A ROCKY FOUNDATION

  The construction of the famous Tower of Pisa began in 1173. The Tower measures 55.86 meters of height with an estimated weight of 14,700 tons and an inclination of about 4 ° extending 3.9 m of the vertical. The tower stood upright for over 5 years, but when the third floor was completed in 1178 it began to lean. The problem is the foundation of the tower, which is only 3-meter deep, was built on a dense clay mixture. This mix impacted the soil and the clay was not strong enough to hold the tower upright. As a result the weight of the tower began to diffuse downward until it had found the weakest point. Construction works stopped. After 100 years, an engineer started to add more floors to the tower. He tried to compensate for the original lean by making one side of the upper floors taller than the other. This only caused the tower to lean over even more. Questions which are frequently asked after a revival is “are the converts genuine? will they remain true?” That depen...

  Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643 to a family of farmers. He became a professor at Cambridge and the greatest English mathematician of his generation. His work on optics and gravitation make him one of the greatest scientists the world has known. Isaac was a serious student of the Bible and published several theological works. He believed that God created all things with their own unique purpose. He wrote “this being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he ought to be called Lord God. The true God is a living, intelligent and powerful Being. He governs all things and knows all things that are or can be. The harmony and balance of the universe could only be attributed to a supreme, omniscient being who designed it. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.   I don’t know what I may seem to the wor...

  Standing before a great audience, a world-famed musician took up a violin and played upon it so remarkably that his listeners sat in rapt attention. One string of the violin broke. He played on as though nothing had happened. The second string broke and though the audience was amazed still he continued to play as before. Then the third string broke leaving only one and while the people held their breath, he played on beautifully. At last the fourth string broke and the great musician raised his violin and bringing it down with all his might dashed it to pieces. The people thought that in anger he had ruined a very valuable instrument. He then told them that he had purchased that violin for three dollars; that he had used it to show them that it was not so much the instrument as the master hand that played it which determined the quality of music. In his sermon on the day of Pentecost, Peter told his audience " God has raised this Jesus to life and we are all witnesses of i...