“Is there anything I can do for you?” asked the President.

The soldier obviously didn’t recognize Lincoln, and with some effort he was able to whisper, “Could you please write a letter to my mother?”

A pen and paper were provided and the President carefully began writing down what the young man was able to say:

“My dearest mother, I was badly hurt while doing my duty. I’m afraid I’m not going to recover. Don’t grieve too much for me, please. Kiss Mary and John for me. May God bless you and father.”

The soldier was too weak to continue, so Lincoln signed the letter for him and added, “written for your son by Abraham Lincoln.”

The young man asked to see the note and was astonished when he discovered who had written it. “Are you really the President?” he asked.

“Yes, I am,” Lincoln replied quietly. Then he asked if there was anything else he could do.

“Could you please hold my hand?” the soldier asked. “It will help to see me through to the end.”

In the hushed room, the tall gaunt President took the boy’s hand in his and spoke warm words of encouragement until death came.

According to Encyclopedia Americana, “CREATION, in a restricted sense, refers to the bringing into existence of the world by God.”

–It’s actually a gift of God for mankind, He loves us that He gave us a wonderful place to be living in. What did some famous scientists & people say about creation?

Isaac Newton

One day Newton while studying the intricately-made model representing the solar system, a friend, who did not believe in the Biblical account of creation, stopped by for a visit.
Marveling at the device and watching as the scientist made the heavenly bodies move in their orbits, the man exclaimed, “My, Newton, what an exquisite thing! Who made it for you?”

Without looking up, Sir Isaac replied, “Nobody.”

“Nobody?” his friend asked.

“That’s right! I said nobody! All of these cogs and belts and gears just happened to come together, and wonder of wonders, by chance they began revolving in their set orbits and with perfect timing.”

The unbeliever got the message! It was foolish to suppose that the model merely happened. But it was even more senseless to accept the theory that the Earth and the vast Universe came into being by chance.

Dr. Robert Millikan  (1868-1953, physicist, one of the most illustrious U.S. scientists),  He said, “Behind every watch there had to be a watchmaker, and so behind the intricate precision of this great Universe there had to be a divine Designer and Creator!”

What does the Bible say about creation?

Genesis.1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven & the earth.”

But one day as he and his secretary were going into Parliament, another little newsboy rushed up to them, exclaiming, “Please, Sir, you know the boy who sells you papers here? Yesterday he was run over by a carriage and he’s badly hurt. He’s going to die, and he’s asking for you to come and get him IN.” The Minister questioned, “What do you mean, `get him in’?” The lad replied, “You know, get him in to HEAVEN!”

His secretary, however, protested, “No, no, no, you don’t have TIME to go see a dying newsboy! You know how important your speech today is! It could change the course of English history!”

Gladstone hesitated only a moment, then said, “ONE immortal soul is worth MORE than my speech in Parliament!” So off to the little garret he went where the newsboy lay crushed and dying on a rough mat in the corner. With tears streaming down his face, Gladstone led the boy in a prayer to receive Jesus! The newsboy looked up into the great man’s face and whispered, “I knew you’d come. Thank you for getting me in!” Then he closed his eyes and went to be with Jesus!

An hour or two later, Gladstone made it back to Parliament where a heated discussion was raging! He was late and had almost missed his turn to speak, but not quite! He spoke eloquently!–And WON the debate! Afterwards his secretary said, “Sir, how COULD you have gone off and bothered with that little newsboy and risked missing your delivery of SUCH an important speech?”

Gladstone replied, “This speech today WAS a very important & good thing, but getting that newsboy SAVED and into Heaven was a BETTER, MORE important thing! GOD knew I was going to be able to get back in time for that speech! He was testing me to see if I’d put HIS work first!”
–What a lesson on the correct sense of values!

Before the accident, the boy had been a bright ambitious young man with a great future.  No one could have blamed him if the accident had made him bitter and full of despair. And that is how it did seem to him at first. But there was one thing that saved him and helped him overcome & fight his way out of deep depression. He deeply loved his father and knew that his father was nearly out of his mind with grief at what he had done to his son.

He knew that the only way he could save his father’s sanity was to choose hope over terrible despair. And that is exactly what he did! He pretended to be cheerful when he was not! He pretended to take an interest in life that he did not feel! He pretended to have hope that he could be a useful citizen, although he himself felt no such hope!

But then an odd thing happened. The pretense turned into reality! His drive & zest for life returned! He determined to fight through and do the very best with his life that he could!  The result: Henry Fawcett was elected to Parliament of England, of which he remained an influential member for the rest of his life. In his later years, at the Prime Minister William Gladstone’s request, he became Postmaster General, where he brought about great improvements in the English postal & telegraph systems, including Parcel Post and Postal Orders for the first time!

Trials & tests are to be expected in life:

Psa.34:19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. 17 And Jesus said to them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. 18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.

19 And when he had gone a little farther from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. 20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.

