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2026. So Close Yet So Far

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J.M. Boice

... . The sun blazed pitilessly out of a sky where the vultures wheeled expectantly. "Our heads ached," writes Gilbert, "and our eyes became bloodshot and dim in the blinding glare...Our tongues began to swell...Our lips turned a purplish black and burst." Those who dropped out of the column were never seen again, but the desperate force battled on to Sheria. There were wells at Sheria, and had they been unable to take the place by nightfall, thousands were doomed to die of thirst. "We fought that day," writes ...

2027. Nanook of the North

Mt 10:1-4; Lk 6:12-16

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Brett Blair

... his explorations, being something of a photographer, he shot 30,000 feet of film during the travels. He was encouraged by friends to edit the film and create a movie, which Flaherty spent weeks doing. But just as he finished, a match from his cigarette dropped among the celluloid, consuming the entire film and burning Flaherty's hands badly. His response to the disaster was a determination to return to the far north and make a film of Eskimo life, that he said, "people will never forget." He did just that ...

2028. Between Bears

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Staff

Two hunters came across a bear so big that they dropped their rifles and ran for cover. One man climbed a tree while the other hid in a nearby cave. The bear was in no hurry to eat, so he sat down between the tree and the cave to reflect upon his good fortune. Suddenly, and for no apparent reason, the ...

2029. Make Everything Stop

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Staff

... controlled non-movement. We are shooting from 50 meters over half a football field at a bull's eye three- quarters the size of a dime. If the angle of error at the point of the barrel is more than .005 of a millimeter (that is five one-thousandths), you drop into the next circle and lose a point. So we have to learn how to make everything stop. I stop my breathing. I stop my digestion by not eating for 12 hours before the competition. I train by running to keep my pulse around 60, so I have a full ...

2030. The Illusion of Fame and Power

Luke 4:1-13, Mark 1:9-13

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Mervyn Rothstein

... than 1000 newspapers, including his flagship, The New York Daily Mirror. Even more people listened to his weekly radio broadcast. Hated, feared and revered, he presided over Table 50 of the Stork Club in New York, creating and destroying celebrities at the drop of his trademark gray snap-brim fedora. Yet when he died in 1972, at age 74, he was practically forgotten. Only two people attended his funeral; his daughter, Walda, and the rabbi who officiated at his services. Today, almost no one remembers the ...

2031. A Race Down the Mississippi

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Max Lucado

... exchanged. Challenges were made. And the race began. Competition became vicious as the two boats roared through the Deep South. One boat began falling behind. Not enough fuel. There had been plenty of coal for the trip, but not enough for a race. As the boat dropped back, an enterprising young sailor took some of the ship's cargo and tossed it into the ovens. When the sailors saw that the supplies burned as well as the coal, they fueled their boat with the material they had been assigned to transport. They ...

2032. The Right Number

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Staff

A woman was at home doing some cleaning when the telephone rang. In going to answer it, she tripped on a rug and, grabbing for something to hold onto, seized a small table. It fell over with a crash. She dropped the phone and it went sailing cross the floor. As it fell, it hit the family dog, who leaped up, howling and barking. The woman's three-year-old son, startled by this noise, broke into loud screams. The woman mumbled some colorful words. She finally managed to pick up ...

2033. Something by Tolstoy

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Staff

... and grieving itself. "You remember it; you must remember it the story of Lila and Jacob?" After a long, bewildered pause, he said, "There is something familiar about the story, I think I have read it somewhere. It comes to me that it is something by Tolstoy." Dropping the key, she fled the shop. And Brodzky returned to his desk, to his reading, unaware that the love he waited for had come and gone. This Tennessee Williams's 1931 story "Something by Tolstoy" reminds me how easy it is to miss love when it ...

2034. The Song That Saved a Soldier

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K Hughes

... had many times sung that song to me. When you had finished your song, it was impossible for me to take aim again. I thought, 'The Lord who is able to save that man from certain death must surely be great and mighty.' And my arm of its own accord dropped limp at my side."

