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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
For eight years, from 1856 to 1863, an Augustinian friar named Gregor Johann Mendel knelt in the experimental garden of St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno,...
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The rich man perverse in his ways lacks this wisdom entirely.
First, it demonstrated that on the Sabbath especially, men must attend to the interests of the soul rather than bodily comforts.
When Elohim commands, "Prepare war, wake up the mighty men," He invites evil to marshal its complete arsenal, knowing this concentration only ensures its more thorough destruction.
Just as plants have evolved defenses against harmful insects, the soul requires vigilance against those who deceive through honeyed words.
In 1799, an enslaved man named Denmark Vesey won $1,500 in a Charleston, South Carolina lottery and purchased his freedom for $600. He built a...
The word carries an evil connotation—recalling the serpent's cunning in Genesis 3—yet here Solomon redeems it to mean discernment rather than deception.
The Greek word here *kleio* means not merely to close, but to lock—to shut in a way that cannot be reopened.
Solomon commands: "Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them." The wise are least likely to covet such company, yet this counsel applies universally.
Along the windswept shore of Lyme Regis, Dorset, twelve-year-old Mary Anning gripped her hammer against the cold limestone cliffs in 1811. Her brother Joseph had...
Yet inevitably the accumulating pressure breaches the barrier, and the stream resumes its accustomed course with redoubled force.
In the higher regions dwell principles of innocence, hope, love, justice, trust, kindness, purity, and tenderness—the kingdom of heaven itself.
This creature of supreme power teaches four vital lessons, as expounded by R.
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* identifies three marks of temptation as she conducts her ministry of ruin.
Consider the stars—our starry monitors—fixed in their courses by divine decree.
On a cold Sunday in March 1841, Dorothea Dix stepped into the East Cambridge jail to teach a Sunday school class. What she found changed...
Silence can manifest cowardice or stupidity; speech can be more precious than gold, triumphant over error.
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a petri dish he had left...
Strachey observed that the Medes cared not for gold, but for blood—even the blood of boys and infants.
Joseph Exell identified five corrupted standards by which multitudes measure duty, each leading toward *thanatos* (death).
Archbishop John Tillotson (D.D.) identifies two pillars supporting this claim.
Maclaren seizes on this universal truth: "Half-way is just the critical time in all protracted work.
In 1898, Marie Curie and her husband Pierre worked in a converted shed at the École de Physique et de Chimie in Paris, processing tons...
For nearly thirty years, Nicolaus Copernicus kept his revolutionary idea largely to himself. The Polish canon at the cathedral in Frombork had calculated what few...