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Quiet Talks with World Winners
By
S. D. Gordon
Author of "Quiet Talks on Power," "Quiet Talks About Jesus," "Quiet Talks on Personal Problems," Etc.
Contents
I. World-winning
1. The Master Passion 2. The Master's Plan 3. The Need 4. The Present Opportunity 5. The Pressing Emergency 6. The Past Failure 7. The Coming Victory
II. Winning Forces
1. The Church 2. Each One of Us 3. Jesus 4. The Holy Spirit 5. Prayer 6. Money 7. Sacrifice
The Master Passion
The Earliest Calvary Picture. The Love Passion. Mother-love. The Genesis Picture. God Giving Himself. God's Fellow. The Genesis Water-mark. A Human Picture of God. On a Wooing Errand. Jesus' World-passion.
The Master Passion
The Earliest Calvary Picture.
There's a great passion burning in the heart of God. It is tenderly warm and tenaciously strong. Its fires never burn low, nor lose their fine glow. That passion is to win man back home again. The whole world of man is included in its warm, eager reach.
The old home hearth-fire of God is lonely since man went away. The family circle is broken. God will not rest until that old home circle is complete again, and every voice joining in the home songs.
It is an overmastering passion, the overmastering passion of God's heart. It has guided and controlled all His thoughts and plans for man from the first. The purpose of winning man, and the whole race, back again is the dominant gripping passion of God's heart to-day. Everything is made to bend to this one end.
When Eden's tragedy came so early, to darken the pages of this old Book, and, far worse, to darken the pages of human life, there is a great glimpse of this passion of God's heart in the guarding of those Eden gates. The presence of the angels with their sword of flame told plainly of a day when man would be coming back again to the old Eden home of God. The place must be carefully guarded for him.
This is a love passion, a passion of love. And love itself is the master passion both of the human heart and of God's heart. Nothing can grip and fill and sway the heart either of man or God like that.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Quiet Talks with World Winners by S. D. Gordon
- 2: The real thing of love is never selfish
- 3: Closest companion is not selfish
- 4: It knows no restriction of sex
- 5: Father stands commonly for the stronger
- 6: Only those who are alike can have fellowship
- 7: Was brooding tremulous with love
- 8: And His blood for man on Calvary
- 9: And you stay up in the attic three days and three nights
- 10: Climbed the attic steps softly
- 11: It is stupendous in its freshness and bold daring
- 12: Preach the gospel to the whole creation
- 13: The pendulum swing first one side
- 14: And the strangely stagnant spirit of heathen lands
- 15: In business the wholesale comes after the retail
- 16: The Programme of World winning
- 17: The Church had been practically a Jewish church
- 18: We need as thorough organizing
- 19: They had gotten as far as Chamounix
- 20: And how quickly all men respond to that
- 21: The Needle of the Compass of Need
- 22: Yet it is well to repeat that word billion
- 23: What sort of leadership it will be morally
- 24: Most of them in deepest savagery
- 25: That Christian standards are commonly recognized
- 26: To get at the kernel of truth for practical help
- 27: 9 men living the message of Jesus
- 28: Human life is the greatest moral magnet
- 29: Ericsson lifted his bowed head
- 30: To enter the great heathen world
- 31: Inexpressible yearning for something they haven't
- 32: These national governmental deputations have come to us
- 33: But chiefly from Christianized Europe
- 34: And made better by diplomacy and commerce
- 35: Jesus comes in the guise of the needy
- 36: See My hands bleed that bring thee grace
- 37: The Pressing EmergencyThe October Panic
- 38: An emergency means a great danger threatening
- 39: Emergencies come in spiritual matters
- 40: It may be a heathen leadership
- 41: It may be a new life of energized
- 42: 12 The candlestick isn't the light
- 43: The Past Failure Some of God's Failures
- 44: Jesus planned Judas the apostle
- 45: It is unfair as well as irreverent
- 46: In each generation the chief plan
- 47: I suppose its wealth is meant to be an index of all its work
- 48: The only calendar we men have is a calendar of dates
- 49: If Judas struck the lowest note
- 50: They revised the century old motto
- 51: Its volunteers are found everywhere
- 52: The Young People's Missionary Movement
- 53: There were thousands of bathers
- 54: In chapter four 15 comes a quartette
- 55: The angel chorus and the quartette drop to their knees
- 56: God's world is full of winning forces
- 57: The leadership in service among men is human leadership
- 58: It became the heir to its world wide messenger mission
- 59: Paul's body might be in Ephesus or Corinth or Rome
- 60: And shorten up the world's pain
- 61: Nearly forty years ago David Livingstone
- 62: He may have lost much of his winsomeness
- 63: Or the fierce undertow will suck him under
- 64: Don't you know where Elkhart is
- 65: The purity of his heart or its lack of purity
- 66: Growing Bigger for Service's Sake
- 67: It's a bit of the cramping of sin that anybody thinks so
- 68: And re makes him yet more winsome
- 69: And drew as well the unnamed outcast woman
- 70: But have been held apart by some hindrance
- 71: You must absorb this Bible story
- 72: He had been hearing Andrew Bonar preach up there
- 73: Didn't take him to Calvary and Mount Olivet
- 74: The errand and the Spirit's presence were coupled together
- 75: They have been sorely hampered
- 76: The iron wedges sometimes fail
- 77: This is the first great essential hi the trinity of service
- 78: Even as we cultivate our human friendships
- 79: The truth unembodied or even hampered
- 80: While there will be fulness of power
- 81: Prayer The Greatest Doing Is Praying
- 82: I pray for a man in Pittsburg or in Hang chow
- 83: And on it is marked home land items and foreign items
- 84: And left the undercurrent of my thought free
- 85: His undercurrent of praying goes on
- 86: May be called unconscious prayer
- 87: Money seems almost almighty in its power to do things
- 88: Let prayer and sacrifice and money form a life partnership
- 89: 33 and the whole sixteenth chapter of Luke
- 90: No executor or administrator was needed
- 91: His was talking very loudly to his sceptical neighbor
- 92: We are badly and blessedly in debt
- 93: Your gold and silver are rusted
- 94: SacrificeOne Hank Over For the Candle
- 95: Sacrifice is sin's healing shadow
- 96: That sacrifice of His stands unapproached
- 97: There is a strange winsomeness about sacrifice
- 98: And there's yet more of this winsomeness
- 99: The marks of sacrifice cement our fellowship with Him
- 100: 12 Revelation 2 5 13 Matthew 24 14