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His name was Sucat--God of War (Patrick)
This Month in History
* Kimball led Moody to Christ
* Cranmer burned at the stake
* Jonathan Edward dies- "Leader of the Great Awakening"
* Francis Asbury's last sermon
*McCheyne Dying Testimony
*Charles Wesley's dying Testimony
"I can do something you can’t do,"
Cried a boy who was chaffed by four older men on account of his small stature.
"What can you do that none of us four men can do, boy," one of them cried.
"I can keep from swearing," he replied.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Rev. Jim Oates pastor of the Bible Baptist Church here in the city has given several hours of labor to get this printing press in operable condition. Many thanks, Brother Oates.
Rev. Ken Hutcheson pastor of the Providence Baptist Church also here in the city offered much in-valuable assistance, advice, and encouragement in the publication of this paper. He is responsible for throwing fresh kindling on the embers that glowed in my heart for some time concerning the printing of such a circular.
"May God Smile On You", Brother Hutcheson.
William Wilberforce read Philip Doddridge’s Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul and found Christ. Through his labors, freedom was granted to the slaves in the British Empire.
A glance into Isaac Watts’ hymnbook for children saved Sir Walter Scott from suicide.
Captain Cook’s Voyages was read by a shoe cobbler named William Carey. Through its pages came the call of God, which sent him to the mission field. He became known as the "Father of Modern Missions" and gave over 200 million people the Word of God in their own languages.
Henry Martyn who became a missionary to India and Persia read William Carey’s published Letters.
Adoniram Judson read Buchanan’s Star in the East. As a result, he left New England for Burma and gave the American Missionary Society the greatest missionary in its history.
HIS NAME WAS "SUCAT" ** "GOD OF WAR"
As a young man of sixteen years, he was captured by the "Scoti" (the Irish) from his home in Dumbarton, Scotland. (Ireland was called "Scotia" and the people "Scots" until the eleventh century.)
He served as a slave for six years, end it was during this time that Christ brought him to see his unbelief and need for the forgiveness of his sins.
He escaped from Ireland and returned to his parents but became uneasy about the pitiful state of the heathen there, for many served idols openly.
He returned...and he returned first to the home of his old slave master. He felt he had wronged him by running away, so he determined to give him a large sum of money and the knowledge of Christ’s salvation.
Convinced the Scotia princes (the Irish princes) would turn up their noses at the preaching of a former slave, he adopted the name of "Patricius", for he was indeed a patrician being the son of a nobleman.
He made Ulster and Armaugh strongholds of Bible teaching in that country. His doctrine was pure, and he confesses his only motives were the Gospel and its promises. Such preachers never have been popular.
His life was in constant danger. Once his charioteer was killed when someone mistook him for the preacher.
Druid princes would shoot their arrows at converts during their baptism, for in their way of thinking, a person had only an empty profession until he yielded to baptism.
Now Rome would like to claim such a man of God as one of her "priests". Did he come from Rome?
1. The only mention of an established church are his numerous references to "the Lord’s saints" in Gaul (present day France). No mention is made of Rome.
2. He never mentions the Virgin Mary. This is something no good Roman Catholic could fail to do.
3. When commenting upon Christ’s words, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church." he says, "Whosoever therefore de-sires to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven must have faith like Peter."
4. He did not maintain a difference between venal and mortal sin.
5. He believed Christ to be the only Mediator between God and man, and freely circulated copies of the Old and New Testaments for people to read. But the Church of Rome sought to keep the Scriptures out of the hands of people like you and me.
6. Even today the Church of Ireland does not baptize using chrisms as there is no foundation for its use in the Bible...nor do they baptize infants.
Patrick died in the Lord 493 A.D., a faithful preacher of the Gospel of Christ. He may well be styled the "Apostle of Ireland."
March 12, 1856--his Sunday school teacher, Edward Kimball, leads Dwight Lyman Moody to Christ.
March 21, 1556--Archbishop Thomas Cranmer will be bound to a wooden stake and be burned alive. His crime: the faithful preaching of God’s Word.
Ashamed of his being tricked into signing a retraction of his beliefs, he will hold his right hand into the fire as he repents, "This unworthy right hand." It will be a charred cinder before his body is singed.
March 22,1758--Jonathan Edwards dies. He will be known as the Preacher of the "Great Awakening."
March 24, 1816--In Richmond, Virginia,
Francis Asbury will preach his last sermon. He will have to be carried to the pulpit where he will sit on a table, yet he will preach for almost an hour on Romans 9:28--"For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth."
March 25, 1843--Robert Murray McCheyne dies of typhoid fever.
March 29, 1788--Charles Wesley dies replying--"In death a feebleness extreme, Who shall a helpless worm redeem? Jesus: my only Hope Thou art; Strength to my failing flesh and heart...."