Identifier: herooffaithpraye00hill (find matches)
Title: A hero of faith and prayer; or, Life of Rev. Martin Wells Knapp
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hills, Aaron Merritt. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (S.l.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ommon sense andimpugn your right J CHAPTER XVI. LEANING HARD ON GOD AND PERSECUTEDFOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE. **I could not do without Thee, 0 Savior of the lost! Whose precious blood redeemed me At such tremendous cost.Thy righteousness, Thy pardon, Thy precious blood, must beMy only hope and comfort, My glory and my plea ! I could not do without Thee! 1 can not stand alone, I have no strength or goodness, No wisdom of my own;But Thou, beloved Savior, Art all in all to me ;And weakness will be power, If leaning hard on Thee.—F. R. HavergAL. When our Hero of Faith and Prayer first enteredthe ministry, a father in Israel said to him: Xean hardon God, brother; lean hard on God. From that hourit seemed to be one of the rules of his Hfe. He didnot even try to go without God. He lived and walkedand talked and worked as if consciously in the presenceof, and overshadowed by, the Unseen. He continuallysaid by his manner, and often with his lips: But Thou, beloved Savior,Art all in all to me.236
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M. W. Knapp. hi^Tt oi^ Ri^v. M. W. Knapp. 237 And thus, conscious of his weakness, he leanedhard on God, and was clothed with His everlastingstrength. In connection with his Bible-school our brotherstarted a missionary movement. The sympathies ofhis heart were big enough to take in all the world forwhom Christ died. When he had been in the ministrybut a few years, he offered himself to Bishop WilliamTaylor to go as a foreign missionary. He was refusedbecause he had had a sunstroke, that was a seriousdrawback to his health. It will be remembered he washealed of this when he was sanctified. But his interestin the salvation of the heathen never waned. He feltto the end that he must go or send, and, being deniedthe privilege of going in person, he gladly laid the con-version of the heathen upon his heart. In the day of hisinfluence and power he did not forget the parting chargeof Jesus to go and disciple the nations. A fund was started for foreign missions, which hasgrown to more than $8,

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