Oil lamps once played a major role in the early days of colonial America. The vast majority of homes in those days had a lamp that usually had a glass reservoir with a wick and chimney. The company that manufactured the lamp would give specific instructions concerning its care.
-From the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 10, 2006
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Probably never heard of Hetty Green. She died in 1916 and left an estate with an estimated value of $100 Million Dollars(not pesos and not 1960 but 1916). ?Hetty regularly ate cold oatmeal because it cost too much to heat it. ?Her son had his leg amputated because she took so long to get him
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
In 1996, the Chicago Tribune ran a story on Buddy Post, a lottery winner who is “living proof that money can’t buy happiness.” In 1988, he won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery. Since then, he has been convicted “of assault, his sixth wife left him, his brother was convicted of trying to
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Wesleyan
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Ticket when going to train station-going 60 in 40 zone. I wanted to fight it! The radar was wrong. When was the last time they checked it? I had just come out from a stop sign and the road was uphill, how could I be going 60? Impossible! Good thing I was not close to the my church! Can you imagine,
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Adventist
Contributed by Daniel Austin on Mar 24, 2007
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The institution of Father’s day is credited to a woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd. She wanted a special day to honor her father, Henry Jackson Smart.
Her father was widowed when his wife died during the birth of their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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Over in England, every day at noon a man by the name of Jim went to his church, sat down on the front row for five minutes, then slipped out. One day his pastor asked why he did this. Jim answered, "The world wears me down, and so I sit here in church and bow my head and say, 'Jesus, this is Jim. I
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Oct 20, 2004
Dr. James Dobson tells a story about a family that lived in the Northeast part of the country. In the bitterly cold part of winter their car had become especially dirty, what with road salts, frozen slush, and other wintry deposits. Conscious of the condition of their car, this family was driving
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Oct 27, 2004
In her book, Living with Love, Josephine Robertson tells a story. "In 1883, a youthful clergyman, the Rev. Joe Roberts, arrived by stagecoach in a blizzard to minister to the Indians of Wyoming. This great, wild area had been assigned to the Protestant Episcopal Church by President Grant. Soon
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Baptist
Contributed by Tim Adams on Dec 1, 2009
A parable is told of a community of ducks waddling off to duck church one Sunday to hear their duck preacher. After they waddled into the duck sanctuary, the service began and the duck preacher spoke eloquently of how God had given the ducks wings with which to fly. He pounded the pulpit with his
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Baptist
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 13, 2010
IMAGINE A VERY DANGEROUS ROPE JUNGLE BRIDGE (AS THE LAW) WE MUST CROSS IT – BUT WE COULD NEVER DO IT OURSELVES BECAUSE ITS SO DANGEROUS TO CROSS ONE FALSE STEP AND WE WILL PERISH INTO THE CHASEM – BUT WE HAVE A GUIDE WHO GOES BEFORE US (CHRIST) HE HAS CROSSED THE BRIDGE BEFORE AND HAS ALWAYS
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Baptist
Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 28, 2010
TRUTH IN CUSTOMS
I have a friend who lives in France and she lives on a farm with her husband and animals. (On Christmas Day, she and her husband were helping the sheep they own as they gave birth to lambs!)
I decided to ask her about table customs in France that were different in America and she
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Church Of God
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 15, 2012
LONGING
In his book The Spiritual Life of Children, the famous Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles tells the story of Alice, a ten-year-old girl who came from a family that did not believe in God. She expressed her doubts to him with these words: "I remember... I saw the people next door coming
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Methodist
Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 26, 2012
THE PLACE OF ABUNDANT ADVENTURE
Mike Slaughter tells the story of going to Darfur, Africa to minister to the refugees. "It was the first time in my life I knew I was going into a situation with a probability I could die; a situation that was utterly dangerous. There were people with guns. We would
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Methodist
An ethics professor at Princeton Seminary asked for volunteers for an extra assignment. Fifteen students showed up. He divided the group of fifteen into three groups of five each. He instructed the first group of five to proceed immediately across the campus to a certain spot; if they didn’t get
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Episcopal/Anglican
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A few weeks ago I visited my family physician, Dr. Stuckert. After a few minutes in the waiting room the nurse took me back. The first thing she did was weigh me, then she took my temperature. Then she asked, why I had come to see the doctor. I told her, I was having headaches for the last
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Methodist
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