2035. What is the Penalty?

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Charles Spurgeon

... wrath, and they shall be; for upon all who rebel against the Savior, 'wrath has come upon them to the uttermost' (I Thessalonians 2:16). "God's indignation is no trifle. The anger of a holy, just, omnipotent, and infinite Being, is above all things to be dreaded; even a drop of it consumes, but to have it poured upon us is inconceivably dreadful."

2036. A Higher Power

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W. Duewel

Finney wrote how God gave him mighty infillings of the Holy Spirit "that went through me, as it seemed, body and soul. I immediately found myself endued with such power from on high that a few words dropped here and there to individuals were the means of their immediate conversion. My words seemed to fasten like barbed arrows in the souls of men. They cut like a sword. They broke the heart like a hammer. Multitudes can attest to this...Sometimes I would find myself in a great ...

2037. Stay In School

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... a story about a self-made millionaire, Eugene Land, who greatly changed the lives of a sixth-grade class in East Harlem. Mr. Lang had been asked to speak to a class of 59 sixth-graders. What could he say to inspire these students, most of whom would drop out of school? He wondered how he could get these predominantly black and Puerto Rican children even to look at him. Scrapping his notes, he decided to speak to them from his heart. "Stay in school," he admonished, "and I'll help pay the college tuition for ...

2038. The Cattleman's Rule

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... . According to the cattleman's rule, the steer therefore belonged to Lang. As his cowboy applied the brand, Roosevelt said, "Wait, it should be Lang's brand." "That's all right, boss," said the cowboy. "But you're putting on my brand," Roosevelt said. "That's right," said the man. "Drop that iron," Roosevelt demanded, "and get back to the ranch and get out. I don't need you anymore. A man who will steal for me will steal from me."

2039. The Loveless Love Goddess

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King Duncan

... a Hollywood actor and told him she had taken enough sleeping pills to kill herself. "He answered with the famous line of Rhett Butler, which I now edit for church, 'Frankly, my dear, I don't care!' That was the last word she heard. She dropped the phone. It was left dangling. "Claire Booth Luce in a very sensitive article asked, 'What really killed Marilyn Monroe, love goddess who never found any love?' She said she thought the dangling telephone was the symbol of Marilyn Monroe's whole life. She died ...

2040. No Escape

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... remember that one day you will stand before a better and wiser Judge, and that there you will be dealt with according to justice and not according to law." Surprised while burgling a house in Antwerp, Belgium, the thief fled out the back door, clambered over a nine-foot wall, dropped down the other side, and found himself in the city prison.

2041. Obsolete Silly Laws

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Staff

... It is against the law for Nebraska tavern owners to sell beer unless they have a kettle of soup brewing. According to an old Detroit law, banana peels are not to be thrown in the streets for fear of injury to horses. In Connecticut pickles which, when dropped 12 inches, collapse in their own juice are illegal. They must remain whole and even bounce. In Corvallis, Oreg., young ladies are not allowed to drink coffee after six o'clock in the evening. In Lehigh Nebr. it is against the law to sell doughnut holes ...

2042. Lonely in Moscow

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Charles Colson

... dirty, old, and cold, and he didn't get much mail. Though guard duty at the U.S. embassy was a trusted position of honor, his work was often dull and exhausting; it was a ceremonial job with little action. In letters home he doodled U.S. planes dropping bombs on Red Square; he tried writing to an old girlfriend, only to learn she had married someone else. It was when Clayton met Violetta in the fall of 1985 that life in Moscow began to brighten. Tall, fair-skinned, and beautiful, she was a translator at the ...

2043. "As If" You Love

Luke 4:14-21

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J. Allan Petersen

... trait. Go out of your way to be as kind, considerate, and generous as possible. Spare no efforts to please him, to enjoy him. Make him believe you love him. After you've convinced him of your undying love and that you cannot live without him, then drop the bomb. Tell him that you're getting a divorce. That will really hurt him." With revenge in her eyes, she smiled and exclaimed, "Beautiful, beautiful. Will he ever be surprised!" And she did it with enthusiasm. Acting "as if." For two months she showed love ...

2044. Put Down the Scissors

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Staff

... the scissors from him, but the more she tried the more he clung to them. All at once she remembered that he liked oranges, and that there was one in the next room. Away she went and back she came: "Willie, would you like an orange?" The scissors were dropped, and he clutched the orange. God sometimes takes away the scissors, but He gives us an orange. Get both your feet into the narrow way; it leads to life and joy; its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. It is the way of victory ...

