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Dr. Kenneth Mcfarland Was The Dean Of American ...
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Nov 13, 2008 (message contributor)
Dr. Kenneth McFarland was the dean of American speakers. Here’s my favorite passage of all I have heard from him:
Folks sometimes ask me where I went to school. They think I will tell them about Stanford University or Columbia University. But I usually say, “I went to school to Miss Georgia Brown at Caney, Kansas.
I was blessed with a number of great teachers along the way, but none had such influence on me as this simple Kansas woman, born in Montgomery Country, Kansas, the same as I was. She taught us arithmetic and reading, and she made us learn them.
But she inspired us. She made us look beyond the narrow confines of our little town and up toward the stars. She said in later years she had never judged a student by the address on his enrollment card.
She used to say to me, “Kenneth, you’re growing tall, but are you thinking tall? As I think back over the wonderful things she did for me, I realize that her genius was in her boundless faith in the fundamental goodness of the human race.
Miss Brown used to say, “Kenneth, do you know there is a ladder that goes right up through the roof of this school house? And you can climb up on it just as high as you want to go. But the base of the ladder is in the school. This is where you get on it.
This school is your passport to anywhere you want to go. Don’t ever look at the school as something you like to get out of – get down on your knees every night in this world, boy, and thank God you have this school to get into!”
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Four-Year-Old Little Johnny Asked, "Mummy, Where ... PRO
Contributed by Paul Decker on Mar 2, 2004
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Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Apr 27, 2003
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Chuck Colson Tells Of The Change That Came Over ... PRO
Contributed by Wes Richard on Apr 27, 2003
Chuck Colson tells of the change that came over hundreds of men in a prison in Newton, Iowa. He went there to establish a Bible study group two years ago. Two months later, he went back to visit and he found a bunch of excited men. They swarmed around him with their Bibles. He signed over a hundred ...read more
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Mar 8, 2004
- Luke 23:39-43 > v43 . . . Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise. You know, I have seen a few things and a few places in life. I haven’t seen as much nor traveled as extensively as some of you who’ve been around since the continents first divided, but I have seen a few ...read more
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Contributed by Louis Bartet on Apr 27, 2003
Boudreaux and Dufrene were drinking a few beers while driving around, when Boudreaux saw a roadblock ahead. He couldn’t turn around, so he told Dufrene, "peel the label off your bottle and put in on your forehead." "Are you crazy," Dufrene responded? "No! Just do it and let me do the ...read more
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