The virtue of meekness (proates), in its simplest use, denotes “gentleness.” It is a timely topic for today as vengeance reciprocates and world leaders posture and grandstand. In Scripture, meekness/gentleness has a “fuller, deeper significance…it is an inwrought grace of the soul…and the exercises of it are first and chiefly towards God.”1 Toward our brethren, […]
Where I grew up, faith in God was a well-stocked commodity. Doubting the Lord was like doubting the sun. It was so obvious, even a blind man could feel its warmth. At family gatherings we prayed to the God who provided, we sang of His faithfulness, and sat around hearing and telling stories about “His […]
Considering the fact that John the Baptist was the greatest man born of women, little is told us about him, but we do know what he wore and what he ate. Usually we would say that it does not matter what people eat or wear. You cannot tell much if anything about what Noah, Moses […]
Born in Quebec to Scottish parents, T. D. W. Muir was born again in Hamilton, Ontario, under the preaching of John Smith and Donald Munro. He pioneered the assembly work in Detroit, Michigan. We had a baptism at Belle Isle, an island with a commodious beach in the Detroit River. After the baptism we had […]
I was brought up in Vancouver, Canada in God- ordained surroundings, graduating at an early age as a school teacher. When about to apply for my first position as a teacher in the British Columbia schools, missionaries from the Dominican Republic, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Peterkin, came to our city on furlough, making known […]
“You’re throwing your life away!” was my workmate’s retort, when I resigned my job as an accountant to follow the Lord’s leading to take the gospel to those who had never heard it. “Give up your career? How are you going to support yourself?” an older Christian barked out when I told him of what […]
In the summer of the year 1900, my wife and I went to Bakersfield (CA) for a tent campaign…The meetings went on for two months and were blessed to the salvation of a few souls, which greatly gladdened our hearts. When the time came to take down the tent, we went over to the station […]
William MacDonald, in his Foreword to Take the Challenge, the book from which this article is excerpted, wrote of his friend George Campbell: “There was something truly apostolic about his ministry. Together with his co-workers, he had seen a number of assemblies planted in Newfoundland and Labrador in the space of 30 years. I am […]
“All dollar dealings suspended.” The message of the telegram was clear and it was enough to strike a cold, gnawing fear into any heart. The year was 1929, the time of the stock market crash. Six years before, Wallace and Ruth Logan had left their family and friends and also a thriving electrical contracting business […]