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Life And Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary: Collated from His Diary by Benjamin Funk - Softcover
Excerpt: ...or bad, that the truth of our absolute dependence upon God for every good affection and thought, for every good motive and its attainment, is a lesson we are slow to learn. Peter had not learned this lesson when, confident in his own strength, he declared that he would not forsake the Lord. It is this sense of our own weakness that leads us to pray. Prayer must proceed from the heart. Otherwise it is not prayer, but a mere form of words. The Lord will never help any one spiritually who does not feel the need of divine help. Saul was struck down when the divine light flashed upon him with a radiance above the brightness of the sun; but that light only blinded him. The Lord then sent Ananias to inquire in the house of Judas in Damascus for one called Saul of Tarsus: "For," said he, "behold he prayeth." Without this prayer Saul would nevermore have seen anything. This prayer was the opening of his heart to do the will of the Lord, for in it he said: "Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?" I need only add here that the very first thing he was commanded to do was: "Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord." Sunday , November 5. The two brethren had meeting at Isaac Shobe's and stayed all night at Jacob Bargdoll's. On Monday , November 6, they had morning meeting at Isaac Dasher's, and night meeting at Nimrod Judy's, where they stay all night. Tuesday , November 7. They dine at William Hevner's in Brock's Gap, and reach home in the evening. The editor is making these transcripts from the Diary January 26, 1899; just a little over fifty years after the entries were made. He was then a young man; and the current of life's forces, like a mighty river, has borne him on its bosom over a large part of the territory
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"[...]heart I turn to the youth of our land and say to them in the words of the best Friend that God himself could give: "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness," and all earthly blessings will be added unto you. In the following pages you may see what one man may do by "patient continuance in well doing." Brother Kline was a man "subject to like passions as we are." He was once an infant just as you were, and lay at his mother's breast. He very well remembered, when an old man, how he felt when she made for him his first pair of[...]".
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- PublisherIndypublish.Com
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1421963361
- ISBN 13 9781421963365
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages428
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