[James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.James 5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.—KJV] In GermanyContinue reading “The Great Controversy: A Great Religious Awakening—Chapter 20, Part 3”
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The Great Controversy: Huss and Jerome—Chapter 6, Part 5
[Horror in Bohemia: Above Fear of Death] [Psalms 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.Psalms 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest myContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Huss and Jerome—Chapter 6, Part 5”
The Great Controversy: Huss and Jerome—Chapter 6, Part 3
The schism in the church still continued. Three popes were now contending for the supremacy, and their strife filled Christendom with crime and tumult. Not content with hurling anathemas, they resorted to temporal weapons. Each cast about him to purchase arms and to obtain soldiers. Of course money must be had; and to procure this,Continue reading “The Great Controversy: Huss and Jerome—Chapter 6, Part 3”
The Great Controversy: Huss and Jerome—Chapter 6, Part 1
The gospel had been planted in Bohemia as early as the ninth century. The Bible was translated, and public worship was conducted, in the language of the people. But as the power of the pope increased, so the word of God was obscured. Gregory VII, who had taken it upon himself to humble the prideContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Huss and Jerome—Chapter 6, Part 1”
The Great Controversy: John Wycliffe—Chapter 5, Part 4
The great movement that Wycliffe inaugurated, which was to liberate the conscience and the intellect, and set free the nations so long bound to the triumphal car of Rome, had its spring in the Bible. Here was the source of that stream of blessing, which, like the water of life, has flowed down the agesContinue reading “The Great Controversy: John Wycliffe—Chapter 5, Part 4”
The Great Controversy: John Wycliffe—Chapter 5, Part 3
The appearance of the Scriptures brought dismay to the authorities of the church. They had now to meet an agency more powerful than Wycliffe—an agency against which their weapons would avail little. There was at this time no law in England prohibiting the Bible, for it had never before been published in the language ofContinue reading “The Great Controversy: John Wycliffe—Chapter 5, Part 3”