Category: Bits and Pieces

Then, one night while reading the Bible, I felt this sudden peace and joy wash over me. It was better than any high I ever felt. I got the sudden urge to pray. I did and I asked God to fill me with knowledge and wisdom in His laws and commandments.

This is the only Book which gives the Nation instruction to prevent chaos; which directs it in case of war so that its actions may have His approval; and shows it how peace shall be made

In relating the history of the Israelites, the Bible also becomes a book about scientific reality....

A prisoner of the Japanese tells how he suffered many cruelties and kept his courage by repeating the first words of ‘Abide with me’ daily and longed for a complete copy of the hymn. Sometime later he noticed a fellow prisoner rolling tobacco in a piece of paper. Something made him ask to look at it and found it contained the complete words and music of ‘Abide with me’. His joy knew no bounds.

The writer demonstrated the analogy between the “Ten Servants” of the “Nobleman who went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.”

It may sound corny, but I miss Canada and America of those days. We were truly something special, lands overflowing with “milk and honey,” so to speak, and the pride of our citizens was just not seen in flag-waving ceremonies, it was a part of our daily lives.