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• 23:07, 29 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+35)‎ . . The Glory of the Commonplace ‎ (→‎The Glory of the Commonplace)
• 23:05, 29 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,964)‎ . . The Glory of the Commonplace ‎
• 23:00, 29 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+5,681)‎ . . N The Glory of the Commonplace ‎ (Created page with "==<span style="color:red">'''UNDER CONSTRUCTION'''</span style="color:red">== ====The Glory of the Commonplace==== <table width="620" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"></table...")
• 22:32, 29 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+264)‎ . . Template:Featured ‎ (→‎History of Christmas)
• 23:53, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,387)‎ . . N 'The hand that the nail pierced ‎ (Created page with "====The hand that the nail pierced ==== During our Civil War, word came to a mother that her boy had been wounded. She found her way to the hospital at the front. The doctor...") (current)
• 23:52, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+734)‎ . . N 'We should seek the clasp of Christ's hand ‎ (Created page with "====We should seek the clasp of Christ's hand ==== One of Wellington's officers, when commanded to go on some perilous duty, lingered a moment as if afraid, and then said, "L...") (current)
• 23:52, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,853)‎ . . N 'One day she secretly followed him ‎ (Created page with "====One day she secretly followed him ==== Krummacher has a pleasant little legend of Zaccheus, who found Christ by getting into a sycamore tree. Krummacher says that in his...") (current)
• 23:52, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+2,439)‎ . . N 'Pierced hands ‎ (Created page with "====Pierced hands ==== As I read the ancient story of the love and heroism of David's mighty men, when they hewed their way through the lines of the Philistines, drew up the...") (current)
• 23:51, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,202)‎ . . N 'Your life may be all that stands ‎ (Created page with "====Your life may be all that stands between some great flood of moral ruin ==== Stories are told of a child finding a little leak, in the dike which shuts off the sea from H...") (current)
• 23:50, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,114)‎ . . N 'Unrecognized opportunities ‎ (Created page with "====Unrecognized opportunities ==== There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of choice sandal-wood out of which to carve a Madonna. At last he was about to g...") (current)
• 23:50, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,583)‎ . . N 'The dove ‎ (Created page with "====The dove ==== A great many tender thoughts cluster around the DOVE. It was a dove, which the very poor were permitted to bring to the altar as an offering, as a substit...") (current)
• 23:50, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,012)‎ . . N 'You are the mirror ‎ (Created page with "====You are the mirror ==== We look upon the glory of the Lord, and as we gaze the glory streams upon us, and there is an image of Christ mirrored or reflected in us. Then ot...") (current)
• 23:49, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,133)‎ . . N 'Preparing for the dark paths ‎ (Created page with "====Preparing for the dark paths ==== Before conducting them into dark catacombs, or caverns, the guides put lamps into the tourists' hands. The pale beams may seem useless...") (current)
• 23:49, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,342)‎ . . N 'We have the whole wonderful verse ‎ (Created page with "====We have the whole wonderful verse ==== A story is told of a child who had been taught to think of God only with dread, as of a terrible judge. In her stern home, the name...") (current)
• 23:48, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,836)‎ . . N 'The power of unselfishness ‎ (Created page with "====The power of unselfishness ==== When Alexander the Great was storming one of the cities of Malli, in India, having forced the gate open, he made his way at the head of on...") (current)
• 23:48, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+977)‎ . . N 'It is one of the blessings ‎ (Created page with "====It is one of the blessings of trial ==== There is an ancient picture of the Christ-child in the stable. The child lies upon the straw, the mother is bending over him, the...") (current)
• 23:47, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,670)‎ . . N 'The doom of the useless ‎ (Created page with "====The doom of the useless ==== Long ago, there was a magnificent Temple of the Sun at Baalbek — some of whose pillars are yet standing. Nearby is the quarry from which th...") (current)
• 23:47, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,131)‎ . . N 'A lamp to guide my feet ‎ (Created page with "====A lamp to guide my feet ==== One who carries a lantern on a country road at night sees only one step before him. If he takes that one step, he carries the lantern forward...") (current)
