Jeanie Gilchrist

Author : John Ritchie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781548018184
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Jeanie Gilchrist written by John Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-11 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please see the description for this title below. But first... Our promise: All of our works are complete and unabridged. As with all our titles, we have endeavoured to bring you modern editions of classic works. This work is not a scan, but is a completely digitized and updated version of the original. Unlike, many other publishers of classic works, our publications are easy to read. You won't find illegible, faded, poor quality photocopies here. Neither will you find poorly done OCR versions of those faded scans either with illegible "words" that contain all kinds of strange characters like �, %, &, etc. Our publications have all been looked over and corrected by the human eye. We can't promise perfection, but we're sure gonna try! Our goal is to bring you high quality Christian publications at rock bottom prices. Description: When the sad tidings reached our shores, that our beloved and devoted sister in Christ, MISS JEANIE GILCHRIST, had been called from service in Africa, to which she had for the third time gone forth, with the message of salvation, to rest in heaven with Christ, there was a very fully expressed desire amongst those who knew her best, that some brief Record of her bright Christian life and earnest service for the Lord should be prepared, as an encouragement and incentive of others, especially Christian young women, in their decision for and devotion to the One whom they confess as Saviour and Lord. Her Diaries to relatives, with a large number of letters to personal friends and fellow-workers in the Lord, having been handed over with the request that I should edit and thread them together, the unpretentious little volume which you have before you is the result. A personal acquaintance with Miss Gilchrist, extending over twenty years, gave opportunity for seeing "the grace of God" in her, especially marked in her decided and unflinching testimony for the Lord, her hearty obedience to His Word, and her unswerving devotion to His work, everywhere and always. "Women's Work" is, as it ever has been, a subject on which earnest Christians have divergent opinions, but happily there is no contention regarding the sphere to which this handmaid of the Lord gave herself, and in which she was, through grace, enabled to continue, serving the Lord, first amongst, and next on behalf of the down-trodden and benighted women of Central Africa. Glimpses of daily life among the tribes of the great interior given in these pages, with the simple story of the Gospel's triumphs there; the immensity of the field, its needs, and the open door set before godly and devoted women to enter and be spent there for God, in the greatest, the grandest, and the noblest work of spreading the old, old story of Jesus and His love, may be used in exercising the hearts and stirring the souls of some among the thousands of Christian young women in these privileged lands, who might, were they constrained by the love of Christ, to yield themselves to God, as living sacrifices (Rom. xii. 1), be sent forth to occupy some part of that needy field, to which this handmaid of the Lord gave herself in the days of her early vigour, so joyfully. That thus it may be, and a band of godly women raised up and sent forth to "evangelise" Africa, while many more who cannot personally go, may with an increased and more intelligent interest, "hold the ropes" at home, is our earnest desire in sending forth these pages. John Ritchie