Tro - Faith

I may relate a little experience. In the church, at one of our meetings, a drunken man rose up. Till that time I had no faith that a drunken man could be converted. When any one approached he was generally taken out. This man got up and shouted, “I...

No book in the world has been so misjudged as the Bible. Men judge it without reading it. Or perhaps they read a bit here and a bit there, and then close it saying, “It is so dark and mysterious!” You take a book, now-a-days, and read it. Some...

I have an old mother up with Jesus in heaven, and I have been in the habit of going to think of her every day. Suppose I go there and say, “Mother, you were very kind to me when I was young–you were very good to me; when father...

There was a man came from Europe to this country a year or two ago, and he became dissatisfied and went to Cuba in 1867 when they had that great civil war there. Finally he was arrested for a spy, court-martialed, and condemned to be shot. He sent for...

“Trust issues” is a phrase commonly used to describe a lack of trust or difficulty trusting, but what is trust and does the Bible have anything to say about “trust issues”? Often times Scripture references trust as faith. In fact one definition of faith is “complete trust or confidence...

Little boy and his sister were one day going through a long, narrow railroad tunnel. The railroad company had built small clefts here and there through the tunnel, so that if any one got caught in the tunnel when the train was passing, they could save themselves. After this...

Suppose I say to my boy, I want you to go out and bring me a glass of water.” He says he doesn’t want to go. “I didn’t ask you whether you wanted to go or not, Willie; I told you to go.” “But I don’t want to go,”...

I remember, while in years ago when I was attending a meeting, a little incident occurred which I will relate. It was a beautiful evening, and just before the meeting some neighbours and myself were sitting on the front piazza enjoying the evening. One of the neighbors put one...

I once heard of a father who had a prodigal boy, and the boy had sent his mother down to the grave with a broken heart, and one evening the boy started out as usual to spend the night in drinking and gambling, and his old father, as he...