... when the main study on sex abuse by American clergy reports that 81% of victims were male -and largely postpubescent- how tenable is the proposition that homosexuality hasn't a thing to do with priestly sex abuse? - William McGurn, Oscar Wilde's Catholicism, The Wall Street Journal October 9 2018
The north west African church viewed live as a fierce struggle between light and darkness, and was marked by a powerful zeal for purity of life and doctrine. It found its centre in the huge Tunisian seaport of Carthage, the third greatest city in the empire, after Rome and Alexandria. - 2000 years of Christ's power, part one, The age of the early church fathers, N R Meedham p.126
... The fire of 1812 ... Destroyed all Carey's uncompleted manuscripts ... In One night the labours of years are consumed. I had lately brought some things to the utmost perfection I could, and contemplated the mission with, perhaps, too much self congratulation. The Lord has laid me low, that I might look more simply to him. - John Legg, The footsteps of God p. 267
God has a sovereign right to dispose of us as he pleases. We all to acquiesce in all that God does with us and to us. - William Carey letter to Fuller, in ,John Legg, The footsteps of God p.268
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