Persian Women and Their Creed

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Church Missionary Society, 1908 - 108 páginas
 

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Página 101 - Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear : but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Página 102 - WE receive this child into the congregation of Christ's flock, * and do sign him with the sign of the cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the Devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end.
Página 17 - When shall appear that new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness ! There, there shall in no wise enter in any thing that defileth : none of that wickedness which has made men worse than wild beasts, — none of those corruptions which add still more to the miseries of mortality, shall be seen or heard of any more.
Página 102 - If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar : for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God Whom he hath not seen ? And this commandment have we from Him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
Página 3 - Jesus Christ's sake, Forgive us all that is past; And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life, To the honour and glory of thy name; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Página 17 - Revelations remain. Such a painful year I never passed ; owing to the privations I have been called to, on the one hand, and the spectacle before me of human depravity, on the other. But I hope that I have not come to this seat of Satan in vain. The word of God has found its way into Persia, and it is not in Satan's power to oppose its progress, if the Lord hath sent it.
Página 7 - that prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of his palace, and alms procure us admission.
Página 25 - As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God : my soul thirsteth for God, for the living God ; when shall I come and appear before God?
Página 90 - But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak: for it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.
Página 104 - God is great. There is no God but God. Mohammed is the apostle of God.

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