"View the glory of the other world, as set forth in the map of the Gospel; get thee up into the Pisgah of the promises, and lift up thine eyes northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, and that goodly mountain; behold the Paradise of God, watered with the streams of glory."
— Joseph Alleine
Source: An Alarm to the Unconverted, ch. VII "The Motives to Conversion"
Promise, Kingdom
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"Building operations proceeded swiftly, and by Sunday, May 14th, the chapel, with its thatched roof, was ready with seats for three hundred and fifty, and standing room for seven hundred. English people would have thought little of that poor little chapel with its mud walls, which had been erected at a cost of about twenty-five pounds; but to the Miao it was an epoch-making event; for out of their poverty they had subscribed to build this first Christian temple in Miao land. Their delight knew no bounds and in that pure joy Pollard shared."
— W. A. Grist (Pollard's biographer)
Source: Samuel Pollard: Pioneer Missionary in China (London: Henry Hooks / Cassell, c. 1920), Book III, ch. 6, "The Second Phase of the Mass Movement"
Promise, Trust, School, Miracle
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"Sitting there on my bed's edge, I raised both hands heavenward. "God, if there be a God," I whispered, for I was not going to believe in what did not exist just to get a mental opiate, "if You will prove to me that You are, and if You will give me peace, I will give You my whole life. I'll do anything You ask me to do, go where You send me, obey You all my days.""