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Christians From the Past on Living the Deeper Life

These Christians who once walked on this earth like we do today lived lives filled with the same struggles that we do today. Our world has so few examples of living the Christian life. Here are examples from the past on how to live a deeper Christian life in these latter days.


--A--


A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) Canadian Preacher, Theologian   

A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist pastor, Bible Expositor, and Evangelist    

A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor    

A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher    

A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher   

A.C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible Expositor    

A.J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics   

Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) Prime Minister Netherlands, Theologian, Journalist   

Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer    

Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma    

Alan Redpath (1907–1989), American Evangelist, Pastor, Author   

Albert Barnes (1798-1870) American Presbyterian clergyman and Writer    

Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965) Missionary & Preacher   

Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress   

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Novelist Soviet Dissident  

Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland   

Alexandre Vinet (1797-1847) French-Swiss Theologian, Moralist   

Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) Irish Christian Missionary in India    

Andrew Bonar (1810-1892) Church of Scotland Minister   

Andrew Murray (1794-1866) Scottish Missionary, Writer   

Anthony Farindon (1598–1658), English Royalist Divine    

Anthony W. Throld (1825–1895) Anglican Bishop in the Victorian era.    

Archibald Alexander Hodge (1823–1886) American Presbyterian Leader, Seminary Principal 

Athanasius of Alexandria (c296–298–373) Greek Church Father    

Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Bishop, Theologian and Philosopher    

Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778) Anglican Cleric and Hymn Writer   

Austin Phelps (1820–1890) American Congregational Minister and Educator 


--B--  


Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) Burgundian Abbot    

Billy Graham (1918-2018) American Evangelist   

Billy Sunday (1862-1935) American Evangelist, National League Baseball Player 

Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662), French Mathematician, Physicist, Religious Philosopher 

Brother Andrew (1928-2022) Dutch Christian Missionary  

Brother Lawrence (1611-1691) Lay Monk in Paris   

Brownlow North (1741–1820) Church of England


--C--  


C. I. Scofield   (1843-1921) American Theologian, Minister   

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish Writer and Scholar    

C. T. Studd (1860-1931) English Missionary    

Catherine Booth (1829-1890) Co-Founder Salvation Army   

Catherine Marshall (1914-1983) American Christian Author   

Charles G. Finney (1792-1875) American Presbyterian Minister   

Charles H. Brent (1862–1929) Episcopal Church's First Missionary Bishop of the Philippine Islands      Charles Hodge (1797-1878) Conservative American Biblical Scholar   

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) Church Priest of the Church of England, Historian   

Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist Preacher    

Charles Wesley (1707–1788) English Minister and Hymnwriter    

Christopher Wordsworth (1807–1885) English Bishop of the Anglican Church   

Chuck Colson (1931-2012) Founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries    

Charles W. Missler (1934–2018) American Author, Evangelical Christian, Bible Teacher   

Chuck Smith (1927–2013) American Pastor Founded Calvary Chapel Movement   

Clement of Alexandria (150c, 211-215) Christian Theologian and Philosopher   

Clovis G. Chappell (1882-1972) Tennessee Methodist Clergyman   

Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983) Holocaust Survivor and Christian Writer    

Curtis Hutson (1934 –1995) Baptist Pastor and Editor    

Cyprian (c.210-258) Bishop of Carthage Early Christian Writer    


--D--  


D. L. Moody (1837-1899) American Evangelist, Teacher and Preacher   

Daniel Webster (1782-1852) American Orator and Politician   

David Brainard (1718-1747) American Missionary to Native Indians    

David Livingstone (1813-1873) British Physician and Missionary   

David Wilkerson (1931-2011) American Christian Evangelist   

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1900-1945) German Christian Executed by Nazis    

Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse (1895-1960) American Preacher, Pastor, Theologian   

Dr. Henry Morris (1918–2006) American Creationist Scholar and Writer   

Duncan Campbell (1898-1972) Scottish Evangelist     


--E--  


E. M. Bounds (1835–1913) American Clergyman, Author   

Edmund Clowney (1917–2005) Theologian, Educator, and Pastor 

Edward Stillingfleet (1635–1699) British Christian Theologian and Scholar   

Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) Christian Missionary and Writer   

Elizabeth Prentiss (1818-1878) American Christian Hymnwriter   


--F--  


F. B. Meyer (1847-1929) Baptist Pastor and Evangelist    

F. F. Bruce (1910-1990) English Biblical Scholar   

Fanny Crosby (1844-1915) Blind American Mission Worker. Poet   

Francis de Sales (1567-1622) Bishop of Geneva    

Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) Founder of all Franciscan orders   

Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English Christian Poet Author, Book of Emblems   

Francis R. Havergal (1836–1879) English Religious Poet and Hymnwriter.   

Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) American Evangelical Theologian, Pastor   

Francois Fenelon (1651-1715) French Catholic Archbishop    

Frederick Buechner (1926-2022) American Minister and Writer   

Frederick W. Faber (1814–1863) English Hymn writer and Theologian   

Frederick W. Robertson (1816-1853) English Preacher   

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) Russian Novelist, Imprisoned Devout Orthodox     


--G--  


G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945) British Evangelist, Preacher, Bible Teacher    

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) English Writer, Theologian   

G. V. Wigram (1805-1879) English Biblical Scholar   

George Fox (1624-1691) English Quaker, Founder Religious Society of Friends   

George Herbert (1592-1633) Church of England Priest   

George MacDonald (1824-1905 Scottish Christian Minister, Author   

George Mueller 1805-1898) English Evangelist and Helper of Orphans   

George Whitefield (1714-1770) Church of England Evangelist    


--H--  


Hannah More (1745-1833) English Religious Writer    

Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911) American Evangelist and Reformer    

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) American Christian Writer   

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American Minister, Pastor   

Harry Ironside (1876-1951) American Bible Teacher, Theologian    

Henri J.M. Nouwen (1932-1996) Dutch Catholic Priest, and Theologian.   

Henry Alford (1810 – 1871) English Churchman and Theologian   

Henry Alford (1810–1871) English Churchman, Theologian, Textual Critic, Scholar   

Henry Drummond (1851-1897) Scottish Evangelist, Biologist    

Henry Moorhouse (1840-1880) English Evangelist    

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Clergyman and Scholar   

Hesba Stretton (1832–1911)  Evangelical English Author of Religious Books For Children   

Horatius Bonar (1808- 1889) Scottish Minister and Hymn Writer    

Howard Crosby (1826–1891) American Presbyterian Preacher, Scholar and Professor   

Hudson Taylor (1832-1905)   Missionary to China    

Hugh Lattimer (c.1487–1555) Bishop of Worcester     


--I--  


Ignatius of Antioch  (Unknown-108 AD) Bishop of Antioch, Early Christian Writer   

Isaac Jogues (1607–1646) French Missionary, Martyr Worked Among the Iroquois   

Isaac Newton (1642-1726) English Physicist, Astronomer   

Isaac Watts (1674-1728) English Congregational Minister    

Isaac Pennington (1616–1679) Early Quaker Member in England   

 


--J--  


J. C. Ryle (1816-1900) English Anglican Bishop    

J. H. Newman (1801-1890) English Theologian   

J. I. Packer (1926-2020) Canadian Evangelical Theologian    

J. I. Packer (1926-2020) English Theologian, Cleric  

J. Oswald Sanders (1902—1992) Christian Leader and Author  

J. Vernon McGee (1904-1988) American Radio Bible Teacher

James H. Aughey (1828-1911) Minister Imprisoned Condemned to Execution   

James W. Alexander (1804-1859) American Presbyterian Minister and Theologian   

Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) Church of England Cleric   

Jerry Bridges (1929-2016) Evangelical Christian Author   

Jim Elliot (1927-1956) American Christian Missionary Killed in Ecuador   

Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687–1752) Lutheran Clergyman and Greek Scholar   

Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468) German, Inventor, Printer, Publisher    

John Bunyan (1628-1688) English Minister Writer   

John C. Broger (1913-2006) American Christian Missionary, Author, Radio Producer  

John Calvin (1509-1564) French Theologian   

John Chrysostom (347-407) Archbishop, Early Church Father    

John Darby (1800-1882) Irish Bible Teacher   

John Donne, (572—1631) Cleric in the Church of England  

John F. Walvoord (1910-2002) Christian Theologian, Pastor     

John Flavel (c.1627-1691) English Puritan Minister    

John Foxe (1516/1517-1587), English Historian and Martyrologist   

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) American Quaker Poet    

John Henry Newman (1801-1890) English Theologian and Scholar  

 John Knox (1514-1572) Scottish Minster, Theologian    

John Newton (1725-1790) Slave Trader Captain Turned Christian    

John of Damascus (c. 675-749) Christian Monk, Priest, Hymnographer, and Apologist    

John of Kronstadt (1829–1909) Russian Orthodox Archpriest    

John Owen (1616-1683) English Nonconformist Church Leader   

John R. Rice (1895– 1980) Baptist Evangelist and Pastor   

John Selden (1584–1654) English Jurist, Scholar of England's Ancient Laws   

John Wesley (1703-1791) English Cleric and Minister  

John Wycliffe (c.1328-1384) English Theologian and Biblical Translator   

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) American Preacher Revivalist   

Jonathan Goforth (1859-1936) Canadian Missionary to China   

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright and Politician    

Joseph Hall (1574–1656) English Bishop,  Satirist and Moralist        


--K--  


Keith Green (1953-1982) American Christian Singer, Songwriter    


--L--  


Lady Glenorchy (1741-1786) Missionary Scotland    

Lee Roberson (1909-2007) American Pastor and Evangelist   

Legh Richmond (1772–1827) Church of England Clergyman and Writer   

Leonard Ravenhill (1907-1994) English Christian Evangelist    

Louis Bourdaloue (1632-1704) French Jesuit and Preacher.   

Lucius Caelius Lactantius (c.250–c.325) Early Christian Author    


--M--  


M. R. DeHaan (1891–1965) American Bible Teacher, Founder of Radio Bible Class   

Madame Guyon (1648 -1717) French Christian   

Major Ian Thomas (1914-2007) British War Hero, Christian Writer    

Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Priest and Theology Professor     

Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1891) British War Hero, Minister   

Mary Slessor (1848-1915) Scottish Missionary to Nigeria   

Matthew Henry (1662-1714) Nonconformist Minister, Writer    

Maximus the Confessor (c580-662) Orthodox Christian Monk   

Miguel De Molinos (1628-1696) Spanish Priest 

Mordecai Ham (1877–1961) American Baptist Evangelist      


--N--  


 Nehemiah Adams (1806–1878) American Clergyman and Writer    


--O--  


Ole Hallesby (1879-1961) Norwegian Lutheran Theologian    

Origen (c. 185–c. 253) Early Christian Scholar and Theologian    

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) Scottish Evangelist and Teacher   

Oswald J. Smith (1889-1986) Canadian Pastor    

Owen Feltham (1602–1668) English Writer, Divine, Moral, and Political    


--P-- 


Pasquier Quesnel (1634-1719) French Jansenist Theologian    

Peter Abelard (1079-1142) French Twelfth Century Theologian    

Peter Marshall (1902–1949) Scottish American Preacher, Pastor    

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Episcopal Clergyman     


--R--  


R. A. Torrey (1856-1928) American Evangelist. Educator, Writer   

R. C. Sproul (1939-2017) American Reformed Theologian    

Richard Baxter (1615-1691) English Puritan Church Leader   

Richard Cecil (1748–1810) Evangelical Anglican Clergyman   

Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) Anglican    

Richard John Neuhaus (1936–2009) Prominent Christian Cleric Lutheran Church    

Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) Anglican Theologian and Minister   

Richard Wurmbrand (1909-2001) Romanian Evangelical Pastor   

Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) American Confederate Army   

Robert Leighton (1611–1684) Scottish Prelate and Scholar, Church Minister    

Robert Moffat (1795-1883), Scottish Missionary to Africa and Bible Translator   

Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843) Church of Scotland Minister   

Ruth Graham (1920-2007) American Christian Writer    


--S--  


Sabina Wurmbrand   (1913-2000) Christian Evangelist to the Suffering Church   

Saint Ignatius (1491-1556) Spanish Priest and Theologian   

Samuel Chadwick (1860-1932) Wesleyan Methodist Minister    

Samuel D. Gordon (1859-1936) Evangelical Lay Minister   

Samuel M. Zwemer (1867–1952) American Missionary Islam and Scholar.   

Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) Scottish Presbyterian Pastor, Theologian   

Smith Wigglesworth (1859–1947) British Evangelist   

St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) Italian Catholic Friar   

Susanna Wesley (1669-1742) Mother of  John & Charles Wesley    


--T--  


Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) Spanish Catholic Noblewoman   

Theodore Epp (1907-1985) American Clergyman and Radio Evangelist   

Theodore Epp (1907-1985) American Protestant Clergyman    

Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471) Christian Theologian   

Thomas Adams (1583–1652) English  Clergyman and Preacher   

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)   Catholic Italian Theologian   

Thomas Boston (1676-1732) Scottish Presbyterian Church leader, Theologian    

Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) Puritan Preacher and Writer    

Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) Scottish Minister, Theologian and Economist   

Thomas Erskine (1788-1870) Scottish Theologian   

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Churchman, Historian    

Thomas Halyburton 1674-1712, Scottish Minister   

Thomas Manton (1620-1677) English Puritan Clergyman   

Thomas Watson (1620-1686), Puritan Preacher    

 

--V--  


Vance Havner (1901-1986) American Country Preacher   

Venerable Bede (672/673-735) English Monk at the Monastery of St Peter    


--W--  


Warren Wiersbe   (1929-2019) American Christian Clergyman   

Watchman Nee (1903-1972) Chinese Church Leader     

Wesley L. Duewel (1916-2016) Missionary to India    

William Barclay (1907-1978) Church of Scotland Minister, Author   

William Booth (1829-1912) Founder, Salvation Army   

William Carey (1761-1834) English Christian Missionary   

William Cowper (1731-1800) English Poet and Hymnwriter   

William Gurnall (1616-1679) English Anglican Clergyman   

William J. Seymour (1870–1922) African-American Holiness Preacher    

William Law (1686-1761) Church of England Cleric 

William Mountford (1816 -1885) English Preacher and Author  

William Romaine (1714-1795) Evangelical Divine Church of England  

William Temple (1881-1929) English Anglican Priest   

William Tindale (1494-1536) English Biblical Scholar   

William Tiptaft (1803-1864) Church of  England Cleric   

William Wilberforce (1759-1833) British Politician and Philanthropist     


Words to Think About

WHAT IS MAN?


