Sojourner Truth whose birth name was Isabella Baumfree was born a slave in in Esopus New York Though nearly all of her children were sold as slaves she escaped to freedom in with one daughter and lived with a family who paid the money for her freedom Instead of allowing an unjust system to keep her family apart she took legal action to regain her small son Peter mdash an amazing feat for an African-American woman in that day Knowing she couldn rsquo t raise her children without God rsquo s help she became a believer in Christ and later [... more]

Which would you choose mdash a skiing holiday in Switzerland or rescuing children from danger in Prague Nicholas Winton just an ordinary man chose the latter In war between Czechoslovakia and Germany seemed on the horizon After Nicholas visited refugee camps in Prague where many Jewish citizens lived in horrible conditions he felt compelled to come up with a plan to help He raised money to transport hundreds of children safely out of Prague to Great Britain to be cared for by British families before the onset of World War II His actions exemplified those called for in Psalm ldquo [... more]

Twenty-four karat gold is percent gold with no impurities But that percentage is difficult to achieve Refiners most commonly use one of two methods for the purification process The Miller method is the quickest and least expensive but the resulting gold is only about percent pure The Wohlwill process takes a little more time and costs more but the gold produced is percent pure In Bible times refiners used fire as a gold purifier Fire caused impurities to rise to the surface for easier removal In his first letter to Christians throughout Asia Minor northern Turkey the apostle Peter used [... more]

The closer someone in a royal family is to the throne the more the public hears about him or her Others are almost forgotten The British royal family has a line of succession that includes nearly sixty people One of them is Lord Frederick Windsor who rsquo s forty-ninth in line for the throne Instead of being in the limelight he quietly goes about his life Though he works as a financial analyst he rsquo s not considered a ldquo working royal rdquo mdash one of the important family members who are paid for representing the family David rsquo s [... more]