And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Romans 13:11<\/i><\/p>\n
5790<\/b> The \u201cThresher\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
The nuclear submarine Thresher<\/i> disappeared on April 10, 1963, bearing 129 men to a watery grave. Poor workmanship and sloppy testing may have led to the loss. Probable cause of the sinking has been pinpointed as the failure of the saltwater-piping system that cooled the propulsion machinery. Such a failure would have flooded the submarine and knocked out all electrical power. <\/p>\n
Before sinking in 8,000 feet of water, the Thresher<\/i> had undergone extensive overhaul at the Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. But only five percent of the Thresher\u2019s salt-water-piping system was inspected by the shipyard. Even in that small sampling one of seven inspections showed pipings or fittings \u201cbelow standard.\u201d<\/p>\n
5791<\/b> No Reason To Fly Away<\/b><\/p>\n
In February 1976, the Ontario government flew about three hundred fat Canada geese to Florida aboard a Twin Otter aircraft. The geese were considered too pampered to get there on their own. Ten years ago the government gave a gaggle of them a home on a plot of ground near Owen Sound. Commenting on the condition of the geese before their flight, one spokesman said: \u201cThe geese have got no reason to fly away. Right now their food is provided, and they\u2019ve got it made.\u201d<\/p>\n
5792<\/b> Whole Day To Sign Name<\/b><\/p>\n
Imperial etiquette required Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople (1217\u20131273) to take a whole day to sign his name. One half of the name was signed one day, the other exactly twenty-four hours later. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
5793<\/b> Foxhole Photo<\/b><\/p>\n
Army Secretary Frank Pace, Jr., went down to Fort Bragg to watch a big airlift maneuver. \u201cAfter the drop,\u201d he tells, \u201cI saw a foxhole that had just been started, and as a very new Secretary of the Army I thought it would be a good idea if I saw what this grubbing business was like. So I got down and started digging. <\/p>\n
\u201cJust then a soldier stepped up and said, \u201cMr. Secretary, I would like to take your picture, with you digging a foxhole.\u201d I thought that was as it should be, and I really set about it in earnest. I was digging and sweating and digging, and it seemed to me it was taking him an awful long time to snap that picture, so I finally looked up and said, \u201cWhat\u2019s the matter? Something wrong with your camera?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c \u201cNo, sir,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s my foxhole, and I want to take your picture when you\u2019re through.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Saturday Evening Post<\/i><\/p>\n
5794<\/b> Student\u2019s Shortcut In Newspaper<\/b><\/p>\n
In the Kansas City Star<\/i>, an ad in the personnel\u2019s column one day had eight words\u2014reprehensible, idiosyncrasy, extrapolate, platitudinous, assiduous, plethora, euthanasia and desiderata. It was signed by a Ronnie Johnson. <\/p>\n
The editor wondered what was going on, so he sent a young reporter to find Ronnie Johnson. Ronnie turned out to be a high-school sophomore whose English teacher had told the students that she would give an automatic A to anybody who found those eight words in the paper the first semester. <\/p>\n
\u2014Listen Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n
5795<\/b> \u201cNot Feeling Well?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
There is a legend at Harvard that the late Le Baron Russel Briggs, beloved dean of the College once asked a student why he had failed to complete an assignment. <\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t feeling very well, sir,\u201d said the student. \u201cMr. Smith,\u201d said the Dean, \u201cI think that in time you may perhaps find that most of the work of the world is done by people who aren\u2019t feeling very well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Frederick Lewis Allen<\/p>\n
5796<\/b> Mechanical Decision-Makers<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cI am aghast at the Harwell Thinkometer, which by a system of buttons placed before each member of a group, permits group decisions without the embarrassment of discussion. You press a button, yes, no, or maybe; and the machine calculates the total reaction. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am aghast at the Dynamucator, which is alleged to be able to teach you through your pillow while you sleep. Without any intellectual effort, you may learn to be an aggressive salesman, or to speak Russian. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am even more terrified by the Dial-A-Prayer movement, by which a machine performs your devotions for you, and you do not have to make any personal exertion to get in touch with the Deity beyond giving Him a ring.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Robert M. Hutchins<\/p>\n
5797<\/b> A Place Of Nothing To Do<\/b><\/p>\n
A man complained that he could never get caught up. Every day for 20 years he looked at his desk piled high with unfinished matters, letters unanswered, bills to be paid, appointments accumulated, and problems that should have been settled two weeks ago. When he walked out of the house to get away from the clutter, there was the grass that needed to be cut, and hedges that should have been trimmed last spring. If he could only get caught up, just once, if only for 20 minutes! <\/p>\n
Then he slept and had a dream. He was in a large room with a beautiful mahogany desk before him, clean, bright and shiny. On it there were no appointments\u2014nothing. Through the window he could see the lawn and hedges neatly trimmed, everything in place. It was a great relief. He had caught up at last\u2014thank the Lord!\u2014and peace was his. <\/p>\n
Or was it? All around the edges of his paradise there nibbled a little question: What do I do now? The postman down the street was whistling, and he hailed him. The postman had no letters for him; he was just out for a walk. \u201cPlease tell me,\u201d the man said, \u201cwhat place this is?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy, don\u2019t you know?\u201d replied the postman cheerily. \u201cThis is Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014What About Tomorrow<\/i><\/p>\n
5798<\/b> The Pot Of Gold<\/b><\/p>\n
A merchant had a son who loved to sleep late. In spite of the father\u2019s repeated lectures against indolence, the lazy son still would not get up until the sun was high in the sky. Finally, the merchant thought of applying the profit motive as an incentive to his son for early rising. \u201cDon\u2019t you want to make some money?\u201d he said to his son. \u201cYou know the old saying, \u201cGet up early in the morning, pick up a pot of lost gold!\u201d\u201d \u201cIn that case,\u201d answered his son, \u201cthe one who lost the pot of gold must have got up even earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Chinese Humor<\/p>\n
5799<\/b> Eyelids Exercises<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cI always do my exercise in the mornings, pa!\u201d protested the lazy son:<\/p>\n
\u201cImmediately after waking I do this to myself: \u201cReady now. Up, down, up, down.\u201d And after three strenuous minutes I tell myself, \u201cOK boy, now, we\u2019ll try the other eyelid.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n
5800<\/b> Epigram On Slothfulness<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Idleness is the parent of all vice. <\/p>\n
\u2014English Proverb<\/p>\n
\u2022 No mill, no meal. An idle brain is the Devil\u2019s workshop. <\/p>\n
\u2014English Proverb<\/p>\n
\u2022 He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut. <\/p>\n
\u2014Scotch Proverb<\/p>\n
\u2022 Doing nothing is about the most tiresome work in the world because you cannot stop and rest. <\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cWhat is life\u2019s heaviest burden?\u201d asked a youth to a sad and lonely old man. <\/p>\n
He answered: \u201cTo have nothing to carry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Sign at highway construction site: \u201cMen working ahead\u2014we hope.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2014Nashville Banner<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2022 Some girls\u2019 idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. <\/p>\n
\u2022 There are always too many people who reach for the stool when there is a piano to be moved. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The symptoms of laziness and fatigue are almost identical and only a few persons can tell the difference, for instance, coaches. <\/p>\n
\u2014Crow\u2019s Nest<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2022 It is far better to be industriously asleep than to be lazily awake. <\/p>\n
\u2014Spurgeon<\/p>\n
\u2022 Man to friend: \u201cMy brother-in-law leaps out of bed as soon as the first ray of sun touches his window. Of course, his bedroom faces west.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2014Roger Allen<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Procrastination ; Time ; Eph. 5:14, 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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