Stood folks I’d known on Earth. Some I’d judged and called “unfit,” And some of “little worth.”/Indignant words rose to my lips, But never were set free, …

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RESURRECTION If you don’t believe in the resurrection of the dead, you ought to be here five minutes before quitting time! Sign in San Francisco wholesale florist

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THE EASTER STORY No matter how often we have heard the Easter story, we need to hear it again. As one person said: “To the child it is wondrous because it is so new; to the grandparents it is wondrous because it is so old.”

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HEAVEN/HELL A LA TWILIGHT ZONE I will never forget a story on Twilight Zone, almost 20 years ago. A young hoodlum was being chased by police as the story opened. Desperately seeking escape, he sees what looks like a laundry chute on the side of a building. He dives down it just as he is …

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READY FOR RESURRECTION MORNING A true story is told about a distinguished man, the only white person buried in a Georgia cemetery reserved exclusively for blacks. He had lost his mother when he was just a baby. His father, who never married again, hired a black woman named Mandy to help raise his son. She …

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A SCIENTIFIC REPORT Thomas Edison was a scientific genius, an exacting and practical man who didn’t casually say things he didn’t believe. Mrs. Edison told about the night Edison was at death’s door: Suddenly it was evident that he wanted to say something and so she and the doctor bent down close. This great scientist, …

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MIXED MESSAGE A Philadelphia legal firm sent flowers to an associate in Baltimore upon the opening of its new offices. Through some mixup the ribbon which bedecked the floral piece read “Deepest Sympathy.” When the florist was duly informed of his mistake, he let out a cry of alarm. “Good heavens,” he exclaimed, “then the …

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THE TERM IS OVER “In the seventh of his famous Chronicles of Narnia, a book entitled The Last Battle, C. S. Lewis has Aslan, the great ‘Christ figure’ speak these words of certainty concerning eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord: ‘. . . you are – as you used to call it in the …

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THE LAST MILE You say you are my friend, If truly so, then come and walk with me along my last long mile./The road is straight and has no turning, If weary you become, we shall not rest or look back. For all our tasks are done./We need not carry clothes or food or gold …

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NOT DEAD UNTIL FORGOTTEN This legend, set in an African village, began with Ogaloussa as he set out to hunt one morning, leaving behind his pregnant wife and four sons. Ogaloussa was eventually killed by a leopard. His body lay deep in the forest, discarded and forgotten. Eventually, his widow gave birth to a son …

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NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES The Mar, 1985 issue of Omni magazine reported a study by Dr. Maurice Rawlings, cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga. He and his emergency room colleagues are constantly treating such cases. It is now standard that those who have near death experiences later …

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