3209<\/b> Charles Lamb\u2019s Sacrifice<\/b><\/p>\n
Into the life of Charles Lamb there came a deep attachment to a woman, but he willingly forsook marriage when he saw the need of his own family. Brother, son, and husband, he became the guardian angel of that home, and especially of his sister Mary, who was at times mentally deranged. <\/p>\n
After she had stabbed her mother to death in one of her mad moments, Charles Lamb stripped himself for his sister Mary as Jonathan stripped himself for David; and for eight and thirty years he watched over her with a tender solicitude. A friend tells how he would sometimes see the brother and sister walking hand-in-hand across the field to the old asylum, both their faces bathed in tears. A sad story, and yet a grand story. Charles Lamb had his place in his home, and it was never left empty. <\/p>\n
\u2014C. E. Macartney<\/p>\n
3210<\/b> McGill University\u2019s Top Two<\/b><\/p>\n
A story of brotherly love and courageous work under the affliction of total blindness was unveiled at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. <\/p>\n
Thomas S. Steward injured one of his eyes with a knife. A specialist decided that it should be removed to save the other. When the operation was over and he recovered from the anaesthetic, it was discovered that the operator had blundered by removing the sound eye, so making the young man totally blind. <\/p>\n
Notwithstanding this he undertook to pursue his studies in law at McGill. He was able to do this by the aid of his brother, William Stewart, who read to him and accompanied him through all the different phases of college life. <\/p>\n
The blind brother came out at the head of his class, while the other came second. The latter practically making himself a seeing medium for his blind brother. <\/p>\n
\u2014Aquilla Webb<\/p>\n
3211<\/b> Brother\u2019s Prayer And Scotland\u2019s Holiest Man<\/b><\/p>\n
David and Robert McCheyne were Scottish brothers. Both had brilliant minds. There the resemblance ended. <\/p>\n
David, the older, was quiet and studious. He spent most of his leisure time at home helping with family chores. David was also a devoted Christian, too much so in the opinion of Robert. <\/p>\n
Once Robert came home from an evening of revelling and found David kneeling in prayer. \u201cI heard you call my name, Dave,\u201d he sneered. \u201cAm I really that bad?\u201d<\/p>\n
The sensitive David tried to explain. \u201cWe\u2019re all sinners who need to trust in Christ.\u201d Robert shrugged and excused himself from the conversation. <\/p>\n
The door of opportunity swung wide for Robert when he enrolled in the University of Edinburgh. His talents for languages, drawing, music, and poetry brought him many awards. His professors predicted greater fame ahead. <\/p>\n
Back home David languished in illness. But he continued to pray for Robert until death silenced his lips. <\/p>\n
And then Robert became a Christian. In the years ahead Robert\u2019s star steadily rose until he became the most beloved Presbyterian minister in Scotland and the British Isles. At twenty-three he became pastor of the 4,000-member St. Peter\u2019s Church of Dundee. <\/p>\n
His ministry lasted only seven years (1836\u20131843). He became known as \u201cthe holiest man in Scotland.\u201d His church was crowded hours ahead of time by people anxious to hear him explain the Scriptures. <\/p>\n
A painful consumptive cough tortured his body during the last months of his life. Throughout his illness, and even in his dying delirium, he talked about the One whom his brother had helped him to love. <\/p>\n
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3212<\/b> Brother Of Lincoln\u2019s Assassin<\/b><\/p>\n
In 1864, a crowded train was pulling away from Jersey City station when the son of President Lincoln, Robert, jumped aboard. The man lost balance and was falling when a man by the name of Edwin Booth reached out and grabbed him by the coat collar and saved him. Within a week, a letter of thanks came from Washington. <\/p>\n
But within less than a year, this man became \u201cMan of Mystery\u201d as he was always in hiding, shameful that his brother, John Wilkes Booth, had killed Lincoln. It was months later that he got enough courage to appear again in his experienced role as an actor, and became recognized as the nation\u2019s most able performer of Shakespearean roles. He was the first actor to have name and bust in the American Hall of Fame gallery in New York. <\/p>\n
3213<\/b> Siamese Twins Die Together<\/b><\/p>\n
From the news comes this write-up:<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the world they made for themselves, Siamese twins Margaret and Mary Gibb were not only accustomed to their affliction. They came to prefer it. As adults they refused even to discuss the possibility of separation. To them, such a move would have seemed no less than amputation of a major limb. In recent weeks their condition haunted their physician, Dr. John Appel, because though Mary seemed entirely healthy, Margaret was suffering from rapidly spreading cancer. But the sisters did not change their view, and last week when Margaret\u2019s cancer had spread to her lungs and heart, it had also spread to Mary. They died, at 54, within two minutes of each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
3214<\/b> Legend Of Two Hebrew Brothers <\/b><\/p>\n
There is a beautiful Hebrew legend of two brothers who lived side by side on adjoining lands. One was the head of a large family, the other lived alone. One night, the former lay awake and thought: \u201cMy brother lives alone, he has not the companionship of wife and children to cheer his heart as I have. While he sleeps, I will carry some of my sheaves into his field.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the same hour, the other brother reasoned: \u201cMy brother has a large family, and his necessities are greater than mine. As he sleeps, I will put some of my sheaves on his side of the field.\u201d Thus the two brothers went out, each carrying out his purposes and each laden with sheaves\u2014and met at the dividing line. There they embraced. <\/p>\n
Years later, at the very place stood the Jerusalem temple, and on the very spot of their meeting stood the temple\u2019s altar. <\/p>\n
3215<\/b> \u201cThose We Love\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
They say the world is round\u2014and yet<\/p>\n
I often think it\u2019s square, <\/p>\n
So many little hurts we get<\/p>\n
From corners, here and there. <\/p>\n
But there\u2019s one truth in life I\u2019ve found<\/p>\n
While journeying East and West:<\/p>\n
The only folks we really wound<\/p>\n
Are those we love the best. <\/p>\n
We flatter those we scarcely know;<\/p>\n
We please the fleeting guest, <\/p>\n
And deal full many a thoughtless blow<\/p>\n
To those we love the best. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
3216<\/b> \u201cThou Knowest I Love Thee\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
This is how one dear man learned to love the Lord. He said: \u201cOne morning as I was going to work, I was thinking of the words, \u201cSimon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?\u201d and wished with all my heart that I could answer them as Peter did. I felt sad that I could not. Then this thought came to me, \u201cWell if I cannot say so much as Peter, perhaps I could turn it around a little and find something easier.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I began to think there was one thing I could not say. I could not say, \u201cLord, Thou knowest that I do not love Thee,\u201d and I found some comfort in that. At last, I grew bold enough to look up and say, \u201cLord, Thou knowest that I want to love Thee.\u201d Then I began to think of His great love for me. I thought of His life, of His words, of His cross, and almost before I knew what I was doing, I looked up and said, \u201cThou knowest that I do love Thee.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd at that moment the consciousness of forgiveness and a new life came into my heart!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Tom Olson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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