In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity, as reported in Jeremiah 31:31-34, every human being can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.
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Love Is the First Gift after Life - The Founding of Stanford U.
A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband,
dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in
For hours, the secretary ignored them, hoping that the
couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn't.
And the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the
president, even though it was a chore she always regretted to do. “Maybe if they just see you for a few
minutes, they'll leave," she told him.
And he sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn’t
have the time to spend with them, but he detested gingham dresses and homespun
suits cluttering up his outer office.
The president, stern-faced with dignity, strutted
toward the couple. The lady told him,
“We had a son that attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally
killed. And my husband and I would like
to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus." The president wasn't touched; he was
shocked. "Madam," he said gruffly, "We can't put up a
statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a
cemetery.”
"Oh, no," the lady explained quickly,
"We don't want to erect a statue.
We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard. The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun
suit, then exclaimed, "A building!
Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars
in the physical plant at Harvard.” For a
moment the lady was silent.
The president was pleased. He could get rid of them now. And the lady turned to her husband and said
quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a University? Why don't we just start our own?" Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and
bewilderment. And Mr. and Mrs. Leland
Stanford walked away, traveling to
"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."
The Birth of the University
On October 1, 1891,
http://www.stanford.edu/home/stanford/history/begin.html#Pro
In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity, as reported in Jeremiah 31:31-34, every human being can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.
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