The Maréchale: Founder of the Salvation Army in France and Switzerland

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George H. Doran Company, 1921 - 294 pages
 

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Page 71 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Page 160 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions ; and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 160 - Jesus answered and said ; Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 145 - Christ. There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female : for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
Page 213 - For the wages of sin is death ; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Page 85 - And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned...
Page 294 - I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely ; for mine anger is turned away from him.
Page 290 - And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
Page 4 - Here is a sphere!" was being whispered continually in my inward ear by an inward voice. "Why go further afield for audiences ?" And so the church and chapel congregation somehow or other lost their charm in comparison with the vulgar Eastenders, and I was continually haunted with a desire to offer myself to Jesus Christ as an apostle for the heathen of East London. The idea or heavenly vision or whatever you may call it overcame me, I yielded to it, and what has happened since is I think not only...
Page 3 - ... found me at my post. On the Mile End Waste the first open-air meeting was held, from whence we processioned to the tent. From the first the meetings were fairly good ; we had souls at almost every service, and before the fortnight had passed I felt at home, and more than this I found my heart being strongly and strangely drawn out on behalf of the million people living within a mile of the tent — ninety out of every hundred of whom, they told me, never heard the sound of the preacher's voice,...

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