A ROCKY FOUNDATION

       Dr. Schofield was a brilliant young doctor at Oxford. He gave his life to Jesus and at the age of 29 he went to China as a missionary. He was the first Protestant missionary allowed to penetrate into the interior of China. There was nothing glamorous about missionary life there. Disease was common and he would later die from typhus contracted in his mission field. Dr. Schofield looked at the Shansi province in which he lived, with its nine million unsaved heathen Chinese and only six missionaries. He thought about the sleeping Church back in England. At the time, few in England were interested in the China mission. This should have made him pack up his bags and go home in utter defeat. However, Dr. Schofield was a man of prayer. Night after night, leaving behind food and leisure, he got on his knees and prayed. He prayed that God would raise up Bible teachers and shepherds, especially from the universities and send them to China as missionaries. When ...

                In the May 2, 1990 Ridder Newspapers Chicago , there was an article about a 46 years old man called Thomas Donaldson. He had a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a senior mathematician for a software company in Belmont. He was a long time proponent of cryonics, the controversial practice of deep-freezing people after they have died in hopes that someday they can be thawed and revived. Donaldson was suffering from a brain tumor and had gone to court in search of permission to have himself frozen to death before he was legally dead. He wanted to have his head separated from his body after freezing in hopes that future scientists will discover a way to cure the tumor and attach his head to a healthy body. “I don`t want to die''   he said, “all the other choices I know lead to certain death, whereas this one leads to some uncertain end. It seems to me this one is cle...

“The Pilgrim's Progress- from This World, to That Which Is to Come” is a Christian allegory that was written by John Bunyan in 1678. There's no book in English, apart from the Bible, to equal Bunyan's masterpiece for the range of its readership. In the book the pilgrim’s wife Christiana comes across a man with a muck (manure) rake who could only look down at the ground. Someone was holding a celestial crown above his head, offering to give him the crown in exchange for the muck rake. But the man did not look up or notice the crown; instead, he moved around the muck at his feet being careful to rake out the bits of straw and small sticks. Christiana tells Interpreter she thinks she knows who the man is, “a man of this World.” Interpreter explains to her the vision “The worldly man would rather pay attention to the straws, sticks and dust at his feet than to the celestial crown held out to him by Christ. To some people Heaven is but as a fable and that the things they...