Life of the Apostle Peter: In a Series of Practical Discourses
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The New Testament: New and powerful life! Miracles happen when your whole life is lived with the Spirit of God!
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“I held a dying man in my arms and prayed… He recovered and got up, looking energized. He looked very much alive…” “We did not have even a single client. Then God gave me an idea… soon all four of our phones started ringing and we had more clients than we could handle…” This book is filled with true eye-witness accounts and real-life proofs of how, when you open yourself fully to God, the Spirit of God will be lively and active in your life. You will see miracles, signs and wonders. God will reveal Himself to you and talk to you, just as He has with the author.
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If we turn from the state of the Mexican empire to the narrative of the Spanish invasion and conquest, we open another most interest ing page. The subversion of a powerful and warlike kingdom by a handful of foreign adventurers, the tale of marches, stratagems, and desperate battles, of imminent dangers and marvelous victories, sounds more like romance than veritable history. No imaginary description of the feats of heroes of chivalry surpasses the authentic record of the conquest of Mexico. With the gloomy close of Mon tezuma's brilliant reign, the dark shadows that came over his fortunes after the landing of the mysterious strangers upon his coast, it is im possible not to sympathize. His destruction was greatly due to his own superstitious fears.
Strangely enough, oracles were current that the kingdom of Mexico would be overthrown by strangers from beyond the sea. The alarmed monarch dreaded from the first the men of destiny, His policy was vacillating and undecided, now deprecatory and submissive, now treacherous and hostile, and his heart sank within him at the steady and irresistible advance of the invaders. They were already estab lished in the heart of the capital, and the sovereign a prisoner in their hands, ere the nation was fully aroused. But when it was awakened and exasperated by indignities to their king and insults to their religion, their fury was like the outburst of a tropical tornado. The canals of the city ran with blood and were choked with corpses, the onrushing multitudes cared nothing for their own lives so they might grapple with their enemies, drag them into their canoes, and carry them away in triumph to be sacrificed upon the altar of the war-god. By dint of desperate struggle Cortez and a remnant of exhausted fol lowers escaped from the infuriated city. An aged and massive cypress still marks the spot where the fugitives halted for rest, a monument of the N oche triste,' the sorrowful night.
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Alfred Lee was an American Episcopal bishop. He was a rector of Calvary Church, in Rockdale from 1838 to 1841 and of St. Andrews parish in Wilmington from 1842 to 1887. He was the presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church from 1884 to 1887.
Background
Alfred Lee was born in Cambridge, Massachussets. His father, Benjamin Lee, was a native of Somersetshire, England, and had at one time been a midshipman in the British navy. His mother, Elizabeth (Leighton), also of English extraction, was connected with the family of William Pitt.
Education
Alfred graduated at Harvard College in 1827 and at once began the study of law. Later he entered the General Theological Seminary, New York and graduated in 1837.
Career
After admission to the bar Lee practised for two years in New London, Connecticut. On May 21, 1837 he was ordered deacon and made priest on June 12, 1838, by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Church Brownell. After a few months' service at Poquetanuck, Connecticut, he removed to Calvary Church, Rockdale, Pennsylvania.
On October 12, 1841, he was consecrated as the first bishop of Delaware in St. Paul's Chapel, New York City. He at once removed to Wilmington, Delaware, where in October 1842 he became rector of St. Andrew's Church, remaining such throughout his life. It had long been the custom for bishops to be rectors of parishes, especially in the weaker dioceses, thereby securing their support in the absence of episcopal endowments; and Delaware was a weak diocese. Organized in 1786, it had no bishop until the consecration of Dr. Lee. There were in the diocese only four clergymen regularly conducting services of the Episcopal Church, and only 339 communicants.
Bishop Lee was a pronounced Evangelical in his theological position and familiar with the Calvinistic theology of his school. He also had the fervor and zeal for souls likewise characteristic of Evangelicalism. Under his episcopal care new life was roused in all parts of the diocese. For a long time at least one new church was consecrated or an old one restored and opened almost every year. In 1863 he was assigned by the presiding bishop to exercise episcopal functions in Haiti, and was instrumental in establishing a mission there under the care of the American Church Missionary Society. He was also much interested in the Mexico mission, which had originated in the secession of some clergy from the Roman Catholic Church. In 1875 he was sent to Mexico to inquire into this movement and to perform episcopal duties. He confirmed over a hundred persons and ordained seven as priests. As a result of his visit the Mexican body was recognized as a foreign church under the care of the Protestant Episcopal Church (C. C. Tiffany, History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1895, pp. 519-20).
Bishop Lee was regarded as a man of great scholarship and received honorary degrees from several institutions. His writings, however, are of the mildly edifying character common in his school of thought: Life of the Apostle Peter in a Series of Practical Discourses (1852); A Life Hid in Christ with God (1856), being a memoir of Susan Allibone; Life of the Apostle John in a Series of Practical Discourses (1857); Eventful Nights in Bible History (1886); and various sermons. He was, however, able to do more scholarly work as a member of the American committee which took part in preparing the revised version of the New Testament (1881). Here his conservative views, combined with a sound, if somewhat old-fashioned, scholarship in Greek and Hebrew, found a useful place. From May 31, 1884, to April 12, 1887, he was the presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.