Illustrations

Engineer’s pocketbook’s Baptism (illustration)

Dr. R. E. Neighbor was in the baptismal pool with a railway engineer. The pastor was ready to proceed with the baptismal service. “Wait!” whispered the engineer; “I forgot something. I want to return to the robing room, and get my pocketbook and let you baptize it …

Eldery Woman Requested no Male Pallbearers (illustration)

An elderly woman died last month. Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions for her memorial service, she wrote, “They wouldn’t take me out while I was alive, I don’t want them to take me out when I’m dead.” (Pastor Tim …