Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Missionary Magazine, 1859, Vol. 39
In the work of saving souls, either at home or abroad there is a necessity for the presence of power from on high. Without Christ and his Spirit, no conver sion of sinners could take place even in Christian lands. N o eloquence of Speech, nor soundness of intellect, nor cogency of reasoning, could ever convert a single soul. How much more is that power requisite in. Heathen lands, where often men are not only ignorant, but infidel; not only destitute of true religion, but wedded to a film religion, to which they em to adhere the more tenaciously in proportion to its falsity and absurdity. Hence no success in the ministry or the missionary work could exist, apart from the in?uence from above which renews the soul and prepares it for glory. No amelioration of the condition of the world would take place. Seed might be sown, but it would yield no fruit. Divine truth might be set ferth, but it would be without ed'cor.
Bem God has committed the gospel to trail and dying men, Whose lives are short, and their period of active usefulness even shorter than their lives. He has committed to them a trust, and retained with Himself the power, that the excellency of the power might be of God, and not of us.
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