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I have seen, at a railway station, gentlemen with first-class tickets walking up and down the platform unable to find a first-class carriage; and if the train was going on they have jumped in the third class so as to get to their journey’s end. If there is any man who does not think that he ought to…

Devotional by David Jeremiah

I have heard of a certain king who had a jester or “fool” to make fun for him, as kings used to have. But this “fool” was no fool; he had much sense, and he had thought wisely about eternal matters. One day, when he had greatly pleased the king, his majesty gave him a stick, and said to him, “Tom, there…

This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston , Tennessee , by school Principal, Jody McLeod. "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."…

3/10/2003 An Excellent point about judging people on their appearance. Too bad for >Harvard. > > >A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun >threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly >without an appointment into the Harvard University President's…

Why you should remain a virgin until you are married Teens having sex. It's in the movies, on TV, and splattered on the pages of magazines. It seems that having sex makes many teens feel that they are mature, popular, normal, or loved. Teens often mistake sex for love - and fondling for affection. But…

I have heard of a naturalist who thought himself exceedingly wise with regard to the natural history of birds. Yet he had learned all he knew in his study, and had never so much as seen a bird either flying through the air or sitting upon its perch. He was a fool, although he thought himself exceedingly…

Very moving story

You might be the possessor of a large estate, and an adversary might contest your right to it, and you might not be able to find your title deeds. The estate might be yours clearly enough, but those deeds of yours might be mislaid and locked up in a forgotten drawer, and perhaps you might be sorely put…

When a young man comes to college he usually has much to unlearn. If his education has been neglected, a sort of instinctive ignorance covers his mind with briars and brambles. If he has gone to some faulty school where the teaching is flimsy, his tutor has first of all to fetch out of him what he has…

In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine quotes Bezos as saying, “Even the best innovators always look a little clueless at the beginning because to get a great return you have to be doing something most people aren’t.…

FOOLISHNESS 25-year-old Param Sharma was arrested for “reckless driving” because he was in the back seat of his Tesla, without another person in the driver’s seat, as his Tesla was in either “Autopilot,” or “Full Self-Driving” mode. Apparently, the arrest has not changed Sharma’s resolve to be a backseat…

Animal rescuers rushed to a Singapore home after a woman called them because she thought she heard a cobra hissing in her bathroom. When the woman called the emergency number, she sent the team a recording of the noise she heard, which they believed could be the sound of a deadly black spitting cobra,…

Nassau County, New York District Attorney Madeline Singas announced that a 25-year-old man from the area is facing jail time because he tried to forge his death certificate to avoid serving another jail sentence. The prosecutor said he might have been successful if not for the typos in the document.…

One of the adaptations taken as a result of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic is the wearing of facemasks. According to some, wearing the facemask prevents droplets containing the virus from escaping through the mouth and nose to infect others. How then do you explain the Kentucky woman who approached a…

A Toronto man said he was surprised and confused when a package arrived at his home containing something that he had ordered eight years earlier. When the package was dropped off on his doorstep Elliot Berinstein said he was confused because he had not ordered anything from the company in a long time.…

Residents of the Welsh town of Llandudno reported a herd of 122 Kashmiri goats overran the town during the lockdown, overrunning neighborhoods and eating plants. Locals said the goats wandered away from their home in a nearby country park and found a new habitant in city streets due to a reduction of…

During the coronavirus lockdown in England, British police received an emergency call informing them that the caller could hear someone snoring loudly and wanted police assistance to silence the noise. Rather than sending a unit, the emergency operator informed that caller that was not an appropriate…

Marketing research from multiple sources says that smart phone users spend more than four hours a day on their phones. That adds up to 120 hours a month and 1440 hours a year. Everywhere we look we see people in restaurants on their phones instead of conversation with each other. Walking down the street,…

Millions of new Australian $50 bills contain an embarrassing typographical error that was overlooked before the bills were printed and circulated. The bills are most widely circulated in Australia and makes up about half of the total value of banknotes in use. The new note was introduced in October 2018…

Arkansas police said an 18-year-old man tried to steal a commercial jet so he could fly to a concert in another state. Authorities responded to reports of a man jumping an airport fence and found Zemarcuis Scott in an Envoy Air jet. They said Scott told them he wanted to go to the concert and thought…

Police in Virginia said a man totaled an expensive sports car, the day after he bought it. They did not identify the driver, but posted t a picture and caption on their social media page. They said, “Purchased Friday. Totaled Saturday. This McLaren 720S, costing around $300,000, was destroyed today in…

Twenty-two year old Niels Jenson encountered a 15’ crocodile in a wildlife park in Northern Australia, but didn’t run away. Instead, he waited for the reptile to finish eating and straddled the animal so he could get a photo riding the crocodile. —Jim L. Wilson https://news.sky.com/story/reckless-tourist-filmed-sitting-on-5m-long-crocodile-in-australia-11508454…

Twenty-five year old Matthew Rosenburg offered police officers a bribe if they would not arrest him. What did he offer them? It sound cliché, but it actually happened. The suspect said he “worked at Krispy Kreme and would give them doughnuts.” —Jim L. Wilson http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/26/man-offered-doughnuts-for-freedom-police-say.html…

Kenneth was drunk and wanted to go home, so he called an Uber to pick him up near West Virginia University and drive him home. So far, sounds like the responsible thing to do, right? After all, we wouldn’t want him to drink and then drive. He gave the UberXL driver his address and passed out in the car,…