This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...and gather souls for their Master, and not riches for their own use. The King of Ethiopia, commonly known as the land of Prester John, lately submitted himself to the Roman See; and he held no small controversy with the Pope, because the Ethiopians, although not alien from faith in Christ, had been so ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...and gather souls for their Master, and not riches for their own use. The King of Ethiopia, commonly known as the land of Prester John, lately submitted himself to the Roman See; and he held no small controversy with the Pope, because the Ethiopians, although not alien from faith in Christ, had been so long neglected by the Shepherds of the world. And some good men, who are anxious to extend religious knowledge, complain that the Pilapians, who lived north of Scythia, and are wonderfully simple and uncultured, are enslaved by some Christian princes; but so hard pressed are they by the heavy yoke of man that they cannot take upon them the easy yoke of Christ. The wealth of others, moreover, has so spoiled them that the riches of the Gospel avail them nothing. But is it not wellpleasing and right in the sight of God, to enrich rather than to spoil those whom we strive to win for Christ, and so to initiate them into our faith that they may rejoice to have become subservient to those under whose sway they live more righteously than they were hitherto accustomed to do? We have known wild and horrible beasts to have been trained either for pleasure or for ordinary labor; but have we known men to have been so humanized as' to serve Christ? Kings keep in their employment men whose duty it is to teach elephants to leap, lions to sport, and lynxes and leopards to hunt; but has the King of the Church ever found men ready to call their fellows to the service of his dear Son? I know there is no beast to tame so difficult as the stubborn and hard-hearted Jew; but nevertheless even he can be brought into subjection by kindness and love. But now I speak of nations who stray as sheep without a shepherd, because they have never had any Christian teaching....
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