His Word will Prosper

(Editor’s Note- devotional taken from Monday Musings – St Stephens Church – New Holland PA. This verse is an inverse reference – Isaiah 55:11 for 11/5.)

“So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it” (Is. 55:11)

Luther wrote a pamphlet on Galatians which, falling into Bunyan’s hands converted him.

More than 150,000,000 copies of Spurgeon’s sermons have gone into circulation. A young Frenchman who had been wounded at the siege of St. Quentin was languishing on a pallet in the hospital when a tract that lay on the coverlet caught his eye. He read it and was converted by it. The monument of that man may be seen before the Church of the Consistory in Paris, standing with a Bible in his hand-the

Admiral Coligny, the leader of the Reformation in France.

But the tract had not yet finished its work.

It was read by Coligny’s nurse, a Sister of Mercy, who penitently placed it in the hands of the Lady Abbess, and she, too, was converted by it.

She fled from France to the Palatine, where she met a young Hollander and became his wife. The influence which she had upon that reacted upon the whole continent of Europe, for he was William of Orange, who became the champion of liberty and Protestantism in the Netherlands.

I have other copies of Spurgeon myself. My copies are not that new, having belonged to another. But they repeat themselves clearly. With the computer on your design board, you could only try to compute more. Who knows but someone might hear some more.

Life is not in the sower, but in the seed. Let us produce more seed.

Edie R

 ’43 / ‘ 55  New Holland  PA

Doris Jean H

’44 / ’55 Manheim PA