"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine... (Proverbs 17:22)."
"100 Years Ago in the USA..."
~ The average life expectancy in the United States was forty-seven.
~ Only 14 percent of the homes in the United States had a bathtub.
~ Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
~ There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads.
~ The maximum speed limit in most cities was ten mph.
~ Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the twenty-first most populous state in the Union.
~ The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
~ The average wage in the U.S. was twenty-two cents an hour. The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year. A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2500 per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and $4000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5000 per year.
~ More than 95 percent of all births in the United States took place at home.
~ Ninety percent of all U.S. physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard."
~ Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound.
~ Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
~ Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason, either as travelers or immigrants.
~ The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
~ The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
~ Drive-by-shootings -- in which teenage boys galloped down the street on horses and started randomly shooting at houses, carriages, or anything else that caught their fancy -- were an ongoing problem in Denver and other cities in the West.
~ The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was thirty. The remote desert community was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their families.
~ Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't been discovered yet. Scotch tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.
~ There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
~ One in ten U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
~ Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
~ Coca-Cola(R) contained cocaine instead of caffeine.
~ Punch card data processing had recently been developed, and early predecessors of the modern computer were used for the first time by the government to help compile the 1900 census.
~ Eighteen percent of households in the United States had at least one full-time servant or domestic.
~ There were about 230 reported murders in the U.S. annually.
--Selected from Mikey's Funnies.
Today's Faith 'n Truth-Builder
"...building up yourselves on your most holy faith... (Jude 20)."
"Just Picture This!"
I put my congregation through this exercise once to help them become more
aware of the tendency of Indwelling Sin to blind and deceive us (and to
illustrate why we all need to be open and respond more humbly to
correction):
Close your eyes and picture someone you know who...
1. Has got a significant fault or area of self-deception.
2. You've tried to talk to them about it, maybe others have, but they don't
see it.
3. It's not easy to talk to them about it, because of the way they react.
4. They haven't begun to change, even a little (but why should that be a
surprise they don't even see their sin?)
5. You care about them, but you've become frustrated because of their
hardness of heart.
6. Can you see this person?
Now stop for a moment and think...it's quite possible someone in this
auditorium is thinking about you!
--Selected from Pastor Tim's Illustrations.
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