Author: Thomas Rawson Birks

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781230444338

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...glory be to our most merciful Father! May we walk very humbly. " I have had dear Christian friends, the Auriols, staying here last month, and we have found it good to have our Master's children with us. " O Lord, prepare me for Thy table.... God make me a real, a full, a lasting blessing to my people, to His Church, to my country, my fellow-men everywhere, for Christ's sake. " August 16.... I have sent a new work to the press, to be entitled, ' The Promised Glory of the Church of Christ.' O that the Lord may so assist me in it, that it may be useful to His people! " There is before me a visit to Dyrham Park, for the Jews, and to Reading for the Church Missionary, as well as other journeys. " The state of the world is remarkable, in the shaking of all things. Oh, that our hearts may be fixed on unseen and eternal things, and we may walk closely with God, in self-sacrifice, and self-denial! " September 23.... The harvest I find always a time injurious to my people. Sad it is that the season of God's mercies should be made the occasion of men's sins!--but it is a little flock that is gathered from an evil world. May God mercifully show to me, and help me to correct without delay, any thing in me that is wanting to meet the wants of my flock. " There is a calm over the whole face of Christendom, but manifestations break out of the evil working within. In Russia, is an Ukase against the Jews. In Ancona, a persecuting edict of the Inquisition. In Spain, a fresh revolution; in Italy, risings of the people. In Turkey, the Nestorians are persecuted, and a convert from Mohammedanism has been executed, for professing Christianity. In our own country, in Scotland, five hundred ministers have left the Established Church; in Ireland, the Repeal...