IN M E M O R Y OF “ Ou r H u g h ” W a l l a c e
"LJUGH H. WALLACE, former member of the Fishermen’s Club of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and a graduate of our Training School, left this city on Au gust 27, 1913, to take up his life-work as a missionary at Kijabe, British East Africa. His death occurred at that place on April 29, 1915. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Wallace, of this city, and beside his parents leaves two brothers, Bruce R. and Dwight G. Wallace, and two sisters, Gladys M. and Ray F. Wallace, to all of whom the warmest sympathy is extended in their sad bereavement. Our dear Hugh, addressing the Fisher men’s Club just before “launching out into the deep” to let down the nets in waters of the Dark Continent, speaking to the Club said: “ ‘The Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.’ Isaiah 50:7. “He has spoken and we have not obeyed; He tarries and we do not labor for Him. Oh friends, shall it be that when He comes (and He is coming soon—‘Even so come Lord Jesus’) we must: meet Him with shamed faces? “God forbid that it should be so; let us rather say in the words of Queen Esther: ‘I will go, and if I perish, I perish.’” Hugh; went—he “perished” ; perished as the seed perishes, which “if it die bringeth forth much fruit.” In a ¡ message entitled, “Mastered,” re ceived dn the same day that brought the sad cablegram, he appealed to his old mates in the following paragraphs: “One has said, ‘Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may!’
“Isaiah said, ‘I set my face like flint and I know I shall not be ashamed.’ “And Paul wrote to the Philippians, ‘This one thing I do—I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.’ “We must therefore likewise have a vision of the possibilities of a life indwelt by the Spirit of God; we must fix our eyes on that goal not as pleasing men; and bringing every faculty, every ambition, every thought, desire and action into captivity and con formity to the mind and purpose of God, live a life mastered by Him. “Too many Christians are content to move by world standards; content to live a nominal Christian life ‘having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof.’ “Oh, what a poor, short-sighted plan. Truly God is not master of the life willing to move by such a rule. There cannot possibly be any of the grace of God there. What then? It is a wasted life. That life is a failure. “Question yourself and answer honestly— ‘Has God mastered me—is mine a God-mas tered life?’ “Learn the lesson of the abiding presence Qf God—(this is practical grace) and study to please your neighbor to his ‘good for edification.’ This will be the habit of the God-mastered life. And this will bring both glory and praise.” Hugh found his “neighbor” in the dark- skinned African, and after two years of self-abnegation for His sake, we find him, in this earnest exhortation, to have been as ready to serve the Master on his depart ure from Africa as on his departure from Los Angeles. He left us to serve with Him; he left them to rest with Him. Dear Hugh!
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