Gilead Books

Henry Clay Mabie: Selected Articles and Messages

Author: Henry Clay Mabie

Price: £12.95 
Postage: £2.75
Year: 1 JULY 2011
Brief Description: These selected articles and messages by Dr Henry Clay Mabie contain rich spiritual lessons embedded in fresh thoughts and fascinating American church history. This history goes back to the days Moody and Sankey, to the Northfield Conferences and the fruitful efforts of the American Baptist Missionary Union.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9558099-9-6
245 pages / Paperback / RRP £12.95, $20.95

Rear Cover

"That the gospel was made for man and man for the gospel is at the bottom of all our hope and confidence. If it cannot save all men that open their hearts to it when fairly applied, then it can save no man in any place or in any age"-Henry Clay Mabie

"Our interest in missions is a mark of our Christian character; our knowledge of missions is the measure of our Christian attainment; our participation in missions is the measure of our Christian efficiency"-Henry Clay Mabie

These selected articles and messages by Dr. Henry Clay Mabie contain rich spiritual lessons embedded in fresh thoughts and fascinating American church history. This history goes back to the days Moody and Sankey, to the Northfield Conferences and the fruitful efforts of the American Baptist Missionary Union. This book magnifies the missionary spirit of the Bible through the vicarious redemption of mankind from sin through the cross of the atonement.

"This is an age of ‘quick returns', easy gains, least trouble, everything with as little effort and cost as possible. Depth is a lost stamina. Stamina is a minus quality. Who today would take the pains to read such classics on the Cross as Dr. Mabie's The Divine Reason of the Cross and The Meaning and Message of the Cross? This superficiality is costing the Church and Christians very dearly, and so there is artificial life, artificial food, artificial fellowship which will not go through in the time of testing."-T. Austin-Sparks

"The articles, messages and books by Dr. Mabie are deep and original, spoken or written from the Christ-loving and missionary heart of a man who, raised on a farm, had the rare combination to be an evangelist, pastor, theologian, author, conference leader and speaker, missionary statesman, traveler, and a thinker who let Jesus to be the genius for his philosophical mind."-Roel Velema (The Netherlands)

Foreword

We live in a generation that almost has forgotten Henry Clay Mabie and his profound writings. Yet he worked closely with the spiritual giants of his day, with men as Dwight L. Moody, George Campbell Morgan, John R. Mott, and Rueben A. Torrey. For example, Henry Mabie, Rueben Torrey, and J. Wilbur Chapman, had all worked with Moody in his various evangelistic campaigns.

It's encouraging to see that Dr. Mabie's books are still available and appreciated. Fortunately, his legacy also has been preserved in articles and messages which contain lessons of high spiritual value. These lessons are all too often not to be separated from their historical setting. Let the reader not be bothered and consider this setting as outdated and irrelevant historical information. In Scripture too, spiritual lessons are, without exception, embedded in the history of their time. It makes it intense practical and helps to explain the process that forms the spiritual mind.
When we appreciate the full and deep discussions of the learned, we will certainly be attracted to the rich printed legacy of Henry Clay Mabie.

Roel Velema
Hattem, The Netherlands