Download or read book Autobiography written by Asa Mahan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Autobiography: Intellectual, Moral, and Spiritual Have never been a backslider in heart, but my face has ever been heavenward. Not long after my conver sion I attained, by long and fervent prayer, to that form of fa]? Assurance in which I could say most unhesitatingly, I know that I love God, and have eternal life. This assurance of present acceptance, after a time, merged into full assurance of hope, an assurance which has not, and never had, any connection with the belief that a soul, once converted, is absolutely certain of final salva tion. At the time of my conversion, the eyes of my understanding were enlightened to know my past character and life as they were, even to a discernment of the thoughts and intents of the heart. No one who has not been thus enlightened can form the remotest apprehension of the utter and absolute abhorrence with which that old and godless life was regarded by me at that time. The thought of perdition was not, in my distinct regard, so fearful as was the idea of a return to that old life. Hence it was that for a long period I made it the constant subject of specific and most earnest prayer, that God would keep me from apostasy, and also from being a backslider, even in heart. The result was, that I became possessed of a fixed inward assurance, into which no element of doubt entered, that I should have grace to hold the beginning of my confidence stead fast unto the end. As far as the question of present acceptance and final salvation is concerned, I have, during these sixty-five years, served God without fear; - would that I could add, in regard to them all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Autobiography Intellectual Moral and Spiritual written by Asa Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Autobiography written by Asa Mahan and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Asa Mahan Autobiography written by Asa Mahan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I AM this day, November 9th, 1881, eighty-two years of age. Sixty-five years of this period I have spent in the service of God. Eighteen years of my Christian experience and life were spent in the dim twilight of a semi-faith, which very clearly and distinctly apprehended Christ as the Lamb of God Who (judicially) "taketh away the sin of the world;" but knew almost nothing of Him as the Son of God, Who baptizeth "with the Holy Ghost," and "saveth to the uttermost them that come unto God by Him." During these years, my pilgrimage, for the most part, was with those "who fear the Lord, and obey the voice of His servant, and walk in darkness, and have no light." My spiritual heaven was comparatively obscure, because there was no open vision of the face of God, and because the Sun of Righteousness lay below the horizon around me; "the eyes of my understanding not being enlightened, that I might know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe." During this period my sky was never wholly dark, From the hour of my primal love and joy in God, I have never been "a backslider in heart," but my face has ever been heavenward. Not long after my conversion I attained, by long and fervent prayer, to that form of full assurance in which I could say most unhesitatingly, "I know that I love God, and have eternal life." This assurance of present acceptance, after a time, merged into "full assurance of hope," an assurance which has not, and never had, any connection with the belief that a soul, once converted, is absolutely certain of final salvation. At the time of my conversion, "the eyes of my understanding were enlightened" to know my past character and life as they were, even to "a discernment of the thoughts and intents of the heart." No one who has not been thus enlightened can form the remotest apprehension of the utter and absolute abhorrence with which that old and godless life was regarded by me at that time. The thought of perdition was not, in my distinct regard, so fearful as was the idea of a return to that old life. Hence it was that for a long period I made it the constant subject of specific and most earnest prayer, that God would keep me from apostasy, and also from being a backslider, even in heart. The result was, that I became possessed of a fixed inward assurance, into which no element of doubt entered, that I should have grace to "hold the beginning of my confidence steadfast unto the end." As far as the question of present acceptance and final salvation is concerned, I have, during these sixty-five years, "served God without fear;"-would that I could add, in regard to them all, "in righteousness and holiness before Him." During these years my face has fixedly been heavenward, and I have had no misgivings, when I have sung in respect to the world through which I was passing, "I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger." To worldly ambitions, hopes, and treasures, I have ever said, when the question of duty and usefulness arose before me, "Do not detain me, for I am going where the waters are ever flowing." I now know, and during my Christian pilgrimage have known, what the apostle meant when he said, "I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air." ASA MAHAN GET MORE BOOKS AT REVIVALPRESS.NET
Download or read book The Philosopher s Autobiography written by Shlomit C. Schuster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the ages philosophers have examined their own lives in an attempt both to find some meaning and to explain the roots of their philosophical perspectives. This volume is an introduction to philosophical autobiography, a rich but hitherto ignored literary genre that questions the self, its social context, and existence in general. The author analyzes representative narratives from antiquity to postmodernity, focusing in particular on three case studies: the autobiographies of St. Augustine, Rousseau, and Sartre. Through the study of these exemplary texts, philosophical reflection on the self emerges as a valid alternative to Freudian psychoanalysis and as a way of promoting self-renewal and change.
