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Cluedo, the mystery whodunnit game that's known as "Clue" in the U.S. has sold 150 million copies around the world under its original name, and continues to sell 3 million sets a year in 23 countries. In late 1996, Waddingtons, the British toymaker that manufactures the game everywhere except the U.S., was hunting for its inventor to join in the milestone sales celebrations. Lawyer's clerk Anthony Pratt invented the detective board game in 1948. He sold his copyright to the British manufacturers Waddingtons, who later licensed the game to American toymaker Hasbro. Waddingtons tried to trace him to present him with a trophy to mark the 150 million sales mark. The firm set up a special hotline for amateur detectives who might track down the elusive Pratt..
But Cluedo yielded its final clue in the cemetery of a country church, where the trail went cold on 11/27/96 when the cemetery superintendent called to say Pratt died in 1994.
What a rarity it is to find someone who resists the temptation to fame and fortune! Yet God desires us to do all that we do, not for the accolades of this world, but for his glory.
Source: Newspot, 11/26/96 and 11/28/96
Topics/Tags: Glory, temporal
To those who clamor for the praise of others, a historian once wryly pointed out that the word "Ovation" is derived from the Latin word "ovis"—which means "sheep." — Plutarch's "Lives" (translated by John Dryden).
Source: The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, in Microsoft Bookshelf '98
Topics/Tags: Applause; Glory, temporal
"The paths of glory lead but to the grave." — Thomas Gray (1716-71), English poet. Elegy in a Country Churchyard, st. 9.
Source: The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, in Microsoft Bookshelf '98
Topics/Tags: Glory, temporal; Death
"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." — Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), U.S. Democratic politician. Speech, 22 March 1954, Princeton University.
Source: The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Topics/Tags: Popularity; Glory, temporal
Ken Ruettgers, offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers, in 1996 encouraged Christians to "take the offensive lineman challenge." He said that offensive linemen "won't be receiving a lot of accolades, trophies, or recognition. It's not a glamorous job . . . You'll butt heads with the opposition, get knocked down a few times, and have no recourse but to get up and go at it again . . . Sometimes you'll receive only what might look like penalties—loss of free time, sacrifice, commitment, and hard work. But the rewards will come, and they're rewards that can't be measured in something as temporal as money.
"So take the offensive lineman challenge . . . Be an unsung hero."
As in Matthew 6:4: "...your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Source: New Man, June 1996, p. 14.
Topics/Tags: Glory, temporal; Faithfulness; Reward
Bruce Springsteen sang a song called "Glory Days" in which he described the longing of several of his friends to return to days gone by. He sings of a former star high school athlete wishing for a return to his exciting, glamorous days of stardom.
I had a friend was a big baseball player,
back in high school
He could throw that speed ball by you,
make you look like a fool, boy
Saw him the other night ...
I was walkin' in, he was walkin' out
We went back inside ...
but all he kept talkin' about—Glory Days...
The instances of athletes enduring in stardom for an entire career are really the exception, not the rule. Many a former big-play-maker is sitting around today wondering, like the character in Springsteen’s song, where the "glory days" went.
Are WE doing the work God has called us to do TODAY? … or, are we simply sitting around longing for the "glory days" of yesterday to return?
Source: Zeke Moore
Topics/Tags: Memory; Glory, temporal; Work; Activity
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