"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? "     


- Psalms 8:4

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1. A. B. Simpson (1843-1919)

A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) Canadian Preacher, Theologian

ABOUT A. B SIMPSON


Albert Benjamin Simpson was also known as A. B. Simpson, was a Canadian preacher, theologian, author. He was the third son and fourth child in his family. Simpson grew on Prince Edward Island, Canada and was ordained as a minister in 1865. 


His conversion began under the ministry of Henry Gratton Guinness, a visiting evangelist from Ireland during the revival of 1859. He received his training at Knox College, University of Toronto. After graduating in 1865 he was ordained into the Canadian Presbyterian Church (CPC).  Simpson served prestigious churches in Hamilton, Ontario, Kentucky, New York,  and Maine.


In 1887, Simpson founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) with an emphasis on global evangelism. C&MA, an interdenominational mission movement had sent out 300 missionaries by the year 1895.


Simpson died in 1919 aged 75, and his wife, Margaret (née Margaret L. Henry) died in 1924. He was a prolific writer having authored 101 books, hymns, periodicals, booklets, articles, and curriculums over his lifetime. 


A. B. SIMPSON QUOTES


SEPERATES US FROM THE WORLD AND CONQUERS FEAR OF DEATH


"We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death."


 - A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) Canadian Preacher, Theologian


REJOICE IN THE LORD


"Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power."


- A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) Canadian Preacher, Theologian


A. B. SIMPSON BOOKS AND SERMONS


Charles Nienkirchen


  • The Man, the Movement & the Mission (a documentary history) (pdf)


John Sawin Indexes


  • Articles of A.B.S. as Found in His Periodicals (Alliance magazine 1897-1919; Living Truths 1902-1907) (pdf)
  • An Introduction to the Writings of A.B.S. (Part I, chronological) (pdf)
  • An Introduction to the Writings of A.B.S. (Part II, alphabetical) (pdf)
  • Missionary Sermons by A.B.S. (chronological and alphabetical) (pdf)
  • Sermons by A.B.S. as Found in His Periodicals (chronological) (pdf)
  • Texts of A.B.S. Sermons in Biblical Sequence (pdf)
  • Topics of Sermons by A.B.S. (alphabetical) (pdf)
  • The Life and Times of A.B. Simpson (pdf)


Photo Credit: legacy.cmalliance.org/about/history/simpson

Words to Think About...

LOVING, LIKE GOD


"I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love."


- A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) Canadian Preacher, Theologian


MAY GOD SO FILL US TODAY 


"May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire."


- A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) Canadian Preacher, Theologian 


MICROCOSOM OF THE UNIVERSE  


"The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer."  


- A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) Canadian Preacher, Theologian 


MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN RECEIVE  

"Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive."  


- A. B. Simpson (1843-1919) Canadian Preacher, Theologian 


2. A. C. Dixon (1854–1925)

A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible Expositor, and Evangelist

ABOUT A. C. DICKSON:


Amzi Clarence Dixon was a Baptist pastor, Bible expositor, and an evangelist who was popular during the late 19th/early 20th centuries. With R.A. Torrey he edited an influential series of essays , published as The Fundamentals (1910-55) which gave Christian Fundamentalism its name.


Amzi was born near Shelby, North Carolina on 6th July 1954. His father was a Baptist preacher. He was converted while his father was preaching in 1865 and baptized the next year. While still young he believed he had been called to preach.


Career


In 1875 he graduated from Wake Forest College, North Carolina.
He immediately began to serve as a pastor of 2 country churches.

1874-5 pastor of Baptist churches in North Carolina

1876-9 studied at Southern Baptist Seminary and attended University of North Carolina and pastored there

1879-82 pastor at Asheville, North Carolina

1982-90 pastor at Immanuel Baptist church in Baltimore, Maryland
1986 received doctorate from Washington and Lee University

1890-01 pastor at Brooklyn, New York often rented Opera house on Sunday services

1901-06 pastor in Boston , Massachusetts taught at Gordon College (See notes)
published *Old and New *

1905 attended the first Baptist World Congress in London

1906-11 pastor at Chicago Avenue Church, Illinois.
1908 change of name to Moody church became syndicated columnist for 3 local papers

1911-19 pastor at Metropolitan Tabernacle (MT) in London (He followed the great Charles Spurgeon into the pulpit)
1910-15 edited with R.A. Torrey* The Fundamentals* a very influential series of 90 essays initially published in 12 volumes often spoke at large Bible conferences
1919 retired as pastor of MT

1919-21 lectured at Los Angeles Bible Institute and in China & Japan

1922 first pastor of University Baptist Church Baltimore, Maryland


He was a staunch advocate of Fundamentalist Christianity during its developmental period. His preaching was often fiery and direct. The papers of Amzi number approx, 6,100 items and stored in 30 archival boxes and 4 scrapbooks. 


Personal Life


Married Susan Mary (Mollie) Faison in July 1880. They had 5 children. Susan died on 6th August 1922 in China while attending conference with husband. Towards the end of his life he had chronic back pain to the extent he suspended his service at University Baptist church. He died of a heart attack on 14th June 1925 aged .


Source: Amzi Clarence Dixon Papers wikipedia


QUOTES BY A. C. DICKSON


WHEN WE HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST


“When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.”


- A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible expositor, and Evangelist 


THROUGH THE DEATH OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS


"Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned."


- A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible expositor, and Evangelist 


THE INCARNATION THROUGH THE DEATH OF CHRIST


"The Incarnation through the death of Christ makes it possible for God to be "just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus." If God should be merciful without the satisfaction of justice, He would cease to be a God of justice and would thus forfeit His throne of righteousness. In a word, He would cease to be God."


- A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible expositor, and Evangelist  


A. C. DICKSON BOOKS AND SERMONS


The Online Books Page


A. C. Dixon (Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925)

  • Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925, ed.: The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth (12 volumes; Chicago: Testimony Pub. Co., ca. 1910-1915), also ed. by Louis Meyer and R. A. Torrey
    • all volumes (low resolution scan): multiple formats at archive.org
    • Volumes I-VII: multiple formats at archive.org
    • Volume IV-IX: page images at HathiTrust
    • Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org
    • Volume XI: multiple formats at archive.org
    • Volume XII: page images at HathiTrust


Additional books from the extended shelves:


  • Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925: Evangelism old and new : God's search for man in all ages / (New York : American Tract Society, c1905) 
  • Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925: The God man / (Baltimore : Wharton, Barron, c1891)  
  • Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925: Heaven on earth ... (New York, Chicago [etc.] Fleming H. Revell company, [190-?])  
  • Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925: The Holy Spirit in life and service : addresses delivered before the Conference on the ministry of the Holy Spirit, held in Brooklyn, N. Y., October, 1894 ; with introduction by A. C. Dixon. (New York : Fleming H. Revell, 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925: Lights and shadows of American life, by A. C. Dixon. (New York, Chicago, Fleming H. Revell Co., [c1898])  
  • Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925: A memorial of Mary Faison Dixon : wife of Amzi Clarence Dixon : who entered the glory from Kuling, China, August 6, 1922. (Baltimore, Md. : Good Literature Dept. of University Baptist Church, [1923?])  
  • Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925: Milk and meat, twenty-four sermons. ([n.p.], 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925: The Person and ministry of the Holy Spirit / (New York : Garland Pub., 1988) 
  •  Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925, contrib.: Power Through Prayer, by Edward M. Bounds, also contrib. by Albert A. Head (Gutenberg ebook)
  • Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925: Present day life and religion; a series of sermons on cardinal doctrines and popular sins. (Cleveland, O., F. M. Barton, [c1905])  
  • Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925: Waifs of the slums and their way out / (New York : Fleming H. Revell Co., c1907), also by Leonard Benedict  


Source: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Dixon%2C%20A%2E%20C%2E%20%28Amzi%20Clarence%29%2C%201854%2D1925


Photo Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Dixon

Words to Think About...

WHEN WE THINK OF GOD


“When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.”


- A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible expositor, and Evangelist 


JESUS STANDS ALONE  


"Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul."  


- A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible expositor, and Evangelist 


PERFECT STANDING BEFORE GOD 


"Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned."  


- A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible expositor, and Evangelist 


UNTIL THE NEW LIFE


"What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others."


- A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible Expositor, and Evangelist 


THE HEART OF EVERY MAN


“There is in the heart of every man or woman, under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, a sense of guilt and condemnation. Bunyan made it a heavy pack on the back of Pilgrim; and he did not lose it until he reached the Cross of Christ. When we realize how guilty sin is, and how condemned is the sinner, we begin to feel the weight of that load.”


- A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible expositor, and Evangelist 


FAITH IN THE POWER OF GOD


“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”


- A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible expositor, and Evangelist 


THROUGH THE DEATH OF CHRIST


“Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.”


- A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist Pastor, Bible Expositor, and Evangelist 

3. A. J. Gossip (1873-1954)

A. J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics

ABOUT A. J. GOSSIP


Arthur John Gossip (1873-1954) was Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University from 1939 until 1945.


Born in Glasgow, Gossip graduated MA from the University of Edinburgh and was licensed as a Free Church of Scotland minister in 1898. He was minister of a number of churches before coming to St Matthew's United Free Church in Glasgow in 1910; he served as a chaplain in Belgium and France during the First World War, and he returned to Scotland as minister of Beechgrove Church in Aberdeen.


In 1928, Gossip was appointed Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Training in the United Free Church's Divinity school in Glasgow (known as Trinity College after the reunion of the United Free and Church of Scotland in 1929, and the amalgamation of the Divinity schools at the College and the University). The University's Chair of Ethics and Practical Theology was suppressed after Gossip's retirement in 1945.


Source: universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2059&type=P


QUOTES BY  A. J. GOSSIP


WHAT EXACTLY HAS CHRIST DONE FOR YOU


"What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault, not Jesus Christ's."


- A. J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics


TREMENDOUS AND GLORIOUS REVELATION


"The core and essence of the Gospel is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere."


- A. J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics


PAIN IS A KINDLY, HOPEFUL THING  


"Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain -- well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is dead?"


- A. J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics


DO NOT BURN FALSE FIRE UPON GOD'S ALTER


"Do not burn false fire upon God's altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exaggerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth."


- A. J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics


GODS HATRED OF SIN  


"The core and essence of the Gospel is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere."  


-  A. J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics


A. J. GOSSIP BOOKS  AND SERMONS  


The Making Of A Preacher - by William Malcolm MacGregor (Author), A. J. Gossip (Contributor)


Photo Credit: universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2059&type=P

Words to Think About...

LIFE TOO DIFFUCLT FOR YOU?


"Do you find life too difficult for you? So did we, but not now, with the amplitudes of grace there are for us in Jesus Christ, it grows satisfying and successful and exciting beyond measure, becomes another and a richer thing."


- A. J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics


WHEN HE CREATED YOU


"There is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ! It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be."


- A. J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics


YOU CANNOT ESCAPE CHRIST


"You cannot escape Christ, do what You will. You reject His divinity, but, so doing, you have not evaded Him. If He is a man just like us, then obviously you must be a man like Him."


- A. J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics


SPARED THE DISCIPLINE OF LIFE  


If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! If you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "The very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.  


- A. J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics


NOT STROLL INTO CHRISTLIKENESS  


"You will not stroll into Christlikeness with your hands in your pockets, shoving the door open with a careless shoulder. This is no hobby for one's leisure moments, taken up at intervals when we have nothing much to do, and put down and forgotten when our life grows full and interesting... It takes all one's strength, and all one's heart, and all one's mind, and all one's soul, given freely and recklessly and without restraint."  


- A. J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics


3. A. T. Pierson (1837–1911)

A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor

ABOUT A. T. PIERSON

 

Arthur Tappan Pierson (March 6, 1837 – June 3, 1911) was an American Presbyterian pastor, Christian leader, missionary and writer who preached over 13,000 sermons, wrote over fifty books, and gave Bible lectures as part of a transatlantic preaching ministry that made him famous in Scotland, England, and Korea. He was a consulting editor for the original "Scofield Reference Bible" (1909) for his friend, C. I. Scofield and was also a friend of D. L. Moody, George Müller (whose biography 'George Muller of Bristol' he wrote), Adoniram Judson Gordon, and C. H. Spurgeon, whom he succeeded in the pulpit of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, from 1891 to 1893. Throughout his career, Pierson filled several pulpit positions around the world as an urban pastor who cared passionately for the poor.


