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This book of smiles began as a newspaper column. Over twelve years, readers joined in with funny lines, stories, and anything that could bring smiles.The first edition was a scrambling shot from an audience across the globe. It was accepted and we were on our way to a humorous book for readers everywhere.In a sense, it was off to the races.

Excerpt from A Course of Lectures on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion: Delivered Before the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OhioThe limits which the Faculty had to prescribe to themselves, as well as the special aim of the course, determined the themes to be selected. The subject matter of the Evidences of Religion is, no doubt, practically inexhaustible, yet each age has its own particular phase of the one great con¿ict betw...

Excerpt from An Exposition of the Epistle of Paul to the RomansSuch is the requirement that every student of Paul's Epistle to the Romans would gladly exact for himself from the translator. In the translation of a work of such immense fame, and of such immense moment, intrinsically, to us, we are right in demanding, not a free literary modernized translation, but a faithful repro duction of the exact structure, and the exact meaning of the ori...

When the Battle of Gettysburg ended, Robert E. Lee was faced with the problem of getting his wounded back to Virginia. Some were prisoners of the Yankees, others were out of Lee's reach, and a few would die if moved and thus were left behind. But two wagon trains pulled out in a pounding rain on the Fourth of July in 1863 carrying eight thousand Confederate wounded in a race to reach the Potomac River.

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Excerpt from An Exposition of the Epistle of Paul to the Romans Browning, in the preface to his translation of Æschylus's Agamemnon, says: "If I wished to acquaint myself, by the aid of a translator, with a work of the immense fame of this tragedy, I should require him to be literal at every cost, save that of absolute violence to our language. And I would be tolerant, for once, of even a clumsy attempt to furnish me with the very turn of eac...

Excerpt from A Course of Lectures on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion: Delivered Before the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio The limits which the Faculty had to prescribe to themselves, as well as the special aim of the course, determined the themes to be selected. The subject matter of the Evidences of Religion is, no doubt, practically inexhaustible, yet each age has its own particular phase of the one great con¿ict be...

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Story of the rescue of a Pennsylvania airman by the US Army Air Force during WWII.

Days of Darkness is the story of the battle as seen through the eyes of those who were forced to hide from the fight yet deal with its consequences. Williams brings the stories and the experiences of many Gettysburg residents to life through this novel treatment of history.