21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught. 22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. 23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 Saying, “Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Are you come to destroy us? I know thee who you are, the Holy One of God.” 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold your peace, and come out of him. 26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. 27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What thing is this? What new doctrine is this? For with authority commands he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.” 28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. 29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her. 31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered to them.

“I used to worry a lot”, says Harold Abbott of Webb City, Missouri. “But one spring day I was walking down West Dougherty Street when I saw a sight that banished all my worries. It happened in ten seconds, but during those ten seconds I learned more about how to live than I had learned in the previous ten years! For two years I had been running a grocery store. I not only lost all my savings, but I was heavily in debt. In fact, my store had been closed the previous Saturday, and now I was going to the bank to borrow money so I could go to Kansas City to look for a job.

I walked like a beaten man. I had lost all my fight and faith. But then suddenly, I saw coming down the street a man who had no legs. He was sitting on a little wooden platform equipped with roller skates for wheels. He propelled himself along the street with a block of wood in each hand. I met him just after he had crossed the street and was starting to lift himself up a few inches over the curb to the sidewalk. As he tilted his wooden platform to an angle, his eyes met mine. He greeted me with a grand smile, ‘Good morning, Sir! It is a fine morning, isn’t it?’ he said with spirit! As I looked at him, I realized how rich I was. I had two legs. I could walk. I felt ashamed of my self-pity.
I said to myself, ‘If he can be happy, cheerful and victorious without legs, I certainly can with legs.’ I could already feel my chest lifting. I had intended to ask the bank for only one hundred dollars. But now I had courage to ask the bank for two hundred! I had intended to say that I wanted to go to Kansas City to try to get a job. But now I announced confidently that I wanted to go to Kansas City to get a job! I got the loan, and I got the job!

I now have the following words pasted on my bathroom mirror, and I read them every morning as I shave: ‘I had the blues because I had no shoes, until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.’”

A thought on thankfulness: “The finest test of character is seen in the amount and the power of gratitude we have.”

“Very well, said the minister, “how then do you propose to be saved?”

“By following His example,” was the answer. “That is enough for any man.”

“I suppose it is,” said the minister. “And you propose to do just that in your life?”

“I do, and I am sure that that is enough.”

“Very well. I am sure that you want to begin right. The Word of God tells us how to do that. I read here concerning Christ, ‘Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth.’ I suppose that you can say that of yourself, too?” (1Pet.2:22).

The man became visibly embarrassed. “Well,” he said, “I cannot say that exactly. I have sometimes sinned.”

“In that case you do not need an example, but a Saviour; and the only way of salvation is by His shed Blood.”

In spite of the dithering by the Ministry of Health and the delaying tactics of the phone operating companies, it is now becoming clear that the mobile phone is a virulent pathogen with damaging effects that we are only vaguely aware of.
Recently it was scientifically proved that there is a connection between certain types of tumour and the intensive use of a mobile phone. Most in evidence are cases of acoustic neurinoma, a tumour that develops on the acoustic nerve, as well as malignant brain tumours. According to this study the risk is multiplied by two or more on the side where the phone is held.
Are the health authorities worried about these results? Not in the least since, according to the official experts, the risk concerns only “intensive” phone users, and, as they add with a certain touch of cynicism, nothing proves that using a mobile phone always causes a tumour to develop.
They are right, but when we know that a tumour usually takes 15-20 years to develop, it would seem logical to conclude that the appearance of tumours after 4-5 years in these intensive phone users is a sure sign of a health catastrophe to come in 10 years’ time. 10 years!  For those who have children, it’s nothing, but for the people that sell telephones it must seem a long way off.
The worst thing in this situation is that it is the younger generation that is the most in danger. It is children and teenagers who use mobile phones the most. And it is at precisely this age that the brain is the most exposed: in a child’s brain almost two thirds of it are affected by the radiation while in the adult it reaches only one third of the brain, which is already far too much!
Even more worrying, the radiation increases in intensity as reception becomes more difficult. So when you use the phone in a train or a car, or when you are in a zone with weaker coverage and the phone has to keep searching for new signals, the intensity of the microwaves is considerably higher.
And with every day that passes we find more electromagnetic radiation in our daily surroundings: TV screens and computer monitors, cordless phones and wi-fi systems. All of which is horrifying. All this radiation is non-ionising, that’s to say it is capable of upsetting the function of our cells, particularly in our DNA, and the functioning of our glands. Among these it is the pineal, the source of the sleep hormone and of the resistance to cancer, that is the most easily disturbed.
We could weep over this tragedy that awaits us, which everyone sees coming and which nobody is doing anything about. But wait –there are millions of mobile phones in use nowadays. And one day, for lack of the will to face up to this problem, we will inevitably be faced with a terrible choice: your mobile or your life!
At that point we will have to give up this magic tool, resign ourselves to taking a step backwards, draw a line through all that it has brought us –will we dare? It’s at that moment that we’ll see if humanity still has a will to live or not. —-