Pierson was also a pioneer advocate of faith missions who was determined to see the world evangelized in his generation. Prior to 1870, there had been only about 2000 missionaries from the United States in full-time service, roughly ten percent of whom had engaged in work among Native Americans. A great movement of foreign missions began in the 1880s and accelerated into the 20th century, in some measure due to the work of Pierson.[1] He acted as the elder statesman of the student missionary movement and was the leading evangelical advocate of foreign missions in the late 19th century. After retiring, he visited Korea in 1910. His visiting established the Pierson Memorial Union Bible Institute (today Pyeongtaek University) in 1912. Delavan Leonard Pierson was his first son. He was buried in his grave in Green-Wood Cemetery.


-  Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Tappan_Pierson


MARRIAGE AND FAMILY:


Sarah Frances Benedict Pierson (1836-1917): Married Arthur T. Pierson, July 12, 1860. They had seven children: Helen M. (1861-1937); Laura W. (1862-1941); Louise B. (1864-1903); Delavan L. (1867-1952); Farrand B. (1876-1928); Edith Muir and Anna.


QUOTES BY  A. T. PIERSON


WE TAKE OUR STAND AT THE CROSS  


"We take our stand at the cross and consent to be nailed to it, voluntarily, actually; to submit to the pain whereby the flesh dies; the hands are pierced that carnal work may no longer be done in the energy of the flesh; the feet are pierced that no longer we may walk according to the flesh; the brow is pierced with the thorn crown that our head may not any longer be held up for human diadems and fading laurel wreaths; the side is pierced that the heart may relinquish its fleshly energy and preference, and be occupied with God."  


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor 


THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING


"There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer."


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor 


HIGHER THAN ALL HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS


"To a true child of God, the invisible bond that unites all believers to Christ is far more tender, and lasting, and precious; and, as we come to recognize and realize that we are all dwelling in one sphere of life in Him, we learn to look on every believer as our brother, in a sense that is infinitely higher than all human relationships. This is the one and only way to bring disciples permanently together. All other plans for promoting the unity of the Church have failed."


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor 


LEARN HOW TO HOLD ON TO THE HIDDEN HAND


"It is in the deepest darkness of the starless midnight that men learn how to hold on to the hidden Hand most tightly and how that Hand holds them; that He sees where we do not, and knows the way He takes; and though the way be to us a roundabout way, it is the right way."  


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor


IN THE DEEPEST DARKNESS MEN LEARN HOW


"It is in the deepest darkness of the starless midnight that men learn how to hold on to the hidden Hand most tightly and how that Hand holds them; that He sees where we do not, and knows the way He takes; and though the way be to us a roundabout way, it is the right way."


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor


OUR DIVINE REDEEMER BECOMES TO US THE NEW


"By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness."


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor


DO FEW WHO GIVE THEMSELVES TO INTERCESSION  


"God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession."  


- A.T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor


HE BECOMES TO US A NEW SPHERE OF HARMONY


"By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness."


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor


THE PAIN WHERBY THE FLESH DIES 


"We take our stand at the cross and consent to be nailed to it, voluntarily, actually; to submit to the pain whereby the flesh dies; the hands are pierced that carnal work may no longer be done in the energy of the flesh; the feet are pierced that no longer we may walk according to the flesh; the brow is pierced with the thorn crown that our head may not any longer be held up for human diadems and fading laurel wreaths; the side is pierced that the heart may relinquish its fleshly energy and preference, and be occupied with God."


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor 


FIND TIME OR FORFEIT BLESSING


"Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him."


- A. T. Pierson (1837-1911) American Pastor and Missionary


A. T. PIERSON BOOKS" AND SERMONS

 

  • Arthur T. Pierson, A Sketch of His Life and Work. ebook
  • Arthur T. Pierson: A Spiritual Warrior.... ebook
  • Arthur Tappan Pierson: His Life and His Message. pdf
  • Rev. A. T. Pierson. Short biography.
  • Grave of A. T. Pierson. Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
  • Portrait of A. T. Pierson.


WRITINGS:


  • Christ's Secret of Rest.
  • The Crisis of Opportunity and Responsibility.
  • Expiation and Consecration.
  • God's Call for a Separated People.
  • Hymns by A. T. Pierson.
  • The Inevitable Alternative.
  • The Isolated Name.
  • The Keswick Movement: In Precept and Practice  html ebook
  • Love for the Loveless.
  • Shall We Continue in Sin?  html ebook
  • A Wondrous Condescension.


Source: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book//lookupname?key=Pierson%2C%20Arthur%20T%2E%2C%201837%2D1911


Photo Credit: inspirationalchristians.org/evangelists/amy-carmichael-biography/

Words to Think About...

HE SEES WHERE WE DO NOT  


"It is in the deepest darkness of the starless midnight that men learn how to hold on to the hidden Hand most tightly and how that Hand holds them; that He sees where we do not, and knows the way He takes; and though the way be to us a roundabout way, it is the right way."  


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor


REVELATION OF GOD'S PRESENCE


"Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him."


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor


OUR DIVINE REDEEMER    


"By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness."   


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor 


BY A MATCHLESS PARABLE   


"By a matchless parable our Lord there taught us that all believers are branches of the Living Vine, and that, apart from Him we are nothing and can do nothing because we have in us no life."    


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor 


THEY ARE DARK AND SAD


"There is a vast difference in the point of view from which circumstances are regarded. If they come between us and God they may hide God from us; if He comes between us and them, He may hide them from us, or even impart to them, when in themselves alone, they are dark and sad, a lustre and a glory."


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor


THE SUPREME TEST OF SERVICE     


"The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all....If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition." 


- A. T. Pierson (1837-1911) American Presbyterian Pastor


CLOSEST COMMUNION NEEDS TIME


"Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him."


-  A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor


IF YOU WORKED LIKE ME  


"A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."  


- A.T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor 


SAFE FROM THE HOLY WRATH OF SIN  


"By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness."  


- A. T. Pierson (1837–1911) American Presbyterian Pastor

5. A. W. Pink

A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher

ABOUT A. W. PINK


Born in Nottingham, England in 1886, Arthur Walkington Pink was converted to Christ while a spiritualist medium. He briefly attended the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois, in 1910, before taking up his first pastorate at Silverton, Colorado. Little-known to the outside world, he pastored other churches in the United States and Australia before finally returning to his homeland in 1934.


Settling in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, there he died almost unnoticed in 1952. By that date, however, the magazine he had started in 1922 – Studies in the Scriptures – was feeding several of the men who were leading a return to doctrinal Christianity, including Martyn Lloyd-Jones and Douglas Johnson (founder of Inter-Varsity) and, in book form after his death, his writings became very widely read across the world. The Trust publishes his The Sovereignty of God, Gleanings from Paul, Profiting from the Word, The Life of Elijah, and a number of titles which have been translated into Spanish.


Source: banneroftruth.org/us/about/banner-authors/a-w-pink/


The Life of Arthur W. Pink. By Iain H. Murray


QUOTES BY A. W. PINK


FAITH ENDURES AS SEEING HIM WHO IS INVISBLE


“Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible; endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.” 


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


BETWEEN THE DEFEATED AND VICTORIOUS SAINT  


"Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint." 


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


LIKE THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 


"Like the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and the miraculous birth of our Savior, the truth of election must be received with simple, unquestioning faith."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


SATAN IS EVER SEEKING TO INJECT POISON


"Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness - especially in connection with his commandments. That is what really lies behind all evil, lusting and disobedience. A discontent with our position and portion, a craving from something which God has wisely held from us. Reject any suggestion that God is unduly severe with you. Resist with the utmost abhorrence anything that causes you to doubt God's love and his lovingkindness toward you. Allow nothing to make you question the Father's love for his child."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


WE MUST BE MADE TO FEEL OUR WEAKNESS


"Before He furnishes the abundant supply, we must first be made conscious of our emptiness. Before he gives strength, we must be made to feel our weakness. Slow, painfully slow, are we to learn this lesson; and slower still to own our nothingness and take the place of helplessness before the Mighty One."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


BEHIND ALL EVIL, LUSTING AND DISOBEDIENCE    


"Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness - especially in connection with his commandments. That is what really lies behind all evil, lusting and disobedience. A discontent with our position and portion, a craving from something which God has wisely held from us. Reject any suggestion that God is unduly severe with you. Resist with the utmost abhorrence anything that causes you to doubt God's love and his lovingkindness toward you. Allow nothing to make you question the Father's love for his child."   


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher   


THE BLESSINGS OF HIS GOODNESS TO HIS PEOPLE


"Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


PRAYER TO THE LORD OF THE HARVEST  


"It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


AS IN EVERYTHING, GOD'S THOUGHTS ARE NOT OURS


"Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honoured by our asking, just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing."


- A.W. Pink


THE MUCH TRIBUALTION WILL SOON BE OVER


"Troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WE NEED


Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honoured by our asking, just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


HIS GIFTS SHOULD BE SOUGHT FOR 


"Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honored by our asking, just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


A LIFE THAT CONSISTS OF FOLLOWING JESUS


"The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


MULTITUDES WISH TO ESCAPE THE LAKE OF FIRE   


"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher  


THOUGH HARRASED BY SIN AND SATAN


"Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord.."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING AT HIS LOT  


"Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily desiring something more than the supply of his present need, he rejoices that God still cares for him. Such an one is "content" with such as he has."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


POISON INTO OUR HEARTS TO DISTRUST GOD'S GOODNESS


"Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness - especially in connection with his commandments. That is what really lies behind all evil, lusting and disobedience. A discontent with our position and portion, a craving from something which God has wisely held from us. Reject any suggestion that God is unduly severe with you. Resist with the utmost abhorrence anything that causes you to doubt God's love and his lovingkindness toward you. Allow nothing to make you question the Father's love for his child."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


A CONTENTED MAN IS THANKFUL 


"Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily desiring something more than the supply of his present need, he rejoices that God still cares for him. Such an one is "content" with such as he has." 


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


A VISION AND A VIEW OF GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY HELPS


"A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view of God's sovereignty helps, for it reveals His sufficiency and shows us our insufficiency."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


OUR DISAPPOINTMENTS ARE BUT HIS APPOINTMENTS 


Yes, give thanks for "all things" for, as it has been well said "Our disappointments are but His appointments."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


MY HEART IS MADE TO REJOICE  


"The mere fact itself that God's will is irresistible and irreversible fills me with fear, but once I realize that God wills only that which is good, my heart is made to rejoice."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


IN ALL THINGS THAT OFFEND HIM


"An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


THE FRUIT OF A GENUINE CONVERSION  


"It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded by others as one of the called and elect of God. It is just in proportion as we add to our faith the other Christian graces that we have solid ground on which to rest in the assurance we belong to the family of Christ. It is not those who are governed by self-will, but "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:14)."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


COMPARING THEM WITH THE ETRTNAL WEIGHT OF GLORY 


"Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


NOTHING TOO GREAT OR TOO SMALL  


"Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


BOTH PRIVILGE AND DUTY TO REJOICE  


"Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


GOD REQUIRES THAT HIS GIFTS SHOULD BE SOUGHT FOR


"Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honoured by our asking, just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


DECEIVED INTO SUPPOSING THEY HAVE "ACCEPTED CHRIST"


"Thousands are deceived into supposing that they have "accepted Christ" as their "personal Saviour", who have not first received Him as their LORD."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING AT HIS LOT


"Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily desiring something more than the supply of his present need, he rejoices that God still cares for him. Such an one is 'content' with such as he has."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


PRIVILEDGE AND DUTY TO REJOICE IN THE LORD


"Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


 REAL PRAYER IS COMMUNION WITH GOD

"Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him."

- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


CHRIST IS THE KEY WHICH UNLOCKS THE GOLDEN DOORS  


"Christ is the key which unlocks the golden doors into the temple of Divine truth."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


SINNER SAVED BY VIRTUE OF IT  


"Gospellers have much to say about what Christ's death accomplished for those who believe in Him, but very little is said about what that Death accomplished Godwards. The fact is that the death of Christ glorified God if never a single sinner had been saved by virtue of it." 


 - A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


A. W. PINK BOOKS AND SERMONS


Biographies on Arthur Walkington Pink


Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write (Columbia, SC: Richbarry Press, 1980).


Iain H. Murray, The Life of Arthur W. Pink (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1981: Revised, 2004).


Alan McKerrell, Early Reminiscence of A.W. Pink (Sydney, NSW: Alan McKerrell, n.d.).


Collected Letters of Arthur Walkington Pink

Letters from Spartanburg, Ed. Richard P. Belcher (Columbia, SC: Richbarry Press, 1993).


Letters of an Itinerant Preacher, 1920-1921, Ed. Richard P. Belcher (Columbia, SC: Richbarry Press, 1994).


Letters of A.W. Pink: during the period 1924-1951, Eds. Iain H. Murray and Sinclair Ferguson (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1978).


Letters to a Young Pastor, Ed. R. Harbach (Grandville, MI: Grandville Protestant Reformed Church, 1993)


Books About Arthur Walkington Pink

Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Predestination (Columbia, SC: Richbarry Press, 1983).


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Words to Think About...

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE


"The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


THE FIRST STEP  


"The first step toward a daily following of Christ is the denying of self."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher  


YOU CAN SEE GOD FROM ANYWHERE


"You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


REJOICE IN THE LORD


"Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


HAPPY THE SOUL


"Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


GIVE THANKS FOR ALL THINGS


"Yes, give thanks for "all things" for, as it has been well said "Our disappointments are but His appointments." 


