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Miriam Booth, Part 1

12/30/2015

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Miriam Booth was the granddaughter of Salvation Army founders William and Catherine Booth, and daughter of the second General of the Salvation Army, Bramwell Booth.

She was born June 8, 1887, the third of seven children.  Her father was Bramwell Booth, and her mother was Florence Sopher Booth.  Miriam's full name was Florence Miriam Booth, no doubt after her mother, but she was known to her family as Mira.  Miriam was born just a few years after her mother and father led a movement to stop human trafficking in Victorian England and raise the age of consent from 13 years old to 16 years old.
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Florence Soper Booth and her children.
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A photograph of Miriam Booth in full Salvation Army uniform.
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Her mother, Florence, was by all accounts a very good mother with a youthful enjoyment of life and of her children.  Every day, no matter how tired or weary she was after a busy day working for the Salvation Army, she always took time to simply enjoy her kids.

​Miriam's father was busy at the right hand of General Booth, leading the Salvation Army forward according to the call of God.  Bramwell was hard working, intense, dedicated, and fully committed to the Lord.  In addition, he was known for being both sweet and gentle.

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Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg -- First Protestant Missionary to India, Part 4

12/29/2015

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You might recall from an earlier post the Bartholomaus faced opposition from the European colonists in the area.  One form this opposition took was their refusal to attend worship services with the Tamil natives.  The Tamil Christians were reluctant to attend services with the colonists, because their morals and behavior left much to be desired.  Bartholomaus was never one to let something like that hinder the work he was doing for the Lord, so he came up with a very straightforward solution:  he would see to it that they had their very own church.

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Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg -- First Protestant Missionary to India, Part 3

12/28/2015

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One major thing that made Bartholomaus so different was his attitude toward the Tamil people.  He didn't see them as his inferiors, like many Europeans did.  From the time he first landed, he chose to live among the Tamil, attend their school, and really try to understand their culture -- he even studied their religion, to better understand them.  The result of his study of Hinduism was simple:  everything they had been looking for was in Jesus Christ, and he was delighted to share that news with them.


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Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg -- First Protestant Missionary to India, Part 2

12/24/2015

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Bartholomaus faced an incredible amount of opposition from various sources, including the governor of the colony of Tranquebar, the Danish colonists that lived there, and even from the religious leaders of his own denomination.

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Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg -- First Protestant Missionary to India, Part 1

12/22/2015

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Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg was born in Pulsnitz, Saxony, in southeast Germany, on July 10, 1682.  His parents were devout Christians, who discovered their young son was quite gifted in music.  This led to him being sent to the University of Halle where studied under August Herman Francke.

Around 1705, King Frederick IV of Denmark went through a time of soul-searching after his mistress died in childbirth.  Out of this came a desire to send forth and finance two missionaries to India.  One of the men he consulted with was Francke, who highly recommended two students known for their piety:  Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg and Hienrich Plütschau.  Their destination was the Danish East India Company colony of Tranquebar in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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An Act of Love

12/21/2015

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As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Revelation 3:19


Did you know that when the Lord rebukes, corrects, or punishes us, it is out of love? 

The Lord is working to keep us from going forward in a path that will destroy us.  He does this because He loves us.  That, my friends, is why we should be grateful when we feel conviction over sin in our life.  Conviction is a tool the Lord uses to reach our hearts, to warn us that we are in the wrong path, and to convince us that we need to repent and seek not only His forgiveness but His help.



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Reality of Heaven

12/20/2015

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The key to understanding the Christian viewpoint of Heaven is to understand that true Christians trust God implicitly -- we know, through our personal experience with Him and the study of the  Bible, that we can trust Him to do what is good and right.  That means we trust Him with our death, also.


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