Over the years, we have published many small articles, some a few lines, others a page, but all of them convey matters of interest. Each month we will add a few more and wish you good reading.
The Calm Before the Storm
THE Psalmist wrote of stormy winds and waves that mounted high so that sailors reeled to and fro, and staggered like drunken men. In their trouble they cried unto the Lord to deliver them out of their distresses. Then follows the Psalmist’s declaration: “He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are…
The Great Pyramid
Written by David Davidson, M.C., M.1. Struct. Engineer It was in 1909 that David Davidson’s mother casually mentioned to her son that she had read a pamphlet describing the Great Pyramid, and that some were placing religious interpretations on the building. He said, “I am going out to Egypt soon and I will put some…
Grand Pioneers Wilson & Hine
John Wilson was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, in 1779. He commenced his inquiry into the Israelitish origin of the Anglo-Saxons in the year 1837. Studying at great length in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, he succeeded in tracing the Anglo-Saxons as far back as Media. In the following year he gave a series of…
The Banner of the Netherlands
Just as Canadians had some controversies about a new flag there was quite a flag fight in Holland before the last world war. There was a trend to change the old red-white-blue flag into orange-white-blue without an orange ribbon. This ribbon was and is used only when the Dutch flag flies during festivities in connection…
Great Ladies of History – Edith Louise Cavell
Not the labour of my hands, can fulfill Thy law’s demands. Could my zeal no respite know, could my tears for ever flow? All for sin could not atone, Thou must save and Thou alone. In the grey light of an October morning in 1915, Nurse Edith Cavell faced a firing squad of German soldiers…
When the Vikings landed in Britain in 449 AD
…they were but one of many waves of invasions by people of the same stock — Jutes, Norsemen, Danes, Saxons and Angles from the continent of Europe. These were branches of the Israel peoples found where Israel was lost after their Assyrian captivity. Ancient historians, Herodotus and Pliny and others, tell us that they sprang…