Morris Chalfant

When the telephone company tells us "Long distance is the next best thing to being there, " it is reminding us to communicate with someone we love. Hallmark offers its cards for those times "when you care enough to send the very…

When Adam and Eve were thrust out of the Garden of Eden, Eve turned to Adam and asked, "Oh, what is to become of us now?" And Adam replied, "We are about to experience an abrupt socioeconomic transformation!"

At least that is how…

John Wesley tells in his Journal for May 20, 1742, of overtaking a man on the road and engaging him in conversation concerning religious themes. After realizing the man's views were very different from his, Wesley suggested that they keep…

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It was no doubt an accident, but it did carry a message. In printing the preacher's sermon, the local newspaper carried an interesting mistake in the introductory verse: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and…

Richard Baxter was one of England's greatest ministers. In early ministry he pastored a community composed almost entirely of rich, cultured people. But he soon found that the congregation was cold, and all was not…