It Is A Tremendously Hard

The Church Converteth The Whole World By Blood And Prayer.

Those Speak Foolishly Who Ascribe Their Anger Or Their Impatience To Such As Offend Them Or To Tribulation. Tribulation Does Not Make People Impatient, But Proves That They Are Impatient. So Everyone May Learn From Tribulation How His Heart Is Constituted.

No Greater Mischief Can Happen To A Christian People, Than To Have God's Word Taken From Them, Or Falsified, So That They No Longer Have It Pure And Clear. God Grant We And Our Descendants Be Not Witness To Such A Calamity.

God Is Not Hostile To Sinners, But Only To Unbelievers.

The Fatuous Idea That A Person Can Be Holy By Himself Denies God The Pleasure Of Saving Sinners. God Must Therefore First Take The Sledge-hammer Of The Law In His Fists And Smash The Beast Of Self-righteousness And Its Brood Of Self-confidence, Self Wisdom, And Self-help. When The Conscience Has Been Thoroughly Frightened By The Law It Welcomes The Gospel Of Grace With Its Message Of A Savior Who Came-not To Break The Bruised Reed Nor To Quench The Smoking Flax-but To Preach Glad Tidings To The Poor, To Heal The Broken-hearted, And To Grant Forgiveness Of Sins To All The Captives.