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AUGUST 6, 1939 EXEM PLA RY CH R IST IA N S (A Missionary Study) A cts 20:17-36; P hilippians 4:9; H ebrew s 13:7, R.V. Meditation on the Lesson
God’s and man’s standards of value.” "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it" (Mk. 8:35). Helps for the Leader S om e F a it h fu l A mbassadors Stephen, “full of faith and of the Holy Ghost,” was the first to suffer martyrdom for Christ (Acts 6 and 7). Paul, the Apostle, a minister of God "in much patience, in afflictions” (2 Cor. 6:4- 10; cf. 11:23-28; 12:15), was an “ambas sador in bonds” (Eph. 6:19, 20; Phil. 1:- 12-14; Col. 4:2-4), willing to suffer death for Christ (Acts 21:13; 26:19-23). Polycarp, that great Christian leader and martyr of the second century A.D., was “faithful unto death.” For when he was apprehended by Rome and was requested to curse Christ in order to save his own life, he replied, “Six and eighty years have I served Him, and He has done me nothing but good; and how could I curse Him, my Lord and my Saviour?”-) Mary Slessor o f Calabar laid down her life in 1915 after thirty-nine years of pioneer service in West Africa. Hers was a life of self-sacrifice and heroism, recog nized by the natives themselves who paid loving tribute in their name for her, “The Great Mother.” As in that other Mary who was with Christ on earth, her love con strained her to offer Him her best.§ Emil Fischbacher. The world made this young man a big offer, even as it usually does to young, stalwart "ambassadors” in its endeavor to lure them from the King’s service. That which it offered him was all in an honorable capacity, for when Dr. Fischbacher finished his medical course he was offered, by a surgeon, approximately six thousand dollars a year for the first three years, with the prospect of fifteen thousand dollars a year thereafter for his services. “But I never felt justified in fix ing up with him,” Dr. Fischbacher later wrote from Chinese Turkestan (Feb. 15, 1933), “as I always had in the back of my mind the possibility of the foreign field.” And it was there, in China, that his life was poured forth, even as the precious ointment, in brief but loving and fruitful service. Add to this list such men as John W y- cliffe, Martin Luther, David Livingstone, Borden of Yale, and such “ambassadors for Christ" as you may have learned of through study or personal acquaintance. —H.M.C. f S ee Cowan, Landmarks of Church History, pp. 15, 16. § W . P. Livingstone, Mary Slessor of Ca labar, G eorge H. Doran Company.
"Neither count I my life dear unto my self, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24), said Paul as he gave himself without reserve for Christ. Many another faithful servant of God might say the same. But as these lives have been poured out, some have asked, as did the disciples when Mary poured out the precious ointment upon our Lord, “To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.” Marshall Broomhall in his little bi ography of Emil Fischbacher, T o W hat Purpose?* —shows the falsity of the latter alternative which “will always prevail so long as our eyes are holden. To the young especially, this world makes a bid for life, which is their most precious possession . . . The tempter within, and the foes without, bring forth their most specious arguments against the breaking of life’s cruse and the spilling of its costly contents.” Why waste your talents and abilities out in some mis sion field where they will not be appreci ated? Why go out to die in a heathen land? These are some of the questions asked. Yet not only are we grateful that saints of old counted not their lives dear unto themselves, but also, our Saviour sees of the travail of His soul and is satisfied. Mr. Broomhall goes on to say: "The fragrance of that ointment, poured forth from the broken casket, filled the house, and the gracious offering filled and satisfied our Lord’s heart. But Judas, and others, in dignant at such lavish devotion, said: ’To what purpose hath this waste been made?’ With a terrible significance Jesus, on a subsequent occasion, spoke of Judas as ‘that son of waste,’ for the original word used in the phrase ‘that son of perdition’ is the very one that Judas had employed against Mary. And what a son of waste Judas was! He incarnated the very fault he thought he saw in Mary. How had he wasted priceless opportunities! How had he prostituted unspeakable privileges! How had he profaned the highest favors! Ex alted to heaven, he had cast himself down to hell by the wasting of unsearchable riches. Nowhere does Scripture provide a more solemn and startling contrast between *Broomhall, Marshall, To What Purpose? China Inland Mission, Philadelphia, Pa.
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