Adolphe monod biography of martin
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Martin (Paschoud), Joseph
Martin (Paschoud), Joseph a Protestant theologian, was born at Nimes, October 14, 1802. He studied at Geneva, was for some time pastor at Luneray, and in 1828 at Lyons, where he labored with his former classmate, Adolphe Monod. In 1837 he was called to Paris, but after two years of work was obliged to retire from the active ministry for a time on account of an incurable disease. In 1839 he commenced publishing a monthly journal, entitled Le Disciple de Jesus Christ. In 1853 he founded L'Alliance Chretienne Universelle, on the following basis: "Love of God, the Creator and Father of all men; love of all men, the immortal creatures and children of God; love of Jesus Christ, the son of God and Savior of mankind." Adolphe Monod was the first who wrote against the principles of this journal. In 1851 the consistory of Paris appointed the younger Athanase Coquerel as his assistant, and made him retire, under the pretext of heresy, in 1864. In spite of the pro
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It was several years ago now that the Lord graciously brought to me a season of refreshment in my prayer life. In his kind providence, he brought to me this particular prompting, or “wake-up call,” as I was reading excerpts from a spiritual classic: Adolphe Monod’s Les Adieux (Farewells).
Adolphe Monod was a French Reformed pastor and one of the greatest French preachers of the nineteenth century. Struck with cancer at age fifty-three, he went to be with the Lord about a year later. While in declining health, surrounded by family and friends, Monod presented from his sickbed a meditation on each of the last twenty-five days of our Lord’s life. His family carefully kept record of these devotional talks. Monod’s dying testimony is most inspiring and instructive.
Monod on Prayer
One of Monod’s regrets was that he had not prayed as he should. He put it this way:
My dear friends in Christ, among the subjects about which a Christian who believes himself to be near his end carries re•
Reading legacies of vibrant believers from long ago is a rewarding and especially inspiring experience if those writings are biblically sound and edifying. Such is the biography “The Life and Times of Martin Luther” by J.H.Merle D’Aubigné.
D’Aubigné was one of the many biographers of Martin Luther; however, no other biography throbs with the same spiritual vigor as D’Aubigné’s work. For instance, take the Luther biography Here inom Stand by great Yale University professor and well-known Luther scholar Dr. Roland Bainton. This fryst vatten an excellent work for its vast, intriguing detail, but it was written by a scholar outside of the Reformation looking into the great movement. D’Aubigné, on the other hand, wrote from inside the continuing Reformation in Europe. He had been a hopelessly lost seminarian, who had even led a lärling protest against another who believed in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. So how did he become Luther’s foremost biographer?
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