Download or read book Autobiography written by Asa Mahan and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...unlike that were not few nor far between among our most favoured churches. Among the majority of the pastors and evangelists who had the greatest power during these revivals there was, after the period of Divine visitation had passed, a loss of such power, a loss from which they never recovered. I will refer to two cases in illustration. The minister in the first case had, no doubt, greater revival power, and was more frequently called to the aid of other churches, than any other pastor in the United States. So he continued during that period, and for some years after. About the year 1.842, while I was spending our winter vacation in Boston, he spent between two and three months in special services in Park Street Church. Morning prayer meetings, and special services during the day, were constantly held, and preaching each evening, all very largely attended. After these services had been continued for about two months, a member of that church said to the pastor of the church where I was preaching, " We hope that two conversions have occurred in connection with Mr.-'s labours in our church. We do not wish the matter talked about, however, as we do not desire to get up an excitement." Such was the exact report made to me, and such were the results of the labours referred to. After a while, that pastor, who was then in his meridian, discontinued such efforts for life. The second case was my immediate successor in the pastoral office in Cincinnati. In all those great revivals he had been one of our most powerful and successful preachers. During his pastorate in that city, he put forth his best efforts, and preached all his great revival discourses, discourses under which hundreds of souls had been converted. But all to very little purpose, and...
Download or read book Autobiography written by Harriet Martineau and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet Martineau lived an extraordinary literary life. She became a reviewer and journalist in the 1820s when her family’s fortune collapsed; published a best-selling series, Illustrations of Political Economy (1832-34), that made her fame and fortune by the age of thirty; overcame a hearing disability to become a “literary lion” in London society; toured the United States and wrote two founding texts of sociology based on her experiences; explored north Africa and the Middle East to observe non-European societies; wrote “leaders” (editorials) on slavery for the London Daily News during the American Civil War; and commented publicly on matters of politics, history, and religion in an era when women supposedly maintained their place in the sphere of domesticity. This edition of her Autobiography reproduces the original 1877 text, which Martineau composed in 1855 and had printed in anticipation of her death. It includes illustrations of the author and her homes; excerpts from the “Memorials,” added by her editor Maria Chapman; and reviews that praise and critique Martineau’s method as an autobiographer and achievement as a Victorian woman of letters.
Download or read book Autobiography Diary and Correspondence written by James Freeman Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Experiencing Christ written by Darrell Poeppelmeyer and published by Nazarene Theology Foundation. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Book One of a six book series on Nazarene soteriology (salvation). This book applies the insights gained from studying 2,000 years of Christian salvation to our modern situation. It examines modern salvation experiences as interpreted by Scripture, Christian tradition, rational responses, and emotional encounters with God. The perspective comes from the Nazarene view of two works of grace as Christian Conversion and Holy Purpose. Holy Purpose always follows Christian Conversion. The other five books look at previous historical periods.
Download or read book Women Called to Witness written by Nancy Hardesty and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that examine how foods express American cultural values.
Download or read book Purity Power and Pentecostal Light written by Christopher Jon Branstetter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the turn of the twentieth century, revivalist Protestantism in America splintered into multiple pieces. Few persons of that era knew as many of the central figures of the splinter groups as Aaron Merritt Hills. Originally a Congregationalist who studied under Finney at Oberlin, Hills was a dyed-in-the-wool postmillennial revivalist until his death in 1935. While a Congregationalist, he befriended Reuben A. Torrey and made an enemy of Washington Gladden. In 1895 he joined the Holiness Movement after his experience of Spirit baptism. For the next forty years he founded colleges, held holiness revivals in both America and Britain, and wrote voluminously. While Hills himself is a lesser-known figure in the story of American Christianity, because of the many embroilments of his life, his story offers a unique window into the relationship between the Holiness Movement, Fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, American liberalism, and the Social Gospel Movement.
Download or read book The Story of Faith Missions written by Klaus Fiedler and published by OCMS. This book was released on 1994 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interdenominational Faith Missions in Africa written by Klaus Fiedler and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not the European and American churches which evangelised Africa, but the mission societies. The missions from the Great Awakening such as the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society, or the Holy Ghost Fathers and the White Fathers, which started the process of Sub-Saharan Africa becoming a Christian continent are well known and documented. Less known, and less documented are the interdenominational faith missions which began in 1873 with the aim of visiting the still unreached areas of Africa: North Africa, the Sudan Belt and the Congo Basin. Missions such as the Africa Inland Mission or Sudan Interior Mission gave birth to some of the big churches like ECWA in Nigeria and Africa Inland Church in Kenya. It is the aim of this book to describe faith missions and their theology and to present an overview of the early development of faith missions insofar as they touched Africa.
