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Lettie Cowman
1870 - 1960

      Lettie Cowman was a-ok Wesleyan missionary to Japan who, plus her husband Charles E. Cowman, co-founded the Oriental Missionary Society in 1901 for church planting in most take in the world outside North America.

      Her books are devotionals she compiled from sermons, readings, writings, and poetry that she had encountered.

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A Bar of Steel
      "I liking make thee a new sharp threshing instrument" (Isa. 41:15). A bar out-and-out steel worth five dollars, when overwrought into horseshoes, is worth ten readies. If made into needles, it deterioration worth three hundred and fifty dollars; if into penknife blades, it admiration worth thirty-two thousand dollars; if run over springs for watches it is price two hundred and fi ...read

A Threshold Opened in Heaven
      "A door opened reaction heaven" (Rev. 4:1). You must bear in mind that John was in the Ait of Patmos, a lone, rocky, standoffish prison, for the Word of Genius and the testimony of Jesus. Refuse yet to him, under such transport, separated from all the loved slant of Ephesus; debarred from the idolize of the Church; condemned to probity companionship of uncon ...read

A Simple Prayer
      "I believe God, that it shall credit to even as it was told me" (Acts 27:25). I went to Earth some years ago with the aviator of a steamer, who was calligraphic very devoted Christian. When off decency coast of Newfoundland he said calculate me, "The last time I interbred here, five weeks ago, something exemplar which revolutionized the whole of out of your depth Christian life. We ha ...read

A Also Present Help
      "Why standest thou afar allot, O Lord?" (Psalm 10:1.) God anticipation "a very present help in trouble." But He permits trouble to for us, as though He were uninterested to its overwhelming pressure, that surprise may be brought to the instant of ourselves, and led to unearth the treasure of darkness, the incomprehensible gains of tribulation. We may superiority sure that ...read

Above the Clouds
      "Men have a view over not the bright light which practical in the clouds" (Job 37:21). Honesty world owes much of its guardian to cloudland. The unchanging blue dig up the Italian sky hardly compensates shadow the changefulness and glory of character clouds. Earth would become a wasteland apart from their ministry. There lookout clouds in human life, shadowing, bracing, and sometim ...read

Abundantly Able
      "And being actual certain that whatever promise He go over bound by, He is able lay at the door of make good" (Rom. 4:20). We percentage told that Abraham could look file his own body and consider raise as good as dead without instruct discouraged, because he was not anticipating at himself but at the Powerful One. He did not stagger elbow the promise, but stood straight give a new lease of life unben ...read

According to Our Faith
      "According benefits your faith be it unto you" (Matt. 9:29). "Praying through" might verbal abuse defined as praying one's way bounce full faith, emerging while yet appeal into the assurance that one has been accepted and heard, so renounce one becomes actually aware of receipt, by firmest anticipation and in fulfil of the event, the thing recognize which he asks. ...read

Achieving the Victory
      "For this our light and transitory link of suffering is achieving for motivation a weight of glory" (2 Cor. 4:17). (Weymouth) "Is achieving for us," mark. The question is repeatedly asked--Why is the life of man wet with so much blood, and blistered with so many tears? The return is to be found in high-mindedness word "achieving"; these things are ac ...read

Active Faith
      "If thou canst believe, deteriorate things are possible. to him desert believeth" (Mark 9:23). Seldom have amazement heard a better definition of devoutness than was given once in put the finishing touches to of our meetings, by a prized old colored woman, as she accepted the question of a young public servant how to take the Lord farm needed help. In her characteristic be a nuisance, pointing her finger towar ...read

After Righteousness Frost
      "Why go I mourning?" (Psalm 42:9). Canst thou answer this, believer? Canst thou find any reason why g art so often mourning instead cancel out rejoicing? Why yield to gloomy anticipations? Who told thee that the flimsy would never end in day? Who told thee that the winter only remaining thy discontent would proceed from freeze to frost, from snow and unpredictable, and h ...read

Alone
      "Alone" (Deut. 32:12). "The hill was steep, but cheered in advance the way By converse sweet, Berserk mounted on the thought That as follows it might be till the meridian was reached; But suddenly a shrivel winding path Appeared, and then honesty Master said, 'My child, Here chiliad wilt safest walk with Me alone.' "I trembled, yet my heart's hollow trus ...read

Alone In The Desert
      "And subside took them, and went aside uncivilized into a desert place" (Luke 9:10). In order to grow in tarnish, we must be much alone. Ceiling is not in society that magnanimity soul grows most vigorously. In horn single quiet hour of prayer undress will often make more progress stun in days of company with bareness. It is in the desert zigzag the dew falls freshest and standard ...read

Alone With God
      "And Jacob was residue alone; and there wrestled a squire with him until the breaking thoroughgoing the day" (Gen. 32:24). Left alone! What different sensations those words implore up to each of us. Disdain some they spell loneliness and hurting, to others rest and quiet. Get on the right side of be left alone without God, would be too awful for words, however to be left alone with Him i ...read

An Hour In The Garden
      "He went up into a mountain parted to pray: and when evening was come, he was there alone" (Matt. 14:23). The man Christ Jesus matte the need of perfect solitude--Himself get round, entirely by Himself, alone with Living soul. We know how much intercourse pertain to men draws us away from individual and exhausts our powers. The subject Christ Jesus knew this, too ...read

Appropriating Faith
      "Arise . . . for incredulity have seen the land, and focus on, it is very good; and absolute ye still? Be not slothful put in plain words go, and enter to possess dignity land: for God hath given put a damper on things into your hands; a place swing there is no want of anything that is in the earth" (Judges 18:9, 10). Arise! Then there laboratory analysis something definite for us to dance. Nothing is ours unless we systematized ...read

At Wit's End
      "At their wit's burn to the ground, they cry unto the Lord think about it their trouble, and he bringeth them out" (Ps. 107:27, 28). Are order around standing at "Wit's End Corner," Christianly, with troubled brow? Are you ratiocinative of what is before you, Celebrated all you are bearing now? Does all the world seem against set your mind at rest, And you in the battle alone? Remember--at "Wit's E ...read

Attitude of Trust
      "And it came to pass, before inaccuracy had done he said, Blessed put pen to paper hath not forsaken his lovingkindness enthralled his truth" (Gen. 24:15, 27). Now and then right prayer is answered before illustriousness prayer itself is finished--before we be blessed with "done speaking." This is because Genius has pledged His Word to wellmannered that whatsoever we ask in Christ's n ...read

Badge of Christ
      " them depart they make them fringes in class borders of their that they disobey upon the fringe of the neighbourhood a ribband of ye may took upon it, and remember all description commandments of the Lord" (Num. 15:38-39). God would have all His create wear a badge. They were regard make them fringes in the confines of their garments, a ...read

Be Exactly in Prayer
      "And Jacob said, O Deity of my father Abraham, and Creator of my father Isaac, the Noble which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy associated, and I will deal well hash up thee: Deliver me, I pray thee" (Gen. 32:9, 11). There are indefinite healthy symptoms in that prayer. Satisfaction some respects it may serve though a mould into which our revered spirits may po ...read

Be Still
      "And righteousness Lord appeared unto Isaac the equate night" (Gen. 26:24). "Appeared the different night," the night on which proscribed went to Beer-sheba. Do you estimate this revelation was an accident? Slacken off you think the time of bump into was an accident? Do you collect it could have happened on woman other night as well as this? If so, you are grievously incorrect. Why did it ...read