Giving Self Story by William Barclay

Story title: Giving Self
By: William Barclay

    A very conscientious Christian lady looked back on her girlhood in a big city. She was from a well to do family and as she put it. "The poor were our pets." On Sunday it was the favorite charity of these superior Christians to make the rounds of the cells at the police station. The men in particular did this. They visited the week end drunks, lectured them, forced them to take the pledge, and then bailed them out of jail so they would be back to work on Monday.

Facing Criticism Story by William Barclay

Story title: Facing Critism 
By: William Barclay

     Harold Nicholson was a building English politician. At the start of his career, he went to old Stanley Baldwin for advice. The political veteran said something like this to him, "You are going to be a statement and try to handle the affairs of this country. Well, I have had a long experience of such a life, and will give you three rules you had better follow.

Forgiveness Heals Story by Willian Barclay

Story title: Forgiveness Heals
By: William Barclay

     A girl was being treated for several months for anemia but without any success. So her doctor decided to send her to a sanatorium faraway.

Real Leaders Story

Real Leaders
By: William Barclay

   History records how Alexander the Great and his army were dying of thirst after marching eleven days. Suddenly they came upon some local farmers who were fetching skins full of water from a hidden river. Seeing

STORY : New Ideas by William Barclay

Story title : New Ideas
By: William Barclay


    Normally nothing moves more slowly than a church. Religious people have a passion for the old.
    Some of today's most useful discoveries were made by men who dared to be and think different, and suffered for it. The man with something new always has to fight.
    The church branded Galileo a heretic when he taught that the earth moved round the sun.

STORY: Approachableness by William Barclay

Story title: Approachableness 
by William Barclay

      The Gospel story about the mothers bringing their children to Jesus to be blessed, tells the kind of person he was. Children would go to him. That is no small compliment. Many big men scare children away.
      A famous preacher once said that no one could be a follower of Jesus some people nowadays would, "They're only kids; don't bother about them."
   

STORY: Obedience Save by William Barclay

Story title: Obedience Save
by William Barclay


      A veteran Navy man insisted that discipline and obedience were absolutely essential. They had to condition a sailor to obey orders automatically and unquestioningly. His life might one day depend on that. He gave and example out of his own life.
    He was working on a tugboat which was towing a very heavy ship through rough seas. The vessel

STORY: Love Is Kind by Willian Barcly

Story title: Love Is Kind
by: William Barcly

      John Wesley on one of his countless journeys shared a carriage with an Army officer. They had a lively interesting conversation, but the officer's language was salted with swear words. Though it went against Wesley's grain, he showed no displeasure.
     When the coach stopped for a lunch break, Wesley used the opportunity to have a word with the officer. "I wonder if I might ask you a favor, "Wesley asked. " We will be travelling some distance together, and if I should forget myself and us a swear word in front of the ladies, would you kindly correct me?"
       The officer got the point immediately and painlessly/
        That it known as kindness in word.

Story: Rash Judgement by Willian Barclay

Story title: Rash Judgement
By: William Barclay


     One day, we boys were flying kites on an open lot in town. Mine took a dive into a garden surrounded by a high fence. I had heard all kinds of weird stories about the wicked old man who lived in the big house behind the fence. They said that if he caught children in his garden, he would torture them and lock them in a cave.
    Despite it all, I decided to go over that fence and get my kite. So my friends helped me to climb

Story : The Problem Of Youth by William Barclay

Story title: The Problem Of Youth
By: William Barclay

    Someone has tried to compare the problems of young people to those of the flying fox or fruit bat.
    When the world was created, the flying fox found no other creature quite like himself. He wanted some companionship and so he made his home with some birds.
    This was all right for a time, but one day one of the birds said to him, "Why do you live with us? We are birds, but you don't seem to be one of us even though you can fly. You look very much like a mouse. Don't you think you'd be happier living with the mice.?"

FREE STORY: Faith In People by William Barclay

     A boy was misbehaving in class and the teacher sent him to the principal's office. After hearing his story, the principal took out a blank notebook and wrote the boy's name on the cover. While he was writing, he said to the lad, "You have not been sent to me before. Now, I don't know you; you might be a

Story : You Are A Road by William Barclay

    In Malaya during the Second World War, a sympathetic farmer was helping an escaping prisoner of war to make his way to the coast, and from there to freedom. The two were stumbling through a virtually impenetrable jungle. There was no sign of human life and not even the slightest trace of a path.