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Some other arguments put forward by Alban Douglas for the existence of God… Here are some more points the author made: The moral argument Man has an intellectual and moral nature showing that the Creator must not be merely an inanimate force but a living, intelligent moral Being… Genesis 1:27, God created man in the […]
READERSVOICE.COM aims to give a few samples from secondhand books, most of which are out of print and sometimes forgotten. This issue features another book from an opshop in the northern suburbs of Brisbane. These charity stores are great for finding interesting books you might not hear about anywhere else. Man from Arltunga. The life […]
Droving cattle in Walter Smith’s younger years, which involved some cattle theft or cattle duffing… Drovers walked cattle long distances in the days before trucks, to get them to market, or to a railhead, or move them to a new property, or to where there was grass to eat in times of drought. Each drover […]
How some drovers moved stolen cattle along the journey… The author writes: The number of cattle that allowed themselves to be “borrowed” between Boulia and Cloncurry was considerable, and Walter learnt one of the basic ruses used on cattle duffing while on this drove. The boss drover followed a simple plan. He pushed the legitimate […]
Readersvoice.com aims to give a few samples from interesting out of print books. Sometimes you can find books like these in charity stores or opshops. You can find books there that you wouldn’t otherwise hear about. And they’re often quite cheap. Here are a few samples from a 1908 annual of a children’s magazine. Chatterbox […]
Some more samples from a 1908 annual of Chatterbox magazine… Old Newspaper Advertisements …Advertisements formed as important a part in the newspapers of our forefathers as they do of ours. We give two specimens. The first concerns a lad who had evidently given a good deal of trouble at home: “I know of a witty […]
Some more samples from a children’s magazine in Edwardian times… An Optical Illusion Visitors to Durham Cathedral are shown a round column in the transept with zig-zag grooves cut as ornamentations from top to bottom. Behind the column, a short distance apart, are two tall windows, and the light from these, falling on the column, […]
READERSVOICE.Com aims to give a few samples from good secondhand books. Opshops are a good source for books you wouldn’t hear about anywhere else. This issue features a sample from a 1985 copy of a motivational book called Goals, Guts and Greatness by Mark O. Haroldsen. This book is valuable because it shows that a […]
The book, Goals, Guts and Greatness by Mark O. Haroldsen, goes on to tell the story of Bunker Bean… The author writes: Most people live and die with too small an estimate of their own abilities. As a result they spend their strength on small tasks and never put their real powers to the test. […]
Bunker Bean and Napoleon… The chapter goes on to narrate how the spiritualist, for a couple of bucks, told Bunker Bean that he was once Napoleon. The spiritualist told him that there were Karmic cycles. He said that when Bunker was Napoleon he was living in a period of ascendancy. And that now he was […]