July 2009 Signs of the Times Email Newsletter
The Signs of the Times newsletter is a collection of stories and quotes from
past issues of Signs and These Times.
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A young lad one day very happily held a string in his hands. An elderly
gentleman, passing near the field in which the boy played, asked him what he
was doing with the string. The lad answered enthusiastically: "I have a kite on
the end of this string."
The stranger looked upward intently. Low clouds hung overhead. "I can't
see any kite," he protested.
"Well, come over here and take hold of this string," the lad invited.
The gentleman crossed over to the boy and took hold of the string, and, as
he did so, he felt the pull of the unseen kite as it surged and tugged, borne
on the air currents far above the ground. The gentleman could make no further
protest. There was a kite on the end of the string.
It is even so with God. We cannot see God. And yet, a thousand times and
in a thousand ways we have felt His tugging at our heartstrings, drawing us to
Him with tender cords of love and whispering in our wayward ears: "I have loved
thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn
thee." Jeremiah 31:3.-By Benjamin Maxson, Signs of the Times, January 31, 1939.
Quote: "Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well when they cannot be
discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity
which the prosperous man dreams not of."-Charles Spurgeon, Signs of the Times,
January 10, 1939.
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An elderly woman going through a forest came to a crossroads. She stopped
and threw her walking cane up into the air several times. A man with a wagon
was traveling behind her. He saw the woman standing there throwing her cane up
in the air. Finally she took the road to the right.
After a while the man with the wagon caught up with the old woman. He
invited her to ride with him, and she stepped up into his wagon. After a little
while he told her that he had seen her standing at the crossroads throwing her
cane up in the air, and he wondered what the purpose of that exercise had been.
The woman confided to him that in her walking through the forest she often
came to crossroads. Inasmuch as she did not always know which road she should
take, she divined the right course by throwing her cane up into the air. In
whatever direction the head of her cane pointed when it came down, that road,
she said, she took. Then she added quickly, "But sometimes I have to do it more
than once." She had already made up her mind which road to take, and kept on
throwing her cane until it pointed in her chosen direction. To individuals with
predetermined decisions God does not unveil His will.
God is eager to guide His committed servants, even in the minutiae of
life. He is willing to direct you and me, not only in the big decisions of
life, but also in the small ones.-By Arnold V. Wallenkampf, These Times, April
1970.
Quote: "Christ and His apostles taught the people in the tongue that was best
known to them. Why should men not do so now?"-By John Wycliffe
(1320-1384)-first translator of our complete English Bible, These Times, August
1980.
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A school teacher was giving a lesson in fractions. "Johnny, suppose there
were seven in your family: five children, plus mother and father-a total of
seven. And suppose there was pie for dessert. What fraction of the pie would
you get?"
Johnny answered, "One sixth."
"But you don't understand," replied the teacher. "Don't you know about
fractions?"
"I know about fractions and I know about mothers, too," remarked Johnny.
"Mother would say she didn't want any!"
Quote: "If God has called you to be a missionary, I would hate to see you
shrivel down to be a king."-By Spurgeon, These Times, August 1961.
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Dwight L. Moody, one of the most prolific evangelists of modern times,
always had an eagerness to learn, to progress, to grow.
During one long preaching tour, he was traveling by train with a singer
named Towner. In their car, a drunk with a badly bruised eye recognized Moody
and started bawling out hymns. Not wanting to deal with the man, Moody said,
"Let's get out of here." But Towner told him all the other cars were full.
Then a conductor came down the aisle. Moody, still irritated, stopped him
and pointed out the drunk. The conductor first gently quieted the man. Then he
bathed and bandaged the man's eye, and finally, he led him back to a seat-where
the man fell asleep.
After reflecting on what had happened, Moody told his companion, "This has
been a terrible rebuke to me." The conductor had acted like the good Samaritan,
Moody said, while he, on the other hand, had responded like an indifferent
Pharisee. During the rest of that preaching tour, Moody included this story in
his sermons.-By Mark Finley, Signs of the Times, August 1995.
Quote: "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it
with us, or we find it not."-By Emerson, Signs of the Times, June 23, 1953.
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There are certain truths that are never obsolete. There is a very old
story of a sailing ship that was crossing an ocean. The captain asked a younger
sailor to take the wheel for a few hours while he slept. The captain's
instructions were, "Keep in line with the North Star."
Several hours later, the captain returned to the bridge to find the vessel
off course. He asked the young man, "Where's the North Star?"
The sailor replied, "We passed that long ago."
There are some fixed points in human experience. God, Christ, the Bible,
and the destiny of man are among these "absolutes."-By Norval F. Pease, These
Times, September 1971.
Quote: "Someone told a reformed alcoholic, 'I see you have the mastery of the
devil at last.' 'No,' came the quiet answer, 'but I do have the Master of the
devil.' "-By Leighton Ford, These Times, January 1966.
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Little Things
We should mind little things-little courtesies in life, little matters of
personal appearance, little extravagances, little minutes of wasted time,
little details in our work.
The first hint Newton had leading to his most important optical
discoveries was derived from a child's soap bubble.
The art of printing was suggested by a man cutting letters in the bark of
a tree.
The telescope was the outcome of a boy's amusement with two glasses in his
father's shop.
Goodyear neglected his skillet until it was red hot, and the accident
guided him to the manufacture of vulcanized rubber.
The web of a spider suggested to Captain Brown the idea of a suspension
bridge.
Henry Ford's idea about a perfect watch plant gave him a plan for his
giant motor industry.
J. L. Kraft's idea to put cheese in a sanitary package was the start of
his enormous business.
Watching a spider weave its web gave Robert Bruce the courage to try again.
Little things! Every one a little thing. Yet how important they proved to
be to the man who had the wit to correlate these little things with the idea in
his head.-Church and Home, Signs of the Times, November 10, 1953.
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