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


THEM HE ALSO SANCTIFIES  


"Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only be ascertained by the latter. It is impossible to obtain a Scriptural knowledge that the merits of Christ's finished work are reckoned to my account, except by proving that the efficacy of the Holy Spirit's work is evident in my soul."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


CHRIST IS THE KEY


"Christ is the key which unlocks the golden doors into the temple of Divine truth."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


THE VICTORIOUS SAINT  


"Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 


"Like the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and the miraculous birth of our Savior, the truth of election must be received with simple, unquestioning faith."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


ESCAPE THE LAKE OF FIRE  


"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


UNBELIEF AND A THOUSAND EVILS

   

"Unbelief, and a thousand evils, are still in our hearts: though their reign and dominion is at an end, they are not slain or eradicated; their efforts will be felt more or less sensibly, as the Lord is pleased more or less to afford or abate His gracious influence."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


TAKING UP THE CROSS MEANS  


"Taking up my 'cross' means a life voluntarily surrendered to God."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher  


DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY


"Divine sovereignty is not the sovereignty of a tyrannical Despot, but the exercised pleasure of One who is infinitely wise and good! Because God is infinitely wise He cannot err, and because He is infinitely righteous He will not do wrong."

 

- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


HE DOESN'T NEED US


"God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not He who cried, "God, where art Thou?" It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?'"


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


THE TEMPLE OF DIVINE TRUTH


"Christ is the key which unlocks the golden doors into the temple of Divine truth."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


IS THE DENYING TO SELF  


"The first step toward a daily following of Christ is the denying of self."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


APPOINTED FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT


"Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


GRACE CAN NEITHER BE BOUGHT


“Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.” 


– Arthur W. Pink


CHRISTIAN WHO STOPPED REPENTING  


"The Christian who has stopped repenting has stopped growing."


- .A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


THOUGH SUFFERING BODY PAIN


"Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


AN ATTITUDE OF DEPENDENCY


"Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


NEITHER REST FOR THE HEART 


"So long as we are occupied with any other object than God Himself, there will be neither rest for the heart nor peace for the mind. But when we receive all that enters our lives as from His hand, then, no matter what may be our circumstances or surroundings--whether in a hovel or prison-dungeon, or at a martyr's stake--we shall be enabled to say, " The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places" (Ps. 16:6). But that is the language of faith, not of sight nor of sense."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


HAPPY THE SOUL THAT   


"Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty."    


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


OPEN TO THE WORD


"An honest heart is open to the Word."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


ANICDOTE FOR ANXIETY


"The best antidote for anxiety is frequent meditation upon God’s goodness, power and sufficiency… Nothing is too big and nothing is too little to spread before and cast upon the Lord."


- A.W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


SEEING HIM WHO IS INVISIBLE  


 "Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible; endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind."    


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


HE IS ALREADY PERFECT  


"God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse." 


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


FOLLOWING CHRIST IS DENYING SELF


"The first step toward a daily following of Christ is the denying of self."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher 


WE ARE NOT WORTHY


"Growth in grace is growth downward. It is the forming of a lower estimate of ourselves. It is a deepening realization of our nothingness. It is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies."


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher


NOTHING WILL KEEP YOUR HEART 


"Nothing will keep the heart tender so much as cultivating the spirit of filial awe."  


- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher  







6. A. W. Tozer

A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Missionary

ABOUT A. W. TOZER


QUOTES BY A. W. TOZER


Aiden Wilson Tozer was born April 21, 1897, on a small farm among the spiny ridges of Western Pennsylvania. Within a few short years, Tozer, as he preferred to be called, would earn the reputation and title of a "20th-century prophet."

Able to express his thoughts in a simple but forceful manner, Tozer combined the power of God and the power of words to nourish hungry souls, pierce human hearts, and draw earthbound minds toward God.
When he was 15 years old, Tozer's family moved to Akron, Ohio. One afternoon as he walked home from his job at Goodyear, he overheard a street preacher say, "If you don't know how to be saved . . . just call on God." When he got home, he climbed the narrow stairs to the attic where, heeding the preacher's advice, Tozer was launched into a lifelong pursuit of God.
In 1919, without formal education, Tozer was called to pastor a small storefront church in Nutter Fort, West Virginia. That humble beginning thrust him and his new wife Ada Cecelia Pfautz, into a 44-year ministry with The Christian and Missionary Alliance.
Thirty-one of those years were spent at Chicago's Southside Alliance Church. The congregation, captivated by Tozer's preaching, grew from 80 to 800.
In 1950 Tozer was elected editor of the Alliance Weekly now called Alliance Life. The circulation doubled almost immediately. In the first editorial dated June 3, 1950, he set the tone: "It will cost something to walk slow in the parade of the ages while excited men of time rush about confusing motion with progress. But it will pay in the long run and the true Christian is not much interested in anything short of that."

Tozer's forte was his prayer life which often found him walking the aisles of a sanctuary or lying face down on the floor. He noted, "As a man prays, so is he." To him the worship of God was paramount in his life and ministry. "His preaching as well as his writings were but extensions of his prayer life," comments Tozer biographer James L. Snyder. An earlier biographer noted, "He spent more time on his knees than at his desk."
Tozer's love for words also pervaded his family life. He quizzed his children on what they read and made up bedtime stories for them. "The thing I remember most about my father," reflects his daughter Rebecca, "was those marvelous stories he would tell."
Son Wendell, one of six boys born before the arrival of Rebecca, remembers that, "We all would rather be treated to the lilac switch by our mother than to have a talking-to by our dad."
Tozer's final years of ministry were spent at Avenue Road Church in Toronto, Canada. On May 12, 1963, his earthly pursuit of God ended when he died of a heart attack at age 66. In a small cemetery in Akron, Ohio, his tombstone bears this simple epitaph: "A Man of God."
Some wonder why Tozer's writings are as fresh today as when he was alive. It is because, as one friend commented, "He left the superficial, the obvious and the trivial for others to toss around. . . . [His] books reach deep into the heart."
His humor, written and spoken, has been compared to that of Will Rogers--honest and homespun. Congregations could one moment be swept by gales of laughter and the next sit in a holy hush.
For almost 50 years, Tozer walked with God. Even though he is gone, he continues to speak, ministering to those who are eager to experience God. As someone put it, "This man makes you want to know and feel God." 


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Death

He spent his last years of ministry at Avenue Road Church in the province of Ontario in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he died from a heart attack. He was buried in Ellet Cemetery, Akron, Ohio, with a simple epitaph marking his grave: “A. W. Tozer – A Man of God.” His last message, The Waning Authority of Christ in the Churches, printed in the Alliance Weekly and dated May 15, 1963, was published 3 days after his death. His biographer James L. Snyder has suggested that “In a sense it was his valedictory, for it expressed the concern of his heart.” Tozer says here “Among the gospel churches Christ is in fact little more than a beloved symbol … The Lordship of Jesus is not quite forgotten, but it has been mostly relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be discharged in a glow of pleasant religious emotion.”


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THERE IS THE SPIRITUAL SECRET  


"He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret."  

- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher 


GOD DWELLS IN HIS CREATIONS

 

"God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them."


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Missionary


OUTSIDE THE WILL OF GOD  


"Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear."  


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Missionary 


EVERYDAY LIFE ON EARTH   


"In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety."   


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American pastor and Missionary 


I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE DEVIL

 

"I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature."


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American pastor and Missionary 


HE ALONE CAN RAISE OUR COLD HEARTS  


"If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship."   


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


MONEY TRANSMUTTED INTO EVERLASTING TREASURE  


“As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. It can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.”   


— A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS VISIBLE AND INVISBLE  


"God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell." 


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


WITHOUT DOUBT THE MIGHTEIEST THOUGHT  


"Without doubt the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God."  


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


THE MERCY OF GOD INFINITE


"The mercy of God is infinite too, and the man who has felt the grinding pain of inward guilt knows that this is more than academic. 'Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.' Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind. however sin may abound it still has its limits, for it is the product of finite minds and hearts; but God's much more" introduces us to infinitude. Against our deep creature-sickness stands God's infinite ability to cure."


— A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Missionary 


WE ARE HERE TO BE WORSHIPPERS OF GOD


"We're here to be worshippers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker...The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it."


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American pastor and Missionary


WHAT TO DO ABOUT OUR PROBLEMS  


"What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them. We must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly." 


-  A.W. Tozer


MOST COMFORTING THOUGHT OF THE HEART  


"What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day.  For each of us the time is coming when we shall have nothing but God.  Health and wealth and friends and hiding places will be swept away, and we shall have only God.  To the man of pseudo faith that is a terrifying thought, but to real faith it is one of the most comforting thoughts the heart can entertain."  


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


THE REALITY OF GOD'S PRESENCE


"Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.” 


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Missionary


WE HAVE BECOME SO ENGROSSED IN WORK


"We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work"


- A.W. Tozer


A. W . TOZER BOOKS AND SERMONS


  • A Disruptive faith
  • Experiencing the presence of God
  • Fiery Faith
  • Faith Beyond Reason
  • God Tells The Man Who cares
  • Keys To Deeper Life

  

Books and Sermons by A. W. Tozer - Rare Christian Books 

Sermon Index Downloads - A. W. Tozer


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Words to Think About...

LIVING WITH YOUR PROBLEMS

 

"What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them. We must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly."


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


TO BE AN EFFECTIVE PREACHER  


"To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people."  


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


WE MUST FACE THE FACT  


"We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline practically has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not 'disciplined'"?  


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


THE CROSS IS THE LIGHTNING ROD 


"The Cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuited God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers."  -


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


TRUE FAITH


“True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.”


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Missionary


HIS PLAN NEED NO EDITING


"God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man."  


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


HIS COVENANT STANDS  


"Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come."  


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


THE CHRISTIAN WOMAN


“The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.” 


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Christian Minister and Writer


RICHES IN CHRIST


"We'll hardly get our feet out of time into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, 'Look at all the riches there were in Jesus Christ, and I've come to the Judgment Seat almost a pauper.'" 


- A.W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor, Writer and Author


GOD’S UNCHANGING LOVE


“I am sure that there is in me nothing that could attract the love of one as holy and as just as You are. Yet You have declared Your unchanging love for me in Christ Jesus.”  


– A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Missionary


TO LOVE AND OBEY HIM  


"You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him." 


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


NOTHING IN OR OF THE WORLD  


“Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.”   


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)


THE SAME VOICE  


"God€'s voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being."  


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Missionary


THE OLD CROSS SLEW MEN  


"If I see aright, the cross of popular evangelicalism is not the cross of the New Testament. It is, rather, a new bright ornament upon the bosom of a self-assured and carnal Christianity. The old cross slew men, the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it." 


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


HE SEEKS TO DISCOVER HIMSELF


“Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one”  


— A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


AN INFINITE GOD


"An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others."


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher


OUR MENTAL IMAGE OF GOD


“We tend by secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.”   


– A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Missionary


ONE OF THE GREAT CHRISTIAN WRITERS


"Tozer is one of the great Christian writers of this century….Reading him is like drinking at an oasis in the desert."

—Dr. J. I. Packer, Regent College, Vancouver, Canada


EVERYDAY LIFE ON EARTH  


"In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety."  


- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher

7. Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920)

Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) Prime Minister Netherlands, Theologian, Journalist

ABOUT  ABRAHAM KUYPER 

 

Abraham Kuyper was one of the most extraordinary individuals of his time. A prolific intellectual and theologian, he founded the Free University in Amsterdam and was instrumental in the development of Neo-Calvinism. He was also an active politician, serving as a member of Parliament in the Netherlands beginning in 1874 and serving as Prime Minister from 1901 to 1905.


At this intersection of church and state, he devoted much of his writing towards developing a public theology. His passion was to faithfully understand and engage culture through a Christian worldview. The most famous example is his articulation of the doctrine of common grace. His work has influenced countless others, including Francis Schaeffer, Cornelius Van Til, and Alvin Plantinga.


In the video below, Richard Mouw, professor of faith and public life at Fuller Theological Seminary, and James Bratt, professor of history at Calvin College, discuss Kuyper’s legacy and how Kuyper’s thoughts speak into modern culture.


Source: abrahamkuyper.com/


QUOTES BY ABRAHAM KUYPER


THE CURSE SHOULD NO LONGER REST UPON THE WORLD  


"The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life." 


 - Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) Netherlands Theologian and Intellectual


WITH ALL THE FIRE OF YOUR FAITH


"When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith."


- Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) Prime Minister Netherlands, Theologian, Journalist


ABRAHAM KUYPER BOOKS AND SERMONS


 The following is a list of books or articles available by Abraham Kuyper translated into English and available online 


1878. 'Liberalists and Jews' translated by Dr. Jann Schlebusch available on line here.

1879 Dr. A. Kuyper, Het heil in ons (1879; repr. Kampen: Kok, 1910), pp. 165?225.

       This study appeared in thirteen instalments in the Sunday supplement of De Standaard, from Aug. 2 to Nov. 15, 1874. ©Translation by Harry Van Dyke

1880. 'Sphere Sovereignty' (A public address delivered at the inauguration of the Free University, Oct. 20, 1880) Translated by George Kamps

1883. 'Keeping Watch over Their Flock at Night' Honing uit de Rotssteen, vol. 2, no. 1 (translated by James DeJong)

1888. Days of Glad Tidings - Pentecost (with Ascension Day) vol. III (translated from Dagen van Goede Boodschap -Op den Pinksterdag (Met Hemelvaart) J.A. Wormser: Amsterdam, 1888 - by Jack Van Meggelen)

1888. The Ascent of the Son The Descent of the Spirit. (26 Meditations on Ascension and Pentecost)Translated by Jan H. Boer

1889. 'The Cross Versus the Tree of Liberty'. Original full Dutch title: Niet de Vrijheidsboom Maar het Kruis: Toespraak ten Opening van de Tiende Deputatenvergadering in het Eeuwjaar der Fransche Revolutie. Amsterdam: J. A. Wormser.1890. "Lecture on missions." Given at the mission conference, Amsterdam, Jan. 28?30, 1890. ©Translation by Harry Van Dyke

1895.  "Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism Lord?s Day 42 (1895)" Markets & Morality.16(2) (2013)

1895. 'Calvinism: The Origin and Safeguard of our constitutional Liberties'. Bibliotheca Sacra (July/ Oct 1895)

1898. Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology

1898 Lectures on Calvinism: Six Stone Lectures

1899. The Antithesis between symbolism and revelation

1900. Work of the Holy Spirit also here The Work of the Holy Spirit [from CCEL]

        Extracts from The Work of the Holy Spirit:

            Sermon on Sanctification

            Sermon on Sanctification and Justification

1901. "Catholic Voters of District VIII" Source: Kuyper-archief, Historisch Documentatiecentrum VU, nr. 6460. 


