This classic work by Edward McKendree Bounds has been, for the most part, out of print for years, but is now available to you in a digital format. This text holds true to the original, and is a great book concerning the work of our adversary, the devil, to oppose and hinder those who would seek to honor God.
This edition also includes an Active Table of Contents.
Contents:
Foreword
CHAPTER I - The Devil: His Beginning
CHAPTER II - The Devil: His Personality
CHAPTER III - The Prince of This World
CHAPTER IV - The Devil a Busy Character
CHAPTER V - The Devil and the Church
CHAPTER VI – The Devil and the Church (Continued)
CHAPTER VII - The Devil and the World
CHAPTER VIII – The Devil and the World (Continued)
CHAPTER IX – The Power of the Devil
CHAPTER X – The Power of the Devil (Continued)
CHAPTER XI – The Devil and His Methods
CHAPTER XII – The Devil and His Methods (Continued)
CHAPTER XIII – Exposed Positions
CHAPTER XIV – Exposed Positions (Continued)
CHAPTER XV – Our Defense Against the Devil
CHAPTER XVI – Our Defense Against the Devil (Continued)
E.M. Bounds (1835 - 1913)
Methodist minister and devotional writer, was born in Shelby County, Missouri. He spent the last 17 years of his life with his family in Washington, Georgia, writing his Spiritual Life Books. His burden was the neglect of prayer in the church and especially by ministers therefore his first book published was power through prayer which was originally published with the title: "The Pastor and Prayer."Practiced law for three years until he was called to preach the gospel. While serving as chaplain during the Civil War, he was captured and held prisoner in Nashville, Tennessee. After his release, he held several pastorates. His books on prayer have been continual best-sellers for over fifty years. Possibilities of Prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and author of eleven books, nine of which focused on the subject of prayer.
Although apprenticed as an attorney, Bounds felt called to Christian ministry in his early twenties during the Third Great Awakening. Following a brush arbor revival meeting led by Evangelist Smith Thomas, he closed his law office and moved to Palmyra, Missouri to enroll in the Centenary Seminary. Two years later, in 1859 at the age of 24, he was ordained by his denomination and was named pastor of the nearby Monticello, Missouri Methodist Church.
He became a chaplain in the Confederate States Army (3rd Missouri Infantry CSA) During the First Battle of Franklin, Bounds suffered a severe forehead injury from a Union saber, and he was taken prisoner. On June 28, 1865, Bounds was among Confederate prisoners who were released upon the taking of an oath of loyalty to the United States.
According to people who were constantly with him, in prayer and preaching, for eight years "Not a foolish word did we ever hear him utter. He was one of the most intense eagles of God that ever penetrated the spiritual ether."
"As breathing is a physical reality to us, so prayer was a reality for Bounds. He took the command, 'Pray without ceasing' (1 Thess. 5:17) almost as literally as nature takes the law that controls our breathing. He did not merely pray well that he might write well about prayer. He prayed because the needs of the world were upon him. He prayed for long years, upon subjects that the easy going Christian rarely gives a thought, and for objects that men of less thought and faith are always ready to call impossible. From his solitary prayer vigils, year by year, there arose teaching equaled to few men in modern Christian history. He wrote transcendently about prayer, because he was himself transcendent in its practice." - Reverend Claude L. Chilton, minister and friend.
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