Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
Ioannes Paulus PP. II
Nationalism, capitalism, and hoarding. The idea of every nation
should be forgot, price should be struck from the commons, and
princes should be seen for the devils they are. The sins include
our church, secret societies, and other religions which make of
the spirit of God a divide."
Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
2nd April 2005
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truly godly, and most of them lately become
so. There are very few houses in the whole town, into which salvation
has not lately come, in one or more instances. There are several
Negroes, who from what was seen in them then, and what is discernible in
them since, appear to have been truly born again in the late remarkable
season.
God has also seemed to have gone out of His usual way, in the quickness
of His work, and the swift progress His Spirit has made in His
operations on the hearts of many. It is wonderful that persons should be
so suddenly and yet so greatly changed. Many have been taken from a
loose and careless way of living, and seized with strong convictions of
their guilt and misery, and in a very little time old things have passed
away, and all things have become new with them.
God's work has also appeared very extraordinary in the degrees of His
influences; in the degrees both of awakening and conviction, and also of
saving light, love, and joy, that many have experienced. It has also
been very extraordinary in the extent of it, and its being so swiftly
propagated from town to town. In former times of the pouring out of the
Spirit of God on this town, though in some of them it was very
remarkable, it reached no further then; the neighboring towns all around
continued unmoved.
This work seemed to be at its greatest height in this town in the former
part of the spring, in March and April. At that time God's work in the
conversion of souls was carried on amongst us in so wonderful a manner,
that, so far as I can judge, it appears to have been at the rate at
least of four persons in a day; or near thirty in a week, take one with
another, for five or six weeks together. When God in so remarkable a
manner took the work into His own hands, there was as much done in a day
or two, as at ordinary times, with all endeavors that men can use, and
with such a blessing as we commonly have, is done in a year.
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