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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The very repetition itself teaches us that our praises must be characterized by earnestness, frequency, delight, and universality.
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Delitzsch observed that holiness means separation from worldly corruption, superior in character.
On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday bent over a simple iron ring in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London. He had wound...
Yet this truth becomes luminous when understood through the husbandman's labor—the farmer who scatters seed receives a multiplied harvest (2 Corinthians 9:6).
--- The Nurses Who Refused to Stand Alone On the first of July, 1899, Ethel Gordon Fenwick rose to address a gathering of nurses from...
In December 1937, Japanese forces captured Nanjing, China, and unleashed weeks of mass violence against civilians. While many foreign nationals evacuated, American missionary Minnie Vautrin...
In the summer of 1943, a lab assistant named Mary Hunt walked into a Peoria, Illinois, fruit market and picked up a bruised cantaloupe covered...
In early April 1945, Allied forces were closing in on Germany from every direction. The war would end in weeks. At Flossenburg concentration camp in...
There exists a natural liberality, constitutional to certain temperaments.
On May 5, 1945, American soldiers scrambled to retreat down the four-hundred-foot Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa as Japanese forces overwhelmed their position. Dozens of wounded...
In the spring of 1877, a thirty-two-year-old Jesuit seminarian stood on the hills above the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales, watching light move across...
In the autumn of 1772, eighteen of Boston's most prominent men — including Governor Thomas Hutchinson and John Hancock — gathered to examine a young...
When the Temple of Jerusalem was completed after twenty-three years of struggle, opposition, and bureaucratic entanglement, the narrative does not first credit the masons' hands or the Persian king's decree.
On September 3, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a summer holiday to his cluttered laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London. Before leaving, he had...
Joseph Exell preserved two Victorian illustrations of this principle in action.
What does it mean to trust one's heart?
Trust is not mere intellectual assent or emotional confidence.
First, we must awake fully to the importance of Yahweh's commands: give them intelligent and reverent examination, store them in memory, and study their beneficent operation.
On August 1, 1834, church bells rang across the British Caribbean as the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 took effect. In Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, and...
For nearly two decades, Cuban physician Dr. Carlos Finlay stood before medical conferences insisting that mosquitoes carried yellow fever. The scientific establishment dismissed him. Colleagues...
Maclaren identifies three movements in this fatal process.
On July 1, 1899, Ethel Gordon Fenwick stood before delegates at the International Congress of Women in London and proposed something unprecedented: a global alliance...
In the autumn of 1943, a Polish social worker named Irena Sendler climbed into the back of an ambulance on Złota Street in Warsaw, carrying...
In the late 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach labored in his Leipzig study, his eyesight steadily failing, assembling the final sections of what would become the...