Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 712 pages of information about Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary.

Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 712 pages of information about Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary.

“This is the judgment, that light is come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL.  Every one that doeth evil hateth the light ... lest HIS DEEDS should be reproved.  But he who DOETH TRUTH cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, because THEY ARE WROUGHT IN GOD.  If ye know these things, HAPPY ARE YE IF YE DO THEM.  He that hath my commandments AND DOETH THEM, he it is that loveth me ... and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him; ... and will come to him, and make my abode with him.  He that loveth me not KEEPETH NOT MY WORDS.  Ye are my friends, IF YE DO WHATSOEVER I COMMAND YOU....  I have chosen you, ... that ye should bring forth fruit, AND THAT YOUR FRUIT SHOULD REMAIN.”  I must drop a word of comment upon this last quotation.  By fruit remaining it is to be understood that it goes with the child of God through the judgment into heaven, and remains to eternity.  In Revelation we read these words:  “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:  Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; AND THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW WITH THEM.  A book was opened, which is the book of life:  and the dead were judged according to those things which were written in the book, EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS.”

I might continue this multiplication of scripture passages to a much greater number, but time forbids.  Every passage I have quoted bears either directly or indirectly upon the judgment to come.  It remains a thing of choice with every intelligent human being, whether he will be prepared to face the shining judgment throne with joy, or quail before it in terror.  The Lord says to all:  “Seek ye my face.”  What a blessed response it would be for each one to answer as did the young Prophet Samuel:  “Thy face, Lord, will I seek.”

TUESDAY, August 18.  Brother Kline and Jacob Wine have night meeting at Nimrod Judy’s, in Hardy County.  The conversion of Saul is their subject.  Acts 9.

WEDNESDAY, August 19.  They have meeting at John Judy’s on South Mill Creek.  TEXT.—­“God is a Spirit.”  John 4:24.  They speak on the spiritual nature of true worship, and prove that ordinances in connection with all the externals of worship, to be acceptable to God, must be but the outward evidences of internal realities.  They stay all night at John Judy’s.

THURSDAY, August 20.  This day they have two meetings:  forenoon at Isaac Judy’s; afternoon at Michael Mallow’s.  Stay at Adam Mallow’s.

FRIDAY, August 21.  Two meetings to-day.  Forenoon at Bethel church—­dine at Peter Warnstaff’s; afternoon at Warnstaff’s tanyard.  Stay at John Davis’s in Hardy.

SATURDAY, August 22.  Meeting at Zion church on the South Fork.  In the afternoon cross the Shenandoah mountain into Brock’s Gap.

SUNDAY, August 23.  Meeting at Keplinger’s chapel, where they meet Benjamin Bowman and Solomon Garber.  A joyful surprise.  Brother Benjamin Bowman speaks from Luke 8.  He speaks mostly from these words of the eighteenth verse:  “Take heed how ye hear.”  From the outlines I gather that he followed very closely the lines of thought here briefly expressed.

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