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December 1937. Japanese forces had captured Nanjing, and a wave of unspeakable violence swept through the city. Soldiers moved street by street, dragging women and...
Does it scorn you for maintaining good works?
A landlord cannot truthfully declare of his fields, "These are mine forever and ever." A king cannot say of his crown with certainty, "This shall be mine eternally." These earthly possessions inevitably change masters; their possessors soon mingle with dust,...
Richard Hooker, the great theologian, wrote that law's "seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world." All creation—material and spiritual—moves according to divine law.
The king of Zobah bore a name meaning 'Hadad [is] help'—invoking a false Syrian god as a banner against Israel's God.
First, the power to raise humanity must come from without—from the Divine.
First, Jerusalem—despoiled by enemies, forsaken for generations, a city "which no man seeketh after"—shall be restored to glory.
The believer whose heart burns with conviction cannot remain silent—silence would betray the very fire that consumes him.
He revels in knowing their desperate cries to God go unheard.
The Divine nature could not be separated from the human; He remained eternally God.
Untruthfulness violates God's character through multiple channels: excuses that misrepresent our conduct, exaggeration born of carelessness or vanity, equivocation where words technically deceive through impression, dissimulation that allows false impressions through silence, broken promises from rashness or neglect, and falsehood...
This grass withers without the sickle ever touching it.
After some great perplexity, some dark hour, or some mysterious visitation, when there seemed to be no clue to an event and not a spark of illumination about it, it is a blessed relief to mind and soul when we...
Exell (1887) observed that adversity, though bitter medicine, purifies nations—but prosperity proves far more perilous.
10/12 (1996): New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First.
3/15 (1877): First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
7/20 (2021): American businessman Jeff Bezos flies to space aboard New Shepard NS-16 operated by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin.
4/9 (1952): Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
1/15 (1822): Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
4/22 (1969): British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
10/31 (1956): Hungarian Revolution of 1956: A Revolutionary Headquarters is established in Hungary. Following Imre Nagy's announcement of October 30, banned non-Communist political parties are reformed, and the MDP is replaced by the MSZMP. József Mindszenty is released from prison.
5/8 (1927): Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
8/6 (2001): Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.