ISBN: 1236389638

[EAN: 9781236389633], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], WILLIAM WARE HOWLAND,LITERARY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 24 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic b… Plus…

[EAN: 9781236389633], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], WILLIAM WARE HOWLAND,LITERARY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 24 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.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. 1865 Excerpt: . . . willing to offer with their daughters, to an educated young man, who is consequently called to choose between a Christian wife with little or no dowry, and poor relatives, and a heathen wife with a large dowry, and connected with a wealthy family. He has seen neither of them, and can not till he is married. The relatives of both are heathen, and in that country a man weds, with his wife, the whole circle of relatives. The temptation is strong--the most common and the most successful. Not a few have fallen into this pit, and have been lost, at least for a time. Some have returned, and a few have brought their wives with them. To meet these trials of their faith, the native Christians have little strength of moral character. Born of heathen parents; inheriting the debasing influence of heathenism, which has been accumulating and concentrating for so many generations; educated in an atmosphere of idolatry and sin, where truth is literally fallen and trampled upon in the streets, --where lying, stealing, and adultery are no disgrace; it is no light thing for them to stand up for Jesus at all times and under all circumstances. Again: if Christians in this land, with all the overwhelming evidence they have of the truth of their religion, do sometimes have the doubt come into their minds for a moment, whether it is true, after all, much more may those where the whole community, comprising the wealth and talent of the land, is against them, whose religion boasts of an antiquity which runs back for ages beyond the Mosaic history, and who affect to despise the few foreigners who have come in, and are attempting to introduce a new religion of so recent a date, and which has nothing grand or imposing connected with its history or its worship. It is not surp. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2012, ISBN: 1236389638

[EAN: 9781236389633], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing… Plus…

[EAN: 9781236389633], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. 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. 1865 Excerpt: .willing to offer with their daughters, to an educated young man, who is consequently called to choose between a Christian wife with little or no dowry, and poor relatives, and a heathen wife with a large dowry, and connected with a wealthy family. He has seen neither of them, and can not till he is married. The relatives of both are heathen, and in that country a man weds, with his wife, the whole circle of relatives. The temptation is strong--the most common and the most successful. Not a few have fallen into this pit, and have been lost, at least for a time. Some have returned, and a few have brought their wives with them. To meet these trials of their faith, the native Christians have little strength of moral character. Born of heathen parents; inheriting the debasing influence of heathenism, which has been accumulating and concentrating for so many generations; educated in an atmosphere of idolatry and sin, where truth is literally fallen and trampled upon in the streets, --where lying, stealing, and adultery are no disgrace; it is no light thing for them to stand up for Jesus at all times and under all circumstances. Again: if Christians in this land, with all the overwhelming evidence they have of the truth of their religion, do sometimes have the doubt come into their minds for a moment, whether it is true, after all, much more may those where the whole community, comprising the wealth and talent of the land, is against them, whose religion boasts of an antiquity which runs back for ages beyond the Mosaic history, and who affect to despise the few foreigners who have come in, and are attempting to introduce a new religion of so recent a date, and which has nothing grand or imposing connected with its history or its worship. It is not surp.<

ISBN: 9781236389633

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2012, ISBN: 1236389638

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