Contributed by Charles Wallis on Mar 20, 2008
                
                
                
                    Cappie was a high school freshman.  As she talked about her fears of going into high school, she told how her father left when she was a baby.  With tears in her eyes, she said it hurt when friends at school talked about their dads because her dad had no time for her.  Later Cappie learned to party
                    
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                    Contributed by John Putty on Apr 16, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SELF-REMEDIES
Not many people enjoy going to the doctor, but according to Reuters, in 1994, one London accountant to that to an extreme.  The 63 year old man needed bladder surgery, but he couldn't overcome his fear of doctors and hospitals.   So he self-reliantly did what had to be done.  He
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Apr 13, 2015
                
                
                
                    
	by Amy Carson Phillips
           (Adapted by Melvin Newland)
“Night is falling on the Congo,
	O’er the jungles far and near.
Soon the blackness will be brooding -
	He who walks will walk in fear.
Yet no black man seeks his hut,
	All are waiting on the shore,
Gazing, peering through the
                    
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                    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on May 9, 2008
                
                
                
                    One of our good friends had the unique experience of growing up as the son of a county sheriff. His father, who was the sheriff of Marlin County for many years, passed away last year. It was at this time that he told us of an incident which had happened many years before:
A gentleman who had been
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GIVING AWAY GOODNESS
Mark Tidd of Webster, New York, describes an experience from his college days: 
“An old man showed up at the back door of the house we were renting. Opening the door a few cautious inches, we saw his eyes were glassy and his furrowed face glistened with silver stubble. He
                    
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                    THE SPIRIT NAMED PAN
Many creatures, or demonic spirits, that have been called mythological gods are not mythological at all. They are real in the kingdom of darkness.  Pan’s appearance in mythology is with horns, ears, and legs of a goat on a man’s body. His sudden appearance was supposed to
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 24, 2006
                
                
                
                    Arthur Custance writes: “It is a curious fact that demons were notable for their physical strength, and it is also a curious fact that they had for some reason a fear of water. The instance of the Gadarene swine could conceivably be a case where the Lord permitted the evil spirit to enter animal
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Nov 18, 2006
                
                
                
                    “My Best”
There is an urge within my breast,
To give the Lord my very best,
In thought, in action, word and deed,
This has become my whole life’s creed.
I want to fit into His plan
Be of help to my fellow-man.
Plan the things that I should do
Before my work on earth is through.
It may be out in
                    
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                    Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 8, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    •	A six-year-old boy came home with a note from his teacher in which it was suggested that he be taken out of school, as he was “too stupid to learn.” That boy was Thomas A. Edison. 
•	Alfred Tennyson’s grandfather gave him 10 shillings for writing a eulogy for his grandmother. Handing it to the
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Dec 16, 2010
                
                
                
                    AN AUDACIOUS RESCUE
On 5th August this year the San Jose copper mine, in the Atacama Desert in Chile collapsed. 33 men were trapped in darkness. The world and their relatives feared that there was no hope. The depth of the mine, the lack of food and water, and the absence of any signs of life all
                    
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                    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 22, 2009
                
                
                
                    Kathryn Hepburn said at 81 years old, "I look forward to oblivion. I am what is called 'gradually decentergrading.' I don’t fear the next world or anything else.
                    
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