Identifier: herooffaithpraye00hill (find matches)
Title: A hero of faith and prayer; or, Life of Rev. Martin Wells Knapp
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hills, Aaron Merritt. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (S.l.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ear and divine,Now on the paths before meBrightly to shine ! O for a hand to beckon ! O for a voice to say,Follow in firm assurance,— This is the way ! Listening to mingling voices, Seeking a guiding hand,Watching for light from heaven, Waiting, I stand. Onward and homeward pressing. Nothing my feet would stay,Might I but plainly hear it, This is the way! Others did not see it until afterwards; but in allthese months after that trial until the end, the greatsoul stood listening for the voices and watching forlight from heaven. He had caught some foregleamsof the coming glory. Onward and homeward press-ing, constantly conscious that he was drawing nearerhis King, he did not care to linger on tardy feet. Thecandle of his life was burning all too swiftly and brightlyin its socket. Eternity was pressing upon him—justbehind the thin veil of things visible, already Hfting, dis-solving. The gleam of the palaces of immortality werepiercing through. Visions of eternal glory were break- 274
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Anna. John Franklin. I^ucy Elizabeth. Lii?K OF Rev. M. W. Knapp. 275 ing around him. The ever-haunting splendors of thecity that hath foundations broke upon his eye of faith;and he tightened the girdle of his loins, the latchet ofhis sandals, and, like an earnest racer for glory, forgotthe things that were behind, and pressed toward thegoal. Fortunately for us now, one of his own converts andhelpers was with him, watching him with sympatheticeyes and grateful affection during these eventful days.God gave him and his wife dear Bessie to comfortand help them. God gave her a gifted pen to tell usof the closing scenes as follows: The Last Communion. It was a Sabbath morning service. The congrega-tion had been singing and praying without any specialmanifestation of the Holy Spirit. Brother Knapp beganreading the story of the crucifixion, and as He read onand on of the cruel scourging of Christ, His beingbuffeted and spit upon and mocked, the Holy Ghost fellupon him and melted him all down,

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