William Weston Patton, Congregationalist, quotes missionaries to the Cherokee nation opposing their ethnic cleaning from their ancestral grounds. A great torrent of iniquity, they are led by God in this “contest”.

Should missionaries have focused efforts on converting souls?

How can you pray for those in such a contest? Work to stop torrents of iniquity, starting at least with your testimony against it?

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William Mackergo Taylor, Congregationalist minister, writes on 1 Kings 18. He notes a detail that Obadiah secured provisions for persecuted prophets, then cared for horses. He says caring for God’s poor comes before luxuries, then animals.

He noted this little detail. Would people with full bellies be annoyed at making a sermon out of it— couldn’t those prophets have grabbed energy bars?

How can you note the suffering around you?

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