Source: allofliferedeemed.co.uk/kuyper.htm


Photo Credit:  logos.com/grow/key-works-by-abraham-kuyper-available-in-english-for-the-first-time/

Words to Think About...

GOD BUILT INTO CREATION


"God built into the creation a variety of cultural spheres, such as the family, economics, politics, art, and intellectual inquiry. Each of these spheres has its own proper "business" and needs its own unique pattern of authority. When we confuse spheres, by violating the proper boundaries of church and state, for instance, or reducing the academic life to a business enterprise, we transgress the patterns that God has set."


- Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) Prime Minister Netherlands, Theologian, Journalist


LAY YOUR CONVICTIONS BARE


"When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith."


- Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) Prime Minister Netherlands, Theologian, Journalist


GOD'S SPECIAL REVELATION


"The 'book of nature' must always be read in light of God's special revelation, the Bible."


- Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) Prime Minister Netherlands, Theologian, Journalist



8. Abraham Wright (1611–1690)

Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer

ABOUT ABRAHAM WRIGHT


Wright was sent to the Mercers' chapel school in Cheapside, and was afterwards from 1626 at Merchant Taylors' school. He was elected scholar of St John's College, Oxford, on 11 June 1629, and matriculated on 13 November. He was especially favoured by William Juxon for his good elocution. He was elected fellow of his college in 1632, graduated B.A. on 16 May 1633, and M.A. on 22 April 1637.


When William Laud received Charles I in St. John's on 30 August 1636, Wright delivered the speech welcoming the king to the new library, and after dinner he acted in the play Love's Hospital, by George Wilde, before the king and queen. St. John's had long been famous for its plays. Wright is said himself to have written a comic interlude called The Reformation, acted at St. John's about 1631.


Deaconry

On 27 September 1637, Wright was ordained deacon by Francis White (1564?–1638), Bishop of Ely, in the chapel of Ely House. In the same year he published at Oxford a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century epigrams, which he called ‘Delitiæ Delitiarum.’ On 22 Dec. 1639 he was ordained priest by Bancroft, bishop of Oxford, in Christ Church Cathedral. He soon became a popular preacher, and preached before the king, before the university, and at St. Paul's (Wood, Athenæ Oxon. iv. 275; cf. Hist. MSS. Comm. 2nd Rep. App. i. 79).


In August 1645, he was presented to the vicarage of Oakham, Rutland, by Juxon, his constant patron, but he was not inducted, as he refused to take the covenant (cf. his poem to Juxon in Parnassus Biceps). He was expelled from his fellowship by the parliamentary commission (Wilson, Hist. of Merchant Taylors' School, ii. 728), and became tutor to the son of Sir James Grime or Graham at Peckham, and ‘read the common prayer on all Sundays and holy days, and on principal feasts he preached and administered. About 1655 he was prevailed with to leave Peckham and to live in London, where he was chosen by the parishioners of St. Olave in Silver Street to be their minister and to receive the profits of that little parish, of which he was in effect the rector, though formally to take actual possession of the living he would not (as his nearest relation hath told me), because he would avoid oaths and obligations’ (Wood, Athenæ Oxon.) He continued to minister there four years, according to the rites of the church of England, but was obliged to withdraw in 1659.


On the Restoration, he was offered a chaplaincy to Elizabeth of Bohemia, but he declined it and took possession of his living of Oakham. He refused several preferments and lived quietly in the country, busy with his parish and his garden (cf. Hist. MSS. Comm. 2nd Rep. i. 396, 398).


Personal

Wright was the son of Richard Wright, silk-dyer, of London, was born in Black Swan Alley, Thames Street, 23 December 1611; apparently his father was the Richard Wright who was warden of the Merchant Taylors' Company, 1600–1, 1606–7, and master 1611–1612. He died on Friday, 9 May 1690, and was buried in Oakham church. He married, in 1643, Jane, daughter of James Stone of Yarnton, Oxfordshire. His son James (1643–1713) was a noted antiquary and man of letters.


Source: n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wright_(deacon)


QUOTES BY ABRAHAM WRIGHT


GOD KEEPS ALL OUR TEARS IN A BOTTLE  


"God keeps all our tears in a bottle; so precious is the water that is distilled from penitent eyes; and because he will be sure not to fail, he notes how many drops there be in his register. It was a precious ointment wherewith the woman in the Pharisee's house (it is thought Mary Magdalene) anointed the feet of Christ; but her tears, wherewith she washed them, were more worth than her spikenard."  


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


IN OUR ADDRESSES THEREFORE UNTO GOD


"In our addresses therefore unto God, let us so look upon him as a just God, as well as a merciful; and not either despair of or presume upon his mercy."


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


SAINTS ARE PLANTED IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD


"Saints are planted in the house of God; they have a kind of rooting there: but though the tabernacle be a good rooting place, yet we cannot root firmly there, unless we are rooted in Jesus Christ."


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


BECAUSE WE TRUST TOO MUCH IN OUR OWN WITS


"The cause why our oppressors prevail oft against us is, because we trust too much in our own wits, and lean too much upon our own inventions opposing subtility to subtility, one evil device to another, matching and maintaining policy by policy, and not committing our cause to God."


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer  


APPOINTED HIM TO SIT AT THE RIGHT HAND  


"We may be sure God will not be hard to be intreated of us, who himself hath appointed us such an intercessor, to whom he can deny nothing; and to that end hath appointed him to sit at his right hand to make intercession for us." 


 - Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


IF THE LORD SHOULD ALWAYS BE SWIFT TO HEAR US


"If the Lord should always be swift to hear us, how slow should we be in hearing him, and while we have our desires, forget most of our duties."


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer


I AM ENRICHED BY MY POVERTY  


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer


"I am mended by my sickness, enriched by my poverty, and strengthened by my weakness."  


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


ABRAHAM WRIGHT BOOKS AND SERMONS 


Wright, Abraham, 1611-1690: Anarchie reviving, or, The good old cause on the anvile being a discovery of the present design to retrive the late confusions both of church and state, in several essays for liberty of conscience / by Abraham Philotheus. (London : [s.n.], 1668) 


Wright, Abraham, 1611-1690: Five sermons, in five several styles; or Waies of preaching. The [brace] first in Bp Andrews his way; before the late King upon the first day of Lent. Second in Bp Hall's way; before the clergie at the author's own ordination in Christ-Church, Oxford. Third in Dr Maine's and Mr Cartwright's way; before the Universitie at St Maries, Oxford. Fourth in the Presbyterian way; before the citie at Saint Paul's London. Fifth in the Independent way; never preached. With an epistle rendring an account of the author's designe in printing these his sermons, as also of the sermons themselves. / By Ab. Wright, sometimes Fellow of St John Baptist Coll. in Oxford. ([London] : Printed for Edward Archer, at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, 1656) 


Wright, Abraham, 1611-1690: Parnassus biceps. Or Severall choice pieces of poetry, composed by the best wits that were in both the universities before their dissolution. With an epistle in the behalfe of those now doubly secluded and sequestred Members, by one who himselfe is none. (London: : Printed for George Eversden at the signe of the Maidenhead in St. Pauls Church-yard., 1656) 


Wright, Abraham, 1611-1690: A practical commentary or exposition upon the Pentateuch viz. These five books of Moses Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Wherein the text of every chapter is practically expounded, according to the doctrine of the Catholick Church, in a way not usually trod by commentators; and wholly applyed to the life and salvation of Christians. By Ab. Wright; sometime fellow of St. John's Colledge in Oxford. (London : printed by G. Dawson, for Tho. Johnson, at the Golden-Key in St. Pauls-Church-Yard, 1662) 


Source: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Wright%2C%20Abraham%2C%201611%2D1690


Photo Credit: wikiwand.com/en/1690

Words to Think About...

MERCY CAN COVER ALL  


"The high heaven covereth as well tall mountains as small mole hills, and mercy can cover all. The more desperate thy disease, the greater is the glory of thy physician, who hath perfectly cured thee." 


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR US  


"We may be sure God will not be hard to be intreated of us, who himself hath appointed us such an intercessor, to whom he can deny nothing; and to that end hath appointed him to sit at his right hand to make intercession for us."  


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer


TO WHOM HE CAN DENY NOTHING


"We may be sure God will not be hard to be intreated of us, who himself hath appointed us such an intercessor, to whom he can deny nothing; and to that end hath appointed him to sit at his right hand to make intercession for us."


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer  


LOOK UPON HIM AS A JUST GOD


"In our addresses therefore unto God, let us so look upon him as a just God, as well as a merciful; and not either despair of or presume upon his mercy."


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


SAINTS ARE PLANTED  


"Saints are planted in the house of God; they have a kind of rooting there: but though the tabernacle be a good rooting place, yet we cannot root firmly there, unless we are rooted in Jesus Christ."  


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


BEATEN TO POWDER BY MEDIATION  


"The sweet spices of divine works must be beaten to powder by meditation, and then laid up in the cabinet of our memories." 


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


THEY ARE FOR OUR PROFIT   


"What fools are we, then, to frown upon our afflictions! These, how crabbed soever, are our best friends. They are not indeed for our pleasure, they are for our profit."  


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


THE SWEET SPICES OF DIVINE WORKS


"The sweet spices of divine works must be beaten to powder by meditation, and then laid up in the cabinet of our memories."


- - Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer


STRENGTHENED BY MY WEAKNESS


"I am mended by my sickness, enriched by my poverty, and strengthened by my weakness."


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


TO BE SEEN AS GOD AS MADE THEM


"Many are ashamed to be seen as God made them; few are ashamed to be seen what the devil hath made them. Many are troubled at small defects in the outward man; few are troubled at the greatest deformities of the inward man; many buy artificial beauty to supply the natural; few spiritual, to supply the defects of the supernatural beauty of the soul."


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer 


PLANTED IN THE HOUSE OF GOD


"Saints are planted in the house of God; they have a kind of rooting there: but though the tabernacle be a good rooting place, yet we cannot root firmly there, unless we are rooted in Jesus Christ."


- Abraham Wright (1611–1690) English Theological Writer



9. Adoniram Judson (1788-1850)

Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma

ABOUT ADONIRAM JUDSON


Adoniram Judson, Jr. (August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson became the first Caucasian Protestant missionary sent from North America to preach in Burma. His mission and work with Luther Rice led to the formation of the first Baptist association in America to support missionaries.


At times mistakenly referred to as the first Protestant missionary to Burma, he was in fact preceded by James Chater and Richard Mardon (who both arrived in 1807) as well as by Felix Carey. However, since those predecessors did not remain long, and Judson also translated the Bible into Burmese, as well as established a number of Baptist churches in Burma, Judson is remembered as the first significant missionary in Burma, as well as one of the very first missionaries from America to travel overseas.


Adoniram Judson, Jr. was an American Congregationalist and later Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years.


Adoniram was born in 1788. He was the son of Adonirum Judson and Abigail Brown.

He passed away in 1850 in the Bay of Bengal and is buried at sea. He has a cenotaph at Burial Hill Cemetery in Plymouth, Massachusetts.


Source: wikitree.com/wiki/Judson-601


QUOTES BY ADONIRAM JUDSON 


I AM NOT TIRED OF MY WORK  


"I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness."  


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


GOD ANSWERS ALL TRUE PRAYER  


"God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness."  


AFTER MANY PAINFUL TRIALS


"After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism."


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


EVERY ADDITIONAL TRIAL  


"If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated sufferings." 


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


I SHALL GO WITH GLADNESS


"I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness."


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma


WORTHY OF UNIVERSAL ADOPTION 


"Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption." 


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


THAT WE MAY DESIRE MUCH MORE  


"It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more." 


 - Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


ATTAINABLE IN THIS LIFE   


 "Believe in the doctrine of perfect sanctification attainable in this life."    


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma


I GO WITH THE GLADNESS OF A BOY


“I go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from school. I feel so strong in Christ.”


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


ADONIRAM JUDSON BOOKS AND SERMONS


Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) was an American Baptist missionary, lexicographer, and Bible translator to Burma.


  • Adoniram Judson, American Missionary.
  • Adoniram Judson: Apostle of Burma.
  • Adoniram Judson: Father of Baptist Missionaries.
  • Adoniram Judson: Apostle of the Love of Christ in Burma.
  • Adoniram Judson: Missionary.
  • Adoniram Judson, D.D.
  • Adoniram Judson: Burmah, 1813-1850.
  • Adoniram Judson & Ann Judson: Pioneer American Missionaries to Burma.
  • Adoniram Judson: Burma's First Missionary.
  • Adoniram Judson, 1788-1850.
  • Adoniram Judson. Short biography.
  • Dr. Adoniram Judson. Short biography.
  • Adoniram Judson "Pioneer of American Missions".
  • Adoniram Judson. Short biography.
  • Adoniram Judson, the "Haystack" Missionary to Burma.
  • Dr. Judson in Burmah.
  • Adoniram Judson: Winning a Wife in the Homeland.
  • Adoniram Judson from The Story of Baptist Missions... 5 chapters.
  • Selections from Judson the Pioneer. 3 chapters.
  • Adoniram Judson and the Missionary Call. pdf
  • Adoniram Judson: A Biography. ebook
  • Adoniram Judson. Biography.
  • Adoniram Judson's Life Text.
  • Conversion of Adoniram Judson: The Pioneer of Burma.
  • Adoniram Judson's Imprisonment.
  • The Pioneer's Farewell. Judson's only return to America (1845).
  • Adoniram Judson: General View of His Character and Labors.
  • Closing Scenes in the Life of Dr. Judson.
  • Adoniram Judson. Short biography for young people.
  • Pioneer Missionaries: Adoniram Judson. Short biography for young people.
  • Adoniram Judson: Missionary to Burma, 1813-1850. For boys and girls.
  • Portraits of the Judsons.
  • eBooks about Adoniram Judson.


