Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014II Peter 3:3<\/i><\/p>\n
1214<\/b> Graham\u2019s Expected Audience<\/b><\/p>\n
Billy Graham, looking over the 200 persons who had come to hear him at a University of Minnesota student-faculty meeting, remarked that many had come just out of curiosity. With a smile he added, \u201cI can always count on the department of psychology showing up in full force.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Christian Advocate<\/i><\/p>\n
1215<\/b> Red Sea Parting A Mirage? <\/b><\/p>\n
A Pennsylvania State University physicist suggested that the biblical story of the parting of the Red Sea may have been the result of a desert mirage. <\/p>\n
The physicist, Dr. Alistair Fraser, said Christ walking on water also could have been a mirage. <\/p>\n
He made his comments at a meeting of the Optical Society of America. <\/p>\n
Dr. Fraser told the meeting there were photographs that reproduced both phenomena. He said the biblical description of the Red Sea crossing was a particularly accurate picture of a mirage. <\/p>\n
1216<\/b> With Hat And Coats On<\/b><\/p>\n
It was on Thanksgiving several years ago that Helen Hayes cooked her first turkey. Before serving it she announced to her husband, Charles MacArthur, and their son James: \u201cNow I know this is the first turkey I\u2019ve ever cooked. If it isn\u2019t right, I don\u2019t want anybody to say a word. We\u2019ll just get up from the table without comment, and go down to the hotel for dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then she retired to the kitchen. When she entered the dining room, bearing the turkey, she found her husband and son seated at the table\u2014wearing their hats and coats. <\/p>\n
\u2014Kansas City<\/i><\/p>\n
1217<\/b> Shut Up For Jesus<\/b><\/p>\n
A heated controversy raged at the University of Nebraska. Officials there forbade a Campus Crusade wrestling team from giving testimonies during an appearance. Many students, professors, and even a few newspapers asked why other groups were free to promote homosexuality, radical politics, and the like while Christians were muzzled. The Omaha World-Herald<\/i> lampooned the school\u2019s action in an editorial entitled \u201cSit Down, Shut Up For Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n
The school is now forging a policy regarding religious activities on campus. <\/p>\n
1218<\/b> Tiger In House On Cook\u2019s Dog<\/b><\/p>\n
Charles Berlitz, a vice-president of the Berlitz Schools of Language tells of going out to Sumatra last year with an oilman who had studied Indonesian with them in New York. The chap bought a house outside Palembang, and Berlitz urged him to plunge right in with the language. The first call the pupil took at the office turned out to be from one of his newly-hired servants. <\/p>\n
\u201cJust goes to show you,\u201d the oilman said when he hung up, \u201cyou think you know the language, but when you get here you find you don\u2019t know a thing about it. Sounded just like he said a tiger was in the house, chasing the cook\u2019s dog.\u201d<\/p>\n
He heard right. It was! <\/p>\n
\u2014United Press International<\/p>\n
1219<\/b> No Time For \u201cCar Joke\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
A \u201csmart\u201d salesman in the city of Bodoe, Norway, recently lost a sixteen-car sale. The story goes as follows. <\/p>\n
A young man in a sweater, overalls, and rubber boots entered a car dealer\u2019s shop in this city just north of the Arctic Circle. <\/p>\n
\u201cHave you got cars on hand?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSure we have,\u201d the salesman answered. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want sixteen cars, if I like the model.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no time for jokes\u2014buzz off,\u201d answered the salesman. <\/p>\n
The man did\u2014right across the street to another car dealer, selling a different make of cars. <\/p>\n
He made similar inquiries and got full service. The man in overalls really wanted sixteen cars and paid in cash\u2014500,000 Norwegian kroner ($77,000). <\/p>\n
He belonged to a sixteen-man crew of a Norwegian trawler that caught record quantities of herring last season. Each fisherman netted 70,000 kroner during the season. They decided to buy new cars and to buy all sixteen at once, to get the highest possible discount. <\/p>\n
\u2014Prairie Overcomer<\/i><\/p>\n
1220<\/b> How Often! <\/b><\/p>\n
How often we trust each other. <\/p>\n
And only doubt our Lord. <\/p>\n
We take the word of mortals, <\/p>\n
And yet distrust His word;<\/p>\n
But, oh, what light and glory <\/p>\n
Would shine o\u2019er all our days, <\/p>\n
If we always would remember <\/p>\n
God means just what He says. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
1221<\/b> Tanker Captain Dismissed It<\/b><\/p>\n
In 1970, the Liberian tanker Arrow<\/i> ran aground off Nova Scotia, broke into two and sunk. The oil it was carrying floated to shore, polluting up to 125 miles of shoreline. Its Greek captain admitted that he did see an echo on his radar, but he \u201cdismissed it as spurious.\u201d \u201cThis was my mistake,\u201d he confessed. But the damage was done. <\/p>\n
1222<\/b> Epigram On Doubters<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs. <\/p>\n
\u2014Walt Allmand<\/p>\n
\u2022 If you tell a man that there are 581,678, 934,341 stars in the universe, he\u2019ll believe you. But if a sign says, \u201cFresh Paint,\u201d he has to make a personal investigation. <\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Atheists ; Skeptical Attitude ; II Thess 1:8; Heb. 2:1; I Pet. 2:1. I John 2:22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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