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Onward Christian Soldier PRO
Contributed by Dave Kinney on Oct 11, 2008 (message contributor)
Onward Christian Soldier
It was 1854. Pastor Dudley Tyng was voted as the new pastor of a Philadelphia church at only 29 years old. At first the work went well until he started to preach against the sin of slavery – at that point to church did not want to make anyone mad so they told him to shut down such silly preaching. Pastor Dudley lasted only two years at that large church in Philadelphia.
So Pastor Dudley started Bible studies at the YMCA, and he began rallying husbands to come to Christ. On March 30, 1858, 5,000 men gathered in the streets of Philadelphia and the first thing he said to the sea of faces before him, "I would rather this right arm were amputated close to the shoulder than to come up short of my duty to you in delivering God’s message." It was reported in the paper the next day that over 1,000 people got saved.
Two weeks later, Pastor Dudley was visiting a farmer as he was corn thrashing in the barn, and all of the sudden Pastor Dudley's sleeve got caught in the thrasher and ripped his arm out of his shoulder and the main artery was severed. Four days later, Pastor was just about to die and he lifted his head and said to everyone around the bed, "Stand up, stand up for Jesus, Ye soldiers of the cross, lift high His royal banner,...
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Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 9, 2004
Elizabeth Elliot tells in her book “Passion and Purity,” how on her first date with Jim Elliot (one of the five martyred missionaries in Ecuador), they went to a missionary meeting at Moody Church in Chicago, late in April. The speaker was one of the daughters of the famous missionary to Africa ...read more
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The Picture Series Are Frozen Both In Time And In ... PRO
Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Jan 12, 2005
The picture series are frozen both in time and in memory. The scene unfolds from the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Two runners, one American, the other from South Africa, although of British descent. The starter’s pistol fires and around the track the runners race for the finishing line. ...read more
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