Writings:


  • Advice to Missionary Candidates - Letter written in 1832.
  • Autobiographical Record of Dates and Events.
  • Letter on Ornamental and Costly Attire.
  • Rules of Holy Living.
  • Two Letters by Adoniram - To Mr. Hasseltine (Ann's father) and to Ann Hasseltine.


Source: wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpjudson.html


Photo Credit: scriptoriumdaily.com/adoniram-judson-1788-1850-three-yadanas-and-the-threefold-cord/

Words to Think About...

GOD WILL PROVIDE MORE


"It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more."


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


I GO WITH GLADNESS

  

“I go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from school. I feel so strong in Christ.”

  

- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary


ETERNAL WISDOM


"No mind, no wisdom--temporary mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom."


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma


MY ACCUMULATED SUFFERINGS


"If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated sufferings."


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Linguist and Missionary


TEMPORARY MIND, TEMPORARY WISDOM  


"No mind, no wisdom--temporary mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom."  


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


HE REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT  


"The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses." 


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


INFINITE LOVE AND MERCY


"If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated sufferings."


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


LET ME BEG YOU, NOT TO REST


"Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent."


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


IMMERSION OF THE BELEIVER 


"After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism." 


 - Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


GOD LOVES IMPORTUNATE PRAYER


"God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it."


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 


IN SPITE OF SORROW


"In spite of sorrow, loss, and pain, Our course be onward still; We sow on Burmah's barren plain, We reap on Zion's hill."


- Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) American Missionary to Burma 

10. Alan Redpath (1907-1989)

Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister

ABOUT DR. ALAN REDPATH


Alan Redpath was born on January 9th 1907 and lived until the 16th of March 1989. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and the only son of James and Christina Redpath.  


Alan Redpath was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, the only son of James and Christina Redpath. He went to Durham School, and then studied to be chartered accountant in Newcastle, completing this in 1928. He then worked as the chartered accountant for ICI until 1935. In 1936, he joined the Young Life National Young Life Campaign as an evangelist, where he served until he was called to be pastor of Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, London in May 1940. In 1953 he moved to the United States and became the pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago. In 1955, Redpath was elected President of Unevangelized Fields Mission in the United Kingdom. Redpath ministered at Moody Church until 1962. In 1961, Houghton College awarded Redpath an honorary Doctorate of Divinity degree.  


Redpath returned to the United Kingdom in 1962 as pastor of Charlotte Baptist Chapel, Edinburgh, Scotland. While at Charlotte Baptist, he suffered a near-fatal stroke in 1964, but was able to recover, although he suffered from deep depression for a period afterwards. He preached there until 1966, when he embarked on ministry as a traveling missionary and conference speaker. In 1969, he became Field Representative for Capernwray Missionary Fellowship, and then in 1975 he was named Pastoral Dean of Capernwray Bible School. Redpath married, and had two daughters. He died on 16 March 1989 in Birmingham, England.


- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Redpath


QUOTES BY DR. ALAN REDPATH


BEFORE WE PRAY  


“Before we can pray, “Lord, Thy Kingdom come,” we must be willing to pray, “My Kingdom go.”” 


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


WHEN WE GET TO THE END OF OURSELF  


“When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.”


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


GIVE UP THE STRUGGLE  


“Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him, He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding – He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness.” 


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


THE BIBLE NEVER FLATTERS ITS HEROES


"The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.”


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


LEARN THE LESSON FROM NEHEMIAH  


“Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.”  


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


DR. ALAN REDPATH BOOKS AND SERMONS


The Making of a Man of God: Lessons from the Life of David    

Victorious Christian Living (Studies in the book of Joshua)    

Victorious Christian Service: Studies in the Book of Nehemiah    

Blessings Out of Buffetings: Studies in Second Corinthians   

The Royal Route to Heaven: Studies in First Corinthians  

Law and Liberty: The Ten Commandments for Today    

Victorious Christian Faith   

The Royal Route to Heaven and Blessings Out of Buffetings:  

The Bible Speaks to Our Times:  

The Christians Victory in Christ    

Faith for the Times: Studies in the Prophecy of Isaiah    

The Promise of Deliverance;: Studies in the Prophecy of Isaiah   

The Life Of Victory   

Victorious Christian Faith: Lessons in the Higher Christian Life    

The Royal Route to Heaven & Blessings Out of Buffetings:   

Victorious Christian Service 


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Words to Think About...

THE THRONE OF GOD


“A throne is God’s purpose for you; a cross is God’s path for you; faith is God’s plan for you.”


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


THE CONVERSION OF A SOUL  


"The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.”  


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


CIRCUMSTANCES WE HAVE RESENTED


“Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.”


FIT FOR THE WORK OF GOD  


We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.”


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


NO SIN HAS TAKEN GOD BY SURPRISE


"No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.”  


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


NO SIN HAS TAKEN GOD BY SURPRISE 


"No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.” 


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


FOR EVERY DISCOURAGEMENT  


For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour’s feet.”


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


RETURN TO THE BATTLE AGAIN  


“Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.” 


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister 


THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD   


"So often the providences of God seem to run completely counter to His promises, but only that He may test our faith, only that He may ultimately accomplish His purpose for our lives in a way that He could never do if the path were always smooth.”


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister


CHRISTIAN LIFE DOESN'T GET EASIER


“The Christian life doesn’t get easier as one gets older.” 


Alan Redpath (1907-1989) American Minister



11. Albert Barnes (1798-1870)

Albert Barnes (1798-1870) American Presbyterian Clergyman and Writer

ABOUT ALBERT BARNES


Albert Barnes was born in Rome, New York on December 1, 1798. He graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary, in 1823.


Barnes was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian church in Morristown, NJ, in 1825. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1830-67, where he resigned and was made pastor emeritus. He was an advocate of total abstinence from alcohol, was a staunch proponent of the abolition of slavery, and worked actively to promote Sunday-school.


In 1835 he was brought to trial for heresy by the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia, and was acquitted, but his accusers succeeded in having him suspended from the ministry, but he was again acquitted of heresy in 1836. The charges of heresy primarily related to his comments on Romans and the fact that Barnes broke from strict Calvinism and taught that man had free will to accept or deny the Gospel. He was a leader in the "New School" branch of the Presbyterian church.


His commentary on the entire New Testament and on portions of the Old (Notes: Explanatory and Practical, 1832-72), designed originally for his congregation in Philadelphia, were well-suited for popular use and more than one million copies were sold before his death.

He died in West Philadelphia on December 24, 1870.


Source- swordsearcher.com/christian-authors/albert-barnes.html


Death

Barnes died in Philadelphia on December 24, 1870, of natural causes, 23 days after his 72nd birthday. His widow wrote, "His death was sudden and entirely unexpected. His health, with the exception of his eyesight, seemed to be perfect, -- mind and body active and full of energy. The day he died, he spent the morning in the city, dined with us cheerfully as usual, and afterwards walked with my daughter about a mile and a quarter into the country, to visit some friends in deep affliction. They reached the house, and he conversed for a few minutes, when he threw back his head, breathed rather heavily, and before the physician, who was immediately summoned, could arrive, he had passed away. In an instant, as it seemed, without pain or any consciousness of entering the 'dark valley,' he was with his Saviour."


Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Barnes_(theologian)


QUOTES BY ALBERT BARNES


THE IDEA OF PREACHING THE GOSPEL TO ALL NATIONS


"The idea of preaching the gospel to all nations alike, regardless of nationality, of internal divisions as to rank and color, complexion and religion, constituted the beginning of a new era in history. You cannot preach the gospel in its purity over the world, without proclaiming the doctrine of civil and religious liberty,--without overthrowing the barriers reared between nations and clans and classes of men,--without ultimately undermining the thrones of despots, and breaking off the shackles of slavery,--without making men everywhere free."


- Albert Barnes (1798–1870) was an American theologian, Clergyman 


SUCH WAS GOD'S ORIGINAL LOVE FOR MAN


"Such was God's original love for man that He was willing to stoop to any sacrifice to save him; and the gift of a Saviour was the mere expression of that love."


- Albert Barnes (1798–1870) was an American theologian, Clergyman


THE BIBLE AS A REVELATION FROM GOD


"The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest."


- Albert Barnes (1798-1870) American Presbyterian clergyman and Writer 


WHEN LIFE HAS BEEN WELL SPENT

 "When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Savior; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us."


- Albert Barnes (1798–1870) was an American theologian, Clergyman


ALBERT BARNES BOOKS NAD SERMONS 


Online Books By Albert Barnes 


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Words to Think About...

THERE IS NOTHING MORE FOOLISH


"There is nothing more foolish than an act of wickedness; there is no wisdom equal to that of obeying God."


- Albert Barnes (1798–1870) was an American theologian, Clergyman


THE WORLD TO COME

 

"Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come."


- Albert Barnes (1798–1870) was an American theologian, Clergyman


THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE

 

"It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God."


- Albert Barnes (1798–1870) was an American theologian, Clergyman


CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE


"Christians should be grave and serious, though cheerful and pleasant. They should feel that they have great interests at stake, and that the world has too. They are redeemed--not to make sport; purchased with precious blood--for other purposes than to make men laugh. They are soon to be in heaven--and a man who has any impressive sense of that will habitually feel he has much else to do than to make men laugh. The true course of life is midway between moroseness and levity; sourness and lightness; harshness and jesting. Be benevolent, kind, cheerful, bland, courteous--but serious. Be solemn, thoughtful, deeply impressed with the presence of God and with eternal things--but pleasant affable and benignant. Think not a smile sinful; but think not levity and jesting harmless."


- Albert Barnes (1798–1870) was an American theologian, Clergyman


A DISORDERLY WALK


"A 'disorderly walk' denotes conduct that is in any way contrary to the rules of Christ. The word would include any violation of the rules of Christ."


- Albert Barnes (1798–1870) was an American theologian, Clergyman






12. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Missionary & Preacher

ABOUT ALBERT SCHWEITZER 


The Theologian

He obtained his doctorate in philosophy in 1899 and his doctorate in theology in 1900 ; he was appointed curate of Saint Nicholas Church in Strasbourg ; he was to become Professor at the Strasbourg Faculty of Theology in 1902 and remained in charge of New Testament studies until 1912. Considered a liberal, he is at the origin of the current of thought known as “consistent eschatology” and dealing with Christian origins. In a book concerning research on the life of Jesus, he shows that each historian has constructed his own image of Jesus according to his own ideas and epoch, as a rationalist, a romantic, a revolutionary, a bourgeois moralist. In his quest for the authentic Jesus, Albert Schweitzer puts aside the dogmas of the Church and insists on the importance of the Jewish apocalyptic background : the imminent coming of the Kingdom of God (parousia) is the key to the enigma of the thought of Jesus. Knowledge, historical knowledge, cannot build up the spiritual life of an era, since it smothers the « will power » linked to something infinite, demanding, radical and heroic : the only way to become « children of the Kingdom of God ». As opposed to « any vain attempt at modernizing Jesus, by reducing what, in his message, was determined by his epoch, or by giving it a new interpretation as if he could thus become closer to us » (“toute vaine tentative de moderniser Jésus, en réduisant ce qui, dans son message, était determiné par l’époque, ou en le réinterprétant comme s’il pouvait de cette façon devenir plus proche”) what really matters is to carry out the « great civilizing tasks which are inherent to religion » (“grandes tâches civilisatrices qui incombed à la religion”). In his book The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, Albert Schweitzer claims that Paul changed a message originally linked to a Palestinian environment into a universally understood mysticism.

Among his published works feature : Problems of the Lord’s Supper according to Scholarly Research of the 19th century and Historical accounts,1901, From Reimarus to Wrede, the Quest of the historical Jesus, Tübingen 1906/1913, Paul and his Interpreters Tubingen 1911, The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle Tübingen, 1911 (La mystique de l’Apôtre Paul, Paris 1962)


The Philosopher

As early as 1899, Albert Schweitzer had written a dissertation on the religious philosophy of Kant. From 1923 to 1952, he studied the evolution of European religious philosophy, and wrote Decay and Restoration of Civilization and Civilization and Ethics. He likewise wrote Indian Thought and its Development. Concerning the problem of ethics in the evolution of human thought, Schweitzer claimed that reverence for life was the basis of ethics. He advocated a religion that was freed from dogmatic speculations and primarily of a mystical and ethical nature. He regards the decay and inhumanity of the modern world as being due to a lack of spirituality. He appeals for a reverence for life which is the modern day transcription of what is central to the message of Jesus.


