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Bezig met laden... Letters to Salvationists on Love, Marriage and Home: Being Volume 2 of Religion for Everyday Lifedoor William Booth
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902. Excerpt: ... Xviii. Fighting for God. My Dear Comrades, --Now 1 want to say something to you as to husbands helping their wives in work for God. 9. Every husband who is a true Salvationist will, so far as he has the power to do so, afford his wife all reasonable opportunity for exercising her gifts in the work of The Army. When a woman links her life with her husband's, she does not forego, or sacrifice, any of those natural rights with which she has been endowed by God, and of which she finds herself possessed. They are her birthright. No change in her earthly position, and no relationship into which she can come, can deprive her of these privileges. She cannot contract herself out of them. She cannot forfeit them. They are hers, so long as she remains below. They are inalienable. It is not necessary, for my present purpose, that I should enumerate them all, but I wish to refer in a word to one or two that seem to me to be the most important and the most sacred. The right to believe what appears to her to be the truth. The right to enquire into the will of God, and to order her life in harmony with it. The right to do what she sees to be necessary for the Salvation of her soul. The right to love God and to keep His commandments. The right to keep a good conscience. The right to exercise the gifts God has bestowed upon her for seeking the Salvation of souls and the honour of her Saviour. Now, no husband, at the peril of his own soul, and at the further peril of bringing upon his wife the condemnation of God, must make any sort of demand upon her, which would involve the sacrifice of these rights, or lead her to neglect the solemn obligations that spring out of them. Especially does this apply to work for the Kingdom of Christ. I have said before, that after her own Sal... Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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