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What do I do to obtain righteousness by faith and to win salvation by redemption? The decision of believing in Jesus Christ and His redeeming blood on the cross is of great importance in guaranteeing that you will be in hea…
They have denied my right to live at peace. Behold, I have become an exile in my own land. I am a stranger to unfamiliar faces, but an enemy to those who know me. So, here I am, without a place to lay my head. As if driven b…
Yes, only Christ was fit for this enterprise for the following reasons: The sacrifice had to be pure and without blemish. The sacrifice was to be of such value to equal the number of souls to be redeemed. It had to be of th…

WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE? (J…

WITH this year, in my seventy-seventh year, I conclude this sketch of a missionary's life and of the American Mission in Syria. I hardly expected to live to see the granting of a Constitution in Turkey, but it has come in my day, and we are now living in the time of transition between the old and the new, a time, naturally, full of ferment and unrest. The work of Christian education in Syria suffered a great loss by the death, in January, of Mr. Morris K. Jesup of New York, a trustee of the Syrian Protestant College, and one of its most generous supporters. Among other losses by death was that of Mr. Thomas Little, the head of the boys' boa…

Only One Way To God

What is religion? This question has puzzled theologians throughout human history. But how did religion start in the first place? Why did it start? In order to understand some of these issues, let us have a look at the etymology of the word “religion” itself, and see that when and where this word was used for the very first time in the human history.

The word religion was used for the very first time in the Latin language. The actual word used in Latin was “religio”, which changed into religion when came into English. The roots of the Arabic word “Mazhab” or “Deen” can also be traced back to “religio”. In the Latin language, the word “religio” had three basic meanings; which are Faith, Trust & Belief.

If you further analyse these three words, faith, trust and belief; then you realize that there are actually three different characteristics

Jacqueline's Testimony - a nun (Ca…

From a Nun's Convent to Biblical Conversion Forty five years of my life were spent as a Roman Catholic; twenty-two of them as a nun in an enclosed convent dedicated to adoration, reparation and suffering. I believed it was a nun's calling to be a miniature savior of the world like Jesus Christ. After attending Catholic elementary school for eight years and memorizing catechism which is the Roman Catholic textbook, I believed in my heart that a family having a son or daughter become a priest or nun would receive God's favor and special blessings. I decided to enter the convent when I was old enough to leave home. This was my goal while I wa…

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