A. M. Hill – death, Sep. 1935

Heaven…is a condition, a state of the heart no less than a place.

                A. M. Hills, Dying to Live (Cincinnati: God’s Revivalist Office, 1905), 39.

 

There is a post of duty for every man in the army of the Lord, which he alone can fill, and which he has no right to abandon; nay cannot abandon to another.

                A. M. Hills, Dying to Live (Cincinnati: God’s Revivalist Office, 1905), 99.

 

Deacon Stephen and Deacon Philip were as anxious and laborious to secure the conversion of people as were the Apostles Peter and James.

                A. M. Hills, Dying to Live (Cincinnati: God’s Revivalist Office, 1905), 103.

 

Man is too godlike in his origin, too glorious in his destiny, to waste himself in a career of sin.

                A. M. Hills, Dying to Live (Cincinnati: God’s Revivalist Office, 1905), 119.

 

Every soul that is ever damned, some time resists the Holy Ghost for the last time.

                A. M. Hills, Dying to Live (Cincinnati: God’s Revivalist Office, 1905), 175.

 

Mrs. General Sherman said, “Virtuous women ought to blush at the very mention of the dance.”

                A. M. Hills, Dying to Live (Cincinnati: God’s Revivalist Office, 1905), 180.

 

A M Hill died this date, 9/11/1935.  He also wrote Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, and Life of Martin Wells Knapp.                       

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C. W. Ruth – birth, Sep. 1, 1865

A mistake is a thing you did when you knew no better; a sin is a thing you did when you did know better…the motive determines the morality of the act.

– C W Ruth, Bible Readings on the Second Blessing (Cincinnati: God’s Bible School & Revivalist, 1905), 33.

 When a man does not want holiness I know he wants sin. 

– C W Ruth, Bible Readings on the Second Blessing (Cincinnati: God’s Bible School & Revivalist, 1905), 66.

It is not the manifestation we want at all it is Him we want.

– C W Ruth, Bible Readings on the Second Blessing (Cincinnati: God’s Bible School & Revivalist, 1905), 100.

 …Let me say most emphatically every soul that enters this experience will have its wilderness…

– C W Ruth, Bible Readings on the Second Blessing (Cincinnati: God’s Bible School & Revivalist, 1905), 101.

 …The larger the treasure in the house the greater the effort of the thief to break through and steal.

– C W Ruth, Bible Readings on the Second Blessing (Cincinnati: God’s Bible School & Revivalist, 1905), 102.

 They [the world] say “We go to the theatre, play cards, dance, go to football games, horse races, etc. etc. and so do your church members.”

– C W Ruth, Bible Readings on the Second Blessing (Cincinnati: God’s Bible School & Revivalist, 1905), 131.

Faith will annihilate fret or fret will annihilate faith.

– C W Ruth, Bible Readings on the Second Blessing (Cincinnati: God’s Bible School & Revivalist, 1905), 141.

Sanctified people need to remember that the spirit of heaviness is entirely compatible with the spirit of holiness.      

– C W Ruth, Bible Readings on the Second Blessing (Cincinnati: God’s Bible School & Revivalist, 1905), 183.

 A present tense faith will bring a present tense victory.

– C W Ruth, Bible Readings on the Second Blessing (Cincinnati: God’s Bible School & Revivalist, 1905), 184.

 Faith is to the soul what your breath is to the body.

– C W Ruth, Bible Readings on the Second Blessing (Cincinnati: God’s Bible School & Revivalist, 1905), 188.

 C. W. (Christian Wismer) Ruth was born this date 9/1/1865 in Bucks Co., PA.  He wrote Entire Sanctification Explained, and The Second Crisis in Christian Experience, Ruth died 5/27/1941 at Wilmore, KY.

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