Raising Money for the Church story

Story title: Raising Money For The Church
By: Tony Castle

      They tell the story of an Anglican pastor in England who wanted to build a new tower for the village church. He hit upon the Gospel idea of distributing money to his 100 villagers and telling them to invest and bring back the profits within six months. He did even better than the man in the Bible: he repead 13 times as much as he sowed.

Story : The Many Hands In Government by Bruno Hagspiel

    Emperor Frederick the Great of Germany had a hard time balancing his country's budget. He invited a group of financial experts to a banquet to discuss the situation. He said he could not understand why even with very high taxes, not enough money was coming into the government treasury.

Story Compensation by Hermann Schreiber

          Mark Twain was a famous American humorist of the last century. Many people know that his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clements, but few people know why he never used it.

         Mark Twain, in nautical language, means: two fathoms deep. It was the pen name of a Mississippi river boat captain, whose real name was Isaiah Sellers.

Story Of What Would Jesus Have Done? By Maxine Davis

  I was working at the supermarket check out counter and my nerves were badly on edge. Up came a little boy with a loaf of bread, "That will be one dollar and nine cents," I told him, as he dumped a fistful of change onto the counter.

  He looked at me apologetically and with trembling fingers tried to push the coins together. I counted

Story About A Rich Man

There was a man who worked all his life and saved all of his money. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than anything. Just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife." So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died she would put all the money in the casket with him.