weak, scarcely able to turn m my bed, I’m by His abounding grace kept in perfect peace, refreshed with a sense of my Saviour’s love and an assurance that all is wisely and mercifully appointed.” God had sent His messenger to proclaim the Gos pel to those who had great spiritual need. It’s a fact that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. A glorious harvest will always fol low. Someone has to pioneer and God has those who will select His best. Why is it we have so few pio neers today? There are 2,000 tribes that have never received the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Someone must become a pioneer if these tribes are going to be evangelized. Why not you? I pray that God will speak to your heart. There isn’t any great er work in all the world; there’s no greater call. There’s no other way you can invest your life more ac ceptably. Offer yourself to some so ciety working in pioneer territory. Do what David Livingstone and oth ers before you have done. Some of us are too old to go. We can pray and give so that others can go. My challenge is directly to you. Will you ask God about it? He’ll lead you un erringly you may be sure. He wants you to be in the very center of His will. Lay that life of yours on the altar for Him. Make yourself avail able. Let me tell you something. God will never lead, guide, nor direct you until you first of all make yourself available to Him. Listen to hear His voice, “This is the way, walk ye in it.” You’ll become a pioneer having the unspeakable joy of giving an en tire tribe the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Will you do it? May God help you to see the need and respond. God had one Son without sin, but never one without suffering. It is where a man spends his money that shows where his heart lies. —Edwin Keigwin
C. E. Studd has set the example. He said, “If Jesus Christ be God, and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.” David Livingstone exclaimed, “Death is a glorious event for one going to Jesus!” When William Carey plan ned to go to India, he met great opposition. The directors of the East India Company opposed his work and presented a resolution to Parliament. In the blindness of prejudice and un belief they declared, “The sending out of missionaries into eastern possessions is the maddest, most ex travagant, most costly, most inde fensible project which has ever been suggested by a moonstruck fanatic. Such a scheme is pernicious, impru dent, useless, harmful, dangerous and profitless. It strikes against all reason and sound policy. It brings the peace and safety of our posses sions into peril.” How foolish was such a vain statement! Carey, in the midst of his deepest trials, was able to write, “Why is my soul disquiet ed within me? Things may turn out better than I expected. Everything is known to God, and God cares.” What courage he had! He believed the command, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every crea ture.” Never a man faced the task of world evangelism under more un favorable conditions. He stood the test and became the father of mod ern missions. David Livingstone and the martyred James Chalmers died at their posts. All those whose lives I’ve studied have been inspiring. Yet none has touch my heart like Adoni- ram Judson of Burma. He suffered unbelievable pain. That awful night mare in the Burmese prison could never be forgotten. Anguish was be yond the power of human words to describe. In spite of his awful pre dicament, he w rote as follows, “Blessed be my Heavenly Father for the many mercies I enjoyed, a com fortable bed, no pain or even crav ings of hunger. Though excessively 10
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