#electofgod

Greg Johnsonpteranodo
2025-06-13

Samuel Irenaus Prime was a Presbyterian minister in Ballston Spa, NY. Here he comments on a recipe for happiness from Philipians 4:11-13, being content in poverty or plenty. But he warns it would be awful to tell those who are suffering in great want to be content with what they have and not to provide any relief.

How can you avoid emptry truisms to others without any relief, and at the same time, hold to contentment for yourself?

SAMUEL IRENAEUS PRIME (1812-1885) "A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS" "Where ghastly poverty and awful vice breed in secret, a progeny of misery grows or dies in filth, disease, and woe unspeakable. Shall we tell these children of despair to be content with such things as they have?"
Greg Johnsonpteranodo
2024-12-25

Samuel Crothers, Presbyterian pastor, on the servitude allowed in Deuteronomy. The service was limited to six years and resulted in abundant supply upon release. None of this in the American system.

Today, do many people turn to the Bible to see what we can get away with, despite neighbor’s cries?

How can you take pains to be fair to those who work for you or have jobs that serve you?

SAMUEL CROTHERS (1783-1856) The gospel of the typical servitude "If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee, and in the seventh year he shall go out free for nothing. In Deut. 15. 13, 14, we have this: When thou sendest him out from thee, thou shall not let him go away empty, thou shall furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy food, and out of thy wine press."

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