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Integrity (A Talk To Men)
A GODLY MAN’S INTEGRITY INTEGRITY NEEDED The judge in summing up said, “You have had this coming for some time. I sentence you to five years in prison for fraud.” One of the lawyers asked if the four men so sentenced could say farewell to their families. The judge replied, “No, they should have thought […]
George Augustus Selwyn
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN, BISHOP AND MISSIONARY (11 APR 1878) Selwyn was born in London in 1809, educated at Eton and Cambridge and ordained in 1833. In 1841, he was made first Bishop of New Zealand. He diligently studied the Maori tongue on his long sea voyage, and was able to preach in it on his […]
Mark The Evangelist
MARK THE EVANGELIST (25 APR NT) The book of Acts mentions a Mark, or John Mark, a kinsman of Barnabas (Col 4:10). The house of his mother Mary was a meeting place for Christians in Jerusalem (Acts 12:12). When Paul and Barnabas, who had been in Antioch, came to Jerusalem, they brought Mark back to […]
Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, PLAYWRIGHT, POET, ACTOR (23 APR 1616) William Shakespeare was born in 1564 (baptized 26 April and therefore probably born 23 April) in Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire, England. Stratford was fortunate in having an endowed grammar school, and since young Shakespeare was the son of the town bailiff, it can safely be assumed that he […]
Kagawa
TOYOHIKO KAGAWA, RENEWER OF SOCIETY (23 APR 1960) Toyohiko Kagawa was born in 1888 in Kobe, Japan. Orphaned early, he lived first with his widowed stepmother and then with an uncle. He enrolled in a Bible class in order to learn English, and in his teens he became a Christian and was disowned by his […]
The Quest By F W Boreham
The Quest by F.W. Boreham Is there, in all literature, a more sweet, a more winsome, a more pathetic figure than little Naomi, the daughter of Israel Ben Oliel? She is, of course, the heroine of Sir Hall Caine’s Scapegoat. She is blind and deaf and dumb. She is lonely too, terribly lonely. Her father […]
Augustine
AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS “Seek for yourself, O man; search for your true self. He who seeks shall find himself in God.” In The Confessions, Saint Augustine addressed himself eloquently and passionately to the enduring spiritual questions that have stirred the minds and hearts of thoughtful men since time began. Written A.D. 397, The Confessions are a […]
Pascal Quotes
QUOTES from PENSÆ’ES by Blaise Pascal “The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.” “For, in fact, what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything. Since he […]
David Brainerd
David Brainerd, Missionary Donald J. Wolfram (July 1996) “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” (John 7:37) If you were to be asked, who were the two best known missionaries to the American Indians, what would […]
Prayer Of Francis Of Assisi
THE PRAYER OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI “LORD, make me an instrument of Thy peace; Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; and Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, Grant that I may […]
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