Category: History - Religious
SARAH THE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS--HER FAITH TESTED--THE MISTAKE OF HER LIFE--HER LOVELY CHARACTER--REBEKAH--AN ORIENTAL WOOING--ELIEZER’S PRAYER--THE BRIDE’S ANSWER--MEETING ISAAC--A MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HER SON--JACOB’S FLIGHT--REBEKAH, THE BEAUTIFUL SHEPHERDESS--SEVEN YEARS’ SERVIC...
SARAH THE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS--HER FAITH TESTED--THE MISTAKE OF HER LIFE--HER LOVELY CHARACTER--REBEKAH--AN ORIENTAL WOOING--ELIEZER’S PRAYER--THE BRIDE’S ANSWER--MEETING ISAAC--...
3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.RAHAB--GREAT GRACE FOR GREAT SINNERS--THE FALL OF JERICHO--THE COVENANT REMEMBERED--DEBORAH--HER REMARKABLE COURAGE--SISERA’S IRON CHARIOTS BROKEN--THE DAUGHTER OF JEPHTHAH--HER...
5. CHAPTER V.ABIGAIL--CHURLISH NABAL--CHIVALROUS APPRECIATION--DAVID’S MESSENGERS--SAUL’S DAUGHTERS--HIS TREACHERY--MICHAL’S STRATAGEM--RIZPAH--HER HEROIC ENDURANCE AND LOVING FIDELITY--THE...
6. CHAPTER VI.THE WICKED JEZEBEL--THE WIDOW OF SAREPTA--THE TISHBITE AT THE CITY GATE--HIS STRANGE REQUEST--THE WIDOW’S UNFALTERING OBEDIENCE--AN APPEAL TO ELISHA--A POT OF OIL--THE WIDOW’S W...
7. CHAPTER VII.AN ANGEL BY THE ALTAR OF INCENSE--HIS MESSAGE--AN ISRAELITISH HOME--IN THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH--THE DESERT TEACHER--THE ANNUNCIATION--THE VISIT OF MARY TO ELIZABETH--MARY’S MAGNIFI...
8. CHAPTER VIII.CHRIST AND WOMANHOOD--NOONTIDE AT JACOB’S WELL--THE LORD’S WONDERFUL TACT--FIELDS WHITE TO THE HARVEST--AN UNINVITED GUEST AT SIMON’S FEAST--COLD HOSPITALITY--A CONCISE PARABLE-...
9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER X.It has long been in our mind to write this book, in which we seek to set forth the beautiful lives of representative women of the Bible. There has been much written about prophe...
11. CHAPTER I.Perhaps there never lived a woman who has been “talked about” so much as this first woman in White Raiment, for who has not said, If Eve had not been beguiled into a violation o...
12. CHAPTER II.SARAH THE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS--HER FAITH TESTED--THE MISTAKE OF HER LIFE--HER LOVELY CHARACTER--REBEKAH--AN ORIENTAL WOOING--ELIEZER’S PRAYER--THE BRIDE’S ANSWER--MEETING ISAAC--...
13. CHAPTER III.The history of the human race runs on from the tomb of Rachel for over four hundred years without bringing to our notice any woman in White Raiment until Jochebed, the mother of...
14. CHAPTER IV.RAHAB--GREAT GRACE FOR GREAT SINNERS--THE FALL OF JERICHO--THE COVENANT REMEMBERED--DEBORAH--HER REMARKABLE COURAGE--SISERA’S IRON CHARIOTS BROKEN--THE DAUGHTER OF JEPHTHAH--HER...
15. CHAPTER V.Passing out from under the Theocracy, or rule of the Judges, the first woman in White Raiment that appears on the page of the Sacred Record is Abigail. She was the wife of Nabal...
16. CHAPTER VI.THE WICKED JEZEBEL--THE WIDOW OF SAREPTA--THE TISHBITE AT THE CITY GATE--HIS STRANGE REQUEST--THE WIDOW’S UNFALTERING OBEDIENCE--AN APPEAL TO ELISHA--A POT OF OIL--THE WIDOW’S W...
17. CHAPTER VII.AN ANGEL BY THE ALTAR OF INCENSE--HIS MESSAGE--AN ISRAELITISH HOME--IN THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH--THE DESERT TEACHER--THE ANNUNCIATION--THE VISIT OF MARY TO ELIZABETH--MARY’S MAGNIFI...
18. dim. Yet most striking are the proofs that in every household childrenNotwithstanding a barren wife in an Israelitish home was often a cause for divorce, Zacharias was pre-eminently a man of hope. As a pious husband and lover, he had faithfully an...
19. CHAPTER VIII.CHRIST AND WOMANHOOD--NOONTIDE AT JACOB’S WELL--THE LORD’S WONDERFUL TACT--FIELDS WHITE TO THE HARVEST--AN UNINVITED GUEST AT SIMON’S FEAST--COLD HOSPITALITY--A CONCISE PARABLE-...
20. CHAPTER IX.The sisters of Bethany, Martha and Mary, come to our view three times during our Lord’s Judean ministry. The first view we have of them is recorded in Luke x, 38-42, where these...
21. CHAPTER X.We now come to the blessed ministry of women during the Apostolic age. And the first of these is Tabitha. Her residence was at Joppa. She was a “disciple,” and Luke renders her...