Winona Lake

I was born first, and then Jenny was born next.

And during this time, we're moving to Israel and then Cincinnati and then Winona Lake, Indiana, and just kind of following my dad's job around.

He was a professor.

And then he gets a job offer in British Columbia.

I still have one of those that my grandfather had given me.

Harry Ironside, Alva J. McLean, the great leader of Grace Seminary there in Winona Lake.

G. Campbell Morgan, I quote him often.

His works are amazing.

Continuing day by day, moment by moment of yielding to the Lord Jesus Christ.

I was back in Winona Lake with Dr. Frank Tarley, who's a distant relative of Dr. Reuben A. Tarley, the first pastor of this church.

And Dr. Tarley has one of the outstanding missionary conferences in the country.

And I was asking him about it.

Grace gives update on its one hundred and thirty-five million dollar campaign by Ashley Sloboda of the Journal Gazette.

Grace College and Theological Seminary is working to back its strategic plan with one hundred and thirty-five million dollars, its largest fundraising effort in the institution's nearly ninety-year history, the Winona Lake campus announced in a news release Monday.

The Christ-centered school had raised ninety-five point eight million dollars, about seventy percent of its goal as of the Created for More campaign's launch event late last week.

That total includes a twenty-seven million dollar Catalyst Corridor grant from Lilly Endowment Incorporated, the release said.

My plans were all set.

My plans were Winona Lake, Indiana, Grace Theological Seminary.

All the plans were made, went up, been accepted, paid my fees, found housing.

Those were my plans.

Where? Oh, Warsaw, Indiana.

Technically, I'm from Winona Lake, though.

Oh.

It's different.

Under his direction, simultaneous evangelistic campaigns have been held in many of the leading cities of the land, and the Christian Church and the world have had an experience of a new, aggressive, and emphatic evangelism that has stirred the Church, revived Christian service, and been the means under God of turning thousands to a life of allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Therefore, it is a privilege and pleasure to put into book form some of the sermons which Dr. Chapman has preached in his evangelistic work, and also as the director of the Interdenominational Bible Conference, Winona Lake, Indiana.

Thousands have borne witness to the profound impression and enduring influence of these messages.

Especially is this true of And Judas Iscariot, and also An Old-Fashioned Home.

Then he put the cord around the waist of his wife, but the current is running in such a way that she must spring at just the proper second or she will be thrown back against the rocks and be killed.

And he shouts to her, Spring! But she waited to kiss him and waited too long.

sprang into the sea and was thrown back against the rock and drawn shoreward lifeless whether that story is true or not i cannot say but it is an illustration of the present day to me god is saying now is the day of opportunity may he pity us if we fail three while all that has been said is true concerning the morning of the eternal day in another sense it is true that already a brighter day is breaking first a better day for bible study this old book which people have feared was going to pass away is better to-day than ever it is the object of deeper affection and there is no question but that more people are believing in it to-day as the inspired word of god than for years and all because they have tested it and it has stood the test second a better day of prayer is dawning fifty thousand people in great britain are banded together to pray and to pray until the blessing comes if that be for years oh that god would teach us to pray we do not half understand what it means to ask god for blessings a story of prayer which would seem impossible if i did not know it to be true for i have friends who have been in the town where it occurred and have met the descendants of the old sea-captain it is that story of the captain who took his boy and others to fish and in the midst of the hurricane the boy was washed overboard broken-hearted he returned to the shore and the fisher-wife as was her custom came down to meet them only to sob her way back to her home because her boy was gone they spent the night in the kirk in prayer when the minister said why not ask god to restore his body and they did they put out to sea and journeyed sixty miles until he told them to stop and when they let over the grappling-hooks they knew by the very tug of the rope that they had his body and they bore it back again to the broken-hearted captain and his wife who had all that time been waiting in the kirk in prayer may god teach us how to pray a brighter day is dawning and while it may be that some of us cannot see it while there may be sceptics who say that it is not exactly true yet i know from what i have seen myself that the darkness is passing away in june eighteen ninety-seven the steamer catalonia at ten o'clock at night was found to be on fire and one of my friends told me that he paced the deck and considered himself lost because the flames were burning fiercely finally they were under control and the people sang praise god from whom all blessings flow telling me of the lessons that he learned on this awful journey he said that night at twelve o'clock when the pumps were being forced and the clouds of smoke were taking on new dimensions and we were wondering what the morning would bring us the man on the bridge shouted as he had at each midnight of the trip eight bells all's well had the man down in the state-room watching by the side of his sick wife heard the words he might have said it's a falsehood but that man's vision was restricted by the narrow walls of his state-room had the mother and daughter sitting in the cabin with their arms about each other wondering why they had been allowed to sail on the catalonia and leave their loved ones behind heard it they might have said the man is beside himself but they could not see beyond the cabin had the lonely traveller who stood near the hatchway given it a thought he might have said it is a lie but he could not see through the clouds of smoke at which he stared silently but the vision of the watch swept the horizon and there was no obstruction in the ship's path he knew that each revolution of the catalonia's machinery pushed the ship on her way to queenstown he had a right to say it i somehow seem to hear the sound of the goings in the tops of the trees and have evidence that god is coming to his church with blessing it is true there is in some quarters indifference in many places worldliness but i can see no insurmountable barrier in the way of the progress of the kingdom of god end of section fourteen section fifteen of and judas iscariot with other revival sermons by reverend j wilbert chapman this librivox recording is in the public domain read by marianne an obscured vision preached at the opening of the winona lake bible conference where there is no vision the people perish proverbs chapter twenty nine verse eighteen it is not altogether an easy matter to secure a text for such an occasion as this not because the texts are so few in number but rather because they are so many for one has only to turn over the pages of the bible in the most casual way to find them facing him at every reading feeling the need of advice for such a time as this i asked a number of my friends who knew me intimately and knew the occasion which was before me to suggest what in their minds would be an appropriate scripture and in their suggestions i have had the most singular indication of the leading of providence one said use hosea chapter five verse four where god in speaking concerning his people israel says they will not frame their doings which means that his people would not set before themselves the way in which they were going or it might mean that they would not set up a plan for their lives which would be according to his will and which he might bring on to completion another said use genesis chapter twenty six verse eighteen where we are told that isaac digged again the wells of his father abraham this is a suggestive incident and has in it a message for to-day for if there is one thing needed more than another it is that the old wells at which our fathers drank and were refreshed and which have alas in these modern times been filled in at least to a certain extent should be opened and men be summoned once again to drink of their living waters Another said, use Jeremiah chapter 6 verse 16, ask for the old paths.

But as a matter of fact, we cannot improve upon the ways in which our fathers walked so far as the revelation of God is concerned, or the doing of his will.

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