• 23:47, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,207)‎ . . N 'Out of life's silences ‎ (Created page with "====Out of life's silences ==== The gems of the world's literature, the marvelous inventions of science and art, grand thoughts and words which live age after age — are the...") (current)
• 23:46, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,021)‎ . . N 'He would give gold ‎ (Created page with "====He would give gold to everyone who would ask Him ==== If God announced that He would give gold to everyone who would ask Him — how many would remain poor? Would not the...") (current)
• 23:46, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,189)‎ . . N 'Influence after our death ‎ (Created page with "====Influence after our death ==== One plants a tree, and, long after he is dead, weary ones rest at noonday beneath its shade, and pluck its fruits to feed their hunger. J...") (current)
• 23:46, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,302)‎ . . N 'It is only pearls! ‎ (Created page with "====It is only pearls! ==== An Arab once lost his way in the desert. His provisions were soon exhausted. For two days and two nights he had not a morsel to eat. He began to f...") (current)
• 23:45, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,241)‎ . . N 'The story is an allegory ‎ (Created page with "====The story is an allegory ==== There is a story of a young knight, brave, manly, strong — who was victorious over every foe. In every combat he was successful, until he...") (current)
• 23:45, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,445)‎ . . N 'Then all the vagueness passes ‎ (Created page with "====Then all the vagueness passes away from the teachings ==== If you are outside a Catholic cathedral, with its fine stained-glass windows — the figures on painted the win...") (current)
• 23:45, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,628)‎ . . N 'The rescue! ‎ (Created page with "====The rescue! ==== A captain of an ocean vessel, one day as his ship was speeding through the waters, saw a signal of distress some distance off. A telescope was turned to...") (current)
• 23:44, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,880)‎ . . N 'Two little birds ‎ (Created page with "====Two little birds ==== Two little birds went out one lovely spring morning to build their nests. One found a tree and built her nest in its branches. It was a very pleasan...") (current)
• 23:44, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,286)‎ . . N 'Post-mortem kindnesses ‎ (Created page with "====Post-mortem kindnesses ==== Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your affection sealed and laid away — until your friends are dead. Fill their days with tenderness. Speak...") (current)
• 23:44, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,657)‎ . . N This old heathen legend' ‎ (Created page with "====This old heathen legend ==== The valley of Charabra, in India, is rich in its fertility and beauty. The cause of all this fertility is a wonderful spring of water which f...") (current)
• 23:43, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,453)‎ . . N In the rugged hills of toil ' ‎ (Created page with "====In the rugged hills of toil and hardship ==== The law of compensation runs through all God's distribution of gifts. In the animal world there is a wonderful harmony, ofte...") (current)
• 23:43, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,300)‎ . . N 'Unconscious Ministry ‎ (Created page with "====Unconscious Ministry ==== It is said that when Thorwaldsen, the Danish sculptor, returned to his native land with those wonderful works of art which have made his name im...") (current)
• 23:43, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,238)‎ . . N 'As horrible as this story is ‎ (Created page with "====As horrible as this story is ==== There is a story of an Italian nobleman, who took this terrible revenge on one whom he hated. He put him alive in a niche in the palace...") (current)
• 23:42, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,196)‎ . . N 'The human touch ‎ (Created page with "====The human touch ==== A visitor to a glass manufacturer saw a man molding clay into the great pots which were to be used in shaping the glass. Noticing that all the moldin...") (current)
• 23:42, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,486)‎ . . N 'Pousa, the Chinese potter ‎ (Created page with "====Pousa, the Chinese potter ==== There is a story of Pousa, the Chinese potter , who received from the emperor a command to make a rare set of porcelain ware for the royal...") (current)
• 23:41, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+979)‎ . . N 'God's clock is never too slow! ‎ (Created page with "====God's clock is never too slow! ==== Real worth always finds its true place at length. There are some people who think they never get into the place they are fitted to fil...") (current)
