A Hanging By A Thread Story

Story title: Hanging By A Thread 
By: Bert Balling

       One sunny day, a spider glided down noiselessly from a tree and began to run to and fro among the bushes, pulling along his string and building an intricate web, which very shortly ensnared many a tasty insect.
      As the sun was sinking in the evening sky, the spiderspeeded around and across his web and felt a thrill of pride over his work. It had been a wonderfully successful day.

He was Going To Leave Story

Story title: He Was Going To Leave 
By: Bert Balling

       One day an elderly surgeon said to an aging bishop, "Bishop, I just want to inform you that I'm thingking about leaving the Church. What do you say about that?"
      The Bishop asked the medical man if he could give him a few reasons for his decision. The doctor

STORY : Happy Ending by Herbert Prochnow

Story title: Happy Ending
By: Herbert Prochnow


     They tell the story of the old dog who saw a puppy chasing its tail, and
asked,"Why are you chasing your tail?"
      Said the puppy, "I have mastered philosophy. I have solved the
problems of the universe, which no dog before me had rightly soloved. I have

STORY : How A Conscience Works by June A. Westgaard

Story title: How A Conscience Works
By: June A. Westgaard

      Ann Connolly was shopping for groceries. While she was momentarily distracted, someone snatched her purse from her shopping cart.
      It so happens that Miss Connolly carries in her purse a talk back beeper device for telephone paging. So, as soon as she missed her purse, she hurried over to the store manager's office and dialed her own number into the telephone. This automatically activated her beeper talk back phone. Then she spoke into the manager's phone, knowing that her voice would be transmitted to the beeper in her purse, which was always turned up loud and clear for just such an emergency.
     One of the store attendants said afterwards that you should have seen that surprised man standing there with her purse and the purse was talking and saying for all to hear: " Take this purse to the manager's office, immediately!
    And he did!

STORY: How God Hears All Prayers by Arthur Tonne

Story title: How God Hears All Prayers 
by Arthur Tonne


     "In the synagogue I heard different men praying men praying," said a puzzled little boy. " I must be awfully hard for God."
    "Why? What do you mean?" asked the rabbi gently.
    "Well, the woodcutter was praying for cold weather. The fruit seller was praying for mild weather.

STORY: Happy Family Life by Willi Hoffsuemmer

Story title: Happy Family
by Willi Hoffsuemmer


     A poor woodcutter lived contentedly in a little house at the edge of the forest. He earned his daily bread by chopping down trees. But no matter how tired he was, he and his family always ended the day with laughing and singing.
     Every evening the king passed by this happy household as he was walking back to his castle. It

STORY: How To Make A Job Easy by Corinne Updegraff Wells

Story title: How To Make A Job Easy
by: Corinne Updegraff Wells


When I was small, my brothers and I were expected to keep the vegetable garden weeded. Of course, we hated the job and we would put it off as long as possible and usually we ended up using a precious Saturday catching up on our work.
    One day a visiting uncle rambled into the garden and saw us there scowling at our work. He stopped and asked, "Do you boys know why you're pulling those weeds? It's because they are

Story: How To Win In Court by Jacob Braude

Story title: How To Win In Court
by: Jacob Braude

    There is an old Jewish story which goes like this. A certain man had three friends. He liked two of them; but had little use for the third. One day he was ordered to appear in court. Alarmed, he looked around for someone to defend him. He immediately thought of his two favorite friends. One said, " No way! I'am not going into any court."The second said, "I'll go as far as the king's gate, but no farther, " In despair the man then asked his least loved friend for help. He said, "Sure, I'll come." And he did come, and he defended the man so well that he won his case.