The Physician

From 1905 to 1912, he studied medicine and wrote a thesis on the history of psychiatric studies about Jesus. In 1913 he left for Lambaréné (Gabon), but came back to France because of the war. After working as a dermatologist at a Strasbourg hospital, he returned to Lambaréné in 1924 and rebuilt his hospital. Between 1927 and 1939 he came periodically to Europe, while constantly taking care of his hospital. As from 1939 he spent ten consecutive years in Lambaréné. His action was criticized on the grounds that he refused to modernize his hospital village where patients’ families stay with them while they themselves are receiving treatment. His critics accused him of having a traditional and old-fashioned vision of the Africans. His supporters retorted that by keeping it similar to a remote jungle village, he facilitated a proper hospital care for people who could not bear the thought of being away from home. In 1959 he returned to Lambaréné and died there on September 4, 1965. He is buried in Lambaréné.

In 1951 he was elected at the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques (The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences), andin 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In Oslo, he gave his famous speech : The Problem of Peace in the World today, and voices his opposition to nuclear armament.


The address of the Association des Amis d’Albert Schweitzer (Friends of Albert Schweitzer) is 1, Quai Saint-Thomas, in Strasbourg.


Source: museeprotestant.org/en/notice/albert-schweitzer-1875-1965-2/


QUOTES BY ALBERT SCHWEITZER 


STRENGTH BY OVERCOMING OBSTACLES


"Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy."


~ Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965) Doctor, Missionary & Preacher


ONE WHO GAINS STRENGTH BY OVERCOMING OBSTACLES 


"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."  


- Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965) Doctor, Missionary & Preacher


 ALBERT SCHWEITZER BOOKS AND SERMONS


Out of my life and thought : an autobiography by Albert Schweitzer 

Dr. Schweitzer of Lambaréné by Norman Cousins 

Albert Schweitzer : a biography by James Brabazon 

The world of Albert Schweitzer by Erica Anderson 

Albert Schweitzer : the man and his mind by George Seaver 

The philosophy of civilization by Albert Schweitzer
The quest of the historical Jesus : a critical study of its progress from Reimarus to Wrede  by Albert Schweitzer 

The mysticism of Paul the apostle by Albert Schweitzer
The deputy by Rolf Hochhuth
Reverence for life by Albert Schweitzer 

The Kingdom of God and primitive Christianity by Albert Schweitzer 

The mystery of the Kingdom of God : the secret of Jesus' messiahship and passion by Albert Schweitzer 

Paul and his interpreters : a critical history by Albert Schweitzer 

Indian thought and its development by Albert Schweitzer

Source: worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79090055/


Photo Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer

Words to Think About...

IN ORDER TO BE A SAINT


"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint."


- Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965) Doctor, Missionary & Preacher


EXAMPLE IS NOT THE MAIN THING


"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."


- Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965) Doctor, Missionary & Preacher


YOUR BROTHRS ARE HERE TOO


"You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too."


- Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965) Doctor, Missionary & Preacher


EVEN IF IT'S A LITTLE THING


"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."


- Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965) Doctor, Missionary & Preacher


NOTHING BUT REVERENCE FOR LIFE

 

"Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil."


- Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965) Doctor, Missionary & Preacher

13. Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919)

Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress

ABOUT ALEXANDER MACLAREN

 

Maclaren was born in Glasgow on February 11, 1826, and died in Manchester on May 5, 1910. He had been for almost sixty-five years a minister, entirely devoted to his calling. He lived more than almost any of the great preachers of his time between his study, his pulpit, his pen.


He subdued action to thought, thought to utterance and utterance to the Gospel. His life was his ministry; his ministry was his life. In 1842 he was enrolled as a candidate for the Baptist ministry at Stepney College, London. He was tall, shy, silent and looked no older than his sixteen years. But his vocation, as he himself (a consistent Calvinist) might have said, was divinely decreed. "I cannot ever recall any hesitation as to being a minister," he said. "It just had to be."


In the College he was thoroughly grounded in Greek and Hebrew. He was taught to study the Bible in the original and so the foundation was laid for his distinctive work as an expositor and for the biblical content of his preaching. Before Maclaren had finished his course of study he was invited to Portland Chapel in Southampton for three months; those three months became twelve years. He began his ministry there on June 28, 1846. His name and fame grew.


His ministry fell into a quiet routine for which he was always grateful: two sermons on Sunday, a Monday prayer meeting and a Thursday service and lecture. His parishioners thought his sermons to them were the best he ever preached. In April 1858 he was called to be minister at Union Chapel in Manchester. No ministry could have been happier. The church prospered and a new building had to be erected to seat 1,500; every sitting was taken. His renown as preacher spread throughout the English-speaking world. His pulpit became his throne. He was twice elected President of the Baptist Union. He resigned as pastor in 1905 after a ministry of forty-five years.


Maclaren's religious life was hid with Christ in God. He walked with God day by day. He loved Jesus Christ with a reverent, holy love and lived to make Him known. In his farewell sermon at Union he said: "To efface oneself is one of a preacher's first duties." 


Source: ccel.org/ccel/maclaren


QUOTES BY ALEXANDER MACLAREN 


THE THOUGHT OF ETERNITY IN OUR HEARTS


"Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do you mean that they shall be for you?" 


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


GREAT WHITE THRONE AND THE CRYSTAL SEA    


"Ordinary human motives will appeal in vain to the ears which have heard the tones of the heavenly music; and all the pomp of life will show poor and tawdry to the sight that has gazed on the vision of the great white throne and the crystal sea."    


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress  


HE WHO IS ONE IN WILL AND HEART WITH GOD IS A CHRISTIAN

 

"The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting point and foundation.


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


CHRISTIANITY IN ITS STRATING POINT AND FOUNDATION


"The sum of the whole matter is this: He who is one in will and heart with God is a Christian. He who loves God is one in will and heart with Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its ultimate purpose and result. That is Christianity in its means and working forces. That is Christianity in its starting point and foundation."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


YOU HAVE TO LIVE WITH HIM DAY BY DAY


"You have to live with Him day by day, and year by year, and to learn to know Him as we learn to know husbands and wives, by continual experience of a sweet and unfailing love, by many a sacred hour of interchange of affection and reception of gifts and counsels."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


DEEP TRUE THOUGHT WHICH OLD PAINTERS HAD


"It was a deep true thought which the old painters had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. Love makes us like."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


THE DARK WOUNDS OF AFFLICTION AND SORROW


"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


KINDNESS OF GOD IN YOUR DAILY LIFE  


"Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life." 


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


TRUE FAITH FIXES ITS GAZE ON OUR DIVINE MAKER


True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, "I will not be afraid;" it is wisdom and peace to say, "I will trust and not be afraid."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


YET OMNIPOTENT INFLUX INTO OUR HEARTS


"The risen life of Jesus is the nourishment and strengthening and blessing and life of a Christian. Our daily experience ought to be that there comes, wavelet by wavelet, that silent, gentle, and yet omnipotent influx into our empty hearts, this very life of Christ Himself."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


HIDDEN STRENGTH IN THE REMEMBRANCE OF HIM


"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


THE RECORD OF A PERSON WHO IS THE TRUTH


"The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a Person who is the Truth."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


LEARN TO KNOW HIM


"You have to live with Him day by day, and year by year, and to learn to know Him as we learn to know husbands and wives, by continual experience of a sweet and unfailing love, by many a sacred hour of interchange of affection and reception of gifts and counsels."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


BE AS RESOLUTE AND DETERMINED AS YOU CHOOSE


"I will" is no word for man. There is a far diviner one, "I ought." Bow passion to reason, reason to conscience, and conscience to God, and then be as resolute and determined as you choose."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


HE THAT HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE THE FATHER


The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


COME TO JESUS AND MEEET HIM ALONE  


"The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


THE CROSS IS THE CENTER OF WORLD'S HISTORY  


"The cross is the center of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifixion of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


WHICH OUR CIRCUMSTANCES MOST REQUIRE


"The vision of the Divine Presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


TRUE CONFIDENCE WHICH IS FAITH IN CHRIST


"The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


CAST YOURSELF WITH ALL YOUR WEIGHT  


"You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give." 


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


BE DILIGENT IN THE PRESENT  


"Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present."  


- Alexander MacLaren


THE SMALL VOICE IN WHICH GOD SPEAKS


"Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


DO YOUR WORK HEARTILY 


"If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


THE RAVEN OF HIS ANXIOUS THOUGHTS   


"He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


TRIBULATION WORKETH PATIENCE


"Tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope." That is the order. You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


ALEXANDER MACLAREN BOOKS AND SERMONS  


  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: [A year's ministry] [electronic resource] : [second series] / ([S.l. : s.n., 18--?]) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Acts of the Apostles (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1914)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Acts of the Apostles ... (London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1908])
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Acts of the Apostles / (New York : A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1907-1908),  
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: After the resurection : and other addresses / (New York, American Tract Society, [1903])
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The book of Esther, (New York, A. C. Armstrong and son, 1908) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The book of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, (London,. Hodder and Stoughton, 1900) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The book of Ezekiel, (New York, A. C. Armstrong and son, 1909) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The book of Genesis, (New York ; A.C. Armstrong and son ; London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1906) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The book of Genesis, (London,. Hodder and Stoughton, 1910)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The book of Isaiah and Jeremiah: (New York, A. C. Armstrong and son, 1910) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The book of Isaiah, chapters I to XLVIII / (London, Hodder & Stoughton, [191-?]) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The book of Psalms ... (New York, A. C. Armstrong and son, 1909)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Christ in the heart : and other sermons / (New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1902)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Christ in the heart : and other sermons / (New York : Macmillan, 1887) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Christ's musts and other sermons. (London, Alexander & Shepheard, 1894) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The conquering Christ and other sermons, (London, S. Low, Marston & company, limited, 1891) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Epistle to the Hebrews (chapters VII. to XIII.) The General epistle of James. (New York, A. C. Armstrong and son, 1910) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Epistles general of I and II Peter and I John / (New York, London : A. C. Armstrong ;, 1910) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Epistles of John, Jude, and the book of Revelation / (New York : C. Armstrong and Son, 1910) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon; (New York, A. C. Armstrong and son, n.d)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon; (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1890) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon / (New York : A. C. Armstrong and Son, 1901)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon / (New York : A.C. Armstrong, 1905), 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon / (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Expositions of holy scripture / (Hartford, Conn. : S. S. Scranton, 19--) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Expositions of holy scripture / (Grand Rapids : Eerdmans, 1959), also by George Eayrs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Expositions of Holy Scripture: Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John (Gutenberg ebook)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters: I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. (Gutenberg ebook)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon, ed. by W. Robertson Nicoll (Gutenberg ebook)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 1: Psalms I.-XXXVIII., ed. by W. Robertson Nicoll (Gutenberg ebook)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2: Psalms XXXIX.-LXXXIX., ed. by W. Robertson Nicoll (Gutenberg ebook)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 3: Psalms XC.-CL., ed. by W. Robertson Nicoll (Gutenberg ebook)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The God of the Amen : and other sermons / (New York : Funk & Wagnalls Co., [189-?]) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Gospel according to St. John ... (New York, A. C. Armstrong and son, 1908)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Gospel according to St. John / (New York : A. C. Armstrong and Son, 1908)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Gospel according to St. Luke / (New York : A.C. Armstrong and Son ; London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1909) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Gospel according to St. Mark ... (London, New York [etc.] Hodder and Stoughton, [1906]) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Gospel according to St. Matthew, (New York : A.C. Armstrong and son ; London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905-06) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Gospel of St John / (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1904)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Gospel of St. John / (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1893) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Gospel of St. Luke / (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1892) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Gospel of St. Matthew / (New York : A. C. Armstrong, 1894)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Heart breathings; or, Songs of twenty years, (Glasgow : A. M'Laren, [pref. 1889]) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Holy of Holies: sermons on the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of the Gospel of John / (London: Alexander & Shepheard, 1890) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: II. Timothy, Titus, Philemon and Hebrews, (New York, A. C. Armstrong and son, 1910) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The life of David as reflected in his Psalms. (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1885) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Life of David: As Reflected in His Psalms (Gutenberg ebook)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The life of David : as reflected in his Psalms / (Edinburgh : Macniven & Wallace, 1880.) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Philippians: Colossians, I. and II. Thessalonians and I. Timothy, (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Pictures and emblems [electronic resource] / (Toronto : S.R. Briggs : Willard Tract Depository, [1885?]) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Psalms. (N. Y., Hodder & Stoughton, [1892?]) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Psalms, (New York, A.C. Armstrong and son, 1902-1904) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Psalms / (New York : A. C. Armstrong ; London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1903)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Psalms / (New York : A. C. Armstrong ; London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1905)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Psalms / (New York : A.C. Armstrong, 1898-1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: The Psalms / (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1893-1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Pulpit prayers. (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Pulpit prayers, (New York London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1911])
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Pulpit prayers / (London, New York : Hodder and Stoughton, 1911) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: Rev. Dr. Alexander Maclaren's Bible class expositions ... ([New York, A.C. Armstrong & Son, 1894]) 
  • [X-Info] Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910: A rosary of Christian graces / (London : Horace Marshall & Son, 1899)


Source: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Maclaren%2C%20Alexander%2C%201826%2D1910


Photo Credit: darbygray.blogspot.com/2010/10/alexander-maclaren-01.html

Words to Think About...

I KNOW WHAT ETERNITY IS


"I know what Eternity is, though I cannot define the word to satisfy a metaphysician. The little child taught by some grandmother Lois, in a cottage, knows what she means when she tells him "you will live forever," though both scholar and teacher would be puzzled to put it into other words."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


YOU HOLD THE ROPES 


"I am going down into the pit; you hold the ropes,"; said Carey the pioneer missionary. They that hold the ropes, and the daring miner that swings away down in the darkness, are one in work, may be one in the motive, and, if they are, shall be one in the reward.


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


GOD'S INFINITE MERCY


"Embrace in one act the two truths--thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ."    


