Service

A young lady named Sally, relates an experience she had in a Seminary Class, given by her teacher, Dr. Smith. She says Dr. Smith was known for his elaborate object lessons…

Frederick Bohn Fisher took an Indian child up in her arms, she did not know that the burning body of the child was tortured with typhus; but three days later she was dead…

O thou who art the light of the minds that know thee, the life of the souls that love thee, and the strength of the wills that serve thee: help us to know thee that we may truly love thee, so to…

Prison Break fter a long and unproductive church staff meeting, I trudged to my desk…

John Fawcett was converted as a teenager listening to George Whitefield. He joined the Baptists and was ordained on July 31, 17 65. He began pastoring a poor church in Wainsgate, finding time here and there for writing…

A business block in a western city bears this motto: “Service is the rent we pay for the space we occupy.”

Albert Schweitzer in Out of My Life and Thought tells of the time in his life when he determined he would find something beyond himself to give his life to: “I settled with myself that I would consider myself justified in living…

Once there was a Chinese prince who died and was given a glimpse of both heaven and hell…

Baskets of Blessings he family’s first visit was Easter Sunday in 2006, six months after the launching of our » church. Just two days before, on Good Friday, several of us went door-to-door delivering Easter “Bas- kets of Blessings” to neighboring families…

I read this story the other day. Three ladies were once dis- cussing who had the prettiest hands…

When a distinguished foreigner paid his only visit to America in 1950, a committee of prominent Chicagoans lined up at the railway station to offer official greetings…

Last of all, he said, would come a long line of sweat-stained, soot-streaked men in miner’s caps. Someone would cry from the crowd, “And where were you during the critical days of our struggle?”…

The moral of an old African chief: ‘““When you pass through the jungle be very careful to break a twig, that the next man can find his way.” Something very fine about that exhortation coming from an old heathen…

Woman and Labor: “What matters it to me if I am not at the oar when the little boat is pulled into harbor. To know that I have pulled at the oar, that is enough for me.”

I remember hearing of a man’s dream, in which he imagined that when he died he was taken by the angels to a beautiful temple. After admiring it for a time, he discovered that one stone was missing…

THE Frencu Bishop Fénelon was one of the great mystics of the church world, and yet, like many truly religious and spiritual souls, he was as practical as woodchopping…

In the slave market of New Orleans, before Abraham Lincoln’s slave emancipation, there was put up for auction one day a beautiful mulatto girl…

I have a friend, a minister, who hears the wishes of Jesus Christ. He is in His secrets. He was going one week-day afternoon to preach in a certain village, and was visiting from house to house before the service…

Years ago Louis Evans served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Hollywood. In his congregation was a gifted surgeon. As a sensitive Christian he was alert to the working of God in his life…

William E. Gladstone stopped his preparation of a speech to be delivered in Parliament the next day to go to the bedside of a dying boy…

Dr. Karl Menninger, the famous psychiatrist, once gave a lec- ture on mental health and was answering questions from the audience. “What would you advise a person to do,” asked one man, “if that person felt a nervous breakdown coming on?”…

A missionary agricultural school in India once closed its doors to all except Christian students. The director explained that with his meager funds he wished to admit only those who would use the instruction for others…

Years ago, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell served as a medical missionary in . On a recruiting tour, he challenged nurses at to join him for a summer in his difficult ministry. He promised them hardship and discomfort…

A man in the preacher’s community had a stroke after being very angry about church closures during COVID. The preacher and her husband reached out to him by bringing food, clearing snow from his driveway, and offering rides to appointments…

The preacher encourages reaching out to church members through acts like baking muffins or cookies and leaving them at their doorsteps. This helps fill up the needs of those who give.

Once when Mrs. Margaret Wilson, a blind comptometer operator, stood at the corner of a busy street in Berkeley, California, waiting for someone to help her across the street, a man stepped up and asked: “May I go across with you?”…

On Christmas morning, the speaker and her family deliver goodie bags to people working at places like Walgreens or hotels. They sing ‘Merry Christmas’ and give them gifts.

I ONCE read a story about a truly great person which stirred me deeply. A certain group of young people were talking about the great personalities of this day and age…

Sadie Smithson grew up in Johnson Falls, West Virginia. Her father kept a livery stable, Sadie herself contributed to the family income by sewing, and the family floated just above the poverty level. But Sadie craved respect…

Do all the good you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

In August 1997 Hans Hoerler, 40, fell from a tree on his three hundred and forty acre farm in Rhea’s Mill, Arkansas, and was paralyzed from the neck down. His wife and ten-year-old son ran to neighbor Ted Grigson for help…

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clear and cool, from the heights of Hermon and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon…

The nurse escorted a tired, anxious young man to the bedside of an elderly man. “Your son is here,” she whispered to the patient. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened…

Two great names come to my mind. I think of Howard Somervell, the Mount Everest climber, becoming Howard Somervell, the Missionary Doctor of Neyyoor, South India…

Camillus secured a construction job, and one day a friar came along preaching. The message hit home, and Camillus fell to his knees, crying to God for mercy. He was twenty-five years old when he became a Christian…

If I am to use my own medium to the same end I must devote all my time to it. I believe that I will choose the living substance, because it is warm and loving…

washerwoman entered carrying a heavy basket. She walked the length of the car and stood in the aisle, no one offering her a seat…

Somebody whispered to a man in the church sanctuary, “When does the service begin?” He replied, “The service begins when the meeting ends.”

A man went to a train to meet a missionary. “I hope I’ll recognize him,” he said. A friend replied: “Oh, you will. He’ll be helping somebody off the train.”

“Is your father at home?” a lad sitting on the village doctor’s doorstep was asked. “No,” he said, “he’s away.” “Where do you think I could find him?”…

A man hurried to the church door one Sunday noon and said: “Is the service over?” An usher who had grasped the implications of the minister’s words that day said: “The worship is over, but the service is only beginning.”

Lord Jesus, bless all who serve us, who have dedicated their lives to the ministry of others—all the teachers of our schools who labor so patiently with so little appreciation; all who wait upon the public, the clerks in the stores who…

Service: The Lord provides for the widow and the fatherless, not by a miracle in sending manna from heaven, not by sending ravens to bring them food; but by a miracle upon the human hearts, expelling selfishness, and unsealing the fountains of…

someone said to a traffic officer at a busy intersection. “It would be if I were a dog,” the policeman answered. “But I’m not a dog; I’m a saver of lives. Already I’ve saved three today, right here at this corner…

Anyone can be great because anyone can be a servant.

A king placed a heavy stone in the middle of a road. People thronged by, stepped over the boulder, kicked it angrily, murmured, grumbled, but none removed the stone…

Our church was saddened to learn this week of the death of one of our most valued members, Someone Else. Someone’s passing creates a vacancy that will be difficult to fill…

Florence Nightingale said to the trained nurses who were with her in the Crimea: “Young women, the strongest will be wanted at the washtub.”