Life on the Line
On September 18, 1981, I was well on my way to a night of drunken revelry in a Windsor, Ontario, tavern. Suddenly and for no apparent reason I was overwhelmed by fear. Rushing into the washroom, I tried to get...
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Made New
Thirty-six years ago I was born into a Catholic, alcoholic family. Because of the verbal and emotional abuse I experienced, I never felt loved. If I was to be loved, I thought I had to earn it. And, no matter...
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A Half-Century on the Road
It's 50 years since that night in March of 1945 when I was born of God. In time or eternity I shall never forget that night. I had struggled to "believe," strained to "trust," agonized over how to "accept." But...
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A Remarkable Providence
Evelyn Johnson first noticed it a year previously. There was a problem in her throat--hoarseness and difficulty in swallowing, and at the same time there was a pronounced weakness in her right leg. Not to worry; perhaps if she waited,...
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The Well-timed Homecall
Every time my mother had a baby, she sent me to stay with her parents, and since I was the eldest of five, it meant that at least four times I lived with my grandparents. Sometimes I wondered if my...
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The Fight of My Life
I have known the Lord for many years and say that what counts for me is not only what Jesus Christ meant to me years ago, but what He means to me today. I hope He means more to me...
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Which One is the Heathen?
In the Franco-Prussian War, there was then a great International Hospital in the town of Sedan, at the head of which was a distinguished doctor from St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He died there from confluent smallpox caught from a patient and...
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Touching the Apple of God’s Eye
Not many years ago thousands of boys and girls in Germany sang a song of pagan origin which expressed their deepest devotion. This led multitudes of them to sacrifice their lives with a zeal and fanaticism hardly paralleled in modern...
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Amazing Grace
Perhaps you're tired of hearing the gospel. Or perhaps you've never really heard it--you've never let it sink into your heart and soul, you've never responded to it. I was once like that. From earliest days of childhood I knew...
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