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


SOWS THE SEED NOW


"Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


STRENGTH OF MY LIFE


"Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


THE MYSTERY OF THE UNIVERSE  


"The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


LOVE IS THE ONLY FIRE 


"Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creature's will."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


FINDS NO PLACE TO REST


"He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


THE TRUST WHICH GOD REQUIRES


"Faith does not grasp a doctrine, but a heart. The trust which Christ requires is the bond that unites souls with Him; and the very life of it is entire committal of myself to Him in all my relations and for all my needs, and absolute utter confidence in Him as all sufficient for everything that I can require."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


THE RISEN LIFE OF CHRIST 


 "The risen life of Jesus is the nourishment and strengthening and blessing and life of a Christian. Our daily experience ought to be that there comes, wavelet by wavelet, that silent, gentle, and yet omnipotent influx into our empty hearts, this very life of Christ Himself." 


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


CHRIST OF GOD, WHO REDEEMS US

    

"Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountainside with its thick-ribbed ice."    


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


THE VISION OF HIS DIVINE PRESENCE


"The vision of the Divine Presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


FAITHFULLNESS IS FAITHFULLNESS


"Oh! it irradiates all our days with lofty beauty, and it makes them all hallowed and divine, when we feel that not the apparent greatness, not the prominence nor noise with which it is done, nor the external consequences which flow from it, but the motive from which it flowed, determines the worth of our deed in God's eyes. Faithfulness is faithfulness, on whatsoever scale it be set forth."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


YOU MUST CAST YOURSELF


"You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


UNLESS YOU FINISH THE VERSE 


It is of no use to say to men, "Let not your heart be troubled," unless you finish the verse and say, "Believe in God, believe also in Christ."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


THE TRANSFORMING GRACE  


"While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of renovation and the weapon which the transforming grace employs is "the word of the truth of the gospel," whereby we are sanctified." 


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


NATURAL TO A SELF-RIGHTEOUS BEING  


"Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


TO CHRIST BELONGS CREATIVE POWER   


"We believe that to Christ belongs creative power--that "without Him was not anything made which was made." We believe that from Him came all life at first. In Him life was as in its deep source. He is the fountain of life. We believe that as not being comes into existence without His creative power, so none continues to exist without His sustaining energy. We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence, and that the centre of the whole universe is the cross of Cavalry."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


IF YOU CANNOT HEAR HIS WHISPER


"Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


THEY REST NOT DAY OR NIGHT  


"The joys of heaven are not the joys of passive contemplation, of dreamy remembrance, of perfect repose; but they are described thus: "They rest not day nor night." "His servants serve Him, and see His face."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


TEMPTATION ONCE YIELDED TO  


"The temptation once yielded to gains power. The crack in the embankment which lets a drop or two ooze through is soon a hole which lets out a flood."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


TO PERSUE JOY IS TO LOSE IT  


"To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought, and we "being in the way," the angel of God, bright-haired joy, is sure to meet us."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


CHRIST HIMSELF, MY BROTHER  


"Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


THE CUP OF SALVATION  


"Surely scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated."


 - Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


WILL ALWAYS END IN THANKFULNESS


"The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


LET THE CURRENT OF YOUR BEING  


"Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


ENTIRE COMMITTAL OF MYSELF  


"Faith does not grasp a doctrine, but a heart. The trust which Christ requires is the bond that unites souls with Him; and the very life of it is entire committal of myself to Him in all my relations and for all my needs, and absolute utter confidence in Him as all sufficient for everything that I can require."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


OUR CIRCUMSTANCES MOST REQUIRE


"The vision of the Divine Presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require. 


- Alexander MacLaren


LIKE THOSE WONDERING THREE


"Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only."  


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


HOLINESS DEPENDS ON FAITH  


"Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness." 


 - Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


YEAR BY YEAR 


"You have to live with Him day by day, and year by year, and to learn to know Him as we learn to know husbands and wives, by continual experience of a sweet and unfailing love, by many a sacred hour of interchange of affection and reception of gifts and counsels."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


READY TO SHOW PITY


"Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears."


- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress


14. Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Novelist Soviet Dissident

ABOUT ALEXANDER SOLZENHITSYN


Winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 in Kislovodsk, Russia. He studied mathematics at Rostov University, while at the same time taking correspondence courses from the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History.

During World War II, he served as the commander of a sound-ranging battery in the Soviet Army, was involved in major action at the front, and was thrice decorated for personal heroism. In 1945 he was arrested for criticizing Stalin in private correspondence and sentenced to an eight-year term in a labour camp, to be followed by permanent internal exile. The experience of the camps provided him with raw material for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, which he was permitted to publish in 1962. It would remain his only major work to appear in his motherland until 1990.

Solzhenitsyn’s exile was cut short by Khrushchev’s reforms, allowing him to return from Kazakhstan to central Russia in 1956. He taught mathematics, astronomy and physics at a high school while continuing to write. In the early 1960s he was allowed to publish, in addition to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, only four stories, and by 1969 he was expelled from the Writers’ Union. The publication in the West of the initial version of August 1914 (the first part of The Red Wheel) and of Gulag Archipelago soon brought retaliation from the Soviet authorities. In February 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his Soviet citizenship, and flown against his will to Frankfurt, West Germany.

After a sojourn in Zurich, Solzhenitsyn moved to Vermont in 1976 with his wife and sons. Over the next eighteen years, spent mostly in the quiet of rural seclusion, Solzhenitsyn would complete his epic historical cycle, The Red Wheel, as well as several shorter works. In his essays and speeches throughout the free world, he decried the weak will displayed by Western governments in the face of continuing manifestations of Communist aggression. He also warned against the dangers of encroaching materialism for East and West alike.


In May 1994, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to his native Russia via the Pacific port of Vladivostok and traveled extensively, meeting with thousands of people throughout the country. He continued to write prodigiously, publishing Between Two Millstones, a memoir of his years in the West; Russia in Collapse, which rounded out the quadrilogy of historical essays begun with Letter to the Soviet Leaders, Rebuilding Russia and The Russian Question; eight “two-part” stories, exploring a new genre; twelve essays of literary criticism on twentieth-century writers; and, in 2001-03, a work on the mutual history of the Russian and Jewish peoples in Russia, 200 Years Together: 1795-1995. In 1997 the Russian Academy of Sciences elected Solzhenitsyn as a member, and in 2007 awarded him the Russian State Prize. Meanwhile, 2006 saw the beginning of the publication of a major new 30-volume collected works. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow in 2008 at age 89.


Source: solzhenitsyncenter.org/his-life-overview/biography


QUOTES BY ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN


MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD


"Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened."


- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Novelist Soviet Dissident


I HAVE SPENT ALL MY LIFE


“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society based on the letter of the law and never reaching any higher fails to take full advantage of the full range of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes man’s noblest impulses. And it will be simply impossible to bear up to the trials of this threatening century with nothing but the supports of a legalistic structure.”


- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Novelist Soviet Dissident


IT WAS GRANTED TO ME


"It was granted to me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good. In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel. In the surfeit of power I was a murderer and an oppressor. In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments. It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts.... That is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me: “Bless you, prison!” I...have served enough time there. I nourished my soul there, and I say without hesitation: “Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!” (The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Vol. 2, 615-617)


- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Novelist Soviet Dissident


ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN BOOKS AND SERMONS


The Soul and Barbed Wire: An Introduction to Solzhenitsyn by Edward E. Ericson Jr., & Alexis Klimoff


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology by Daniel J. Mahoney

 

Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile by Joseph Pearce


Solzhenitsyn: The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West 

by Lee Congdon


The Other Solzhenitsyn: Telling the Truth about a Misunderstood Writer and Thinker by Daniel J. Mahoney


Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Fictive Worlds by Richard Tempest


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Writer Who Changed History by Margo Caulfield


Solzhenitsyn: A Biography by Michael Scammel


Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life by D.M. Thomas  


Photo Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

Words to Think About...

MEN HAD FORGOTTEN GOD


"If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible that main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'"


- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Novelist Soviet Dissident


SOLE SUBSTITUTE FOR AN EXPERIENCE


“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”


- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Novelist Soviet Dissident


TO STAND UP FOR TRUTH


“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”


- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Novelist Soviet Dissident


YOU CAN RESOLVE TO LIVE


“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”


- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian Novelist Soviet Dissident

15. Alexander Whyte (1836–1921)

Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland

ABOUT ALEXANDER WHYTE 

 

Born in the small Angus town of Kirriemuir, Whyte was educated at Aberdeen University and the Free Church College in Edinburgh. After four years as assistant minister at Free St. John's, Glasgow (1866-1870), he became colleague and successor to the famous R. S. Candlish at Free St. George's, Edinburgh. His appearance in the pulpit was as arresting and impressive as the preaching itself, which attracted people of every class and kind. A deep appreciation of God's grace to save sinners gave him rare passion and power. A dramatic quality captivated his congregations with its depth of spiritual fervor. "To know Dr. Whyte", said J. M. Barrie, himself a native of Kirriemuir, "was to know what the Covenanters were like in their most splendid hours."

In the month after Dr. Candlish died (1873), Whyte welcomed to Edinburgh two unknown American evangelists, Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey, and warmly supported both their meetings and the follow-up work. Such was the attendance at his own Tuesday prayer meeting that it had to move from the hall into the church itself. His addresses to men on personal morality were unusually forthright, and some were "shaken to the foundations of their being".

Whyte also had a breadth of culture (he lectured on Dante and corresponded with Newman) not often found in evangelicals of his day. In 1909 he became principal of New College, a post he held until three years before his death. He was moderator of his church's general assembly in 1898, and he wrote much, but it is as a preacher that he will always be remembered.


Source: ccel.org/ccel/whyte


Family

In 1881 he was married to Jane Elizabeth Barbour (1861-1944). Their son Robert Barbour Whyte was killed in the First World War. Their eldest son (Alexander) Frederick Whyte was a journalist and politician who received a knighthood. Their daughter Janet Chance was a feminist author and campaigner for sex education, birth control, and access to abortion.  He retired to Buckinghamshire around 1915 and died there. However he was returned to Edinburgh for burial. He is buried near the north-west corner of the first northern extension to Dean Cemetery.


Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Whyte


QUOTES BY ALEXANDER WHYTE 


I AM AS CERTAIN AS I AM STANDING HERE


"I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them."


- Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland


IF YOU FIND YOUR LIFE OF PRAYER 


"If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray."


- Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland


GRACE IS EVERLASTING  


"Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting."  


- Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland


ADMIT SIN, SOONER OR LATER FLEE BEFORE IT


"Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it."


Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland


I AM AS CERTAIN AS I AM STANDING HERE


"I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them."


- Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland


ALEXANDER WHYTE BOOKS 

             

  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Bunyan Characters
  • first series: Gutenberg text
  • second series: Gutenberg text
  • third series: Gutenberg text
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation (Gutenberg text)
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Samuel Rutherford and Some of His Correspondents (Gutenberg text
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921, ed.: Santa Teresa: An Appreciation, With Some of the Best Passages of the Saint's Writings (third edition, 1900), by Saint Teresa of Avila (Gutenberg text
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Sir Thomas Browne and His "Religio Medici": An Appreciation, contrib. by Thomas Browne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)


Additional books from the extended shelves:


  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Bible characters : Adam to Achnan / (London : Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Bishop Butler, an appreciation; (New York, Chicago [etc.] Fleming H. Revell company, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Bunyan characters : first-second series. (Edinburgh : O. Anderson and Ferrier, 1892-1902) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Bunyan characters, fourth series : Bunyan himself as seen in his Grace abounding / (Edinburgh : Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, 1908) 
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Bunyan characters in the Pilgrim's progress... (London, Oliphant, [1893?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Bunyan characters in the Pilgrim's progress. (London : Oliphant, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Bunyan characters : lectures delivered in St. George's Free Church, Edinburgh. (Edinburg : Anderson and Ferrier, 1894-1895 [v.1, 1895]) 
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Bunyan characters. Lectures delivered in St. George's Free Church, Edinburgh, (Edinburgh, London, Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1895) 
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Bunyan characters; lectures delivered in St. George's free church, Edinburgh: (Philadelphia, Presbyterian board of publication, 1893-94) 
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Bunyan characters. Lectures delivered in St. George's Free Church, Edinburgh, (Edinburgh, London; Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1893) 
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Characters and characteristics of William Law, nonjuror and mystic. (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1893), also by William Law 
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Characters and characteristics of William Law, nonjuror and mystic, (London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1907]), also by William Law 
  • Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921: Characters and characteristics of William Law : nonjuror and mystic / (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1898), also by William Law 


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Words to Think About...

AND AS GRACE IS FREE


"And as grace is free, so is it sure. Nothing can change, or alter, or turn away sovereign grace."


- Alexander Whyte (1836–1921)  Scottish Minister., Church of Scotland


Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland


GRACE ALWAYS FLOWS DOWN


"But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down."


- Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland


GRACE IS LOVE


"And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing."


- Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland

 
THE HIGHEST KIND OF PRAYER

  
"Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin."  


- Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland


FIRST ME MOVED YOURSELF


If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.


- Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland


PRAYER IS THE ONLY WAY


Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.


- Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) Scottish Divine Church of Scotland

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“Lord, forgive me for my sins. I confess that I am a sinner. Come into my heart and make me the person you created me to be. I receive your gift of pardon through Jesus dying for me on the cross to save me. – Amen”


It was once determined in a court of law that a pardon is only a pardon when it is accepted. There is a true story about a man that refused his pardon. A judge ruled that a pardon is only a pardon when it is accepted. When you prayed that prayer and accepted God’s pardon for your sins, you became a new creation in Christ. 


The Bible teaches that you are saved by faith through Jesus. Grow in the Grace that was just given to you, seek God in His word (The Bible) and go out tell somebody! 

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