James O. Fraser on Prayer

   It seems to be a big responsibility to be the only preacher of the Gospel within a radius of about 150 miles. I feel my weakness very much, yet the Lord seems to delight in making His power perfect in weakness, May I ask you then to remember me specially in prayer, asking God to use me to the salvation of many precious souls.
   I am feeling more and more that it is, after all, just the prayers of Gods people that call down blessing upon the work, whether they are directly engaged in it or not.
   Paul may plant and Apollo's water, but it is God who gives the increase; and this increase can be brought down from heaven by believing prayer, whether offered in China or in the homeland. We are, as it were, God's agents - used by Him to do His work not ours. We do our part and then can only look to Him, with others, for His blessing.
   If this is so, Christians at home can do as much for foreign missions as those actually on the field. I believe it will be know only on the last day how much has been accomplished in missionary work by the prayers of earnest believers at home. And this, surely, is the heart of the problem. Such work does not consist in curio tables, showing of slides, and the giving of reports. Good as this may be, they are only the fringe and not the root of the matter, solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees. What I count more than anything else is earnest, believing prayer, and I write to ask you to continue to put up much prayer for me and work here in Tengyueh.

James O. Fraser on Praying for Missionaries
Beyond The Range- by Mrs. Howard Taylor pg 57 & 58

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Image and appearance assume the functions that character and morality once had
David F Wells, God in the Wasteland, 1994

A Plea for the Heathen

O God, O God! Could they but see
Into life’s vast eternity,

O father – God, could they but know
And love the Christ Who loves them so,

Could they but feel Thy loving hand,
And hear Thy firm yet soft command;
O Father, then I know that they
Would love and praise thee day by day.

Lord, I’ve heard Thy whisper low:
Take me, Father, I will go.

E H Hamilton
Self Published

If I should Fail

If I should fail, O Christ, and turn aside,
Should selfish purpose in my heart abide,
And should I find that to myself I’d lied,

And missed the grail—
Naught would avail:
I would not worthy be
To call Thy Name, and Christ, Thy face to see,
And hope would die within the heart of me,
If I should fail.

But, Christ, with Thee, with Thee I cannot fail,
Though strong the foe, and though my strength be frail,
No sword of earth or hell can pierce the mail
Thou givest me.
From Bended Knee
I’ll go up the quest,
Nor cease until I gain the Chalice blest:
Thy face I’ll see; and then? Be all the rest,
Thy face I’ll see; and then? Be all the rest
O Christ, with Thee!


E H Hamilton
Self Published In "Afraid of What"

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"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a daybut if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime."(Programmer's curse)

GK Chesterton

Who: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Source: Heretics

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. The word Akleptomania@ is a vulgar example of what I mean. It is on a par with that strange theory, always advanced when a wealthy or prominent person is in the dock, that exposure is more of a punishment for the rich than for the poor. Of course, the very reverse is the truth. Exposure is more of a punishment for the poor than for the rich. The richer a man is the easier it is for him to be a tramp.
The richer a man is the easier it is for him to be popular and generally respected in the Cannibal Islands. But the poorer a man is the more likely it is that he will have to use his past life whenever he wants to get a bed for the night. Honor is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters. This is a secondary matter, but it is an example of the general proposition I offer the proposition that an enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defenses for the indefensible conduct of the powerful.

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