Listen to this article below It was a glorious spring morning in the Italian Alps. Warm winds had finally melted their impenetrable snowy fortresses. Foaming, singing water rushed down the streams. Over the passes from France came an army of 10,000 French soldiers. Up the valley of the Chisone came 12,000 Piedmontese soldiers to join […]
In the summer of 1843, in Sweden, a little girl, only five years of age, who had never learned to read or sing, sang a long Lutheran hymn correctly in a most solemn manner. And then with great power she proclaimed, “The hour of His judgment is come.” She then instructed her family to get […]
“These people have put on Christianity, not like a garment, but like their flesh and blood. Men who do not dread fetters, nor fear torments, nor care for their property, and, what is worst of all, who choose death rather than life—who can stand against them?”1 So declared a Zoroastrian high priest to a fifth-century […]
Since historian Edward Gibbon wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, some have compared ancient Rome with the United States of America. They see portentous parallels between conditions that prevailed during Rome’s collapse and conditions prevailing currently. It has been said that those who do not learn from the past are doomed to […]
The heroic figure St. Patrick, the father of Irish Christianity, has been associated with so much legend and fiction that one is almost led to believe that there were two individuals—the real Patrick and the fictitious Patrick. It may be surprising to know that the actual Patrick was not a Catholic saint. In fact, he […]
On February 12, 1809, two families, half a world apart, were blessed with robust infant sons. In a backwoods log cabin on the Illinois frontier, Abraham Lincoln was born. As that same day dawned over Shrewsbury, England, a fifth child was born to Dr. Robert Darwin—Charles Robert Darwin, as he was christened. Both babies were […]
Millennia ago a war was waged in heaven between the forces of good and evil. This battle and its outcome are briefly described in Revelation 12:7–9. The losers, Satan and the evil angels, retreated to Earth, where they commenced a regime of rebellion against heaven. Through deception, they usurped Adam and Eve’s dominion and sought […]
When Jesus began His public ministry, He proclaimed, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15. What fulfillment of time was He referring to? Jesus was referring to the 70-week prophecy of Daniel 9, which revealed the exact year that the Messiah would […]
“And I will give power unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.... And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead […]
On the night preceding the memorable day on which Luther affixed his 95 Theses to the door of the castle-church of Wittenberg, the elector Frederick of Saxony had an impressive dream. On the morning of October 31, 1517, the elector told it to his brother, Duke John, who was then residing with him at his […]