The New Acts of the Apostles is Arthur T. Pierson's book based on his series of lectures upon the foundation of the "Duff Missionary Lectureship," which he delivered in Scotland, during February and March, 1893.A sweeping biographical survey of Protestant missions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, The New Acts of the Apostles demonstrates the thesis that God's work of bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth has continued uninterrupted from the New Testament Book of Acts up to the present day. We are, in effect, living out additional chapters of the story that began in Acts.Filled with exciting and inspirational stories, Pierson's book introduces the reader to dozens of missionary heroes and devoted followers of Jesus. He shows how they relied upon God to provide and to move in power for the increase of His Kingdom, in ways that parallel the stories of the first Apostles.A. T. (Arthur Tappan) Pierson was an American Presbyterian pastor, missionary, author, and editor. He wrote more than fifty books, preached more than 13,000 sermons, and was editor of the Missionary Review of the World. He was friends with C. I. Scofield, D. L. Moody, George M ller (Pierson wrote M ller's first biography), Adoniram Judson Gordon, and others. Pierson also preached in C. H. Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle from 1891 to 1893.About the Scripture Testimony EditionWalking Together Press has enhanced this classic title by identifying and marking portions of the narrative that illustrate specific Biblical topics and verses. A corresponding Scripture Testimony Index has been added containing short summaries of how each topic is illustrated, making it easy to locate specific stories. This title is one of many in the Scripture Testimony Collection.
A HUMAN life, filled with the presence and power of God, is one of God's choicest gifts to His church and to the world. Things which are unseen and eternal seem, to the carnal man, distant and indistinct, while what is seen and temporal is vivid and real. Practically, any object in nature that can be seen or felt is thus more real and actual to most men than the Living God. Every man who walks with God, and finds Him a present Help in every time of need; who puts His promises to the practical proof and verifies them in actual experience; every believer who with the key of faith unlocks God's mysteries, and with the key of prayer unlocks God's treasuries, thus furnishes to the race a demonstration and an illustration of the fact that "He is, and is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him." George M ller was such an argument and example incarnated in human flesh. Here was a man of like passions as we are and tempted in all points like as we are, but who believed God and was established by believing; who prayed earnestly that he might live a life and do a work which should be a convincing proof that God hears prayer and that it is safe to trust Him at all times; and who has furnished just such a witness as he desired. Like Enoch, he truly walked with God, and had abundant testimony borne to him that he pleased God. And when on the tenth day of March 1898, it was told us of George M ller that "he was not," we knew that "God had taken him" it seemed more like a translation than like death. To those who are familiar with his long life-story, and, most of all, to those who intimately knew him and felt the power of personal contact with him, he was one of God's ripest saints and himself a living proof that a life of faith is possible; that God may be known, communed with, found, and may become a conscious companion in the daily life. George M ller proved for himself and for all others who will receive his witness that, to those who are willing to take God at His word and to yield self to His will, He is the same yesterday and today and forever" that the days of divine intervention and deliverance are past only to those with whom the days of faith and obedience are past-- in a word, that believing prayer works still the wonders which our fathers told of in the days of old.
