Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...any evangelical piper in France or Switzerland. Sold on the Boulevard, as well as in the back streets, and sent regularly through the post to almost every country in Europe, this little disturber, so often quoted with disgust by Christians, and with contempt by the Secular Press, has, we know, been the direct means, in God's hands, of the Salvation of many, and we know not to how great an extent it has helped to awaken or maintain life in many of the all-but-dead Protestants of the country, who look elsewhere in vain, in so many cases, for any helping hand. Protestantism in France, maintained in existence with difficulty even as a form by the aid of Government grants, is scarcely able anywhere to maintain schools or any other voluntary agency of its own. Many Protestant temples are not only without pastors but are absolutely closed and unused, and in many cases pastors are as much opposed to anything like spiritual life or Scriptural teaching as the most violent opponents of Christianity could possibly wish; so that the work of The Army in France, and in Protestant Switzerland, too, extends far beyond its own meetings. God is making us we trust a leaven that shall cause to spring again, in spite of all opposition and unbelief, the faith which Protestants and Catholics alike had almost ceased to cherish. IX. Sweden No less interesting than the campaigns in France and Switzerland has been The Army's entry into the north of Europe. In 1878, Mr. Bramwell Booth, utterly exhausted by the excessive labors and cares which had even then fallen upon him, went to Sweden at the kind invitation of our life-long friend, Mr. Billups, who was then engaged in making a railway in that country, for a good rest. The rest soon developed into a little...
