Category: Ordained of the Lord
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Ordained of the Lord, 20. All This And Heaven Too, Part 5, Old And Full Of Years
by E Schuyler English “Well done, good and faithful servant:thou hast been faithful over a few things,I will make thee ruler over many things;enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”Matthew 25:21 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord;and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God,who…
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Ordained of the Lord, 19. The Sands Of Time
by E Schuyler English When Harry Ironside became pastor of the Moody Church in 1930, the church’s indebtedness amounted to $319,500, a large sum of money in those days. On December 31, 1943 the final note of the indebtedness was burned. The benevolent outreach of the church was not curtailed…
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Ordained of the Lord, 18. A Man After God’s Own Heart
by E Schuyler English The life story of Harry Ironside cannot be punctuated with his inner thoughts and general philosophy. It is a tale of a man in motion. He had little time for the kind of meditative essays that may be found in the writings of the Puritans and…
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Ordained of the Lord, 17. Leaving One Another We Took Ship
by E Schuyler English In August 1931 the author of this book, who was at that time publisher and managing editor of Revelation, a Bible study magazine, was having luncheon in Philadelphia with two directors of its publishing firm. I asked these two gentlemen about their summer vacations. One of them mentioned…
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Ordained of the Lord, 16. Of Making Many Books
by E Schuyler English Harry Ironside’s first commentary on a book of the Bible was published in 1905 by Loizeaux Brothers. Twenty-five years later, when HAI assumed the pastorate of Moody Church, he had written many volumes: thirty-two clothbound books and twelve booklets, a total of forty-four titles. This was…
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Ordained of the Lord, 15. Holding Forth The Word Of Life
by E Schuyler English It is no small accomplishment to draw an audience of about 4,000 people Sunday morning after Sunday morning and almost as many on Sunday evenings. Harry Ironside did this in the Moody Church for the greater part of eighteen years. He did it apart from the…
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Ordained of the Lord, 14. The Husbandman Must Labor, Part 4, The Moody Church Years
by E Schuyler English “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God;if any man minister, let him do it as ofthe ability which God giveth: that Godin all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ,to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever.Amen.”1 Peter 4:11…
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Ordained of the Lord, 13. For His Name’s Sake
by E Schuyler English The year 1930 was an epochal one in the life of Harry Ironside, not only because he delivered 653 messages from the Word of God and had the joy of seeing hundreds profess to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour, but also because…
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Ordained of the Lord, 12. About The Father’s Business
by E Schuyler English By the year 1915 Lillian Watson, Harry’s half-sister, had grown to young womanhood. Ironside was genuinely fond of her and frequently, when he was called upon to cross by ferry to San Francisco, where Lillian lived, he would try to see her. Sometimes they would have…
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Ordained of the Lord, 11. Servant Unto All
by E Schuyler English A eighteen minutes after five on the morning of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a great earthquake. Fire, famine, and desolation followed. Across the bay tremors shook Oakland also, demolishing many buildings and damaging others. The moment the earth heaved its crust the Ironside…
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Ordained of the Lord, 10. An Holy Priesthood
by E Schuyler English It may be recalled that when Harry Ironside left the Salvation Army and became acquainted with the Plymouth Brethren in San Francisco, some of the brethren urged him to remain there and teach the Word of God. When he told them he was reluctant to do…
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Ordained of the Lord, 9. I Have Commanded The Ravens To Feed Thee
by E Schuyler English The young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Allan Ironside, took a year’s lease on an apartment in San Francisco even though they knew that they would have to be on the road a great deal of the time. They needed a place for their furniture and…
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Ordained of the Lord, 8. A Good Wife And The Favor Of The Lord, Part 3, Among The Brethren
by E Schuyler English “Because that for His name’s sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.”3 John 7“In labours… By the word of truth, by the power of God.”2 Corinthians 6:5-7 Within a week of the time when light concerning the headship of Christ entered his troubled soul…
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Ordained of the Lord, 7. Finding Christ To Be All And In All
by E Schuyler English With the spirit of immediacy characteristic of the Salvation Army in those days, Lieutenant Ironside pressed on in his evangelistic ministry. Not by any means was every conversion to Christ as dramatic as the one recounted in the preceding chapter, but almost every conversion was a…
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Ordained of the Lord, 6. Isaiah Fifty-Three Again
by E Schuyler English Lieutenant Ironside’s arrival in San Bernardino was in the middle of a Salvation Army evangelistic campaign, where he was sent to assist Captain John Read. The meetings in the Salvation Hall had been going on for some days. Already there had been a number of remarkable…
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Ordained of the Lord, 5. Take Heed Unto Thyself And Unto The Doctrine
by E Schuyler English Every Sunday morning in San Diego the Salvation Army held their “holiness meetings.” Young Ironside attended regularly and listened to men and women who claimed to have received a second blessing from God the Holy Spirit. There were various names for the experience; but whatever the…
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Ordained of the Lord, 4. Joyful Readiness To Publish Glad Tidings, Part 2 In the Salvation Army
by E Schuyler English “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”1 Thessalonians 5:21 “He that winneth souls is wise.”Proverbs 11:30 From the moment of his conversion Harry Ironside wanted to speak to others about Christ. He thought he ought to tell his mother first but, like many other…
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Ordained of the Lord, 3. By Faith Into A Strange Country,
by E Schuyler English Toward the end of 1886 Sophia Ironside and her two sons left Toronto and traveled by train to Los Angeles. They were accompanied by the boys’ uncle, Allan Ironside. To ten-year-old Harry and his brother John this was a great adventure. They had never even crossed…
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Ordained of the Lord, 2. Husband To The Widow, Father To The Fatherless
by E Schuyler English Life was not easy for the widow of The Eternity Man. With his modest salary John Ironside had been able to do little more than care for his family. Therefore Sophia had to undertake immediately the support of her two boys and herself when the second…
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Ordained of the Lord, 1. Roots in Deep and Sacred Soil, Part 1, Boyhood Days
by E Schuyler English on H A Ironside “From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 3:15 On the morning of the fourteenth of October 1876, in a modest home in Toronto,…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 