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E. Stanley Jones
Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973). Born on January 3, 1884, in Clarksville, Maryland, to George Washington and Lydia Jones, E. Stanley Jones was an American Methodist missionary, evangelist, and author renowned for his global ministry and interfaith dialogue. Raised in a devout Methodist family, he converted at 17 during a revival meeting, sensing a call to preach. He graduated from Asbury College in Kentucky (1907), where he honed his oratorical skills, and briefly studied law before committing to ministry. Ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he sailed to India in 1907 as a missionary under the Methodist Board of Missions, pastoring an English-speaking church in Lucknow and later focusing on evangelism among India’s intellectual and low-caste communities. His “round table conferences” fostered open discussions with Hindus and Muslims, earning respect from figures like Mahatma Gandhi. Jones authored 28 books, including The Christ of the Indian Road (1925), a bestseller translated into 30 languages, Christ at the Round Table (1928), Victorious Living (1936), and The Divine Yes (1975, posthumous), emphasizing Christ’s universal appeal. A global preacher, he spoke in over 40 countries, advocating Christian unity and social justice, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 and 1963. Married to Mabel Lossing in 1911, a missionary educator, they had one daughter, Eunice, who became a missionary. Despite health struggles, including a stroke in 1971, Jones died on January 25, 1973, in Bareilly, India, saying, “The way to God is Christ, and He is open to all.”
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E. Stanley Jones preaches about the transformative power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. The Holy Spirit cleanses, coordinates, and consecrates our subconscious drives, bringing harmony and helping us react in a Christian way to life's challenges. This power enables us to move beyond being controlled by circumstances and temptation, transitioning from a life of struggle in sin to a life of freedom in Christ, as described in Romans 8. By allowing the Holy Spirit to dwell within us, we are remade from the inside out, not through commands but through a deep companionship and experiential relationship.
The Holy Spirit Brings Harmony Within
The Holy Spirit then does three things. He cleanses and coordinates and consecrates the subconscious drives and brings harmony within. He helps us to react to the things that happen to us -- helps us to react in a Christian way. The sum total of that means that there is now power in our lives. We are not now pushed around by circumstances -- a push-over for temptation and evil. We know where we want to go, and we have power to move on to that goal. We have moved out of the seventh chapter of Romans into the eighth. "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath set me free from the law of sin and death." This higher law of "the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" has cancelled the lower law of sin and death. Just as a bird flying takes advantage of the law of the elasticity of air and thereby rises about the law of gravitation, so we live by this higher law which overcomes the law of sin and death. I quoted Freud as saying: "Dark, unfeeling, and unloving powers determine human destiny." He discovered the subconscioius and fell into its fatalisms. Christ made the subconscious ("All things were made by him") and provided for its remaking -- provided that nothing less than the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Creation, and the Spirit of Re-creation should dwell within us and remake us, not by commands and exhortations, but by companionship and experience. It works, for He works it -- from within.
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Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973). Born on January 3, 1884, in Clarksville, Maryland, to George Washington and Lydia Jones, E. Stanley Jones was an American Methodist missionary, evangelist, and author renowned for his global ministry and interfaith dialogue. Raised in a devout Methodist family, he converted at 17 during a revival meeting, sensing a call to preach. He graduated from Asbury College in Kentucky (1907), where he honed his oratorical skills, and briefly studied law before committing to ministry. Ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he sailed to India in 1907 as a missionary under the Methodist Board of Missions, pastoring an English-speaking church in Lucknow and later focusing on evangelism among India’s intellectual and low-caste communities. His “round table conferences” fostered open discussions with Hindus and Muslims, earning respect from figures like Mahatma Gandhi. Jones authored 28 books, including The Christ of the Indian Road (1925), a bestseller translated into 30 languages, Christ at the Round Table (1928), Victorious Living (1936), and The Divine Yes (1975, posthumous), emphasizing Christ’s universal appeal. A global preacher, he spoke in over 40 countries, advocating Christian unity and social justice, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 and 1963. Married to Mabel Lossing in 1911, a missionary educator, they had one daughter, Eunice, who became a missionary. Despite health struggles, including a stroke in 1971, Jones died on January 25, 1973, in Bareilly, India, saying, “The way to God is Christ, and He is open to all.”