The Bible Says

A Kind Deed Is A Good Investment
by Charlie Grier
 

“His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran for the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

“The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman’s sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy the farmer had saved.

“I want to repay you,” said the nobleman, “You saved my son’s life.”

“No, I can’t accept payment for what I did,” the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment the farmer’s own son came to the door of the family hovel.

“Is that your son,” the nobleman asked?

“Yes,” the farmer replied proudly.

“I’ll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he’ll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.”

“And that he did. Farmer Fleming’s son attended the very best schools and in time graduated from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

“Years afterward, the same nobleman’s son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.”

Some one once said: What goes around comes around.
Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Sing like nobody’s listening.
Live like its heaven on earth.

-- Taken from the Internet, Author unknown

AN IRISH FRIENDSHIP WISH

May there always be work for your hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;
May the sun always shine on your windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May the hand of a friend ever be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.


Kind People Are Polite

“Politeness is to do or say, the
Kindest thing in the kindest way.”

-Adapted

Kind People Do Not Adopt The Modern Rendering Of The Golden Rule

“Do unto others, as others would like to do unto you; only do him first.”

-Adapted

Sometimes The Kindest Thing One Can Do Is To Take A Firm Stand

Christ’s entire life demonstrated divine love, but when wicked people deliberately tried to trick Him by pretending to be His friends, He called them “hypocrites” and “a generation of vipers” and put them in their place.

My Early Experience In Missionary Work

In 1937 I started and managed a small mission in Bovey, MN. We supplied 11 rooms and three good meals every day for all who were in need. Some of those people stayed there the entire 4 years that we continued. My mother cooked the meals and did much of the work; and two young ladies from Bigfork, MN. lived in, and helped with meals, dishes, beds etc. They also sang Special Numbers in some of our Meetings.

We had Gospel Services at least once a week at which the public was invited and a free-will-offering was taken, and those offerings were helpful. However, there was rent to pay, utilities, food, lights etc. and I picked up the deficit out of my check from the mining company, where I worked. I knew when we started that it would not be a paying proposition, but I did it as unto the Lord and I have never regretted doing it.

We Had Unbending Rules

  1. We accepted needy people. If they had well bodies and work was available, they worked or out they went.
  2. Most of these men were alcoholics, but if they ever came in drunk and caused a disturbance, “Good Bye.”
  3. If they lied or misrepresented in any way they were through.
  4. They attended the Meetings every time the church door was open, unless they had a statement from the doctor saying they were sick.
  5. Everyone could have all the food they wanted, but no waste was allowed.
  6. I was a firm manager. They did not argue with me. They could stay and obey the rules or they could go back on the street and beg. I don’t know how many will be waiting for me in Heaven. This I do know, not one who lived in that mission will be able to say, “No one ever told me about Jesus.”

The Bible Says, Be Kind

“If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”

“Therefore as the elect of God, holy beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.”

(Colossians 3:1,2; 3:12-14 NKJB).