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: Achievement by Edmund Bok

 Story title: Achievement
By: Edmund Bok

     There is a legend about an Indian chief who used to test the strength of his young braves by challenging them to climb up the side of the mountain as far as they could go without stopping. On an appointed day, four braves left at daybreak.
     The first returned with the branch of a spruce tree to show how high he had gotten. The second

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 : Joy In Suffering by Joel Fritz

Story title : Joy In Suffering
by: Joel Fritz

    I remember a crippled man in the hospital where I was chaplain for a few years.  He was unbelievably disfigured. His body was twisted like a corkscrew and all he could do was sit in bed, day and night. If someone came to visit him, he could not even turn his head enough to make eye contact.
    Whenever I came around to visit him, my standard greeting would be, "Well, how are thing today?"

STORY: Mixing Priorities by Carlos Valles

Story title: Mixing Priorities
by: Carlos Valles

     If we like something very, very much, it can get our judgment out of focus. It can mix up our priorities. It can make us put the cart before the horse, or let the tail wag the dog.
    Take a practical case. A workman from Madang is delighted to find that buses going to lae now have television in them. So do the ones travelling to Goroka. Our man has to make his usual trip to Lae to go to work. He buys his ticket and hops aboard the bus. As he is taking his seat, he asks the

STORY: International Co-operation by Rockefeller Foundation

Story title: International Co-operation
by Rockefeller Foundation

   Whether we wish it or not, even in war we help our enemies, proving
that we are, despite our antagonism, one big, though sometimes unhappy,
family.
   An American soldier wounded by the Japanese owes his life to the
Japanese scientist Kitasato, who islolated the germ of tetanus. A Russian
soldier is saved by a blood transusion, which came to him from Landsteiner,

STORY: Goodness Gives You AWAY by Tony Castle

Story title: Goodness Gives You Away
by: Tony Castle


    There is an orintal fable about a man who owned a ring set with a
beautiful jewel. Whoever wore the ring became so pleasant in character that
everyone loved him. The ring was a charm that passed down from father
to son.
    But then, there was a father with three sons, all of whom he loved
equally. So he had two other rings made which looked exactly like the magic