APPROPRIATION OF RESOURCES
APPROPRIATION OF RESOURCES
It was 1916, and Hattie Green was dead. Hattie's life is a sad demonstration of what it...
APPRECIATION
APPRECIATION
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, t...
APPOINTMENT
APPOINTMENT
Given the many details which a presidential inaugural committee must cope with, mistakes are inevitable. So...
APPLICATION
APPLICATION
It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we save that ...
APPLAUSE
APPLAUSE
Recently my wife and I sat charmed at an outdoor performance by young Suzuki violin students. After the concer...
APPEARANCES
APPEARANCES
In 1884 a young man died, and after the funeral his grieving parents decided to establish a memorial to him...
APOSTLES AS MARTYRS
APOSTLES AS MARTYRS
Tradition holds that the Apostles died in the following manner: Matthew suffered martyrdom by being...
APOSTASY
APOSTASY
Passages which record cases of actual apostasy, 1 Timothy 1:19,20; 2 Timothy 2:17, 18; 4:10; 2 Peter 2:1,2. Bu...
APOLOGY
APOLOGY
In the washroom of his London club, British newspaper publisher and politician William Beverbrook happened to m...
APATHY
APATHY
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselve...
ANXIETY
ANXIETY
(see also WORRY)
Q. What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
A. A nervous wreck.
ANTICIPATION
ANTICIPATION
I never worry about what I will do if I win a battle, but I always know exactly what I will do if I lose o...
ANTAGONIST
ANTAGONIST
"Nothing can be stated so perfectly as not to be misunderstood."
Philip Melanchthon.
ANSWERS
ANSWERS
Greek philosopher Anaximenes accompanied Alexander the Great on his expedition against the Persians, in the cou...
ANONYMOUS
ANONYMOUS
A man called up the local armory to get a report on the number and status of the weapons and vehicles. A priv...
ANNOYANCE
ANNOYANCE
It happens every time the prof calls a group of students to the board to solve a physics problem. Someone hol...
ANNIHILISM
ANNIHILISM
Kant's argument is that, while the soul may not be a collection of parts extended in space (therefore, ...
ANGER (see below Anger of Jesus)
ANGER (see below Anger of Jesus)
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
B. Franklin.
ANGELOLOGY
ANGELOLOGY
John Paton was a missionary in the New Hebrides Islands. One night hostile natives surrounded the mission st...
AMERICA
AMERICA
The United States and its citizens
French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, after visiting America in 1831, s...