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The stupendous falls of Niagara have been spoken of in every part of the world. But while they are marvelous to hear of, and wonderful as a spectacle, they have been very destructive to human life when by accident any have been carried down the cataract. Some years ago, two men, a bargeman and a collier,…

Noise from strong winds prompted a Niagara Falls, New York resident to ask the local police to stop the wind from blowing. An audio recording released by the department reveals how a dispatcher handled the unusual request. She said, “All cars be advised, someone called to see if the police could stop…

Nik Wallenda from the high flying Wallenda family recently crossed a high wire across a canyon near the Grand Canyon. He made the crossing without a tether or safety net. Last year he was the first person to walk over the brink of Niagara Falls on a high wire. When asked about the danger he faced Wallenda’s…

On March 29, 1948, people who lived near Niagara Falls awoke to an eerie silence. The 500,000 tons of water that flow over Niagara Falls every minute had stopped—and it didn't start again for 30 hours. Heavy winds had blown tons of ice into the mouth of the Niagara River from Lake Erie and stopped the…

Oct 19 2008 Bothwell Message: “A Tax ‘Trap' for Jesus…And?” Matthew 22:15-22 Last Week’s Election Turnout This past Wednesday an article appeared in The Niagara Falls Review by Corey Larocque. It was titled: Voter turnout part of worldwide slide, Brock professor says - Citizens in democracies taking…

The finest attractions of this world become deadly when we become overly attached to them. A well-known author once told this story of an account he had with sea gulls: “Several years ago our family visited Niagara Falls. It was spring, and ice was rushing down the river. As I viewed the large blocks…

The Lifesaving Rope For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:8-10 Show…

There’s a familiar old story that’s told about a tightrope walker who did incredible stunts. All over Paris, he would do tightrope acts at tremendously scary heights. Then, he would do it blindfolded, then he would go across the tightrope, blindfolded, pushing a wheelbarrow. As the story goes, there…

HOMING PIGEONS A man drove from Niagara Falls to Grimsby, open the tailgate of his truck and took out a pigeon. He caressed it and spoke softly to it then threw it up in the air. It circled, then headed straight for home. After the first was well out of sight, he got out another, the same procedure.…

“COLD-HEARTEDNESS” Picture if you will, a giant eagle soaring majestically above the Niagara River, his great wings spread in flight. As he glides silently overhead looking for prey, he spies the carcass of a bird floating upon a block of ice on the River below. He swoops down, lands on the ice, and…

CONSISTENT LIFE I recently heard of four scholars who were arguing over Bible translations. One said he preferred the King James Version because of its beautiful, eloquent old English. Another said he preferred the American Standard Bible for its literalism, the way it moves the reader from passage to…

CONSISTENT LIFE I recently heard of four scholars who were arguing over Bible translations. One said he preferred the King James Version because of its beautiful, eloquent old English. Another said he preferred the American Standard Bible for its literalism, the way it moves the reader from passage to…

To Illustrate BLOOD'S PRICE" W hen I was five years old, before factory-installed seat belts and automobile air bags, my family was in­volved in a head-on colli­sion with a drunk driver. After a visit to my grand­parents' farm, we had been driving home at night on a two-lane country road. I was sitting…

OPPORTUNITY A man was out walking in the desert when a voice said to him, "Pick up some pebbles and put them in your pocket, and tomorrow you will be both sorry and glad." The man obeyed. He stooped down and picked up a handful of peb­bles and put them in his pocket. The next morning he reached into…

OPPORTUNITY A man was out walking in the desert when a voice said to him, "Pick up some pebbles and put them in your pocket, and tomorrow you will be both sorry and glad." The man obeyed. He stooped down and picked up a handful of peb­bles and put them in his pocket. The next morning he reached into…

During one evening of my stint as a premedical assistant at Connaught, a small hospital in London's East Side, my whole view of medicine—and of blood—perma­nently shifted. That night hospital orderlies wheeled a beautiful young accident victim into my ward. Loss of blood had given her skin an un­earthly…

VALUES IN THE HOME In a recent Focus on the Family radio interview with Mr. Bobb Biehl, President of Masterplanning Associates, a creative suggestion was offered to parents that I now stongly endorse. It related to the process by which values can be transmitted from one generation to the next. All mothers…

MOODY'S ANECDOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. RELATED IN HIS REVIVAL WORK BY THE GREAT EVANGELIST DWIGHT L. MOODY. FULLY ILLUSTRATED FROM GUSTAVE DORE REVISED EDITION. EDITED BY REV. J. B. McClure. CHICAGO: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co. 1899 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1896 by the Rhodes…