• 23:41, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+2,097)‎ . . N ' Until the flames kindled ‎ (Created page with "====Until the flames kindled upon him! ==== Did you ever sit on a winter's evening before an old-fashioned open fireplace, with its blazing log of wood? As you sit there and...") (current)
• 23:40, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+2,049)‎ . . N 'It is only a heathen legend ‎ (Created page with "====It is only a heathen legend ==== In Japan they have a beautiful legend of the making of a wonderful bell. Long, long ago, the emperor wrote to the maker of bells, command...") (current)
• 23:40, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+945)‎ . . N 'Christ's picture never has been lost ‎ (Created page with "====Christ's picture never has been lost ==== The old legend says that when Jesus passed on His way to Golgotha, a pious woman took off her handkerchief and gave it to Him, t...") (current)
• 23:40, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,421)‎ . . N 'My requiem ‎ (Created page with "====My requiem ==== The last melody Mozart wrote was his sweetest. He had spent weeks upon it, and after giving the last touches, he fell asleep. His daughter entered at leng...") (current)
• 23:39, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,376)‎ . . N 'The Master's errands ‎ (Created page with "====The Master's errands to His little ones ==== A beautiful story is told of Lady Augusta Stanley. One day when she was dressed for a reception at the queen's palace, a mess...") (current)
• 23:39, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+968)‎ . . N 'Our restless, perplexed lives ‎ (Created page with "====Our restless, perplexed lives roll in rocky channels ==== There are streams among the mountains which, after flowing a little way on the surface in a current, broken, vex...") (current)
• 23:38, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,327)‎ . . N 'The simplest things we do ‎ (Created page with "====The simplest things we do at Christ's bidding ==== "Fill the waterpots with water." John 2:7 Our Lord calls His people always to be helpers in blessing this world. We c...") (current)
• 23:38, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,278)‎ . . N 'Over the coffin pitiful we stand ‎ (Created page with "====Over the coffin pitiful we stand ==== It is not enough to love others; we must let them know that we love them. We must do it, too, before it is too late. Some people wai...") (current)
• 23:37, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,842)‎ . . N 'The obscurest Christian ‎ (Created page with "====The obscurest Christian ==== "And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the...") (current)
• 23:37, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,573)‎ . . N 'The chimes of St. Nicholas ‎ (Created page with "====The chimes of St. Nicholas ==== A visitor to Amsterdam wished to hear the wonderful music of the chimes of St. Nicholas , and went up into the tower of the church to hear...") (current)
• 23:36, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,233)‎ . . N 'Every child of God ‎ (Created page with "====Every child of God may be kept in perfect peace ==== "You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You." Isaiah 26:3 In one of the gr...") (current)
• 23:36, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,557)‎ . . N 'It was the old smith ‎ (Created page with "====It was the old smith fighting the storm! ==== Men said that the old smith was foolishly over-careful as he wrought on the great chain he was making in his dingy shop in t...") (current)
• 23:36, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,670)‎ . . N 'He was a miserable ‎ (Created page with "====He was a miserable, filthy beggar, wearing rags, with villainous look ==== One of the most famous pictures in the world is the Last Supper , by Leonardo da Vinci. Jesus s...") (current)
• 23:35, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+936)‎ . . N 'Sweet incense ‎ (Created page with "====Sweet incense ==== In John's vision of Heaven, the redeemed are represented as having in their hands "golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of saints." Th...") (current)
• 23:35, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,370)‎ . . N 'Serving Christ acceptably ‎ (Created page with "====Serving Christ acceptably ==== The bird praises God by singing. The flower pays its tribute to God in fragrant incense as its censer swings in the breeze. The tree sh...") (current)
• 23:34, 27 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+799)‎ . . N 'The beauty of Christlikeness ‎ (Created page with "====The beauty of Christlikeness ==== In one of the cathedrals in Europe, an old man carved an exquisite picture of Christ in one of the rafters. Just so, every Christian m...") (current)

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