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. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...speak to Him definitely about the spiritual and temporal needs of the members by name separately, taking six names each morning until the whole list has been gone through and then commence them again. I always expect Jesus to answer, and He does wonders for us in response to our confidence in Him." ...
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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. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...speak to Him definitely about the spiritual and temporal needs of the members by name separately, taking six names each morning until the whole list has been gone through and then commence them again. I always expect Jesus to answer, and He does wonders for us in response to our confidence in Him." SECTION III. MEDITATIONS. The Meditations in this Section have been written expressly for the Use of Class-Leaders. The two following are from the pen of Rev. R. Bevan Shepherd, M.A. I.--ARE CONVERSIONS USUALLY SUDDEN? Was the conversion of Saul of Tarsus an ordinary or extraordinary one! It is not the least of the many fascinating features of the Bible that its heroes are so intensely human, and not angels so high that we cannot attain unto them. It is well sometimes to drop the prefix " Saint " and speak of Peter, and John, and Paul, lest one should get to think of them as standing on any platform from which we are excluded, or as having their names upon any Saints' Calendar or Book of Life in which ours may not be enrolled. So far from this being their thought, they expressly repudiated anything like lordship, remembering their Master's declaration that they were all brethren. And whilst certainly history does not tell us, nor could we easily conceive of a more striking and extraordinary experience than the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, the apostle himself, writing of it long afterwards to his young friend Timothy, expressly declared that even it was not a prodigy, but a pattern, not something unique and startling, worthy only of an apostle, but an " ensample of them which should hereafter believe on Him unto eternal life." It is difficult to say " Which of the glories brightest shone," the repentant...
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