Persecution, Suffering, Mortality, & Immortality
About twenty years ago, while we were doing some evangelistic work at L____, early one morning a little boy with a very sad heart called at our room, saying that his mother was dying and wished to see us. We hurried to Mrs. B____'s home, and as we
What Is Revival?
"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple." -
Persecution, Suffering, Mortality, & Immortality
Through the kindness of Mrs. H. A. Coon, we publish the following: Mother Hart and I were sent for to visit this neighbor. We found him in terrible distress of soul, pacing the floor and groaning. I said to him, "Mr. C____, we have come to help you, if
Persecution, Suffering, Mortality, & Immortality
Near L____ lived P____ K____, talented and wealthy, but a hater of God, of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the Holy Bible. He talked, lectured and published books and tracts against the Savior and the sacred scriptures, circulating them freely wherever he could. His influence for evil had been
Persecution, Suffering, Mortality, & Immortality
"I never believed in a hell before, but I do now. O, how terrible!" There lived at one time in our neighborhood a man whom we will call Mr. B____. He was intelligent, lively, a good conversationalist, and had many friends. But Mr. B loved tobacco and strong
Persecution, Suffering, Mortality, & Immortality
Mr. W____, the subject of this narrative, died in New York, about the year 1883, at the age of seventy-four. He was an avowed infidel. He was a good neighbor in some respects, yet he was very wicked and made a scoff of Christianity. About seven years previous to his
Persecution, Suffering, Mortality, & Immortality
E____ had a friend who did not believe that the injunctions, "Come out from among them and be ye separate," "Be not conformed to the world," and kindred passages, have anything to do with the external appearance of the Christian. She was united in church fellowship
Persecution, Suffering, Mortality, & Immortality
"The dying man continued to stare in dreadful astonishment, his mouth wide open, and his eyes protruding out of their sockets, till at last with an awful groan..." Near the town of K___, in Texas, there lived and prospered, a wealthy farmer, the son of a Methodist preacher,
Persecution, Suffering, Mortality, & Immortality
The following incident is concerning a young lady, who, under deep conviction for sin, left a revival meeting to attend a dance which had been put together by a party of ungodly men, for the purpose of breaking up the religious meeting. She caught a severe cold at the dance
"But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." - 1 Cor. 9:27 The following is a short account of the life and death of William Pope, of
Persecution, Suffering, Mortality, & Immortality
Miss Jane Doe was the name of an amiable young lady of my acquaintance who died at the age of sixteen. She was the daughter of respectable and pious parents in one of the New England States. On the cultivation of her mind considerable attention had been bestowed. . . . To what
Seminary, Academia, Psychology, & Science
Some time ago, a physician called upon a young man who was ill. He sat for a little while by the bedside, examining his patient, and then he honestly told him the sad intelligence that he had but a very short time to live. The young man was astonished; he