Jonathan Goforth – death, Oct 8, 1936

“…I have been among Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists and members of many other denominations, and I have found that no amount of baptismal water can keep the devil out of the hearts and lives of Christians.”

  

                – Jonathan Goforth, By My Spirit, (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, Inc), 119.

 

Goforth (went to China), probably the greatest Canadian missionary, died this date 10/8/1936.

(underline mine) [Goforth is not saying devil has to stay but water will not keep him out.]

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Lesser Light

O beautiful, beautiful lesser light;

Made by God the rule the night,

I see thee on thy continuous flight,

Showing the clouds, as a furrow plowed.

 

Now vapor has hid the wondrous glow,

The obliqueness of the cloud to show,

But slowly conquer o’er the foe,

And light comes down, from thy crown.

  

So ride thou on through the night sky;                            

May men, like me, always “where and why,”

Thy greatness, as you effortlessly fly.

Thou shining orb, our thoughts absorb.

 

Mysterious, Inspiring, Mobile Sphere.

Solitary, Polished, Sentinel of the Exosphere.   -eab, 4/1966

 

 

 

Written on the 4th floor at God’s Bible School,Cincinnati,Ohio 

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