Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
On this 29th of May in 1886, John Pemberton, a pharmacist, placed the first advertisement for a new drink he had invented, in the Atlanta Journal. Originally called Pemberton French Wine Coca, he took out the alcohol – due to temperance restrictions back then in force – but kept in a smidgen of cocaine, as[…]
G.K. Chesterton is known as the most often quoted of any writer . . . and the least often read. It’s easy to see why that is so; merely consider these clever statements: A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.[1] It is terrible to contemplate[…]
“I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.” Illustrated London News, Aug. 4, 1906
(Today, May 29th, marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of G.K. Chesterton in 1936, and here is an endearing excerpt from his biographer, Maisie Ward): It may be remembered that Miss Dunham noted how Gilbert used to make a mysterious sign in the air as he lit his cigar. That sign, says Dorothy (Collins,[…]
