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Swiss Reformation monument gets new additions — one a woman


by Laurie Spurr

Ecumenical News International

GENEVA — Four new names have been chiseled onto the Wall of the Reformers, one of the world’s principal monuments of the Protestant Reformation and one of the most visited sites in Geneva, a cradle of the Reformation.

Among the new names is that of a woman, Marie Dentiere, a Flemish-born 16th-century Reformation lay theologian — and the first woman to take a place at the monument beside Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and other luminaries of the movement that gave birth to Protestantism.

The new additions will be officially unveiled at a ceremony on Nov. 3, Reformation Sunday, a day observed in churches throughout the Protestant world.

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"And I sat in my heap of pain until the words emerged and opened out, 'The just shall live by faith. My pain vanished, my bowels flushed and I could get up. I could see the life I'd lost. No man is just because he does just works... This I know; reason is the devil's harlot, born of one stinking goat called Aristotle, which believes that good works make a good man. But the truth is that the just shall live by faith alone. I need no more than my sweet redeemer and mediator, Jesus Christ."

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Sam Jones was a Methodist preacher/evangelist in the Cartersville, Georgia, area many, many years ago--around about 1920. One day he was asked to visit an ailing member of the local Methodist church who did not have an honorable reputation and had not been to church in years. Preacher Jones entered the hospital room and the conversation supposedly went something like this:

"Oh, Brother Jones, pray for my healing. If God will only heal me I'll straighten up my life. I'll quit drinking and smoking and I'll get back to church every Sunday. I'll start tithing and quit running around on my wife . . . etc. etc."

At the conclusion of this patient's promises, Sam Jones said nothing, took the man's hand, kneeled at his bedside as was his custom and prayed:

"Lord, you've heard Brother Brown's promises of what he'll do if you heal him. If he means it, cure him. If he doesn't, kill him. Amen."

Sam Jones got up and walked out of the room without uttering another word!
 
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