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A story is told of a holy man who was engaged in his morning meditation under a tree whose roots stretched out over the riverbank. During his meditation, he noticed the river was rising…

Jean Nidetch was a 214-pound homemaker desperate to lose weight. So she went to the New York City Department of Health where she was given a diet devised by Dr. Norman Jolliffe. Two months later…

A woman was preparing a pasta dish for a dinner party she was giving. In her haste, however, she forgot to refrigerate the spaghetti sauce, and it sat on the counter…

A lumberjack bought a brand new chainsaw and was told it could cut down at least 100 trees a day. But on the first day, he only managed to cut down 25 trees. The next day…

A blackboard in a ninth grade health classroom was covered with the names and locations of the major bones and muscles of the human body. The diagram stayed on the board throughout…

G. Campbell Morgan had already enjoyed some success as a preacher by the time he was 19 years old. But then he was attacked by doubts about the Bible…

In his autobiography, ‘Breaking Barriers’, syndicated columnist Carl Rowan tells about a teacher, Miss Thompson, who greatly influenced his life. One day during class, she…

A story is told of Yogi Berra, the well-known catcher for the New York Yankees, and Hank Aaron, who at that time was the chief power hitter for the Milwaukee Braves. The teams were…

In 1772, John Fawcett, the young pastor of a poor church in Hebden Bridge, England, was called to a large and influential church in London…

As the American Civil War was beginning to draw to an end, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which would free the slaves across the country…