John Harper was born to a pair of solid Christian parents on May 29th, 1872. It was on the last Sunday of March 1886, when he was thirteen years old that he received Jesus as the Lord of his life. He never knew what it was to "sow his wild oats." He began to preach...
She stood outside the doorway of the church intrigued by the love and joy displayed by those inside. The American missionary had asked her to come in, but she had politely declined. It wasn't because she didn't want to accept the kind of offer. Quite the opposite; her...
I was six years old when I wet my pants for the first time at school. Because the orphanage had always forbidden us to use the bathroom, except for when "they" thought it was necessary, I had become afraid to ask my first grade teacher to allow me to go and use the...
A sobbing little girl stood near a small church from which she had been turned away because it 'was too crowded'. "I can't go to Sunday School," she sobbed to the pastor as he walked by. Seeing her shabby, appearance, the pastor guessed the reason and , taking her by...
A mother of a 9 year old boy, Mark, received a phone call in the middle of the afternoon. It was the teacher from her son's school."Mrs. Smith, something unusual happened today in your son's third grade class. Your son did something that surprised me so much that I...
During the Korean war, one man was hurt badly on the battlefield of Heartbreak Ridge. His buddies were in a foxhole about 50 yards away when the man was hit by sniper fire in an ambush.As the fire continued, the other men discussed amongst themselves what to do. But...
A poor man had been drafted for service in the Civil War. He had a wife and six children, who, of course, were very dear to him. What made his situation the more sorely distressing was the fact that his wife had been sick for some time. The children were not old...