{"product_id":"9781932774139","title":"They Knew Their God","description":"George Herbert (1593-1632) : Poet of the Heavenly Court\u003cbr\u003eMiguel Molinos (1627-1696) : The Priest Who Knew God\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Alleine (1634-1668) : A Living Sacrifice at Thirty-four\u003cbr\u003eJohn Fletcher (1729-1785) : Apostle of Madeley\u003cbr\u003eMary Fletcher (1739-1815) : Shepherdess of Orphans\u003cbr\u003eFrederick Oberlin (1740-1826) : Benefactor to the Vosges Dwellers\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Pollard (1826-1877) : He Waited for the Fulfilment of His Vision\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Matheson (1842-1906) : The Blind Poet Who Saw Too Much\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Goforth (1859-1936) : He Suffered the Loss of All Things\u003cbr\u003eRosalind Goforth (1864-1942) : She Climbed the Ascents With God\u003cbr\u003eKate Lee (1872-1920) : The Angel Adjutant\u003cbr\u003eW. Graham Scroggie (1877-1958) : The Unusual Keswick Speaker\u003cp\u003eGod never repeats Himself in human experience, and it is refreshing to mark these saints as they ventured their all upon God and left us individual histories which enrich the spiritual kingdom by the delightful variety we discover in all God's \"other\" creations. We do not submit these sketches that they should be imitated in detail as to their search for God, or as to their evidence of that attainment. We pray rather that their faith and courage, in proving and knowing God, might encourage us to realize there is no limit, except in ourselves, to what we might discover of His kingdom while here in \"time\".\u003cbr\u003eOur situation today is much like that which existed in the time of the Judges: \"Another generation grew up after them, who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.\" (Judges 2:10). Such ignorance in those days issued in God's people doing evil and turning to false religion. \u003cbr\u003eThis book describes giants of faith---people who did exploits because \"they knew their God.\" Such devotion as we read about shames our shallowness and our failure to make a vacuum for God in the busy materialistic scramble for higher living standards. We have expensive homes and luxury cars but know little of the vast riches and resources available to one who takes time to know and understand. Our ideals are to low, and our zeal so lukewarm, and our stocks of grace so pitifully small that we need to remember great saints who all remind us, we too can make our lives sublime, and departing leave behind us, footprints in the sands of time, as Longfellow wrote:\u003cbr\u003eFootprints that perhaps another\u003cbr\u003eSailing o'er life's solemn mane,\u003cbr\u003eSome forlorn and shipwrecked brother\u003cbr\u003eReading may take heart again.---from the foreword.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvey Christian Publishers Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033341706480,"sku":"9781932774139","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781932774139_p0.jpg?v=1763640028","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781932774139","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}