India's Women (and China's Daughters). (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1883 Excerpt: ... i&hz Momzn SUotlurs of tlu 3ibk. By the Rev. J. E. Sampson, Vicar of Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire. XI.--MARTHA AND MARY--Concluded. jNCE more I am with Martha and her sister. Yes, I feel to be with them, for I am with Christ, and so are they. Christ is with them, and is not He with me? With Christ, in Christ, here is 'the communion of saints.' They are not with me, nor I with them, yet we are all--the entire 'Holy Catholic Church'--one in Christ Jesus, by one Spirit, in the Father's presence. Martha and Mary are with Christ in glory. I am waiting for, and 'rejoicing in hope ' of, that glory. But now I am as they were--waiting. And, while waiting, let me, like them, be working. On this last recorded interview 'they made Him a supper.' Some have thought the 'they ' refers to the people of Bethany. I certainly think it was the family in that village, in whose house He loved to sojourn. I will not stop to harmonise this feast with other records, or this anointing with another. Those inquiries are interesting in the study, but they interrupt the calm flow of meditation in the closet. The distinctions and differences and various aspects of circumstances and persons, and especially of Christ, which we find in the Gospels, are of God. I like to bring them together and view them as one. But I love better to gaze upon them in the variety in which God the Holy Ghost has put them before me. I see sometimes in His record of events what, in my poor judgment, seem to be even contradictions. I am willing, if I may, to drink the truth which lies on both sides of an apparently conflicting statement. All is clear before God. 'Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with Him.' I notice this: it does not say with them, but with Him. He is the chief One at the table. Hap...

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Imprint:	General Books LLC
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	February 2012
Authors:	unknownauthor • Books Group
Creators:	General Books
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	180
ISBN-13:	978-1-150-56110-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-150-56110-6
Barcode:	9781150561108

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