2045. The Fault Box

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Source Unknown

A couple married for 15 years began having more than usual disagreements. They wanted to make their marriage work and agreed on an idea the wife had. For one month they planned to drop a slip in a "Fault" box. The boxes would provide a place to let the other know about daily irritations. The wife was diligent in her efforts and approach: "leaving the jelly top off the jar," "wet towels on the shower floor," "dirty socks not in hamper," on and on ...

2046. Colonel's Charm

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Helen Dewar

On a Western Airlines flight to San Francisco, fried chicken tycoon Col. Harland Sanders, 89, had made himself agreeable to staff and fellow passengers, then dropped his chin to his narrow black tie and closed his eyes. Somewhere in the back of the plane a child had been shrieking for some time. One stewardess told another helplessly, "I've tried candy, books and games, but nothing seems to make any difference." "I've got to speak ...

2047. Life In a New Gear

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Staff

... , making it hard to get started in the morning. It is hard to keep the radiator filled because of the leaking hose. The thermostat goes out, making it difficult to reach operating temperature. The headlights grow dim, and the horn gets weaker. The memory chip drops a few bytes, and the battery needs constant recharging. But if the body looks good with no bangs, dents or chipping paint, we can keep it washed and polished, giving the impression that it can compete with the newer models and make one more trip ...

2048. Fine China

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The Irish Potato Famine (1846-1851) resulted in a 30 percent drop in the population of the west of Ireland. The prolonged suffering of the Irish peasantry had broken the survivors in body and spirit. John Bloomfield, the owner of Castle Caldwell in County Fermanagh, was working on the recovery of his estate when he noticed that the exteriors of his tenant ...

2049. Be Watchful of the Future

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James Enery White

... 65 percent of all watches sold in the world and laid claim to as much as 90 percent of the profits. By 1980, however, they had laid off thousands of watch-makers and controlled less than 10 percent of the world market. Their profit domination dropped to less than 20 percent. Between 1979 and 1981, fifty thousand of the sixty-two thousand Swiss watchmakers lost their jobs. Why? The Swiss had refused to consider a new development—the Quartz movement—ironically, invented by a Swiss. Because it had no main ...

2050. Famous Slow Starters

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Brett Blair

... 's first teacher described him as "addled," and his father almost convinced him he was a "dunce." Albert Einstein's parents feared their child was dull, and he performed so badly in all high school courses except mathematics that a teacher asked him to drop out. His teachers and parents thought he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Fred Astaire was rejected during a Hollywood screen test. The casting crew said he “Can’t act. Slightly bald. Dances a little,” Elvis Preley's first two demo ...

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2026. So Close Yet So Far

Illustration

J.M. Boice

2027. Nanook of the North

Mt 10:1-4; Lk 6:12-16

Illustration

Brett Blair

2028. Between Bears

Illustration

Staff

2029. Make Everything Stop

Illustration

Staff

2030. The Illusion of Fame and Power

Luke 4:1-13, Mark 1:9-13

Illustration

Mervyn Rothstein

2031. A Race Down the Mississippi

Illustration

Max Lucado

2032. The Right Number

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Staff

2033. Something by Tolstoy

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Staff

2034. The Song That Saved a Soldier

Illustration

K Hughes

2035. What is the Penalty?

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Charles Spurgeon

2036. A Higher Power

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W. Duewel

2037. Stay In School

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2038. The Cattleman's Rule

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2039. The Loveless Love Goddess

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King Duncan

2040. No Escape

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2041. Obsolete Silly Laws

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Staff

2042. Lonely in Moscow

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Charles Colson

2043. "As If" You Love

Luke 4:14-21

Illustration

J. Allan Petersen

2044. Put Down the Scissors

Illustration

Staff

2045. The Fault Box

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Source Unknown

2046. Colonel's Charm

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Helen Dewar

2047. Life In a New Gear

Illustration

Staff

2048. Fine China

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2049. Be Watchful of the Future

Illustration

James Enery White

2050. Famous Slow Starters

Illustration

Brett Blair

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